Tennessee § 43-19-210 Accepting gratuity or reward - Penalty

Tennessee Statutes

§ 43-19-210 — Accepting gratuity or reward - Penalty

Tennessee § 43-19-210

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Bluebook

Tenn. Code Ann. § 43-19-210 (2026).

Text

If any warehouse keeper accepts, directly or indirectly, any gratuity or reward for anything by that person done or omitted in the discharge of that person's official duties, that person shall forfeit two hundred dollars ($200) to the state, and, moreover, the warehouse keeper commits a Class C misdemeanor. The warehouse keeper shall also forfeit the office, and be forever afterward disqualified from holding the office of tobacco inspector.

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If any warehouse keeper accepts, directly or indirectly, any gratuity or reward for anything by that person done or omitted in the discharge of that person's official duties, that person shall forfeit two hundred dollars ($200) to the state, and, moreover, the warehouse keeper commits a Class C misdemeanor. The warehouse keeper shall also forfeit the office, and be forever afterward disqualified from holding the office of tobacco inspector.

Legislative History

Acts 1870-1871, ch. 65, § 16; impl. am. Acts 1877, ch. 109, § 1; Shan., § 3395; mod. Code 1932, § 6494; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 43-2119; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.