Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

(a) In all cases where the interest of the state requires, in the judgment of the governor and attorney general and reporter, additional counsel to the attorney general and reporter or district attorney general, the governor shall employ such counsel, who shall be paid such compe…

The attorney general and reporter and assistants shall be under the disabilities, restrictions, and disqualifications of district attorneys general and shall be subject to be proceeded against for misdemeanors in office in the same manner that the judges of the courts are proceed…

It is a Class C misdemeanor for the attorney general and reporter or any assistant to take or receive a fee for defending any supposed offender in the inferior courts.

(a) The attorney general and reporter has and shall exercise all duties vested in the office by the Constitution of Tennessee and all duties and authority pertaining to the office of the attorney general and reporter under the statutory law. The attorney general and reporter is a…

The attorney general and reporter shall attend in person, or by assistant, and prosecute or defend, as the case may be, any and all suits, civil or criminal, in the supreme court of the United States, in the United States court of appeals for the judicial circuit of the United St…

The attorney general and reporter is authorized to employ, reassign, or contract with individuals utilizing special funds appropriated solely for the purpose of providing prompt and fair adjudication of post-conviction proceedings in capital sentence cases, including authority to…

(a) The attorney general and reporter has the authority to conduct an investigation and has the authority to initiate the criminal prosecution of any judge, chancellor, or judicial elected official, or district attorney general, or both, whenever:(1) The attorney general and repo…

(a) The attorney general and reporter is authorized to conduct a study of a district attorney general's disposition of charges and other ancillary matters within the thirtieth judicial district. The purpose of the study is to ensure the proper administration of justice necessary …

The clerks of the supreme court shall have the opinions of the supreme court enrolled within ten (10) days after their delivery by the court, and shall then deliver to the attorney general and reporter the original opinion for publication. Reports of the opinions shall be publish…

(a) It is the duty of the attorney general and reporter to report any written opinion of the supreme court that may be pronounced by the court, or any judge thereof, in which any other points of law are decided than such as are settled in some previously reported decisions, and a…

The attorney general and reporter shall prepare the case, and the opinion so pronounced thereon, with proper syllabi of the points therein. In the report of each case shall be given the name of the judge or chancellor who made the decision in the court below, and the place of the…

The attorney general and reporter has the right to select a printer, and has the exclusive control of the publication and binding of all reports. After five (5) years from the publication of each report, the copyright of the same shall revert to the state of Tennessee.

(a) The attorney general and reporter shall cause to be printed and bound, in a form deemed appropriate, official opinions of that office. Opinions shall be printed annually. (b) The attorney general and reporter is authorized to examine all such past opinions and omit from the p…

The attorney general and reporter shall have printed and bound, at the expense of the state to be paid for upon the warrant of the commissioner of finance and administration, a sufficient number of volumes of any of the reports required to be distributed under this part, the same…

(a) The comptroller of the treasury shall furnish each judge and chancellor and each circuit, chancery, criminal and common law court with a copy of each volume of such reports, gratis, and shall, in like manner, deposit with the secretary of state twenty-five (25) copies of each…

(a) The attorney general and reporter, either in person or by assistant, shall represent all offices, departments, agencies, boards, commissions or instrumentalities of the state now in existence or which may hereafter be created. All legal services required by such offices, depa…

The attorney general and reporter, exercising discretion and with the concurrence of the head of the executive agency involved, may permit, by express written authorization, staff attorneys employed by the various departments, agencies, boards, commissions or instrumentalities of…

This part is not to be construed as requiring the attorney general and reporter to approve of, participate in, or supervise actions instituted by the various district attorneys general pursuant to law.

The attorney general and reporter, in performing the duties of such office where the state is a party litigant, or there is reasonable cause to indicate it will be a party litigant, is hereby empowered to require any person to testify under oath as to any matter which is a proper…

(a) For these purposes, the attorney general and reporter is empowered to issue civil investigative demands to require the attendance of witnesses or the submission of documents, or both, at specified times and places, to give testimony in the case or matter therein stated. The d…

Service of a civil investigative demand as described in § 8-6-402 must be made by a designated representative of the attorney general and reporter by any means permitted by the Rules of Civil Procedure. Such process must run throughout the United States but does not require any w…

If a witness fails to comply with a civil investigative demand issued under this part by its return date and has not secured a protective order from the court, then the attorney general and reporter, upon notice to the witness, may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction for a…

Any witness who appears as directed by the civil investigative demand, but upon appearance refuses to testify on matters not privileged by law, shall be punished as prescribed in § 8-6-404.

