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TN Code § 8-18-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-103. Residence of Officers

 All officers shall reside in this state, and keep their offices at such places as are or may be designated by law.   Code 1858, § 750; Shan., § 1071; Code 1932, § 1814; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1803.
TN Code § 8-18-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-104. Terms of Office — Filling of Vacancies

 Except as provided in title 17, chapter 4, the term of each judicial and civil officer shall be computed from September 1 next succeeding election. No appointment or election to fill a vacancy shall be made for a period of time extending beyond the unexpired term. Every officer shall hold office until a successor is elected or appointed and qualified. No special election shall be held to fill a vacancy in the office of judge or district attorney general, but at the time fixed for the biennial election of civil officers; such vacancy shall be filled at the next biennial election occurring more than thirty (30) days after the vacancy occurs.
TN Code § 8-18-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-105. Terms of Appointive Officers

 In reckoning the time of the terms of appointees to all offices, the terms of which are limited to two (2) years and are filled exclusively by executive appointment, reference shall be had to the beginning of the term of the executive making the appointment. Regardless of the time of making such appointment, it shall not be held to extend beyond the expiration of the term of the executive making the same, but the term of such appointee shall expire with the term of the executive making the appointment. This section shall not be construed to prevent such appointee from holding such office until a successor is appointed and qualified. This section does not apply to executive appointments to fill vacancies in unexpired terms of elective offices, nor does it apply to offices purely appointive where the term of such office is more than two (2) years.
TN Code § 8-18-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-106. Officers Commissioned

 The following officers are commissioned, namely: senators and representatives in congress, judges of the several courts, the district attorney general of each district, judges of courts of general sessions and notaries public, and the executive officers of the state, except the governor.   Code 1858, §§ 751, 1793; impl. am. Acts 1870, ch. 24, § 7; Shan., § 1072; Code 1932, § 1815; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1606.
TN Code § 8-18-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-107. Administration of Oaths of Office

  In all cases in which it is not otherwise provided by law, the oaths of office may be administered by any officer authorized to administer an oath. Such oaths shall be written out and subscribed by the person taking them, and shall be accompanied with the certificate of the officer administering the oaths, specifying the day and year when taken.   The governor or an active or retired supreme court justice may administer the oath to a supreme court justice. The governor, an active or retired supreme court justice, an active or retired inferior court judge, or an active or retired general sessions judge may administer the oath to an inferior court judge. Except as otherwise provided by law, the governor, an active or retired supreme court justice, an active or retired inferior court judge, or an active or retired general sessions judge may administer the oath to any elected or appointed official.   The oath may be administered at any time after an appointment, in the case of appointed officials, or in the case of elected officials after the election, but before the judge or public official assumes office, so long as the results of the election establishing that the person taking the oath won the election are certified by the appropriate legal authority. Even though an official may file an oath before the scheduled start of a term of office, the official may not take office until the term officially begins.    Code 1858, § 753; Shan., § 1074; Code 1932, § 1816; Acts 1973, ch. 66, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1807; Acts 2003, ch. 5, §§ 1, 2; 2009, ch. 172, § 1; 2015, ch. 38, § 2.
TN Code § 8-18-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-108. Filing of Oaths of State and Judicial Officers

 Such oaths shall, when taken by the governor, a judge of the supreme court, a judge of the circuit court, a chancellor, the secretary of state, the comptroller of the treasury, the state treasurer, a district attorney general, or any other officer whose duties are not limited to one (1) county, unless it is otherwise provided, be filed, with the certificate required by § 8-18-107, in the office of the secretary of state.   Code 1858, § 754; Shan., § 1075; Code 1932, § 1817; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1808.
TN Code § 8-18-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-109. Filing of Oaths of County Officers — Administration of Oaths

  Judges of courts of general sessions, sheriffs, constables, and other officers whose general duties are confined to a single county, as well as retired supreme court justices and retired inferior court or general sessions judges, shall, unless it is otherwise provided, file such oaths and certificate in the office of the county clerk.   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the county mayor, the county clerk, judges of courts of general sessions, judicial commissioners or magistrates as authorized by a judge of the court or the county mayor, or a judge of any court of record in the county may administer the oath of office for any elected or appointed official. The oath may be administered at any time after an appointment, in the case of appointed officials, or in the case of elected officials after the election, but before the judge or public official assumes office, so long as the results of the election establishing that the person taking the oath won the election are certified by the appropriate legal authority. Even though an official may file an oath before the scheduled start of a term of office, the official may not take office until the term officially begins.    Code 1858, § 755; Shan., § 1076; Code 1932, § 1818; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1809; Acts 1997, ch. 125, § 1; 2003, ch. 5, § 3; 2003, ch. 90, § 2; 2015, ch. 38, §§ 3, 4; 2016, ch. 624, § 3; 2019, ch. 39, § 1.
TN Code § 8-18-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-110. Endorsement of Time of Filing

 The officer in whose office these oaths are required to be filed shall endorse thereon the day and year in which they were filed and sign the endorsement.   Code 1858, § 757; Shan., § 1078; Code 1932, § 1819; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1810.
TN Code § 8-18-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-111. Form of Oath of Office

