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Title 15, Chapter 1
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§ 15-1001
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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 6 : Procedure On Arrest

15-601 : Forms and records of traffic citations and arrests.[7]

  1. The recorder shall provide books to include traffic citation forms for notifying alleged violators to appear and answer to charges of violating state traffic laws or the provisions of this chapter or other city traffic ordinances in the recorder's court. The books shall include serially numbered sets of citations in quadruplicate in the form prescribed and approved jointly by the mayor and the chief of police.
  2. The recorder shall issue such books to the chief of police or his duly authorized agent and shall maintain a record of each book so issued and shall require a written receipt for each such book.7
  3. The chief of police shall be responsible for the issuance of the books to individual members of the police department. The chief of police shall require a written receipt for each book so issued and shall maintain a record of each such book and each set of citations contained therein. (1973 Code, § 11-72)
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State law reference
Crimes and arrest: Tennessee Code Annotated, § 55-10-201 et seq.