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TN Code § 6-58-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 58 - Comprehensive Growth Plan|§ 6-58-111. Annexation Procedure — Quo Warranto Action to Challenge Annexation

  A municipality possesses exclusive authority to annex territory located within its approved urban growth boundaries; therefore, no municipality may annex by ordinance or by referendum any territory located within another municipality's approved urban growth boundaries. Within a municipality's approved urban growth boundaries, a municipality may use any of the methods in chapter 51 of this title to annex territory; provided, that if a quo warranto action is filed to challenge the annexation, the party filing the action has the burden of proving that:  An annexation ordinance is unreasonable for the overall well-being of the communities involved; or   The health, safety, and welfare of the citizens and property owners of the municipality and territory will not be materially retarded in the absence of such annexation.     In any such action, the action shall be tried by the circuit court judge or chancellor without a jury.    Prior to a municipality annexing by ordinance territory outside its existing urban growth boundary whether the territory desired for annexation is within another municipality's urban growth boundary or a county's planned growth area or rural area, it must first amend the growth plan by having its desired change to the urban growth boundary submitted to the coordinating committee and then receive a recommendation for or against the amendment from the coordinating committee, the coordinating committee then must submit the proposed amendment with its recommendation to all the legislative bodies for approval. If the amendment to the growth plan is approved by the legislative bodies or by the dispute resolution panel, it is then submitted to the local government planning advisory committee for its approval. This amendment process must follow the procedure as outlined in § 6-58-104 and the criteria for establishing an urban growth boundary as delineated in § 6-58-106.   As an alternative to a municipality annexing in a county's planned growth area or rural area by first amending the growth plan as described in subdivision (c)(1), a municipality may annex within a county's planned growth area or rural area, but the annexation must be by referendum only and not by ordinance. The municipality must follow the referendum process as provided for in §§ 6-51-104 and 6-51-105.
TN Code § 6-58-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 58 - Comprehensive Growth Plan|§ 6-58-112. New Municipalities — Property Tax — Incorporation Election

   After January 1, 1999, a new municipality may only be created in territory approved as a planned growth area in conformity with  § 6-58-104;   A county may provide or contract for the provision of services within a planned growth area and set a separate tax rate specifically for the services provided within a planned growth area; and   A county may establish separate zoning regulations within a planned growth area, for territory within an urban growth boundary or within a rural area.     A municipality, incorporated after May 19, 1998, shall impose a property tax that raises an amount of revenue not less than the amount of the annual revenues derived by the municipality from state-shared taxes as estimated by the department of revenue on or before July 1. The municipality shall levy and provide for the administration and collection of a property tax in the required amount before the municipality may receive state-shared taxes. Furthermore,  § 6-51-115(b) shall apply within the territory of such newly incorporated municipality as if such territory had been annexed rather than incorporated. For purposes of levying a property tax, the incorporation of a municipality shall be effective on January 1 following the election at which the incorporation is approved.    If the residents of a planned growth area petition to have an election of incorporation, the county legislative body shall approve the corporate limits and the urban growth boundary of the proposed municipality before the election to incorporate may be held.   Within six (6) months of the incorporation election, the municipality shall adopt by ordinance a plan of services for the services the municipality proposes to deliver. The municipality shall prepare and publish its plan of services in a newspaper of general circulation distributed in the municipality. The rights and remedies of § 6-51-108 apply to the plan of services adopted by the municipality.
TN Code § 6-58-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 58 - Comprehensive Growth Plan|§ 6-58-113. Monitoring and Reporting by Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

 The Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) shall monitor implementation of this chapter and shall periodically report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly. Each agency of the executive branch, each municipal and county official, each local government organization, including any planning commission and development district, shall cooperate with the commission and provide necessary information and assistance for the commission's reports. TACIR reserve funds may be expended for the purpose of performing duties assigned by this section.
TN Code § 6-58-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 58 - Comprehensive Growth Plan|§ 6-58-115. Applicability to Pending Annexation Ordinances

