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TN Code § 5-8-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 2 - Bank Accounts|§ 5-8-203. Contracts — Notice to Trustee

 When the contract has been signed on the part of the county, and also signed by the proper officers, on the part of the bank or banks under the seal thereof, and a good and sufficient bond has been executed by the bank or banks, for the faithful performance of the contract and to save the county harmless, the finance committee shall so notify the county trustee, in writing, and order the county trustee to place all funds already in the county trustee's hands or that may thereafter be collected by the county trustee on deposit in the bank or banks, noting the funds that shall draw interest and the amount thereof.
TN Code § 5-8-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 2 - Bank Accounts|§ 5-8-204. Deposit of Funds by Trustee

 Upon the receipt of the notice and order specified in § 5-8-203, it is made the duty of the county trustee to place all funds in the notice in the bank or banks designated therein.
TN Code § 5-8-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 2 - Bank Accounts|§ 5-8-205. Liability of Trustee

 From the date of the deposit, which shall be evidenced by the bank book, the county trustee shall be released from liability for losses to the county in consequence of the contract and deposit; but should the county trustee fail or refuse specifically to obey the order specified in § 5-8-203, the county trustee shall be held liable not only for the money collected and not so deposited, but for the interest on the funds mentioned in the contract, and as a penalty shall be liable for further interest equal in amount of the interest contracted for, all of which may be recovered by suit; and when collected the interest paid as penalty shall become the property of the contracting bank or banks, and the balance of the fund recovered, together with the cost, shall be paid to the county.
TN Code § 5-8-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 2 - Bank Accounts|§ 5-8-206. Monthly Statements

 Before the fifteenth of each month, each of the contracting banks shall render a statement to the county trustee, showing the balance on hand and the interest thereon due the county to the first of the month, and the county trustee shall, in the county trustee's monthly report to the county mayor, as required by § 67-5-1902(a), show the amount of the monthly balance as per bank statement, the interest to be placed by the trustee to the credit of the proper county fund.
TN Code § 5-8-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 2 - Bank Accounts|§ 5-8-207. County Officers — Securing Funds — Mandatory Accounts

   Every county official handling public funds shall be required to maintain an official bank account in a bank or banks within this state, and shall, within three (3) days after the receipt by such county official of any public funds, deposit the funds to the credit of such county official's official bank account, or bank accounts. Each county official maintaining an official bank account is authorized to enter into such agreements with banks and other financial institutions as necessary for the maintenance of collateral to secure the funds on deposit; provided, that the deposit of county funds in banks or financial institutions by a county trustee shall be done in accordance with § 5-8-201.   All funds deposited with a bank or other financial institution shall be secured by collateral in the same manner and under the same conditions as state deposits under title 9, chapter 4, parts 1 and 4, or as provided in a collateral pool created under title 9, chapter 4, part 5.   This requirement shall not prohibit a county official handling public funds from maintaining a petty cash fund in an account sufficient for the transaction of the official business of such county official's office.     Every county official handling public funds shall be required to make all disbursements of such public funds by consecutively prenumbered warrants or consecutively prenumbered checks drawn on such county official's official bank account or bank accounts.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 5-8-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 3 - Investment in Bonds or Notes|§ 5-8-302. Committee on Investment

  For the purpose of carrying out § 5-8-301, the county legislative body of the several counties may appoint a committee with authority to designate the types of investments, the amounts of those investments and the maturity of those investments.   No liability shall attach to any member of a committee selected for the purpose mentioned in subsection (a), except for misfeasance or malfeasance in the performance of the duties imposed on the committee.
TN Code § 5-8-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 4 - Unclaimed Funds|§ 5-8-401. Disposition

 The county mayor is required, in making settlements with clerks, to ascertain what amount of money is in their hands due to witnesses and officers, that may have been collected by them from suitors, and that has been in the hands of the clerk for more than two (2) years, and such sums of money shall be paid into the county treasury as other county revenue.   Code 1858, § 521 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 32, § 1); Shan., § 661; Code 1932, § 1060; Acts 1939, ch. 193, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 1060; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-821; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2.
TN Code § 5-8-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 4 - Unclaimed Funds|§ 5-8-402. Records and Reports

