Powers and Duties of Clerk

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Clerks of Courts
4. Clerks of Circuit, Criminal, Special and General Sessions Courts
5. Courts of General Sessions
6. Powers and Duties of Clerk

1. The clerk of the general sessions court has concurrent authority with the judge to issue warrants and other process and writs, other than those that the law requires to be issued only by a judicial officer, and has the authority to set the amount of bond in the absence of the judge.
2. It is the duty of the clerk of the general sessions court to:
   1. Keep all dockets required by title 16, chapter 15;
   2. Write all minute entries required;
   3. Promptly make any and all entries necessitated by §§ 16-15-101 - 16-15-711, 18-4-201, 18-4-202, 20-12-143, and 27-5-108, and former §§ 40-118, 40-424, and 40-425 (repealed); and
   4. Notify the Tennessee bureau of investigation of final disposition of criminal proceedings against a person as soon as practicable but no later than thirty (30) days after final disposition of the criminal proceedings.
3. In counties having a population of not less than twenty thousand seven hundred (20,700) nor more than twenty-one thousand seven hundred (21,700), the clerk of the general sessions court has authority to issue search warrants and peace warrants.

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