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4-3-606 - Powers and duties of department.

4-3-606. Powers and duties of department.

The department of correction shall exercise all the rights, powers and duties described in chapter 6 of this title and otherwise vested by law in the department, the commissioner, and the commissioner's officers, assistants and employees.

[Acts 1937, ch. 33, § 58; 1939, ch. 11, § 36; C. Supp. 1950, § 255.57 (Williams, § 255.61); modified; impl. am. Acts 1955, ch. 102, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 4-311.]