18-4-203 - Powers and duties of clerk. - Tennessee Statutes

18-4-203. Powers and duties of clerk.

(a)  The clerk of the general sessions court has concurrent authority with the judge to issue warrants and other process and writs, other than those that the law requires to be issued only by a judicial officer, and has the authority to set the amount of bond in the absence of the judge.

(b)  It is the duty of the clerk of the general sessions court to keep all dockets required by title 16, chapter 15, to write all minute entries required and to promptly make any and all entries necessitated by §§ 16-15-101 16-15-711, 18-4-201, 18-4-202, 20-12-143 and 27-5-108, and former §§ 40-118, 40-424 and 40-425 (repealed).

(c)  In counties having a population of not less than twenty thousand seven hundred (20,700) nor more than twenty-one thousand seven hundred (21,700), the clerk of the general sessions court has authority to issue search warrants and peace warrants.

[Acts 1959, ch. 109, § 17; 1972, ch. 486, § 1; T.C.A., § 18-410.]