Tennessee Code 8-8-204 – Judgment on motion for failure to pay over
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-8-204
- Attorney general: means the attorney general and reporter and any assistant thereto by whatever name known, any district attorney general and any assistant thereto by whatever name called, and any officer or full-time employee of the general assembly or any committee thereof established by statute, who is duly licensed to practice law in Tennessee, whose duty it is to provide facilities for drafting bills or to assist individual legislators in drafting bills or who renders legal advice and services to the members of the general assembly or committees thereof. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101
If the sheriff or officer fails to do so, the clerk or magistrate shall furnish the district attorney general with the records, executions, and such other information as may be in the clerk or magistrate’s possession, to show the liability of the officer, and the district attorney general shall move for judgment, in the name of the county, against the sheriff or officer and the sheriff’s or officer’s sureties for the moneys by the sheriff or officer collected, or that ought to have been collected, for the use of the county. Upon judgment, when obtained, the clerk or judge shall issue execution, and enforce satisfaction of such execution.