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1990 Tennessee Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1990)

handle is hein.sag/sagtn0095 and id is 1 raw text is: OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TENNESSEE
Published by Authority of Chapter 276
Public Acts of 1971
January 1990
90-03    BOARD OF CLAIMS: The purchase of professional
liability insurance by a judge from his own funds does
not waive either state sovereign immunity or Eleventh
Amendment immunity. U.S. Const. Amend. XI; Tenn.
Const. Art. I, 517; T.C.A. 59-8-307; 1984 Tenn. Pub.
Acts 972; Op. Tenn. Atty. Gen. 85-087 (March 21, 1985).
90-03    CLAIMS COMMISSION: The purchase of professional
liability insurance by a judge from his own funds does
not waive either state sovereign immunity or Eleventh
Amendment immunity. U.S. Const. Amend. XI; Tenn.
Const. Art. I, 517; T.C.A. 59-8-307; 1984 Tenn. Pub.
Acts 972; Op. Tenn. Atty. Gen. 85-087 (March 21, 1985).
90-07    CLERKS OF COURT: General Sessions: A deputy general
sessions court clerk who is also a full-time deputy
sheriff, but whose sole duty as deputy sheriff
involves only civil process, is not a neutral or
detached magistrate or clerk for the purpose of
taking from law enforcement officers affidavits of
complaint necessary for the issuance of arrest
warrants or criminal summonses. U.S. Const. Amend.
IV; T.C.A. 58-8-212, 539-6-1702; Op. Tenn. Atty. Gen.
u89-03 (January 18, 1989).
90-05    CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, TENNESSEE: Counties: General
Law/Class Legislation: Law of the Land: Separation
of Powers/Legislative: Statutes/Bills: T.C.A.
539-14-504(d), which imposes criminal pun,.*.hment for
the violation of regulations adopted by courty
legislative bodies for the collection and storage of
garbage, litter, refuse and rubbish, is an
unconstitutional delegation of power by the
legislature to county legislative bodies, Tenn. Const.
Art. II, 551, 3, and is violative of the requirement
that the law of the land be general, Tenn. Const. Art.
I, 58. Tenn. Const. Art. I, 58, Art. II, SS1, 3;
T.C.A. 5539-14-502, -504.

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