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TN Code § 20-2-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-104. Issuance of Process on Sunday

  Civil process may be issued on Sundays on the application of any party, supported by oath or affirmation, that the defendant is removing or about to remove the defendant's person or property beyond the jurisdiction of the court applied to.   The clerk or general sessions judge shall endorse on the back of the process that it was obtained on the oath of the plaintiff, the plaintiff's agent or attorney, as directed in subsection (a).   It is the duty of the proper officers to execute all such process on Sundays, subject to the same penalties and regulations as in other cases.    Code 1858, §§ 2824-2826 (deriv. Acts 1821, ch. 1, §§ 1-3); Shan., §§ 4529-4531; Code 1932, §§ 8656-8658; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-207.
TN Code § 20-2-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-105. Service of Process on Sunday on Parties Leaving Jurisdiction

 Sheriffs or constables having process in their hands in civil actions pending in magistrate's court or courts of record, if it appears to their satisfaction that parties to be sued are leaving the county or state, have the right to execute the process on Sunday.
TN Code § 20-2-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-106. Process on Sunday Generally Prohibited

 With the exceptions contained in §§ 20-2-104 and 20-2-105, civil process shall not be executed on Sunday.   Code 1858, § 2827 (deriv. Acts 1777 (Nov.), ch. 8, § 6); Acts 1885, ch. 53, § 1; Shan., § 4533; Code 1932, § 8660; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-209.
TN Code § 20-2-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-107. Process in Other Counties

 Process in local actions may run to any county.   Code 1858, § 2820; Shan., § 4525; Code 1932, § 8652; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-210.
TN Code § 20-2-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-108. Counterpart Summons

  Where there are two (2) or more defendants in any suit in courts of law or equity or before judges of the courts of general sessions, the plaintiff may cause a counterpart summons or subpoena to be issued to any county where any of the defendants is most likely to be found, the fact that the counterpart process is issued in the same suit being noted on each process, which, when returned, shall be docketed as if only one (1) process had issued.   If the defendants are not served, the same proceedings shall be had as in cases of other similar process not executed.   The counterpart, when issued from a judge of the court of general sessions, shall be returned within thirty (30) days.    Code 1858, §§ 2821, 2822 (deriv. Acts 1820, ch. 25, § 3); Shan., §§ 4526, 4527; Code 1932, §§ 8653, 8654; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-211.
TN Code § 20-2-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-109. Service on Joint Obligor on Negotiable Paper

 In joint actions on negotiable paper, service of a counterpart writ on the drawer or maker shall not be sufficient service to hold the drawer or maker to answer the action, unless the original writ was executed on a joint drawer or maker.   Code 1858, § 2823 (deriv. Acts 1827, ch. 74, § 2); Shan., § 4528; Code 1932, § 8655; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-212.
TN Code § 20-2-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-111. Returns Made With Ink — Penalty for Violation

  Sheriffs, constables and all officers are required to make their returns upon all processes issued to them with pen and ink or some other nonerasable material or fluid; but the failure of the officer to make the officer's return as required shall in no case vitiate the return.   Any officer violating this section commits a Class A misdemeanor, and is further liable in damages to any person or persons aggrieved by the violation.
TN Code § 20-2-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-112. Wrongful Death Action by Other Than Personal Representative Pending — Service in Civil Action Against Estate

  Where a wrongful death action has been instituted by any person other than an executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of a decedent's estate, the estate may be made a party defendant to any civil action arising out of the same facts, happenings, or circumstances otherwise properly brought by serving process on the person instituting the original wrongful death action.   If, after a decedent's estate is made a party defendant as provided in subsection (a), an executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the decedent's estate is thereafter appointed, the person who instituted the original wrongful death action shall notify the executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the decedent's estate in writing of all actions heretofore instituted against the decedent's estate. The failure of the person to notify the executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the decedent's estate, as provided in this subsection (b), may render the person liable for all resultant damages.   Any individual served with process under this section shall notify any person or entity charged with the responsibility of defending the action to which the subject estate has been made a defendant. The notice shall be in writing.
TN Code § 20-2-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-2-113. Long-Arm Statute — Service Upon Person in Foreign Country

