2010 Tennessee Code
Title 8 - Public Officers And Employees
Chapter 10 - Constables
Part 1 - In General
8-10-113 - Acting for sheriff and coroner.

8-10-113. Acting for sheriff and coroner.

A constable may execute process from any court whenever there is at the time neither sheriff nor coroner, or whenever both the sheriff and the coroner are incompetent, or one (1) of those offices is vacant and the person holding the other office is incompetent in the particular case.

[Code 1858, § 394 (deriv. Acts 1807, ch. 104, § 13); Shan., § 485; Code 1932, § 731; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1013.]  

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