2020 Tennessee Code
Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime
Chapter 3 - Public Officers Preventing Commission of Offenses
§ 38-3-109. Bond to Keep the Peace
A person arrested pursuant to §38-3-108 shall be required to give bond in not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250), nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), with good security, to keep the peace; and, on failing or refusing so to give the required bail, the person shall be committed to jail until bail is given, or the person is otherwise discharged according to law.
Code 1858, § 4940 (deriv. Acts 1825, ch. 19, §§ 1, 5); Shan., § 6901; Code 1932, § 11425; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 38-209.
Cross-References. Admission to bail, title 40, ch. 11, part 1.
Destruction of public record of bond upon expiration, §40-32-101.
Right of bail, Tenn. Const., art. I, § 15.
Collateral References.
What constitutes breach of peace bond. 54 A.L.R. 388.
