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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 18-1-204

  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. 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

Before the clerk destroys or otherwise disposes of, pursuant to § 18-1-202, any records, dockets, books, papers, ledgers and documents, when so authorized by the court, the clerk shall give ninety (90) days’ notice to the state librarian and archivist, whereupon the state librarian and archivist, or the state librarian and archivist’s representative, shall examine and remove and take into the state librarian and archivist’s possession for preservation any document, book, ledger or record that the state librarian and archivist believes to be of value for historical or other scholarly purposes.