 This chapter shall not apply to any annexation ordinance that was pending, but not yet effective, on November 25, 1997.
TN Code § 6-58-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 58 - Comprehensive Growth Plan|§ 6-58-116. Airport — Annexation-Free Zone

 Notwithstanding  §§ 6-58-106, former 6-58-108 [repealed] and 6-58-111, the property of an airport with regularly scheduled commercial passenger service that is located in a county other than the county where the creating municipality is located, except upon approval by resolution of the legislative body of the creating municipality, shall be and remain in an annexation-free zone.
TN Code § 6-58-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 58 - Comprehensive Growth Plan|§ 6-58-117. Flood Insurance Rate Map or Flood Hazard Boundary Map — Requirements for Participation in the National Flood Insurance Program

  In cooperation with the department of economic and community development, all counties and municipalities in this state that have an effective flood insurance rate map or flood hazard boundary map published by the federal emergency management agency that identifies a special flood hazard area within the political boundaries of the county or municipality shall meet the requirements for participation in the national flood insurance program authorized by 42 U.S.C. § 4001 et seq. and administered by the federal emergency management agency on or before June 30, 2012.   If a county or municipality does not currently have an effective flood insurance rate map or flood hazard boundary map published by the federal emergency management agency that identifies a special flood hazard area within the political boundaries of county or municipality, the county or municipality shall have twenty-four (24) months from the effective date of any future flood insurance rate map or flood hazard boundary map published by the federal emergency management agency to meet the requirements for participation in the national flood insurance program.
TN Code § 6-58-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 58 - Comprehensive Growth Plan|§ 6-58-118. Urban Growth Boundaries — Expansion Without Reconvening Coordinating Committee or Approval From County

 A municipality may expand its urban growth boundaries to annex a tract of land without reconvening the coordinating committee or approval from the county or any other municipality if:   The tract is contiguous to a tract of land that has the same owner and has already been annexed by the municipality;   The tract is being provided water and sewer services; and   The owner of the tract, by notarized petition, consents to being included within the urban growth boundaries of the municipality.
TN Code § 7-1-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-101. Definitions — Chapters 1 6

 As used in Chapters 1 6 of this title, unless the context otherwise requires:   “City governing body” means the city council or other public agency possessing power and authority usually possessed by a city council;   “County governing body” means that body in a particular county that is vested with the power to levy property taxes;   “General services district” means a service district within a metropolitan government whose geographical limits are coextensive with the total area in which the government functions;   “Metropolitan government” means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities;   “Metropolitan government charter commission” or “charter commission” means a commission established to propose to the voters for adoption the charter for a metropolitan government;   “Municipal corporation” means an incorporated city or town;   “Principal city” means:  That municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county; or   If the municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a county fails to adopt a consolidation resolution within ninety (90) days of the county's adoption of a consolidation resolution, the county seat of that county, if the county seat is an incorporated municipality;     “Smaller city” means any municipal corporation other than the principal city; and   “Urban services district” means a service district within a metropolitan government in which are furnished by the metropolitan government municipal services additional to those provided in the general services district.
TN Code § 7-1-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-102. Legislative Purpose and Intent — Construction — Continuation of Local Functions and Powers

  It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent and purpose of Chapters 1 3 of this title to provide for the consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the governmental and corporate functions now or hereafter vested in municipal corporations with the governmental and corporate functions now or hereafter vested in the counties in which such municipal corporations are located, and to provide for the creation of metropolitan governments, which may be used to fulfill the unique and urgent needs of a modern metropolitan area.   Chapters 1 3 of this title are hereby declared to be remedial legislation to be liberally construed as a utilization of the constitutional power granted by Amendment No. 8 to article XI, § 9 of the Constitution of Tennessee approved at an election on November 3, 1953.   After consolidation of a county and a municipal corporation or corporations under § 7-1-103, no functions of the governing bodies of the county and the municipal corporation, or of the officers thereof, shall be retained and continued, unless Chapters 1 3 of this title or the charter of the metropolitan government expressly so provide, or unless such retention and continuation are required by the Constitution of Tennessee. After the consolidation, no officer or agency of the county or of the municipal corporation shall retain any right, power, duty or obligation, unless Chapters 1 3 of this title or the charter of the metropolitan government expressly so provide, or unless such retention and continuation are required by the Constitution of Tennessee.   Any municipal corporation that lies in two (2) or more counties, except those in counties excluded in § 7-1-112(d), may consolidate with the county in which the majority of its territory lies.
TN Code § 7-1-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-103. Consolidation of Functions