  If service is to be effected upon a party in a foreign country, service of the summons and complaint may be made:  In the manner prescribed by the law of the foreign country for service in that country in an action in any of its courts of general jurisdiction;   As directed by the foreign authority in response to a letter rogatory, when service in either case is reasonably calculated to give actual notice;   Upon an individual, by delivery to the individual personally; and upon a corporation, partnership or association, by delivery to an officer or a managing or general agent;   By any form of mail requiring a signed receipt, to be addressed and dispatched by the clerk of the court to the party to be served; or   As directed by order of the court.     Service under subdivision (a)(3) or (a)(5) may be made by any person who is not a party and is not less than twenty-one (21) years of age, anyone duly authorized to serve summons by the law of the country where service is to be made or anyone designated by order of the court or the foreign court. On request, the clerk shall deliver the summons to the plaintiff for transmission to the person or the foreign court or officer who will make the service. Proof of service may be made as prescribed in Tenn. R. Civ. P. 4, by order of the court or by the law of the foreign country. Proof of service by mail shall include an affidavit or certificate of addressing and mailing by the clerk of court.
TN Code § 20-2-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-201. Foreign Corporations Subject to Actions

  Any corporation claiming existence under the laws of the United States or any other state or of any country foreign to the United States, or any business trust found doing business in this state, shall be subject to suit here to the same extent that corporations of this state are by the laws of this state liable to be sued, so far as relates to any transaction had, in whole or in part, within this state or any cause of action arising here, but not otherwise.   A corporation or trust having any transaction with persons or having any transaction concerning any property situated in this state, through any agency whatever acting for it within the state, shall be held to be doing business here within the meaning of this section.
TN Code § 20-2-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-202. Actions Against Unincorporated Associations and Nonresident Partnerships

  Any unincorporated association or organization, whether resident or nonresident, including nonresident partnerships and nonresident trusts, doing or desiring to do business in this state by performing any of the acts for which it was formed, shall, before any such acts are performed, appoint an agent in this state upon whom all process may be served, and certify to the clerk of the circuit court of each county in which the association or organization desires to perform any of the acts for which it was organized the name and address of the process agent.    If the unincorporated association or organization fails to appoint the process agent pursuant to this section, all process may be served upon the secretary of the state of Tennessee;   Upon such service, the secretary of state, by registered or certified return receipt mail, shall forward a copy of the process to the last known address of the unincorporated association or organization.     Service upon the process agent appointed pursuant to this section, or upon the secretary of state if no process agent is appointed, shall be legal and binding on the association or organization, and any judgment recovered in any action commenced by service of process, as provided in this section, shall be valid and may be collected out of any real or personal property belonging to the association or organization.
TN Code § 20-2-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-204. Death of Party After Appointment of Agent

  The owner, chauffeur or operator of any motor vehicle that is not licensed under the laws of this state or any nonresident of this state who hires or procures the use of a motor vehicle licensed under the laws of this state for temporary use in this state, and who makes use of the privilege extended to nonresidents of the state, to operate such vehicle on the highway or highways within the state, shall be deemed to have consented that the appointment of the secretary of state as the owner's, chauffeur's, operator's or nonresident's agent for the purposes set forth in § 20-2-203 shall be irrevocable and binding upon such owner's, chauffeur's, operator's or nonresident's executor or administrator.   Where the person has died prior to the commencement of an action brought pursuant to § 20-2-203, this section and §§  20-2-205 — 20-2-207, service of process shall be made on the executor, executrix, administrator or administratrix of the decedent in the same manner as is provided for action commenced while the person is living.   Where an action has been duly commenced under § 20-2-203, this section and §§  20-2-205 — 20-2-207 by service upon a defendant who dies thereafter, the court shall allow the action to be continued against the person's executor or administrator upon motion with such notice as the court deems proper.  C. Supp. 1950, § 8675.1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-225.   Law Reviews.   A Survey of Civil Procedure in Tennessee — 1977, II. Selecting a Proper Forum, (John L. Sobieski, Jr.), 46 Tenn. L. Rev. 273.   Collateral References. Process 58, 80.    In case delivery of process so made by registered or certified mail is refused by the addressee of the process, such refusal to be evidenced by appropriate notation of such fact by the postal authorities, the refusal shall be deemed the equivalent of delivery and adequately constitutes service.   Acceptance of the registered or certified mail by any member of the addressee's family, over sixteen (16) years of age and residing in the same dwelling with the addressee, shall constitute a sufficient delivery of the mail to the addressee.
TN Code § 20-2-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-205. Service on Secretary of State