 The official oath, unless otherwise expressly prescribed by law, shall be in the following form: “I do solemnly swear that I will perform with fidelity the duties of the office to which I have been appointed (or elected, as the case may be), and which I am about to assume.”   Code 1858, § 760; Shan., § 1081; Code 1932, § 1822; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1811.
TN Code § 8-18-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-112. Deputies' Oaths

 Whenever any officer is authorized or required to appoint a deputy, such deputy, before proceeding to act, shall take the constitutional oaths and oath of office, which shall be accompanied by the same certificate, filed in the same office, and with the same endorsement, as the oaths of such deputy's principal. This section do not apply to deputies who may be employed in particular cases only.   Code 1858, § 758; Shan., § 1079; Code 1932, § 1820; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1812.
TN Code § 8-18-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-113. Acting Without Oath

 Any officer or deputy required by law to take and file such oaths, who enters upon the duties of the office without first taking and filing the same as prescribed, commits a Class C misdemeanor.   Code 1858, § 759; Shan., § 1080; Code 1932, § 1821; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1813; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
TN Code § 8-18-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Eligibility, Commissions, and Oaths|§ 8-18-114. Application of Oath Provisions to Future Offices

 Sections §§ 8-18-107 — 8-18-113 apply to the oaths of office of all public officers of this state whose office may be established hereafter, unless the contrary be expressly provided.   Code 1858, § 775; Shan., § 1096; Code 1932, § 1838; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1814.
TN Code § 8-20-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-102. County Mayor as Defendant — Hearing and Decision

 Each of the above named officers shall name in the petition the county mayor as the party defendant thereto. A copy of the petition shall be served on the county mayor, who shall file an answer to the petition within five (5) days from the date of service of the petition, either admitting the allegations of the petition or denying same, or making such answer as the county mayor deems advisable under the circumstances. Whereupon, the court shall promptly in term or at chambers have such a hearing on the application, on the petition and answer thereto, as will develop the facts, and the court may hear proof either for or against the petition. The court may allow or disallow the application, either in whole or in part, and may allow the whole number of deputies or assistants applied for or a less number, and may allow the salaries set out in the application or smaller salaries, all as the facts justify.
TN Code § 8-20-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-103. Requirements for Authorization

  No deputy or deputies or assistants shall be allowed to any office, unless the actual officer is unable to personally discharge the duties of the office by devoting such officer's entire working time thereto, except field deputy sheriffs.   In case the officer is incapacitated from any cause to perform the duties of the office, one (1) person working in the place of the officer shall neither be considered nor paid as a deputy or assistant.
TN Code § 8-20-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-104. Decree — Modification

 The order of the court shall be spread upon the minutes of the court, as in the case of other judgments and decrees, and the petition and answer thereto shall be docketed, filed, and kept as permanent records of the court. The order or decree fixing the number of deputies and salaries may be changed or modified by increasing or decreasing the number of deputies and the salaries paid each, from time to time, upon application made in the manner above provided; or any such officers without such formal application may decrease either the number of deputies or assistants and the salaries of any of them where the facts justify such course.
TN Code § 8-20-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-105. Reduction of Number or Salaries

 It is the duty of all officers mentioned above to reduce the number of deputies and assistants and/or the salaries paid them when it can be reasonably done. The court or judge having jurisdiction may, on motion of the county mayor, and upon reasonable notice to the officer in whose office the deputies or assistants to be affected are, have a hearing of such motion in term or in vacation, at chambers, and may reduce the number of deputies or assistants and/or the salaries paid any one (1) or more when the public good justifies.
TN Code § 8-20-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-106. Appeal of Decision

 Either party dissatisfied with the decree or order of the court in the proceedings set out above is given the right of appeal as in other cases. Pending the final disposition of the application to the court, or pending the final determination on appeal, the officer making application may appoint deputies or assistants to serve until the final determination of the case, who shall be paid according to the final judgment of the court.
TN Code § 8-20-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-107. Costs of Proceedings

 The cost of all cases shall be paid out of the fees of the office collected by such officers, and they and each of them shall be allowed a credit for the same in settlement with the county trustee.
TN Code § 8-20-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-109. Removal of Deputies or Assistants

 Any and all deputies and assistants in any of the offices covered by this chapter shall be removable by the officer for whom they are acting, at will.
TN Code § 8-20-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-110. Refunds to Allow for Salaries of Deputies

 The various county legislative bodies are empowered to refund payments made to the county by the county and probate court clerks, chancery court clerks, circuit court clerks, and clerks of criminal and special courts, county trustees, registers of deeds, and sheriffs, in cases where such officers have failed to obtain credit for payments made by them to assistants and deputies out of the fees of their offices collected by them, and have been compelled to account therefor to the county, by reason of having neglected to apply to and obtain, from the courts authorized by law, orders authorizing the employment of such deputies and assistants; provided, that:   It shall be made to appear that the officers could not properly and efficiently conduct the affairs and transact the business of their offices by devoting their entire working time thereto and it was actually necessary to the proper conduct of same to employ such assistants and deputies, and that only such assistants and deputies were employed, and at such salaries and under such facts, as would have been sufficient to justify the courts to whom such applications should have been made to have made orders for the employment of such assistants and deputies at the salaries paid them;   The failure to file petitions with the courts and obtain the orders necessary for the employment of such assistants and deputies was on account of misapprehension and misunderstanding of the requirements of the law and such failure was in good faith; and   Nothing shall be refunded to such officers on account of the employment of assistants and deputies except and only such as the officers would have been entitled to under the law had the petitions been filed and the orders obtained as required by the statute.
TN Code § 8-20-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-111. Release to Allow for Salaries Paid

