Any clerk, register, or other public officer required by law to keep any record book who willfully violates §§ 10-7-201 — 10-7-207 commits a Class C misdemeanor, and, moreover, such person and such person's official sureties are liable to the injured party for all damage sustained by the injured party, in consequence of such failure, to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 10 - Public Libraries, Archives and Records
Part 2 - Index of Public Records
§ 10-7-201. Clerks, Registers, and Other Officers to Index Records
§ 10-7-204. Direct and Reverse Indices to Personalty — Manner of Making
§ 10-7-205. Time of Making Indices — One or More Indices — Mortgages and Deeds of Trust
§ 10-7-206. Former Indices May Be Made in Addition to Required Indices
§ 10-7-207. Failure to Make Index — Forfeiture — Qui Tam Action
§ 10-7-208. Penalty for Failure to Index Records
§ 10-7-209. Cross Index as to All Parties in Minute Books and Execution Dockets