§ 41-1-101 State prisons – Penitentiary defined – Correctional facilities
§ 41-1-102 Administration of correctional system – Personnel – Searches of employees for contraband
§ 41-1-103 Oath of officers and employees
§ 41-1-104 Warden – Duties
§ 41-1-105 Reports to commissioner
§ 41-1-106 Visits by commissioner
§ 41-1-107 Examination of witnesses
§ 41-1-108 Insurance on property
§ 41-1-109 Repairs and improvements
§ 41-1-110 Funds – Accounting – Collections – Expenditures – Surplus
§ 41-1-111 Preservation of records
§ 41-1-112 Actions by commissioner
§ 41-1-113 Report to governor
§ 41-1-114 Report to general assembly
§ 41-1-115 Persons authorized to possess otherwise prohibited items
§ 41-1-116 Qualifications of correction officers
§ 41-1-117 Retaking of prisoners absconding from work release or violating furlough agreements
§ 41-1-118 Dogs for detecting drugs
§ 41-1-119 Urinalysis drug screening program
§ 41-1-120 Improvement of penitentiary at Petros
§ 41-1-121 Drug testing of certain personnel
§ 41-1-122 Chemically dependent county inmates and prisoners – Pilot project – State funds
§ 41-1-123 Diversion centers for technical violators
§ 41-1-124 Terms of release of out-of-state prisoner incarcerated in Tennessee
§ 41-1-125 Local pre-release programs
§ 41-1-126 Validated risk and needs assessment
§ 41-1-127 Survey evaluating employment conditions and factors relating to retention of correction officers – Annual report
§ 41-1-128 Annual training about human trafficking
lawyer at desk

Ask a legal question, get an answer ASAP!
Click here to chat with a lawyer about your rights.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 41 > Chapter 1 > Part 1 - General Provisions

  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105