2010 Tennessee Code
Title 5 - Counties
Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds
Part 6 - Revenue Commissioners
5-8-601 - Appointment Tenure Oath.
5-8-601. Appointment Tenure Oath.
(a) (1) The county legislative bodies, at their July term, shall elect three (3) competent citizens, not members of the county legislative body, county clerk, or deputy county clerk, who shall be known as the “revenue commissioners” of the county.
(2) One (1) of these commissioners shall be an expert accountant.
(b) Their term of office shall begin on the first Monday in September following their election, and they shall hold office for two (2) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
(c) Before entering upon their duties, they shall subscribe to an oath before the county clerk that they will well and truly discharge all duties that may devolve upon them by law.
[Acts 1907, ch. 602, § 76; Shan., § 935; Code 1932, § 1650; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-831.]
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