Tennessee § 5-8-404 - Unclaimed funds from appellate courts.
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§ 5-8-404. Unclaimed funds from appellate courts.
This part shall apply to clerks of the appeals and supreme courts, who are required to pay over to the county mayor of the county in which the suits originated, as other county revenue, on the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year, all moneys in their hands due to witnesses, officers, litigants, or others, that may have been collected by the clerk from suitors or from the state and county treasury, and that have been in court for more than two (2) years. Acts 1895, ch. 137, § 1; Shan., § 665; mod. Code 1932, § 1064; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-824; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2. Compiler's Notes. This section may be affected by the Uniform Unclaimed Property Act compiled in title 66, ch. 29. Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2, directed the code commission to change all references from “county executive” to “county mayor” and to include all such changes in supplements and replacement volumes for the Tennessee Code Annotated. Cross-References. Option to redesignate county mayor as county executive by private act, § 5-6-101 . Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 6 Tenn. Juris., Clerks of Court, § 12; 6 Tenn. Juris., Constitutional Law, § 79.
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