Title 8, Public Officers And Employees

(a) Each clerk of a court in this state receiving, handling and disbursing spousal support, child support, and similar moneys under and by order of court is entitled to charge and receive from the obligor the sum of five percent (5%) for any and all payments received during each …

The court may make allowances to the clerk or other person acting as trustee, receiver, or commissioner under the appointment of the court, or to the clerk in the clerk's official capacity.

If the clerk employs an auctioneer or other person to cry the sale of property, it shall be at the clerk's own expense.

No clerk of any court shall be entitled to any fees which become chargeable to the state or county in consequence of any omission or neglect of duty on the part of such clerk.

Such clerks shall not be entitled to any fees for imperfect or incorrect transcripts made out and transmitted to a superior court, but such fees shall, on motion, be stricken out of the bill of costs, and such clerk, moreover, charged with costs of the certiorari awarded to bring…

(a) The clerk of the supreme court and the intermediate appellate courts and the board of judicial conduct, referred to in this section as the “clerk”, is authorized to charge and receive a fee for each individual service rendered by the clerk or may charge and receive a general …

The clerks and masters of the chancery court are allowed to demand and receive for services the fees attached to such services as provided in part 4 of this chapter. This section likewise applies to part 7 of this chapter.

In all chancery cases, where outgoing clerks and masters have sold property under decree of court and have not collected the funds arising from the sale, or the sale has been made and the funds collected but not disbursed, and the duty shall devolve upon the incoming clerks and m…

(1) In addition to any other fees for services established by law, county clerks are entitled to demand and receive for the following services the fees attached:(1) For issuance of marriage license $10.00(2) For transfer of business license from one location to another $5.00(3) F…

Whenever the distributive share of any minor does not exceed two hundred dollars ($200), the county clerk shall not be entitled to more than one dollar ($1.00) for any one (1) settlement the clerk may make with the guardian of such minor.

The county clerks shall not be entitled to any fees for certificates and seals in the application for pension and pensioners' money, or upon powers of attorney for that purpose, and judges of the court of general sessions shall not be entitled to fees in such cases, and the takin…

Special commissioners, appointed by court to sell property, take accounts, examinations, depositions, or perform other services, are entitled to demand and receive the same fees and compensation allowed other officers for similar services; provided, however, that no special commi…

(a) Commissioners to make partition of land, and for other similar services, when no compensation is fixed by law, are entitled to demand and receive:(1) For each day's actual service in partitioning land and in performing other services $1.00(2) For every mile of necessary trave…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the sheriff or constable is entitled to demand and receive the respective fees for the following services where services are actually rendered:(1) Service of Process. (A) For serving any process except as otherwise provided in th…

The sheriffs and other collecting officers of this state shall be allowed the same fees for collecting and paying over costs as they are allowed by law for the collection of other moneys. They shall not be allowed to charge or receive commissions on costs in their favor.

The plaintiff in all judgments shall be liable to any sheriff or constable for the commission on the amount so received, if the plaintiff or the plaintiff's agent or attorney receives any or all of the judgment after an execution has been issued on the judgment and given into the…

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, commissio…

In the official bonds executed by the officers enumerated in § 8-22-101, there shall be included a condition that the officer shall collect and duly so account to the county trustee for the fees, commissions, emoluments, perquisites, and compensation that such officer shall recei…

All the excess fees, commissions, emoluments and perquisites, no matter whether such sums arise from fees, commissions, emoluments or perquisites by order or by direction of court, that are or may be directly or indirectly collected by virtue of their offices by the clerks of the…

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in §§ 8-24-103, 8-24-108 and subsection (b), each of the officers enumerated in § 8-22-101 shall keep a complete account of every fee of every nature, commission or charge collected by such officer, except compensation for special services as …

Any officer enumerated in § 8-22-101, who evades the letter or the spirit of chapters 21 and 22 of this title by failing to charge or collect from the one liable therefor, every fee, commission, perquisite, emolument, or compensation that the county may be entitled to, and which,…

Any officer enumerated in § 8-22-101 who evades the letter or the spirit of chapters 21 and 22 of this title by making or by conspiring with anyone, in any manner, to make a false or incorrect exhibit of receipts, statement of expenses, or statements as to any fact required to be…

(a) All necessary books, stationery, office equipment, stamps, and supplies of all kinds used in the conduct of the various offices shall be furnished and paid for by the county, including premiums on official bonds executed by the officers named in § 8-22-101. (b) Notwithstandin…

(a) (1) (A) At the end of each month, each officer enumerated in § 8-22-101 shall pay, out of the fees, commissions, or emoluments collected by the officer by virtue of the office, all the expenses of the office in the manner provided. The officer shall also pay the salaries of t…

