41-3-101 - Municipal correctional houses authorized. - Tennessee Statutes

41-3-101. Municipal correctional houses authorized.

The authorities of any incorporated town may provide such lands, buildings and articles of any kind as may be necessary for a workhouse or house of correction for that town, may appoint suitable persons for the management thereof, and make all necessary bylaws and regulations for the government of the inmates, and cause the same to be enforced.

[Code 1858, § 5410; Shan., § 7390; mod. Code 1932, § 11999; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1401.]