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8-18-102 - Penalty for acceptance of office by ineligible person.

8-18-102. Penalty for acceptance of office by ineligible person.

Any person taking on any office in this state, by election or appointment, being under any of the disqualifications specified in § 8-18-101, commits a Class C misdemeanor.

[Code 1858, § 749; Shan., § 1070; Code 1932, § 1813; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1802; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]