  The several clerks shall, upon oath, produce their books and papers, and point out to the county mayor the items so collected by them and remaining in their hands, mentioned in § 5-8-401; and the county mayor shall examine the books minutely, and interrogate the clerks with a view to elicit the facts, and shall report thereon.   The county mayor shall include with the report a list of the persons to whom money remaining in the hands of the clerk is due, and the amount due, and the county clerk shall spread the same in full in a record book kept for this purpose.    Code 1858, §§ 522, 523 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 32, §§ 2, 4); Shan., §§ 662, 663; Code 1932, §§ 1061, 1062; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-822; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2.
TN Code § 5-8-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 4 - Unclaimed Funds|§ 5-8-403. Payment to Claimant

 The person to whom any money paid into the county treasury is due may apply to the county mayor for a warrant for the amount due that person, and, on presenting this warrant to the county trustee, the county trustee shall pay the amount, as in other cases, out of any money in the treasury.   Code 1858, § 524 (deriv. Acts 1845-1846, ch. 32, § 6); Shan., § 664; Code 1932, § 1063; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-823; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2.
TN Code § 5-8-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 4 - Unclaimed Funds|§ 5-8-404. Unclaimed Funds From Appellate Courts

 This part shall apply to clerks of the appeals and supreme courts, who are required to pay over to the county mayor of the county in which the suits originated, as other county revenue, on the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year, all moneys in their hands due to witnesses, officers, litigants, or others, that may have been collected by the clerk from suitors or from the state and county treasury, and that have been in court for more than two (2) years.
TN Code § 5-8-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 5 - Accounting System and Reports|§ 5-8-501. Standard Accounting System

 The comptroller of the treasury, with the approval of the governor, shall devise a modern and effective bookkeeping and accounting system to be used by all county officials and agencies receiving and disbursing the revenues of the state or any political subdivision thereof, and shall prescribe the minimum standards that shall be required under such system.
TN Code § 5-8-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 5 - Accounting System and Reports|§ 5-8-502. Compliance With Accounting Standards

 All county officials and agencies receiving and disbursing the revenues of the state or any political subdivision thereof shall be required to adopt a system of bookkeeping and accounting that meets the minimum standards provided for in § 5-8-501.
TN Code § 5-8-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 5 - Accounting System and Reports|§ 5-8-503. Noncompliance — Additional Audit Costs

 If any county official or agency receiving and disbursing the revenues of the state or any political subdivision thereof shall fail to comply with  § 5-8-502, the county, within thirty (30) days after the completion of the audit made by the state department of audit under  §§ 4-3-304 and 9-3-212, shall be obligated to pay into the office of the comptroller of the treasury such portion of the actual cost of the audit as exceeds the fee provided by § 9-3-210.
TN Code § 5-8-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 5 - Accounting System and Reports|§ 5-8-505. Financial Reports — Applicability and Contents

 All appointive or elective county public officials, official county boards, committees and commissions in the state having in their charge and custody public funds or moneys are required to file with the county mayor and with the county clerk, who shall provide a copy of this report to each member of the county legislative body on or before the next meeting of the county legislative body an annual financial report for the year ended June 30, in a form prescribed by the comptroller of the treasury.
TN Code § 5-8-507 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 5 - Accounting System and Reports|§ 5-8-507. Annual Operating Budget — Publication — Budgetary Comparison

