If any warehouse keeper accepts, directly or indirectly, any gratuity or reward for anything by that person done or omitted in the discharge of that person's official duties, that person shall forfeit two hundred dollars ($200) to the state, and, moreover, the warehouse keeper commits a Class C misdemeanor. The warehouse keeper shall also forfeit the office, and be forever afterward disqualified from holding the office of tobacco inspector.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture
Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations
§ 43-19-202. Duties of Proprietor or Deputy
§ 43-19-204. Responsibility of Keeper
§ 43-19-206. Erasure or Counterfeiting a Misdemeanor
§ 43-19-207. Keeper Not to Sell Tobacco Until Inspection — Penalty
§ 43-19-208. Copy of Sample Cards With “Inspected” Thereon
§ 43-19-210. Accepting Gratuity or Reward — Penalty
§ 43-19-211. Derelictions to Be Reported to County Clerk
§ 43-19-212. Fraudulent Packing or “Nesting” a Misdemeanor — Penalty
§ 43-19-213. Description of Best Hogshead to Be Posted in Warehouse
§ 43-19-214. Fees and Commissions of Warehousemen
§ 43-19-215. Extortion a Misdemeanor
§ 43-19-216. Auction Bid May Be Refused
§ 43-19-217. Warehouseman's Lien for Fees and Charges
§ 43-19-218. Selling or Shipping Without Inspection Not Prohibited