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2010 Tennessee Code
Title 38 - Prevention And Detection Of Crime
Chapter 3 - Public Officers Preventing Commission of Offenses
38-3-101 - Methods of preventing offenses.
38-3-101. Methods of preventing offenses.
Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice by:
(1) Requiring security to keep the peace; and
(2) Suppressing riots, unlawful assemblies and breaches of the peace.
[Code 1858, § 4931; Shan., § 6892; Code 1932, § 11416; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 38-201.]
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