  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the county commission shall cause to be published the proposed annual operating budget, no later than five (5) days after the budget is presented to the governing body, in a newspaper of general circulation, if the newspaper is published daily. If the newspaper of general circulation is published less frequently than daily, then the commission shall cause the proposed annual operating budget to be published in the first edition for which the deadline for publication falls after the budget is presented to the governing body. No county commission shall approve final adoption of such budget until at least ten (10) days after the budget has been so published. A county may also publish the proposed annual operating budget on the county's Internet web site, which shall be accessible to the public, on the day the budget is presented to the governing body in order to give the public notice of the budget.   The annual operating budget shall contain a budgetary comparison for the following governmental funds:  General;   Highway/public works;   General purpose school fund; and   Debt service.     The budgetary comparison shall include comparisons of the proposed budget with the current year and the prior year. The budgetary comparisons shall be by individual fund and shall summarize revenues by local taxes, state of Tennessee, federal government and other sources. Expenditures shall be summarized by salaries and other costs. The budgetary comparison shall also present beginning and ending fund balances and the number of employee positions.
TN Code § 5-9-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-102. State and County Fairs

 The county legislative bodies are empowered to make appropriations of money to provide for exhibits of their agriculture, horticulture, and mineral products and resources and manufactured products and the erection of buildings and other permanent improvements at the fairs to be held within the respective counties, and for exhibits of their agriculture, horticulture, and mineral products and resources and manufactured products and the erection of buildings at the Tennessee state fair held annually at Nashville, under the management of the Tennessee State Fair Association; and to provide ways and means and prescribe rules and regulations governing the expenditure of any moneys so appropriated.
TN Code § 5-9-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-103. Market Houses

 The county legislative body is authorized to appropriate money towards the construction or maintenance of a public market house, to be erected within the confines of the county, and to be used for general public market purposes.
TN Code § 5-9-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-104. Farmers' Extension Work

 The county legislative bodies are empowered to appropriate annually such an amount of money as may be deemed necessary or expedient in order to cooperate with the division of extension of the college of agricultural sciences and natural resources of the University of Tennessee, in its farm demonstration and agricultural extension work, to be conducted by such college in cooperation with the United States department of agriculture through the Smith-Lever bill (7 U.S.C. § 341 et seq.), the farmer's demonstration work, or other work supported by acts of congress, or in its extension work to be conducted through appropriations from the state, or through moneys received from any other source.
TN Code § 5-9-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-105. Purchases of Code

  The county legislative body, composed of the members thereof, is authorized to purchase, from time to time, compilations of the public and permanent statutes of this state, for the use of judges of the court of general sessions and county officers, and to make appropriations of county funds for such purpose.    No judge of the court of general sessions or county officer furnished with a compilation under this section shall acquire any personal ownership or title thereto, but all such compilations shall be and remain the property of the county.   All laws pertaining to the preservation, safekeeping and transmission of official books and papers from incumbents to their successors in office shall be in force and applicable to all copies of compilations purchased under this section.
TN Code § 5-9-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-106. Soil Conservation

  The county legislative bodies in all counties having soil conservation districts are hereby authorized and empowered to:  Appropriate county funds for the purchase of equipment that is not available locally on a fair rental basis as may be needed in conservation work;   Employ such secretarial help as may be needed;   Purchase such office equipment and supplies as may be needed;   Pay for the rental of office space; and   Promote projects that are considered beneficial to the soil conservation program.     After the funds are appropriated, they shall be paid out in accordance with the resolution of the county legislative body but under the supervision of the supervisors of the district for which the funds were appropriated, and county warrants shall be drawn and issued in the same way and manner as the law prescribes for warrants to be drawn and issued against the county's general fund.
TN Code § 5-9-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-107. Watershed Development

  Any county may make financial contributions to any watershed development authority created by special act of the general assembly, where a portion or all of the watershed development administered by such authority lies within the territory of such county.   Such contributions shall only be made when authorized by the legislative body of such county, and from the general funds of the county. No special tax may be levied therefor.   The amount of such contribution shall be as fixed by such county legislative body and sanctioned thereby as a county purpose, the development of which being beneficial to such county.
TN Code § 5-9-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-108. Medical Services

