Terms Used In Tennessee Code 8-20-111

  • County official: means a county clerk, a clerk of a circuit court, a criminal court, or a probate court, a clerk and master of a chancery court, a clerk of a general sessions court where such general sessions court has an independent clerk who serves such court only, a register of deeds, a county trustee, a sheriff, a county road superintendent elected by a county legislative body, by a county road commission or commissioners, or by popular vote, and an assessor of property, any county commissioner elected by popular vote, serving in a county having a county commission form of government. See Tennessee Code 8-34-101

The legislative body of any county is authorized to release any county official in such official’s settlements with the county from the payment of any sum or sums theretofore made by such county official for assistants or deputies, when such official would have been entitled to employ and pay such assistants and deputies had the official made application to the proper court for authority to employ them under this chapter.