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Tennessee Updated Bounty Hunter Law
CRIMINAL LAW: Bounty hunters required to have criminal background check. Requires bounty hunters to undergo a criminal background check.
TCA Sec. 40-11-0318
Senate Status: Set for Senate Judiciary Committee 03/08/2011.
CRIMINAL LAW: Handgun carry permit required for bounty hunters. Requires bounty hunters to have a lawful handgun carry permit.
Part 3 Professional Bondsmen
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-11-318 (2011)
(a) "Bounty hunting" means a person who acts as an agent of a professional bondsman who attempts to or takes into custody a person who has failed to appear in court and whose bond has been forfeited, for a fee, the payment of which is contingent upon the taking of a person into custody and returning the person to the custody of the professional bondsman for whom the bounty hunter works; provided, that "bounty hunting" does not include the taking into custody of a person by a professional bondsman.
(f) Any resident of this state who is a United States citizen and who intends to perform the functions of a bounty hunter as defined in subsection (a), shall submit to a criminal history background check as provided by § 38-6-109 at the sheriff's office at the county of the person's permanent residence. The person requesting the criminal history background check shall be responsible for any fees associated with the background check. The criminal background check shall include fingerprint checks against state and federal criminal records maintained by the Tennessee bureau of investigation (TBI) and the federal bureau of investigation (FBI). The sheriff's office shall maintain files in their respective counties on bounty hunters requesting a criminal history background check. A sheriff may charge a fee of not more than two hundred dollars ($200) for each background check performed pursuant to this subsection (f) and in addition to the background check fees payable to the TBI, the FBI and any designated vendor. If the bounty hunter is from a state other than Tennessee, proof that the bounty hunter has completed an equivalent criminal history background check in the person's home state within the last year shall be provided to the appropriate law enforcement agency of the political subdivision where the taking will occur.
HISTORY: Acts 1998, ch. 1019, § 1; 2001, ch. 430, § 1; 2011, ch. 456, § 1.