 Service of process under § 20-2-203 shall be made by lodging, by the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney, the original summons and a copy certified by the clerk of the court in which action is brought, with a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00), with the secretary of state, who shall promptly send, postage prepaid, the certified copy by registered or certified return receipt mail to the defendant, along with a written notice that service was so made.   In case it appears, either before or after the lodging of process, as provided in subsection (a), that the nonresident is dead, then either original or alias process may issue, directed to the personal representative of the nonresident deceased and shall be sent, as provided in subsection (a), to the probate court of the county and state of the residence of the deceased at the time of the deceased's death. No appearance need be made nor shall judgment be taken against the personal representative until the lapse of sixty (60) days from the date of mailing the process to such probate court. The procedure for mailing such process and proof of service of process shall be as provided in this section and in § 20-2-206 for the service upon living persons.   The fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) so paid by the plaintiff, when fact of payment is endorsed on the original process by the secretary of state, shall be taxed as plaintiff's cost, to abide the judgment.   Code 1932, §§ 8672, 8675; Acts 1949, ch. 47, § 3; C. Supp. 1950, § 8672; Acts 1955, ch. 265, § 2; 1971, ch. 332, § 1; 1980, ch. 656, §§ 1, 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-226; Acts 1998, ch. 890, § 7.
TN Code § 20-2-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-206. Evidence of Service Through Secretary of State

 The original process, endorsed as provided in this section, an affidavit of the secretary of state setting forth the secretary of state's compliance with the requirements of § 20-2-205, and the return receipt signed by, or duly in behalf of, the defendant, shall be attached together and sent to and filed by the clerk. There shall be endorsed on the original process by the secretary of state over the secretary of state's signature the date of the secretary of state's mailing the certified copy to the defendant and the date on which the secretary of state received the return receipt of the defendant. Thereupon service on the defendant shall be consummate. An act of a deputy or regular assistant of the secretary of state in the secretary of state's behalf shall be deemed the equivalent of the act of the secretary of state.   Code 1932, § 8673; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-227.
TN Code § 20-2-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-207. Continuances After Service by Agent

 The court of action shall grant such continuance or continuances as may be necessary or proper to afford the defendant so served reasonable opportunity to make defense.   Code 1932, § 8674; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-228.
TN Code § 20-2-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-208. Actions Against Steamboat Owners

  All persons, resident and nonresident of this state, running and operating steamboats in any of the rivers in or bordering on this state as common carriers, may be sued in law or equity in any county where the boat or boats of such person lands, for any cause of action or suit growing out of or connected with the business carried on or done by or in connection with the running and use of the boat or boats.   Service of process on any captain or clerk of any boat of such person, whether it is the particular boat complained of or immediately connected with the transaction out of which the cause of suit or action originates or not, shall be sufficient to bring such person into court.
TN Code § 20-2-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-209. Operation of Watercraft in State as Appointment of Agent for Process

  The operation, navigation or maintenance by a nonresident or nonresidents of a boat, ship, barge or other watercraft in this state, either in person or through others, and the acceptance thereby by the nonresident or nonresidents of the protection of the laws of this state for the watercraft, or the operation, navigation or maintenance by a nonresident or nonresidents of a boat, ship, barge or other watercraft in this state, either in person or through others, is deemed thereby to constitute an appointment by each such nonresident of the secretary of state, or some other person in the secretary of state's office during the secretary of state's absence whom the secretary of state may designate, to be the true and lawful agent of each such nonresident for service of process, upon whom may be served all lawful process in any suit, action or proceeding against the nonresident or nonresidents growing out of any accident or injury in which the nonresident or nonresidents may be involved while, either in person or through others, operating, navigating or maintaining a boat, ship, barge or other watercraft in this state; and the acceptance or the operating, navigating or maintaining in this state of the watercraft shall be a signification of each nonresident's agreement that any such process against each nonresident that is so served shall be of the same legal force and effect as if served on each nonresident personally.   The agency of the secretary of state to accept service of process shall continue for a period of one (1) year from the date of any accident or injury and shall not be revoked by death of the nonresident within the period of one (1) year.
TN Code § 20-2-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-210. Death of Party After Appointment of Agent

