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2023 Tennessee Code
Title 38 - PREVENTION AND DETECTION OF CRIME (§§ 38-1-101 — 38-14-101)
Chapter 3 - PUBLIC OFFICERS PREVENTING COMMISSION OF OFFENSES (§§ 38-3-101 — 38-3-123)
- Section 38-3-101 - Methods of preventing offenses
- Section 38-3-102 - Duties of sheriff
- Section 38-3-103 - Other conservators of the peace
- Section 38-3-104 - Officers may command aid
- Section 38-3-105 - Acts by persons aiding officers
- Section 38-3-106 - Refusal to obey command to aid officers
- Section 38-3-107 - Neglect of duty by officer
- Section 38-3-108 - Duty to arrest
- Section 38-3-109 - Bond to keep the peace
- Section 38-3-110 - Form of bond - Scire facias upon forfeiture
- Section 38-3-111 - Officer failing to perform duties prescribed in sections 38-3-108, 38-3-109
- Section 38-3-112 - Power of governor to order posse or military force from other county
- Section 38-3-113 - Federal officer making arrest for nonfederal offenses - POST-certified law enforcement officer making arrest outside of officer's jurisdiction
- Section 38-3-114 - Acting as peace officers for the office of homeland security
- Section 38-3-115 - No public funds, personnel or property of state to be allocated to enforce federal or international laws governing firearms where it would violate state laws - Violation
- Section 38-3-116 - Inquiry regarding arrested person's children and whether they will be left unattended by arrest - Policies and procedures for conducting welfare checks - Liability
- Section 38-3-117 - Interaction of law enforcement officer with person who exhibits characteristics of acquired brain injury, intellectual disability, or developmental disability
- Section 38-3-118 - Policies and guidelines regarding use of marked law enforcement vehicles by off-duty law enforcement officers for travel to and from vulnerable locations
- Section 38-3-119 - Unenforceability of law, treaty, executive order, rule, or regulation of U.S. government found to violate Article I, 26 of Tennessee Constitution or Second Amendment
- Section 38-3-120 - Peace officers for Tennessee valley authority
- Section 38-3-121 - Use of choke holds
- Section 38-3-122 - Fingerprinting of arrestees pursuant to incarceration or bond
- Section 38-3-123 - Prohibition against requiring victims of sexual offenses to submit to polygraph
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