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2021 Tennessee Code
Title 41 - Correctional Institutions and Inmates
Chapter 4 - Jails and Jailers
§ 41-4-102. Delivery of Jail and Prisoners to Successor in Office
Universal Citation: TN Code § 41-4-102 (2021)
- Upon the resignation, death, removal from office or expiration of the term of office of any sheriff or coroner acting as sheriff, the jail and the prisoners in the jail, with everything belonging or pertaining thereto, shall be delivered over to the successor of the sheriff or coroner or any person duly authorized by law to take charge of the jail.
- A failure to comply with this section, after demand made by the person entitled to the charge of the jail, is a misdemeanor.
Code 1858, §§ 5407, 5408 (deriv. Acts 1777 (Nov.), ch. 8, § 12); Shan., §§ 7385, 7386; Code 1932, §§ 11994, 11995; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1102.
Code Commission Notes.
The misdemeanor in subsection (b) has been designated as Class A by authority of § 40-35-110, which provides that offenses designated misdemeanors without specification as to category are Class A. See also § 39-11-114.
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