Any witness served with a civil investigative demand shall be paid fees and mileage on the same basis as authorized to be paid witnesses in the courts of this state.

(a) All testimony, books, documents, or other writings, records or tangible objects obtained by the attorney general and reporter pursuant to §§ 8-6-401 and 8-6-402 shall be confidential and shall not be publicly divulged by the office of the attorney general and reporter except …

(a) Upon consent of the district attorney general, the attorney general and reporter may designate any full-time salaried attorney general investigator who meets the qualifications of § 38-8-106 and the training requirements of § 38-8-107(a), to act with the same authority as a d…

(a) If the attorney general and reporter has reason to believe that a person is engaging in, has engaged in, or is about to engage in an unlawful act or practice under state law that is a proper subject of inquiry by the attorney general and reporter, or has reason to believe it …

Each judicial district shall constitute a district attorney general's district.

The district attorneys general for the judicial districts are elected by the qualified voters of the districts respectively.

(1) Each district attorney general:(1) Shall prosecute in the courts of the district all violations of the state criminal statutes and perform all prosecutorial functions attendant thereto, including prosecuting cases in a municipal court where the municipality provides sufficien…

District attorneys general are prohibited from engaging in the practice of law.

(a) On July 1, 1990, the salary for district attorneys general shall be sixty-eight thousand dollars ($68,000) per annum. On July 1, 1991, the base salary for district attorneys general shall be seventy-four thousand one hundred dollars ($74,100) per annum. On September 1, 2006, …

(a) (1) If the district attorney general fails to attend the circuit or criminal court, or is disqualified from acting, or if there is a vacancy in the office, the court shall appoint some other attorney to supply such district attorney general's place temporarily. The acts of su…

A vacancy in the office of district attorney general shall be filled by the voters of the district at the next biennial election more than thirty (30) days after the happening of the vacancy. The election shall be ordered by the governor by issuing proper writs of election to the…

(a) In accordance with § 40-38-102, whenever possible, victims of crime must have separate and secure waiting areas during all critical stages of the judicial process, and to further the availability of such separate and secure waiting areas, the district attorneys general confer…

(a) (1) There is hereby created a sex crime prosecution unit, the duties of which shall include, but not be limited to, child sexual abuse cases, which unit shall include two (2) assistant district attorneys general, and one (1) secretary-file clerk.(2) It is the intent of the ge…

(a) Any law enforcement officer or assistant district attorney general or district attorney general criminal investigator assigned to or hired by a judicial district or multi-judicial district task force relating to the investigation and prosecution of drug and violent crime case…

The district attorney general is authorized to employ, reassign, or contract with individuals utilizing special funds appropriated solely for the purpose of providing prompt and fair adjudication of post-conviction proceedings in capital sentence cases, including authority to ass…

District attorneys general with responsibility for prosecuting offenses in counties with populations of less than five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, and with a charter form of government pursuant to title 5, cha…

(a) Each district attorney general shall designate at least one (1) person currently employed within the judicial district as an assistant district attorney general as the lead prosecuting attorney for the judicial district in cases involving crimes committed against children. (b…

(a) If a written request for the following information is made jointly by the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, then a nonprofit organization that has entered into a contract or memorandum of understanding with the district attorney general re…

(1) Each district attorney general shall provide an annual report by March 1 of each year to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, speaker of the senate, chair of the criminal justice committee of the house of representatives, chair of the judiciary committee of …

(a) The district attorney general of any judicial district in which the Memphis safe task force or a federal task force to combat violent crime is in effect shall submit a report, as provided in subsection (b), to the attorney general and reporter, speaker of the senate, speaker …

(a) (1) All criminal investigators hired prior to July 1, 1994, shall be compensated according to the following schedule: Entry level$34,128after five (5) years$35,832after ten (10) years$37,536after fourteen (14) years$37,824after sixteen (16) years$39,924after eighteen (18) yea…

(a) The several assistant district attorneys general and/or criminal investigators in all districts shall be reimbursed from funds appropriated to the office of the district attorney general in the district in which they are employed for the necessary traveling expenses incurred …

Traveling expenses under this part shall be calculated on the basis of a maximum of seven cents (7¢) per mile each way necessarily traveled on official business.