Tennessee Statutes
§ 2-18-109 — Powers and duties of committee
Tennessee·Title 2
(a)The objections, petitions and answers shall be referred to the committee.
(b)The committee shall take evidence and consider the objections.
(c)The committee and any subcommittee of it may:
(1)Send for and examine persons and papers;
(2)Issue compulsory process for them running to every county in the state, which may be executed by the sergeant-at-arms of either house or any assistant sergeant-at-arms, or by any sheriff, deputy sheriff, or constable, or by any special agent appointed by the chair of the committee or by the chair of any subcommittee;
(3)Punish for contempt by fine and imprisonment;
(4)Employ stenographers;
(5)Sit for the taking of evidence at any place in Tennessee and, when in their judgment necessary, in four (4) subcommittees;
(6)Take depositions upon such not
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Legislative History
Acts 1972, ch. 740, § 1; 1978, ch. 754, § 17; T.C.A., § 2-1809.
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