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Tenn. Code Ann. § 26-1-110

Garnishee unable to identify defendant

Acts 1994, ch. 836, § 1.

(1) A garnishee who: Receives an execution without the defendant's social security number, if an individual, or federal taxpayer identification, if a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity; and

(2) After reasonable effort is otherwise unable to identify the defendant or to distinguish the defendant from other individuals or entities based on the information provided on the execution; may return the execution with the statement “Defendant cannot be identified or distinguished from information provided on the execution.”

(3) The failure to include a social security number or taxpayer identification number shall not invalidate the execution.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.