  The nonresident who, under § 20-2-209, is deemed to have appointed the secretary of state as the nonresident's agent for process, shall further be deemed to have consented that the appointment of the secretary of state as the nonresident's agent for the purposes set forth in § 20-2-209 shall be irrevocable and binding upon the nonresident's executor or administrator.   Where such person has died prior to the commencement of an action brought pursuant to § 20-2-209, this section and §§  20-2-211 — 20-2-213, service of process shall be made on the executor or administrator of the decedent in the same manner as provided for an action commenced while the person is living.   Where an action has been duly commenced under § 20-2-209, this section and §§  20-2-211 — 20-2-213 by service upon a defendant who dies thereafter, the court shall allow the action to be continued against the defendant's executor or administrator upon motion, with such notice as the court deems proper.
TN Code § 20-2-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-211. Manner of Service on Secretary of State

 The manner of service of process under §§ 20-2-209, 20-2-210, this section and §§ 20-2-212 and 20-2-213 shall be the same as is provided by § 20-2-205, and the manner of evidencing such service through the secretary of state shall be the same as provided in § 20-2-206.
TN Code § 20-2-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-212. Continuances

 The court of action shall grant such continuance or continuances as may be necessary or proper to afford the defendant so served reasonable opportunity to make defense.
TN Code § 20-2-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-213. Other Methods of Service Unaffected

 Nothing in §§ 20-2-209 — 20-2-212 and this section shall be construed as affecting other methods of process against nonresidents as provided by existing laws.
TN Code § 20-2-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-214. Jurisdiction of Persons Unavailable to Personal Service in State — Classes of Actions to Which Applicable

  Persons who are nonresidents of this state and residents of this state who are outside the state and cannot be personally served with process within this state are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of this state as to any action or claim for relief arising from:  The transaction of any business within this state;   Any tortious act or omission within this state;   The ownership or possession of any interest in property located within this state;   Entering into any contract of insurance, indemnity or guaranty covering any person, property or risk located within this state at the time of contracting;   Entering into a contract for services to be rendered or for materials to be furnished in this state;   Any basis not inconsistent with the constitution of this state or of the United States;   Any action of divorce, annulment or separate maintenance where the parties lived in the marital relationship within this state, notwithstanding one party's subsequent departure from this state, as to all obligations arising for alimony, custody, child support or marital dissolution agreement, if the other party to the marital relationship continues to reside in this state.     As used in this section, “person” includes corporations and all other entities that would be subject to service of process if present in this state.   Any such person shall be deemed to have submitted to the jurisdiction of this state who acts in the manner described in subsection (a) through an agent or personal representative.
TN Code § 20-2-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 20 - Civil Procedure|Chapter 2 - Process|Part 2 - Long-Arm Statutes|§ 20-2-215. Service on Secretary of State — Forwarding by Registered or Certified Mail — Personal Representatives of Deceased Defendants — Time for Appearance — Registered or Certified Mail Refused

  Service of process pursuant to § 20-2-214 shall be made by lodging, by the plaintiff or the plaintiff's attorney, the original summons and a copy certified by the clerk of the court in which the action is brought, with a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00), with the secretary of state, who shall promptly send, postage prepaid, the certified copy by registered or certified return receipt mail to the defendant, along with a written notice that service was so made.   In case it appears, either before or after the lodging of process as provided in subsection (a), that the nonresident is dead, then either original or alias process may issue directed to the personal representative of the nonresident deceased and shall be sent as provided in this section to the probate court of the county and state of the residence of the deceased at the time of the deceased's death. No appearance need be made nor shall judgment be taken against the personal representative until the lapse of sixty (60) days from the date of mailing the process to such probate court. The procedure for mailing such process and proof of service of process shall be as provided in this section and in § 20-2-216 for the service upon living persons.   The fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) so paid by plaintiff, when fact of payment is endorsed on the original process by the secretary of state, shall be taxed as plaintiff's cost, to abide the judgment.   In case delivery of process so made by registered or certified mail is refused by the addressee of the process, such refusal to be evidenced by appropriate notation of such fact by the postal authorities, such refusal shall be deemed the equivalent of delivery and adequately constitutes service.