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TN Code § 8-49-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 49 - Transfer of Records and Property of Office|§ 8-49-101. Delivery to Successor Required

 In all cases in which it is not otherwise expressly provided, when any office is vacated, all books, papers, property and moneys belonging or appertaining to such office, shall, on demand, be delivered over to the qualified successor. Every person knowingly and willfully violating this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.   Code 1858, § 805; Shan., § 1126; Code 1932, § 1867; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2901; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
TN Code § 8-49-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 49 - Transfer of Records and Property of Office|§ 8-49-102. Order to Show Cause for Nondelivery

  If any person having the possession thereof refuses or neglects, after a demand is made by a qualified officer, to deliver over any books, papers, or property, as required in § 8-49-101, such officer may make complaint to the circuit judge, or judge of the court of general sessions of the county in which the person refusing resides.   If such judge is satisfied by the oath of the complainant, and such other evidence as may be offered, that any such books, papers, or property are withheld, the judge shall grant an order upon the person so refusing to show cause, on a day and at a place to be therein named, why the person should not be compelled to deliver the same.    Code 1858, § 806; Shan., § 1127; Code 1932, § 1868; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2902.   Law Reviews.   The Tennessee Court System — Circuit Court (Frederic S. Le Clercq), 8 Mem. St. U.L. Rev. 241 (1978).
TN Code § 8-49-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 49 - Transfer of Records and Property of Office|§ 8-49-103. Inquiry as to Nondelivery

 At the time so appointed, or at any other time to which the matter may be adjourned, a copy of such order having been personally served on the person so refusing, such officer shall proceed to inquire into the circumstances.   Code 1858, § 807; Shan., § 1128; Code 1932, § 1869; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2903.
TN Code § 8-49-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 49 - Transfer of Records and Property of Office|§ 8-49-104. Oath of Delivery to Qualified Successor

 If the person charged makes oath that such person has delivered over to the qualified successor all such books, papers, and property in such person's possession or appertaining to such office, all further proceedings shall cease, without prejudice to the officer to take other steps allowed by law.   Code 1858, § 808; Shan., § 1129; Code 1932, § 1870; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2904.
TN Code § 8-49-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 49 - Transfer of Records and Property of Office|§ 8-49-105. Commitment for Failure to Deliver Records and Property

 If such affidavit is not made, and it appears that any such books, papers, and property are withheld, the officer before whom the proceedings are had, shall, by warrant, commit the person so withholding them to the county jail, there to remain until that person delivers such books, papers, and property, or is otherwise discharged by law.   Code 1858, § 809; Shan., § 1130; Code 1932, § 1871; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2905.
TN Code § 8-49-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 49 - Transfer of Records and Property of Office|§ 8-49-106. Search Warrant for Records and Property

 In the case stated in § 8-49-105, if required by the complainant, such officer shall also issue warrant, directed to any lawful officer, commanding that officer, in the daytime, to search such places as may be designated in the warrant, for such books, papers, and property as belonged and appertained to the office vacated, and to seize and bring them before the officer issuing such warrant.   Code 1858, § 810; Shan., § 1131; Code 1932, § 1872; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2906.
TN Code § 8-49-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 49 - Transfer of Records and Property of Office|§ 8-49-107. Delivery of Records and Property Returned on Warrant

 Upon any books, papers, or property being brought before such officer, by virtue of such warrant, the officer shall examine and inquire whether the same appertained to the office vacated, in which case the officer shall cause such books, papers, and property to be delivered to the complainant.   Code 1858, § 811; Shan., § 1132; Code 1932, § 1873; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2907.
TN Code § 9-1-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-101. Fiscal Year for State and County Government

  The fiscal year of state government shall hereafter commence on July 1 of each year and end on the following June 30. This fiscal year shall be followed in making appropriations and in financial reporting, and shall be uniformly adopted by all departments, institutions, offices and agencies of state government.   Unless otherwise allowed by the comptroller of the treasury upon grounds of special hardships, the fiscal year of the counties of the state shall begin on July 1 of each year and shall end on the following June 30. The fiscal year shall constitute the budget year and the year for accounting and reporting of each and every fund, office, department, institution, activity and agency of the county government, but the aforementioned provision shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any accounting and reporting now required of any official by general law.
TN Code § 9-1-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-102. Borrowing by State Employees and Officials Restricted