(a) Each officer shall be entitled to credit on the officer's settlement with the county trustee for all moneys paid by the officer for salaries, including the officer's own, and for the premiums on the officer's official bonds, if the officer executed such bonds with a surety co…

(a) The sheriff of each county is authorized to include in the sheriff's expense account, as part of the expenses of the office, the necessary cost of arresting criminals, of furnishing and operating the county jail, and maintaining the state and county prisoners therein, and all…

(a) The county legislative body, however, has the power, by appropriation made according to law, to pay to deputy sheriffs appointed pursuant to §§ 8-20-103 and [former] 8-20-108 [obsolete], the salary so fixed, direct from the county treasury, within the appropriation made by th…

Any deputy sheriff appointed and serving under §§ 8-20-103 and [former] 8-20-108 [obsolete] shall, before receiving monthly salary, submit a monthly report for the preceding calendar month showing the services performed, in which cost for such services have accrued and the court …

All of the fees received by the county trustee under §§ 8-22-111 – 8-22-113 shall be held in the general fund of the county and appropriately designated and held in a separate account so designated. At each regular meeting of the county legislative body, the trustee of the county…

(a) The county legislative body may employ an auditor to audit the books, annually, of the officers named in § 8-22-101. The auditor, if employed, shall be employed by a committee of not less than three (3) appointed by the county legislative body of such county from the members …

Sections 8-22-101 – 8-22-113, [former] 8-22-114 [repealed], 8-22-115, [former] 8-22-116 [repealed], shall not affect the state tax on litigation, nor the state tax on any transfers affecting realty, nor any other state tax which is or may be collected by any one (1) of the office…

All fees, costs, emoluments, perquisites, and commissions appendant, or that may accrue from any source whatever, to the office of the secretary of state, the office of state treasurer, the office of commissioner of commerce and insurance, and the office of comptroller of the tre…

In consideration of the salary stipulated to be paid to any officer named in § 8-22-118, such official shall do and perform all official services, acts, and duties as are imposed upon the officer by law, including all official acts, services, or duties, ex officio or otherwise, a…

Each such officer shall keep a true and perfect record of all the fees, costs, commissions, and emoluments by such officer collected, or that may be so due the state, and, when paid to the state treasurer, shall demand and receive proper vouchers therefor, to be kept as part of t…

Any violation of any part of §§ 8-22-118 — 8-22-120 is a Class E felony.

(a) The salaries of major officials of the state, whose salaries are not provided for otherwise in this code, shall be in the annual amounts indicated in the following subsections of this section, payable in periodic installments, from the state treasury on warrants of the commis…

The salaries provided to the officers created by title 4, chapter 3, and by §§ 49-1-202, and 68-1-101, shall be the sole compensation paid to these officials from state funds, or from any funds under the control of or for the use of the state government.

Beginning on September 1, 1990, the base salaries for judges and chancellors shall be as follows: (1) (A) Chancellors, circuit court judges, criminal court judges and law and equity judges shall receive seventy-eight thousand dollars ($78,000) per annum. Judges of the court of ap…

All such salaries shall be payable in monthly installments, by the commissioner of finance and administration, out of the treasury of the state.

The salaries of the clerk of the supreme court, the chief deputy clerks of the supreme court and their respective staffs shall be fixed by the chief justice of the supreme court in consultation with the administrative director of the courts and in accordance with administrative g…

(a) The chief justice and each associate judge of the supreme court are authorized to employ at the expense of the state a clerk or stenographer, who shall each receive compensation in the amount to be fixed by the chief justice and the administrative director of the courts, paya…

(a) Each judge of the court of appeals is authorized to employ at the expense of the state a clerk or stenographer who shall each receive compensation in the amount to be fixed by the presiding judge of each grand division of the court of appeals and the administrative director o…

(a) (1) No officer or employee in the several departments and agencies of the state government, employed at fixed compensation, shall be paid for any extra services, in an ex officio or other capacity, except:(A) Officially designated or auxiliary court reporters;(B) Qualified in…

(a) The “pay period” for state employees shall be no less than twice per month as determined by the commissioner of finance and administration. On or about the last day of every such “pay period,” all state employees shall be paid for the preceding period or any part thereof for …

All blind persons employed in the state of Tennessee whose salary is paid by the state of Tennessee shall be paid not less than the federal minimum wage as provided by the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq.).

(a) (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(A) “Employee” means an officer or employee who is a regularly employed, full-time employee of the executive branch of state government;(B) “Employee association” means any association of employees complying w…