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Tennessee Statutes, Title 1

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Title 1, Code And Statutes

3 chapters · 53 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 153 Ch 3, Construction of Statutes23 Ch 1, Code Commission16 Ch 2, Enactment of Code14

16 sections·Filtered byTitle 1✕Ch 1✕

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-101 Composition of commission — Vacancies
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(a) There is created a Tennessee code commission of five (5) members composed of the chief justice of the supreme court, the attorney general and reporter, a director of the office of legal services for the general assembly, and two (2) other members appointed by the chief justic…
Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-102 Chair — Executive secretary
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(a) The chief justice shall serve as chair of the commission. (b) The revisor of statutes within the office of legal services for the general assembly shall serve as executive secretary of the commission.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-103 Staff services for commission
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The office of legal services for the general assembly shall provide all staff services for the commission.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-104 Successor to 1953 commission
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The Tennessee code commission, created by § 1-1-101, shall be the immediate successor to the commission created by Chapter 80 of the Public Acts of 1953.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-105 Publication of Tennessee Code Annotated

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(a) The Tennessee code commission is hereby authorized and directed to formulate and supervise the execution of plans for the compilation, arrangement, classification, annotation, editing, indexing, printing, binding, publication, sale, distribution and the performance of all oth…

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-106 Powers of commission — Contracts

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(a) The Tennessee code commission has full power and authority on behalf of the state of Tennessee to perform all acts and to negotiate and enter into all contracts necessary for and expedient to the successful production and publication of a revised compilation of the statutory …

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-107 Specifications in contract — Price of supplements and replacement volumes

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(a) Any contract with a law book publisher for the purposes referred to in §§ 1-1-105 and 1-1-106 shall prescribe the specifications for the publication of the revised compilation, including the size of type to be used in the text of the statutes and the annotations, the grade an…

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-108 Substantive changes in text prohibited — Changes authorized — Effect of error in enrollment

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(a) In preparing the manuscript of the revised compilation (including pocket supplements and replacement volumes) for publication and distribution, the commission shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any act of the general assembly, but shall copy the exact language of…

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-109 Seal and certificate

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The commission has the authority to design and adopt an appropriate certificate and distinctive seal on behalf of the state, a copy of which shall be included in each copy of each volume and pocket supplement of “Tennessee Code Annotated.”

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-110 Examination and certification of published volumes

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(a) When the commission finds that the manuscript of the revised compilation hereby authorized or any volume or pocket supplement thereof as printed, edited, annotated, indexed and bound by the law book publisher pursuant to contract conforms to the commission's publication plans…

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-111 Official status — Prima facie evidence of law — Citation

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(a) Upon appropriate certification of approval by the commission filed with the secretary of state as provided in § 1-1-110, the compilation in each volume and supplement so certified shall be in force. (b) The text of the statutes, codes and code supplements (but not the annotat…

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-112 Uncertified compilations not recognized

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No compilation or codification of the statutes of Tennessee not bearing a copy of the certificate of approval of the code commission as provided in § 1-1-110 shall be recognized as an official compilation of the statutory law of Tennessee.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-113 Expenses — Costs of publication — Price

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(a) The commission shall be authorized to expend such funds as may be appropriated by the general assembly for the purpose of this chapter. Such expenditures shall be made upon certification by the chief justice to the proper fiscal officers. (b) The commission shall not be autho…

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-114 Recommendations for statutory changes

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The commission may prepare and submit to succeeding sessions of the general assembly its recommendations for the revision in substance and form or the repeal or amendment of certain statutes or any portion thereof, and submit bills for the accomplishment of such proposed revision…

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-115 Preparation of additional indices

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The commission may prepare or cause to be prepared indices to the laws of Tennessee, in addition to such indices as are prepared in accordance with § 1-1-105, and in preparing such indices has the powers authorized by this chapter.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 1-1-116 Changing references from “tax assessor” to “assessor of property.”

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The code commission is directed to change all references to tax assessor in title 6, chapter 22, part 1; § 6-51-204; title 6, chapter 55, part 6; title 7, chapter 32, part 1; § 7-64-102; § 25-3-118; § 43-34-104; title 67; and title 69, chapter 6, part 1, wherever such references …