  Each county in this state, without regard to population, and the municipal corporations within such county, may consolidate all, or substantially all, of their governmental and corporate functions in the manner and with the consequences provided in this chapter. The consolidation, when complete, shall result in the creation and establishment of a new metropolitan government to perform all, or substantially all, of the governmental and corporate functions previously performed by the county and by the municipal corporations, the voters of which approve the consolidation.   Nothing contained in this section, or any other law, except § 7-1-112(d), shall be construed to prohibit a municipal corporation that lies in two (2) or more counties from consolidating its governmental and corporate functions with the county in which the majority of its territory lies.
TN Code § 7-1-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-104. Creation of Municipality or Public Service District After Charter Commission Created

 When a metropolitan government charter commission is created, as provided in § 7-2-101, no municipality and no public service district, including, but not limited to, a utility district, sanitary district or school district, shall thereafter be created in the county proposed to be included in such consolidation, unless and until the proposed charter of metropolitan government shall have been rejected by voters in a referendum election as provided in § 7-2-106, or unless and until a charter has been adopted by the voters in a referendum election as provided in § 7-2-106 with provisions permitting such municipalities or public service districts as described in § 7-1-103.
TN Code § 7-1-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-105. Civil Districts

 When a metropolitan government is created and established within a county, there shall then be and continue only two (2) civil districts, one (1) consisting of the area embraced in the urban services district and the other consisting of the area of the county other than the urban services district.
TN Code § 7-1-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-106. Excluded Smaller City — Inclusion Within Metropolitan Government

 Any smaller city that has been excluded from a metropolitan government created and established under Chapters 1 3 of this title may at any time surrender its municipal charter and become a part of that metropolitan government under such terms and conditions and by such methods and procedures as may be established in the charter of the metropolitan government; provided, that no such consolidation shall become effective until submitted to the registered voters residing within the smaller city and approved by a majority of those voting.
TN Code § 7-1-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-107. Effect on Local Government Simplification Statutes

 Nothing in Chapters 1 3 of this title shall be construed to alter, abridge or abrogate any provision of §§ 5-1-113 and 49-2-503 or any other law, practice, custom or tradition with respect to contractual, cooperative, unilateral or other devices for simplifying or expediting municipal or county government.
TN Code § 7-1-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-108. Appointment of State Officials to Public Utility Boards

 Notwithstanding any law, including any municipal or metropolitan charter to the contrary, the appropriate appointing authority may appoint at least one (1) elected state official to serve as a member of the board of any public utility operated by a municipality or metropolitan government. This section shall only apply to those counties having a metropolitan form of government.
TN Code § 7-1-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-109. Elected Officials May Decline Salaries

 Any and all elected public officials in counties that have a metropolitan form of government are authorized to refuse or decline any and all salaries to which they may be entitled under the laws of this state or local ordinances.
TN Code § 7-1-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-110. Change by Ordinance of Local Governmental Entities or Functions Established by Private Act

 Any city or county office, department, board, commission, agency or function established by private act prior to the adoption of a metropolitan form of government may be altered, consolidated or abolished by ordinance of the chief legislative body of the metropolitan government if the charter of the metropolitan government does not otherwise provide for the office, department, board, commission, agency or function, and such alteration, consolidation or abolition is not otherwise prohibited by Chapters 1 6 of this title or the Constitution of Tennessee.
TN Code § 7-1-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-111. Electric Power Boards — Removal of Members of Certain Utility Boards — Salary Increase

