18-3-109 - Recess appointments.

18-3-109. Recess appointments.

If the office of clerk of the supreme court becomes vacant during the recess of the court, the chief justice of the supreme court may make a temporary appointment to fill it until the judges of the supreme court meet and make a permanent appointment.

[Code 1858, § 322 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 14, § 1); Shan., § 398; Code 1932, § 648; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-309; Acts 1993, ch. 70, § 11.]