Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-8-213 (2026)
Conservator of peace - Summoning posse
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) The sheriff and the sheriff's deputies are conservators of the peace, and it is the sheriff's duty to suppress all affrays, riots, routs, unlawful assemblies, insurrections, or other breaches of the peace, detect and prevent crime, arrest any person lawfully, execute process of law, and patrol the roads of the county.
- (b) The sheriff shall furnish the necessary deputies to carry out the duties set forth in subsection (a), and, if necessary, may summon to the sheriff's aid as many of the inhabitants of the county as the sheriff thinks proper.
Code 1858, § 362; Shan., § 452; Code 1932, § 699; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-822; Acts 2005, ch. 142, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 1991–2005 · leading case: Commonwealth v. Leet, 585 A.2d 1033 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1991).
Commonwealth v. Leet, 585 A.2d 1033 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1991). “010(1) (1989)); Tennessee, (Tenn.Code Ann. § 8-8-213 (1988)); Washington, (Wash.”
Smith v. Plummer, 834 S.W.2d 311 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1992). “§§ 8-8-201(3), 8-8-221, 41-2-108, 41-4-101; (4) keeping the peace, T.C.A. §§ 8-8-213, 38-3-102. *314 The duties of a sheriff may be classified according to the manner of his compensation therefor, to wit: (1) duties imposed and defined by statute with statutory compensation, and…”
William Dorning, Sheriff of Lawrence Cnty., Tennessee v. Ametra Bailey, Cnty. Mayor of Lawrence Cnty., Tennessee (Tenn. Ct. App. 2005). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-8-213 (2002). Regarding the sheriff’s statutory duty to keep the peace, we previously noted that “the peace-keeping duties of the Sheriff do not include regular patrol of all highways.”
Roberts v. Lowe (Tenn. Ct. App. 1997). “1996); T.C.A. § 8-8-213; Smith, 834 S.W.2d at 313 .”
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