 State employees and officials are prohibited from borrowing money upon the faith and credit of the state for any purpose whatever, except as otherwise provided by law.
TN Code § 9-1-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-103. Protection of Appropriations of State and Departmental Revenues and State Funds and Institutional and Program Revenues by the State's Sovereign Immunity

  Except to the extent that sovereign immunity is expressly waived by the general assembly, all appropriations of state revenues and departmental revenues previously and hereafter made to the state, its departments, agencies, boards, educational institutions, instrumentalities, and incorporated entities performing the state's governmental functions shall be state funds and shall be protected by the state's sovereign immunity from every court's judgment, decree, attachment, or other legal process; provided, however, that any law authorizing an agency, board, or entity to sue or be sued shall not constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity.   Except to the extent that sovereign immunity is expressly waived by the general assembly, all appropriations of state funds and institutional and program revenues previously and hereafter made to institutions and programs of higher education shall be state funds and shall be protected by the state's sovereign immunity from any court's judgment, decree, attachment, or other legal process; provided, however, that any law authorizing an institution or program of higher education to sue or be sued shall not constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity.
TN Code § 9-1-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-104. Right of Prepayment to Appear on Instrument

 Whenever the right to pay, prior to maturity, bonds, notes or other obligations of the state of Tennessee, or political subdivisions thereof, exists, the fact of such right of prepayment shall appear on the face of the instrument, or on the reverse side thereof, in a prominent place.
TN Code § 9-1-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-105. State-Shared Revenue to Counties and Municipalities — Effective Date for Distribution Purposes

 For the purpose of distributing state-shared revenue to counties and municipalities based upon the population as disclosed by the last federal decennial census, the effective date of such federal decennial census for counties shall be the first day of the month next following the date on which the federal bureau of the census releases the final population figures for all Tennessee counties, and the effective date for municipalities shall be the first day of the month next following the date on which the federal bureau of the census releases the final population figures for all Tennessee municipalities.
TN Code § 9-1-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-106. Negotiability of Public Bonds

 The negotiability of all bonds issued by this state, any county, municipal corporation or other subdivision or public agency thereof shall be governed by the Uniform Commercial Code — Investment Securities, compiled in title 47, chapter 8, any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding.
TN Code § 9-1-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-109. Penalties for Nonpayment of Checks or Money Orders

 If any check or money order so received is not duly paid, in addition to other penalties provided by law, there shall be paid as a penalty by the person who tendered such check or money order, upon written notice and demand by the state, county or municipal officer to whom such check was tendered, an amount equal to one percent (1%) of the amount of such check or money order, except that if the amount of the check or money order is less than two thousand dollars ($2,000), the penalty under this section shall be twenty dollars ($20.00) or the amount of the check, whichever is lesser.
TN Code § 9-1-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-110. Issuance of Credit by Commissioner of Revenue for Taxes, Licenses or Fees of Amounts Received by Check or Money Order

 In the event any such check or money order is not duly paid, after acceptance by any municipal, county or state officer as payment of any taxes, licenses or fees in good faith and with reason to believe the same would be duly paid, the commissioner may give credit in such manner as such commissioner may prescribe to the officer for such amount included in the check or money order tendered as payment of taxes, licenses or fees due to the state.
TN Code § 9-1-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-117. Receipt or Collection of Personal Checks by State, Municipal or County Officials

 An official or employee within state, county, or municipal government or any agency thereof, who is required or authorized to receive or collect personal checks or similar sight orders on behalf of such government, agency or office, shall not require or encourage the drawer of any such check or order to give or include as payee any personal name as opposed to the name of the state, county, or municipal government or the agency or office or the official's name and title. Such official or employee shall not require or encourage any such drawer to give or include as payee the name of any official, employee, or other person in such person's personal capacity. This section shall not be construed or implemented to prohibit use of notification forms which were printed prior to May 8, 1996.
TN Code § 9-1-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 9-1-119. Computer Software as Equipment for Financing Purposes

