Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
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
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(1) Annually, at the July meeting of the county legislative body, the trustee shall present a report to the county legislative body of all delinquent taxes and double assessments in the county. This report shall be verified by affidavit of the trustee and filed with the county clerk.(2) The report shall be spread upon the minutes of the county legislative body and municipality, respectively.(b)(1) The county legislative body shall proceed to examine the report, and shall allow the trustee a credit for such taxes so reported insolvent or delinquent and for double assessments, as it may be satisfied remain uncollected without the default of the trustee, and no more.(2) The county legislative body shall not allow the trustee a credit for any item on the report, even though duly sworn to by the trustee, if, after examining each credit, the county legislative body has knowledge or information showing the item to be inaccurate.(c) A list of such allowances shall be made out and certified by the county clerk and transmitted to the proper authorities of the state, county and municipality, respectively.(d) All of the items for which the county legislative body shall not allow a credit shall be charged against the trustee; and, notwithstanding the county legislative body may have allowed the trustee credits, such acts shall not operate as an estoppel in the event that it should afterwards appear that such credit was improperly allowed; provided, that no such items for which the county legislative body shall have allowed credit shall be charged against or collected from any surety on the bond of any such trustee.(e) The report referred to in this section must not include delinquent taxes that have been delivered by the trustee to the delinquent tax attorney for the filing of court actions to collect the taxes.
