1-1-111 - Official status Prima facie evidence of law Citation. - Tennessee Statutes

1-1-111. Official status Prima facie evidence of law Citation.

(a)  Upon appropriate certification of approval by the commission filed with the secretary of state as provided in § 1-1-110, the compilation in each volume and supplement so certified shall be in force.

(b)  The text of the statutes, codes and code supplements (but not the annotations, footnotes and other editorial matter) appearing in the printed copies of the compilation, containing a copy of the commission's certificate of approval, shall constitute prima facie evidence of the statutory law of the state of Tennessee and be received, recognized, referred to and used in all courts, agencies, departments, offices of and proceedings in the state of Tennessee as the official compilation of the statutory law of the state of Tennessee, and may be cited as Tennessee Code Annotated or by the abbreviation “T.C.A.”

[Acts 1953, ch. 80, § 5; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 1-111.]