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Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-25-143

Collecting from inmate trust fund account

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Jeffries v. Tennessee Department of Correction (2002)

Most recently applied in Jeffries v. Tennessee Department of Correction (December 2002)

Acts 2001, ch. 108, § 1.

(1) The department of correction shall have the authority to collect from the inmate trust fund account of any defendant in its custody those moneys necessary to satisfy any unpaid costs that have been imposed upon the defendant.

(2) When the state has paid the costs in a case accruing under § 40-25-130(5), and the defendant is in the custody of the department of correction, the department shall have the authority to collect from the inmate trust fund account of the defendant those moneys necessary to reimburse the state for the payment of the costs. Any amount so collected shall be deposited in the state general fund.

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.