 Whenever the right to issue debt, whether bonds, notes or other obligations, exists for the state of Tennessee, any corporate governmental agency or instrumentality of the state of Tennessee, any county, city, municipal corporation, or other subdivision or public agency or entity thereof to finance capital assets, computer software, whether acquired before, at the same time as, or after the hardware needed for utilization of the software, to the extent accounted for as a capital asset, shall constitute equipment for financing purposes.
TN Code § 9-2-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-101. Sources of Revenue

 The revenue of the state is derived from taxes on property, incomes, sales of land, the exercise of privileges, litigation, from fines, forfeitures and escheats, from merchants, from peddlers, and from inheritance taxes, jail fees and interest.   Code 1858, § 538; Shan., § 685; mod. Code 1932, § 1081; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-201.
TN Code § 9-2-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-102. Uniform Accounting System

  It is the duty of the department of audit to prescribe a uniform system of bookkeeping designating the character of books, reports, receipts, and records, and the method of keeping same, in all state, county, and municipal offices, including utility districts, which handle public funds. It is the duty of all officials to adopt and use the system and the character of books, reports, and records designated; provided, that the comptroller of the treasury may approve any existing system. The approval of such systems by the comptroller of the treasury is subject to the concurrence of the commissioner of finance and administration.   It is the duty of all local governments that are subject to the audit requirements of the comptroller of the treasury and that handle public funds to close their official accounting records and to have those records available for audit no later than two (2) months after the close of their fiscal year.
TN Code § 9-2-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-103. Receipts Required

 Each state, county and municipal official who receives any sum or sums in such official's capacity shall issue to the payer thereof a receipt and shall retain a duplicate thereof in the office of such official; provided, that this provision for official receipts shall not apply to the payment of funds from one department or division of the state government to another such department or division. Any system now in use shall be acceptable if approved by the comptroller of the treasury.
TN Code § 9-2-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-104. Issuance, Preservation and Numbering of Receipts

  The receipt shall be issued in duplicate and a copy thereof shall be retained by the person so receiving such money and shall be available to the state auditors upon demand.   The receipts shall be in a well-bound book, or on a form approved by the comptroller of the treasury, and shall be prenumbered consecutively.
TN Code § 9-2-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-105. Furnishing Receipt Books

 It is the duty of the chief administrative officer of the municipality to procure such receipt books for municipal officials, it is the duty of the county mayor to procure such receipt books for county officials, and it is the duty of the department head of the state agency to procure the same for state officials. The state or county official issuing receipts hereunder shall preserve such official's copy of such receipt book until the same has been audited as provided by law, after which time such official may make such disposition thereof as deemed advisable, unless otherwise directed by the comptroller of the treasury. The cost of printing the receipt books by the county or municipal officials shall be paid in the same manner now provided for the payment for other office supplies. The cost of receipt books used in state offices shall be paid in the same manner as now provided for the payment for other state office supplies.
TN Code § 9-2-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-106. Penalty for Violations

 Any person violating any of the provisions of §§ 9-2-103 — 9-2-105 commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 9-2-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-107. Settlement for School Funds

 The commissioner of finance and administration shall settle with the banks, insurance companies, tax collectors, and clerks, and all other corporations, companies, officers and persons, all accounts of moneys due from them, or any of them, which have been appropriated to the use of common schools, and which are by law subject to annual distribution, and shall charge the same, and keep a full account thereof, in books to be kept for the purpose, and shall issue such commissioner's warrant for the payment thereof into the treasury in the same manner as for the payment of the revenue of the state.   Code 1858, § 208 (deriv. Acts 1837-1838, ch. 148, § 45); Shan., § 258; Code 1932, § 202; impl. am. Acts 1937, ch. 33, §§ 24, 29; C. Supp. 1950, § 202; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1961, ch. 97, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-207.
TN Code § 9-2-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-108. Reports of Clerks and Judges

 The clerks of all the courts and every judge of the court of general sessions shall make a report, in writing, under oath, to the county mayor, giving the names of each person, in alphabetical order, from whom such clerk or judge has received state, county, or municipal revenue during the quarter next preceding the day on which the report shall be made, and also giving the amount of state, county, and municipal revenue received from each person, when paid, and on what account paid, stating particularly the nature of the privilege, if a privilege, and separating in such clerk or judge's report the state, county, and municipal revenue received by such clerk or judge. Such reports shall be sworn to before some officer authorized to administer oaths, before their presentation to the county mayor. A judge who has not received any revenue shall not be required to make such report.
TN Code § 9-2-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-109. Time of Reports — Filing

