4-6-142. Interstate traveling expenses.
No expenditures for traveling expenses to other states, or for attending an interstate or national convention or association, shall be made by any member or employee of the department of correction or by any officer of an institution under its control, unless authority is granted by the commissioner of correction, by a writing, stating the purpose and reason therefor.
[Acts 1919, ch. 39, § 26; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, §§ 1, 2, 42; Shan. Supp., § 312b49; Code 1932, § 418; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 4-654.]