  The county legislative body or governing body of each county is authorized and empowered in its discretion to appropriate from the general funds of such county a sum of money for the purpose of defraying the cost of acquiring real estate and partially funding the operation of a nonprofit corporation that provides, through the national health service corps, medical services to members of the community for a fee and to indigent patients without charge; provided, that such nonprofit corporation is eligible for financial assistance by agencies of the state or federal government under any of its programs.   Any funds appropriated for this purpose need not be repaid to the county by the nonprofit corporation.
TN Code § 5-9-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-110. Animal Welfare

 The several counties of the state, after the affirmative vote on reference of the question to the people, shall be empowered to levy a tax and provide for the administration of its proceeds for the purpose of securing humane treatment of animals therein that are not subject to the state game and fish laws.
TN Code § 5-9-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-111. Funds for Dues of Associations Composed of or for the Benefit of County Officeholders

  The legislative body of each county is authorized to appropriate funds for the purpose of defraying the cost of dues to associations of particular county officeholders or associations made up of groups of county officeholders.   If the county legislative body of a county appropriates funds for the dues in such association for the benefit of the county mayor, county highway superintendent or members of the county legislative body, then such an appropriation sufficient to pay the cost of the annual association dues in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) of the assessor of property, county clerk, state court clerks, sheriff, register of deeds and trustee in at least one (1) such association, as designated by the officeholder, shall be likewise appropriated by the county legislative body, upon the request of the officials. The county legislative body is authorized to appropriate sufficient amounts in excess of one hundred dollars ($100) to pay such association dues in the discretion of the county legislative body.   No such funds appropriated shall be used for lobbying activities as defined in § 3-6-102, for the purpose of influencing legislative action relative to benefits or salaries of the association's members.
TN Code § 5-9-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-112. Assistance to Low-Income Elderly Residents

  The legislative body of each county is authorized to appropriate funds for the purpose of providing assistance to low-income elderly residents of the county.   If a county chooses to provide assistance, such funds shall be appropriated on an annual basis based on the particular needs of eligible persons, as determined by the county legislative body.   The county legislative body is authorized to develop guidelines for eligibility and participation in applying for assistance authorized pursuant to this section.
TN Code § 5-9-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 1 - Authorized Appropriations Generally|§ 5-9-113. Affordable Housing and Workforce Housing

  The county legislative body of any county with a metropolitan government and a population not less than five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2010 federal census or any subsequent federal census, is authorized to appropriate funds for affordable housing or workforce housing.   As used in this section:  “Affordable housing” means housing that, on an annual basis, costs thirty percent (30%) or less than the estimated median household income for households earning sixty percent (60%) or less of the area median income for the Nashville-Davidson County metropolitan statistical area as determined by the United States department of housing and urban development, adjusted for family size; and   “Workforce housing” means housing that, on an annual basis, costs thirty percent (30%) or less than the estimated median household income for households earning more than sixty percent (60%) and not to exceed one hundred twenty percent (120%) of the area median income for the Nashville-Davidson County metropolitan statistical area as determined by the United States department of housing and urban development, adjusted for family size.
TN Code § 5-9-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 2 - Advertising and Tourist Promotion|§ 5-9-201. Legislative Declaration — Appropriations for Advertising Authorized

  Advertising the commercial, social, agricultural, industrial, scenic, recreational, historical, educational and other advantages, the points of interest and attractions within the various counties of Tennessee, and tourist promotion generally are declared to be a county purpose.   The county legislative body or other governing body of each county is authorized and empowered in its discretion to appropriate moneys from the general funds of such county for the purpose of advertising the commercial, social, agricultural, industrial, scenic, recreational, historical, educational and other advantages of such county, and the points of interest and attractions therein, for tourist promotion.
TN Code § 5-9-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 9 - Appropriation and Disbursement of Funds|Part 2 - Advertising and Tourist Promotion|§ 5-9-202. Control of Expenditures

 The funds appropriated pursuant to authority vested in the various county legislative bodies or governing bodies of counties in § 5-9-201 shall be used and expended under the direction and control of the county legislative bodies so appropriating the funds, or through such agency or agencies as they shall prescribe, and under such rules and regulations as they see fit.