The bond shall be in the amount of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in counties with a population of less than fifteen thousand (15,000), and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in counties with a population of fifteen thousand (15,000) or more, according to the 2010 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, conditioned on the true and faithful discharge of the duties of the office.
Code 1858, § 448 (deriv. Acts 1777 (Nov.), ch. 8, § 13; 1847-1848, ch. 167); Shan., § 560; Code 1932, § 809; Acts 1977, ch. 270, § 6; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-1303; Acts 2013, ch. 315, § 10.
Compiler's Notes. For table of U.S. decennial populations of Tennessee counties, see Volume 13 and its supplement.