14 chapters · 216 sections in this title.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-3-101 Methods of preventing offenses
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(1) Public offenses may be prevented by the intervention of the officers of justice by:(1) Requiring security to keep the peace; and(2) Suppressing riots, unlawful assemblies and breaches of the peace. (1) Requiring security to keep the peace; and (2) Suppressing riots, unlawful …
Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-3-102 Duties of sheriff
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(a) The sheriff is the principal conservator of the peace in the sheriff's county. It is the sheriff's duty to suppress all affrays, riots, routs, unlawful assemblies, insurrections, or other breaches of the peace, to do which the sheriff may summon to such sheriff's aid as many …
Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-3-103 Other conservators of the peace
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The judicial and ministerial officers of justice in the state, and the mayor, aldermen, marshals and police of cities and towns, and the director, commissioner, or similar head of any metropolitan or municipal police department, whether elected or appointed, are also conservators…
Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-3-104 Officers may command aid
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All officers authorized to execute judicial process, who find, or have reason to apprehend, that resistance will be made to the execution of judicial process, may command the aid of the inhabitants as prescribed in § 38-3-102 for suppressing riots.