When the performance or nonperformance of any act is made criminal by statute, and no penalty, punishment or forfeiture for the violation of that statute is imposed, the doing of the act is a misdemeanor.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-11-111
Prohibited act when no penalty prescribed is misdemeanor
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case United States v. Montgomery (2018)
Most recently applied in United States v. Montgomery (June 2018)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
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.