Tennessee § 8-22-101 - Clerks and county officers made salaried officers.
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§ 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. Acts 1921, ch. 101, § 1; Shan. Supp., § 6428a38; Code 1932, § 10725; Acts 1955, ch. 116, § 1; 1969, ch. 332, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-2201; Acts 1990, ch. 1035, § 14. Code Commission Notes. In view of the deletion of a former § 8 in Acts 1990, ch. 1035, and the renumbering of the remaining sections of that act without a corresponding change in the references in § 20, the effective date section, the code commission deems the reference in § 20 to § 15 to refer to § 14 of that act. Former part 1 of this chapter was deleted and renumbered as Chapter 22, T.C.A. §§ 8-22-101 to 8-22-121 by authority of the Code Commission in 2016. Cross-References. Chapter applicable to criminal cases, § 40-25-101 . Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 6 Tenn. Juris., Clerks of Court, § 8; 18 Tenn. Juris., Mandamus, § 25; 21 Tenn. Juris., Public Officers, § 33; 22 Tenn. Juris., Sheriffs, § 3. Law Reviews. Local Government Law (Clyde L. Ball), 6 Vand. L. Rev. 1206 (1953). Attorney General Opinions. Juvenile court fees collected by county clerk, OAG 99-093, 1999 Tenn. AG LEXIS 93 (4/19/99).
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