§ 10-246. Clerk; deputy clerks; dates and times of court; duty of sheriff.

(a)

The office of the clerk of the probate court of the county is hereby created.

(b)

At the general election to be held on the first Thursday in August 1962, and every four years thereafter, a clerk of the probate court of the county shall be elected for a term of four years.

(c)

Such deputy clerks and assistants to the clerk as may be necessary for the proper operation and administration of the duties of the office of clerk of the probate court of the county shall be appointed and their compensation fixed in the same manner as is provided by law for the appointment and the fixing of compensation by deputy probate court clerks upon petition by the clerk to the judge of the probate court.

(d)

The clerk of the court and his deputies assigned thereto shall have concurrent authority with the judge to issue warrants and other process and writ, except those which are required by law to be issued only upon the fiat of a judicial officer.

(e)

The terms of the probate court shall be held on the first Monday of every month and shall continue until the business of the term is finished; but the judge, or the clerk in his absence, may adjourn the court over to a subsequent day of the term, or until the first day of the next term, and the court may sit upon its own adjournments.

(f)

The county sheriff shall furnish a deputy to attend the sittings of the court.

(Code 1992, § 9-135; Pub. Acts 1870, ch. 86, § 3; Priv. Acts 1959, ch. 205, § 1)

State law reference

Compensation of clerks of courts, T.C.A. § 8-24-102.