 The legislative body of any county is authorized to release any county official in such official's settlements with the county from the payment of any sum or sums theretofore made by such county official for assistants or deputies, when such official would have been entitled to employ and pay such assistants and deputies had the official made application to the proper court for authority to employ them under this chapter.
TN Code § 8-20-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 20 - Appointment of Deputies and Assistants|§ 8-20-112. Employment or Termination of Employment

 In any county having a civil service system for the sheriff's department pursuant to chapter 8, part 4 of this title or other general law or a private act, or a civil service system for all county employees pursuant to a private act, the employment or termination of employment of any deputy or assistant in any offices covered by this chapter shall be pursuant to such civil service system, and § 8-20-109 shall not apply to such county.
TN Code § 8-22-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 22 - Accounting for Fees|§ 8-22-101. Clerks and County Officers Made Salaried Officers

 The clerks and masters of the chancery courts, the county clerks and clerks of the probate, criminal, circuit and special courts, county trustees, registers of deeds, general sessions court clerks, juvenile court clerks, and sheriffs shall be deprived of all their fees, commissions, emoluments and perquisites that shall accrue, or be received by virtue of their respective offices, except payment for special services as trustee or receiver and payment for special services as special commissioner; and they shall be compensated for their services by salaries in the manner provided in chapter 24 of this title, which salaries shall be in lieu of all other compensation.
TN Code § 8-22-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 22 - Accounting for Fees|§ 8-22-102. Bond to Pay Over Fees

 In the official bonds executed by the officers enumerated in § 8-22-101, there shall be included a condition that the officer shall collect and duly so account to the county trustee for the fees, commissions, emoluments, perquisites, and compensation that such officer shall receive or by due diligence ought to have received by virtue of the office, to which the county is entitled by Chapters 2 1 and 22 of this title.
TN Code § 8-22-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 22 - Accounting for Fees|§ 8-22-103. Excess Fees Are Property of County

 All the excess fees, commissions, emoluments and perquisites, no matter whether such sums arise from fees, commissions, emoluments or perquisites by order or by direction of court, that are or may be directly or indirectly collected by virtue of their offices by the clerks of the circuit, criminal and special courts, and by the clerks and masters of the chancery courts, county clerks and clerks of the probate courts, county trustees, registers of deeds, clerks of the general sessions courts, juvenile court clerks, and sheriffs, except compensation for special services as trustee or receiver, and except, also, payment for special services as special commissioner, shall be paid to the county trustee as a part of the county revenue, and the same when accrued are declared to be the property of the respective counties wherein the same are collectible, except as herein provided.
TN Code § 8-22-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 22 - Accounting for Fees|§ 8-22-105. Liability for Failure to Collect or Account

 Any officer enumerated in § 8-22-101, who evades the letter or the spirit of Chapters 2 1 and 22 of this title by failing to charge or collect from the one liable therefor, every fee, commission, perquisite, emolument, or compensation that the county may be entitled to, and which, by the exercise of reasonable diligence could have been collected, or by failing to present the statement of receipts as herein directed, shall be held individually liable to the county for the amount that should have been collected, and the same shall be charged against the officer and be deducted from the officer's salary, or collected from the officer by law.
TN Code § 8-22-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 22 - Accounting for Fees|§ 8-22-106. False Statements — Felony

 Any officer enumerated in § 8-22-101 who evades the letter or the spirit of Chapters 2 1 and 22 of this title by making or by conspiring with anyone, in any manner, to make a false or incorrect exhibit of receipts, statement of expenses, or statements as to any fact required to be stated by this chapter or chapter 24 of this title under oath, commits a Class E felony.
TN Code § 8-22-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 22 - Accounting for Fees|§ 8-22-107. Items Paid for by County — Special Provisions for Certain Counties

  All necessary books, stationery, office equipment, stamps, and supplies of all kinds used in the conduct of the various offices shall be furnished and paid for by the county, including premiums on official bonds executed by the officers named in § 8-22-101.   Notwithstanding subsection (a), in counties with a population of six hundred thousand (600,000) or more, according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent census, all necessary books, stationery, office equipment, stamps and supplies of all kinds used in the conduct of the various offices of the elected county officers enumerated in this chapter shall be furnished and paid for by the county, including premiums on official bonds executed by such officers named in § 8-22-101, and all such purchases shall be accomplished through a centralized purchasing procedure in that county pursuant to the applicable laws relative to that county for purchasing. No official or officer enumerated in § 8-22-101 shall be entitled to purchase any of the aforementioned items for the officer's office by using the fees, commissions or emoluments collected by the officer.