10-7-208 - Penalty for failure to index records. - Tennessee Statutes

10-7-208. Penalty for failure to index records.

Any clerk, register, or other public officer required by law to keep any record book who willfully violates the provisions of §§ 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.

[Acts 1871, ch. 85, § 2; Shan., § 5854; Code 1932, § 10056; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 15-208; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]