10-4-102 - Powers and duties of commission. - Tennessee Statutes

10-4-102. Powers and duties of commission.

The state law library commission has full control and supervision of the existing state law libraries at Nashville, Knoxville and Jackson. The commission's powers include, but are not limited to, the following:

     (1)  The power to employ necessary personnel, either full or part time, and to fix their compensation;

     (2)  The power to purchase or otherwise acquire books, furniture, supplies and all other necessary equipment, including the power to dispose of by sale, exchange, gift or otherwise, books and equipment, whenever in the judgment of the commission it is deemed advisable;

     (3)  The power to make and enforce all necessary rules and regulations for the management and operation of the libraries; and

     (4)  The power to exchange the Tennessee Reports, the Tennessee Appeals Reports, Acts, and codes for the reports, acts and codes of other jurisdictions, and the Tennessee Reports, the Tennessee Appeals Reports, Acts, and codes available for exchange under present and future laws shall be at the disposal of the commission for such purpose.

[Acts 1965, ch. 103, § 3; T.C.A., § 10-516.]