8-8-216 - Service of process or other paper by employee of party prohibited Penalty. - Tennessee Statutes

8-8-216. Service of process or other paper by employee of party prohibited Penalty.

(a)  It is unlawful for any sheriff, deputy sheriff or constable to serve any summons, writ, process or other proceeding in any civil action when such officer is a salaried or commissioned employee of any party to the action or suit wherein any such summons, writ, process or other proceeding has been issued.

(b)  A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

[Acts 1959, ch. 237, §§ 1, 2; T.C.A., § 8-825; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]