The Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 Code Commission

Government agency

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is one of the 30 or more commissions, boards and committees that to provide assistance to the state court system. The commission consists of five members of which three are ex officio: the Chief Justice of Tennesseehttp://www.tsc.state.tn.us/geninfo/Bio/Supreme/Biosc.htm, the attorney general and reporter and the director of legal services for the legislature

Legislature

A legislature is a kind of deliberative assembly with the power to pass, amend, and repeal laws. The law created by a legislature is called legislation or statutory law. In addition to enacting laws, legislatures usually have exclusive authority to raise or lower taxes and adopt the budget and...

. The chief justice

Chief Justice

The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

 appoints the two other members. The commission publishes, sells and distributes the compilation of the laws, statutes and codes of the state.

Source

The Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts' web site