§ 16-16-101. Establishment

1. A court is established in each county for the dispatch of probate and other business entrusted to it, to be called the county court.
2. Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of:

   not less than  not more than

   12,800 12,900

   27,100 27,200

   43,100 43,200

   62,300 62,400

   182,000 182,100

3. In counties having a population of not less than thirty-nine thousand fifty (39,050) nor more than thirty-nine thousand one hundred fifty (39,150), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the circuit court clerk, who also serves as the general sessions court clerk, shall serve as the clerk of the court with probate jurisdiction in any such counties.

Code 1858, § 127 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 6, § 1); Shan., § 221; Code 1932, § 161; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 16-701; Acts 2003, ch. 310, §§ 1, 6-10; 2005, ch. 245, §§ 1, 2.