  The report required by § 9-2-108 shall be made quarterly, on the first Monday in January, April, July and October.   The county mayor shall note on each report the day the same was by such county mayor received, and shall cause the report to be kept fastened in book form and file the same with the county register.   The reports shall be public records, open to the inspection of the public, free of charge, whenever such inspection may be demanded.
TN Code § 9-2-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-110. Failure of Judge or Clerk to Report

  If any judge or clerk who has received any revenue fails to make such report in the time prescribed, such judge or clerk shall be subject to presentment; and, upon conviction, a judge shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) and a clerk not less than fifty dollars ($50.00).   If the jury by whom the defendant is tried and convicted finds that the failure to make such report was willful or due to gross neglect, such clerk or judge shall be removed from office, as a part of the judgment of the court.
TN Code § 9-2-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-111. Perjury by Judge or Clerk

 If any clerk or judge of the court of general sessions knowingly omits to charge in such clerk's or judge's account any sum of money for which, by law, such clerk or judge is liable to account, and swear to the statement, knowing it to be incorrect, and produce such false account to the county mayor for settlement, such clerk or judge commits perjury.   Code 1858, § 512 (deriv. Acts 1807, ch. 66, § 2); Shan., § 1020; mod. Code 1932, § 1749; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 36; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-211; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2.
TN Code § 9-2-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-112. Examination of Reports by Grand Jury — Penalties for Violations

  It is the duty of the grand jury, impaneled next after the filing of the reports by clerks or judges, to examine the same, in order to ascertain their correctness, and if such grand jury shall find any omission in the reports, or any amount erroneously charged, or any error whatever in the reports, and shall be of opinion that such omission, mistake or error was corruptly or fraudulently made, such grand jury shall present the officer who made the report.   Upon conviction, the officer and such officer's sureties shall be bound to pay whatever fine and costs may be adjudged against the officer.   If the traverse jury should find the omission or other error to have been willfully made, then the court, in addition to the fine and costs, shall also remove the officer from office.   The grand jury has the power to send for persons and papers to facilitate its investigations into the correctness of the reports.
TN Code § 9-2-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-113. Payment by Judge

 The judges shall, within ten (10) days after the time required for making such report, pay into the hands of the county trustee the amount of county revenue by them last reported, and into the hands of the county clerk the amount of state revenue by them last reported, and to the treasurer or other proper financial officer of the municipality the amount of municipal revenue in their hands.
TN Code § 9-2-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-114. Payment by Clerks

 The clerks of all courts shall, within twenty (20) days after the time required for making such report, pay over to the county trustee the amount of the county revenue then in their hands, and to the state treasurer the amount of state revenue then in their hands, and to the state treasurer or other proper financial officer of the municipality the amount of municipal revenue in their hands.
TN Code § 9-2-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-115. Failure of Clerk or Judge to Pay Over

 Any judge or clerk failing to make the payments as required of them, respectively, by §§ 9-2-113 and 9-2-114, shall be proceeded against by the officer to whom the payment should have been made, by motion on such judge's or clerk's official bond.
TN Code § 9-2-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 2 - Accounting for Revenues|§ 9-2-116. Failure of Clerk or Judge to Produce Proper Receipt

 If any clerk fails to produce the trustee's receipt, when called on by the judge of the court of general sessions or the county mayor, or fails to produce the receipts of the commissioner of revenue and of the state treasurer, when called on by the county mayor, or by the district attorney general or attorney general and reporter; or if the receipt produced shows, from its date or otherwise, that the clerk has not complied with the requirements of the law, the court shall dismiss such clerk from office and appoint another in such clerk's stead, to hold the office until such clerk's successor is elected.   Code 1858, §§ 511, 714 (deriv. Acts 1841-1842, ch. 147, § 2); Shan., § 1022; Code 1932, § 1751; impl. am. Acts 1937, ch. 33, §§ 50, 51; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 14; modified; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 36; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 9-216; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2.