{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-71-5-2105","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 71-5-2105","heading":"Powers of commissioners","body":"In the management of the asylum, the commissioners have the power to:\n(1) Prescribe rules and regulations for the management of the farm and for the treatment of the inmates of the asylum, and modify and change them at pleasure;\n(2) Prescribe the manner in which the inmates shall live, sleep, be clothed, and labor, if any of them are able to labor;\n(3) Appoint a suitable superintendent of the asylum;\n(4) Take from the superintendent a bond, with sufficient surety, in the penalty of five hundred dollars ($500), payable to the state, conditioned for the performance of such superintendent's duties;\n(5) Cause the superintendent to subscribe an oath, to be written on the back of the bond; and\n(6) Deliver the bond to the clerk of the county legislative body, to be preserved among the files of the clerk's office relating to the asylum.","path":["TN Code","Title 71","Chapter 5"],"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 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:26Z","sha256":"97cc37b8ff61fb8b208b24ba7c26f9645e38f47978397510846cf88e78e175c1","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-71-5-2104","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-71-5-2106"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}