Tennessee § 5-6-114 - Powers and duties — Acting for clerk.
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§ 5-6-114. Powers and duties — Acting for clerk.
When the county clerk is incompetent, because of interest or relationship, to do or perform any official act required by law to be done by the county clerk, it shall be lawful, and is made the duty of the county mayor to do and perform that act. Acts 1871, ch. 42, § 1; Shan., § 676; Code 1932, § 1072; Acts 1978, ch. 934, § 21; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-614; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2. Compiler's Notes. 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. Incompetency of clerk, § 18-6-112 . Option to redesignate county mayor as county executive by private act, § 5-6-101 .
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