5-6-109 - Powers and duties Bond.
5-6-109. Powers and duties Bond.
All county mayors shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, enter into an official bond prepared in accordance with the provisions of title 8, chapter 19, to be approved by the county legislative bodies, in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) in counties with a population of less than fifteen thousand (15,000), and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in counties with a population of fifteen thousand (15,000) or more according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, or in a greater sum as the county legislative body may determine, payable to the state of Tennessee, for the use of their respective counties, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as accounting officers and general agents of their counties, during their official terms, as set forth in § 5-6-108. The bond shall be recorded in the office of the county register of deeds and transmitted to the comptroller of the treasury for safekeeping.
[Acts 1879, ch. 76, § 1; Shan., § 516; Code 1932, § 768; Acts 1977, ch. 270, § 1; 1978, ch. 934, § 21; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-609; Acts 1998, ch. 677, § 2; 2003, ch. 90, § 2.]