A warrant may be executed by any sheriff, or officer acting as sheriff, or the sheriff's deputy, or marshal, or police officer of any city or town, acting within the sheriff's county, or by any person otherwise authorized by law. The reference to “sheriff” or “deputy sheriff” in this section also includes constables in counties of this state having a population of:
not less than nor more than
3,700 4,700
6,000 7,800
8,400 8,500
8,535 8,540
9,200 9,570
10,770 10,780
11,512 11,550
11,700 11,900
12,000 13,000
14,500 14,600
15,300 15,500
15,750 16,000
17,000 17,350
18,000 18,200
18,300 18,900
19,000 19,100
21,000 21,500
21,600 22,300
23,200 23,350
23,355 23,391
23,391 23,450
23,500 23,750
24,000 24,255
25,600 27,500
27,900 28,000
28,555 28,600
29,250 31,250
31,260 33,000
33,700 34,000
35,480 41,800
41,900 50,000
57,550 59,400
59,500 60,050
60,600 62,000
64,000 65,000
100,000 118,400
118,700 200,000
according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, and Fentress and Hamblen counties.
Code 1858, § 5028; Shan., § 6987; Code 1932, § 11526; Acts 1969, ch. 160, § 3; 1969, ch. 319, §§ 3, 4; 1970, ch. 456, § 1; 1970, ch. 496, § 1; 1970, ch. 588, §§ 1, 2; 1971, ch. 53, §§ 1-3; 1971, ch. 231, § 1; 1972, ch. 584, § 1; 1973, ch. 389, § 1; 1974, ch. 631, §§ 1, 2; Private Acts 1976, ch. 242, § 1; Private Acts 1976, ch. 293, § 1; Acts 1977, ch. 239, § 3; 1982, ch. 881, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-711; Acts 1991, ch. 9, § 4; 1992, ch. 973, § 3; Private Acts 1994, ch. 191 § 2; Acts 1996, ch. 753, § 2.
Compiler's Notes. For tables of U.S. decennial populations of Tennessee counties, see Volume 13 and its supplement.