{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-6-20-211","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 6-20-211","heading":"Procedural powers and duties of board - Penalties","body":"(a) The board may determine the rules of its proceedings, subject to this charter, and may arrest and punish by fine any member or other person guilty of disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence. (b) (1) The board has the power and may delegate it to any committee to: (A) Subpoena witnesses, and order the production of books and papers relating to any subject within its jurisdiction; (B) Call upon its own officers or the chief of police to execute its process; and (C) Arrest and punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, any person refusing to obey such subpoena or order. (2) The refusal to obey a subpoena or order of the board is a Class C misdemeanor. (c) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor, and each day's continuance in any refusal to comply with the requirements of this section is a separate offense. (d) The board's presiding officer or the chair of any committee may administer oaths to witnesses. (e) The board shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and the yeas and nays on all questions shall be entered thereon. Acts 1921, ch. 173, art. 4, § 11; Shan. Supp., § 1997a146; Code 1932, § 3543; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-2022; Acts 1989, ch. 175, § 8; 1989, ch. 591, § 113.\n(a) The board may determine the rules of its proceedings, subject to this charter, and may arrest and punish by fine any member or other person guilty of disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence.\n(b) (1) The board has the power and may delegate it to any committee to: (A) Subpoena witnesses, and order the production of books and papers relating to any subject within its jurisdiction; (B) Call upon its own officers or the chief of police to execute its process; and (C) Arrest and punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, any person refusing to obey such subpoena or order. (2) The refusal to obey a subpoena or order of the board is a Class C misdemeanor.\n(1) The board has the power and may delegate it to any committee to: (A) Subpoena witnesses, and order the production of books and papers relating to any subject within its jurisdiction; (B) Call upon its own officers or the chief of police to execute its process; and (C) Arrest and punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, any person refusing to obey such subpoena or order.\n(A) Subpoena witnesses, and order the production of books and papers relating to any subject within its jurisdiction;\n(B) Call upon its own officers or the chief of police to execute its process; and\n(C) Arrest and punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, any person refusing to obey such subpoena or order.\n(2) The refusal to obey a subpoena or order of the board is a Class C misdemeanor.\n(c) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor, and each day's continuance in any refusal to comply with the requirements of this section is a separate offense.\n(d) The board's presiding officer or the chair of any committee may administer oaths to witnesses.\n(e) The board shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and the yeas and nays on all questions shall be entered thereon.","path":["TN Code","Title 6","Chapter 20"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"3f0ddaed9c0a48651ea6bc8c7a57fc9992a0cc9f681268562e06a20654ba2870","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-6-20-210","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-6-20-212","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}