The

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

Code Commission is one of the 30 or more commissions, boards, and committees that provide assistance to the state court system. The commission consists of five members of which three are ''

ex officio An ''ex officio'' member is a member of a body (notably a board, committee, council) who is part of it by virtue of holding another office. The term '' ex officio'' is Latin, meaning literally 'from the office', and the sense intended is 'by right ...

'': the Chief Justice of Tennessee, the attorney general and reporter, and the director of legal services for the

legislature A legislature is an assembly with the authority to make law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its p ...

. The chief justice appoints the two other members. The commission publishes, sells, and distributes the compilation of laws,

statutes A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative authority that governs the legal entities of a city, state, or country by way of consent. Typically, statutes command or prohibit something, or declare policy. Statutes are rules made by le ...

, and codes of the state.

External links

Tennessee Code Commission website
* https://casetext.com/statute/tennessee-code/title-1-code-and-statutes/chapter-1-code-commission * https://www.tncourts.gov/boards-commissions/boards-commissions/tennessee-code-commission * https://law.justia.com/codes/tennessee/2021/title-4/chapter-21/part-2/section-4-21-201/ * http://tsla.tnsosfiles.com.s3.amazonaws.com/history/state/recordgroups/findingaids/TENNESSEE_CODE_COMMISSION_CORRESPONDENCE_1953-1955.pdf * {{Cite book , last=Tennessee Code Commission , first=Tennessee Code Commission , title=Tennessee Code Annotated Official Edition 2a Titles 4,5 , publisher=Lexis Law Publishing , date=January 1, 1998 , isbn=978-0327051480 , edition=2a , language=en Government of Tennessee Tennessee state courts Tennessee law Courts and tribunals with year of establishment missing