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any electric power board having a customer service greater than two hundred thousand (200,000) active electric meters within a county having a metropolitan form of government shall be composed of at least seven (7) members.   The initial term of office of the two (2) additional members of the electric power board appointed pursuant to this section shall be for a period of five (5) years and three (3) years respectively, with each such appointment to be effective July 1, 1988. Each successive term of office shall be for a period of five (5) years from the date of expiration of the preceding term of office.   Any member of a utility board created under the charter of a metropolitan government that has a population in excess of four hundred thousand (400,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, may be removed from office upon a vote of three fourths (¾) of the members of the governing body of such metropolitan government, but only after the assertion of reasons for removal as set forth in a resolution passed by three fourths (¾) of the members of such governing body and only after the holding of a public hearing before such governing body.   No officer of an electric system owned and operated by a metropolitan government shall receive any salary increase that exceeds ten percent (10%) of such officer's base salary for the previous year unless such increase is approved by a unanimous vote of the board.
TN Code § 7-1-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 1 - Metropolitan Government—general Provisions|§ 7-1-112. Consolidation With County Wherein Majority of Municipal Territory Lies

  Notwithstanding § 7-2-106, or any other law to the contrary, whenever a municipal corporation that lies in two (2) or more counties is proposed for consolidation with the county in which the majority of its territory lies, any referendum held pursuant to § 7-2-106 shall also include all qualified voters of the municipal corporation, regardless of whether such voters reside or own property outside of the boundaries of the county in which the majority of the municipal corporation's territory lies. The respective county election commissions shall cooperate fully in order to implement this section in an effective, efficient, and timely manner.   Notwithstanding § 2-2-107, or any other law to the contrary, whenever a municipal corporation that lies in two (2) or more counties consolidates its governmental and corporate functions with the county in which the majority of its territory lies, elections for consolidated government representation and school board representation, as well as all other referenda and elections pertaining to the affairs of such consolidated government, shall also include all qualified voters of such municipal corporation, regardless of whether such voters reside or own property outside of the boundaries of the county in which the majority of the municipal corporation's territory lies. The respective election commissions shall cooperate fully in order to implement this section in an effective, efficient, and timely manner.   Whenever a municipal corporation that lies in two (2) or more counties consolidates its governmental and corporate functions with the county in which the majority of its territory lies, the urban services tax prescribed pursuant to § 7-2-108(a)(5) may be levied throughout the territory of the municipal corporation; however, the general services tax prescribed pursuant to § 7-2-108(a)(5) shall not be levied in any portion of the territory of the municipal corporation that lies outside of the boundaries of such county.    This section and §§ 7-1-102(d) and 7-1-103(b) do not apply in counties with populations according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census of:  not less than  nor more than   19,650 19,725   26,400 26,500   28,250 28,300   28,650 28,660   32,760 32,800   32,850 32,950   37,000 37,100   49,400 49,500   58,075 58,175   84,000 84,100   85,725 85,825    This section and §§ 7-1-102(d) and 7-1-103(b) do not apply in counties having a metropolitan form of government and a population in excess of four hundred fifty thousand (450,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
TN Code § 7-2-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 2 - Metropolitan Government—adoption and Provisions of Charter|§ 7-2-102. Election of Members

  No less than forty-six (46) days nor more than sixty (60) days after the adoption of a consolidation resolution by the governing bodies of a county and of its principal city, which resolution providing for an election of the members of a metropolitan government charter commission, it shall be the duty of the county election commission to hold a special election to elect members of the charter commission.   The cost of the election shall be paid out of county funds.   The ten (10) candidates receiving the highest total vote in the election shall be elected as members of the metropolitan government charter commission.   Any qualified voter of the county shall be eligible for election as a member of the charter commission.   The deadline for filing nominating petitions for candidates for the charter commission is twelve o'clock (12:00) noon of the fortieth day before the election.