The sheriff and every other collecting officer shall pay all penalties, fines, forfeitures, amercements, and other sums of money collected by the sheriff or such other officer, or that ought to be collected, for the use of a county, into the hands of the clerk of the court or magistrate from whom the sheriff or such other officer received the execution under which the sheriff or such other officer made, or ought to have made, the collection, on or before the return day of such execution.
Code 1858, § 518; Shan., § 657; Code 1932, § 1056; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-812.
Structure 2021 Tennessee Code
Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees
§ 8-8-202. Advance Fees on Process From Other Counties
§ 8-8-203. Payment of Collections by Collecting Officers
§ 8-8-204. Judgment on Motion for Failure to Pay Over
§ 8-8-205. Acting as Attorney or Security Prohibited — Attorney as Deputy
§ 8-8-206. Purchase at Own Sale Prohibited
§ 8-8-207. Disobedience of Process
§ 8-8-208. Service at Residence of Defendant
§ 8-8-209. Return as to Residence in Another County
§ 8-8-211. Penalty for Allowing Prisoner to Be Taken From Jail and Put to Death by Violence
§ 8-8-213. Conservator of Peace — Summoning Posse
§ 8-8-214. Delivery of Papers and Property to Successor
§ 8-8-215. Closing of Unsettled Business
§ 8-8-217. Service in Violation of § 8-8-216 Void
§ 8-8-220. Civil Actions — Sheriff May Appoint Persons to Serve Process