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TN Code § 6-52-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-52-104. Apportionment and Distribution of Condemnation Proceeds

 Where any incorporated municipality, city or town is compelled to surrender its charter by reason of the taking of its property by any governmental agency, corporation, association, firm, partnership or individual vested with the authority to purchase or condemn or take the properties of such incorporated municipality, city or town under the power of eminent domain, the proceeds derived from the taking of such municipal properties shall belong to, and become vested in, such taxpayers in proportion to the amount of such taxes paid or owing by such taxpayers to such incorporated municipality for the year that the first property or properties are acquired by such governmental agency, corporation, association, firm, partnership or individual; provided, that where no taxes have been assessed for such year, then the next preceding tax year shall constitute the basis for distribution. Such distribution shall be made only after payment of all indebtedness owing by such municipality, city or town incorporated under the laws of this state.
TN Code § 6-52-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-52-105. New Corporation as Successor to Old

 When the charter of any municipal corporation has been repealed, and the same territory has been reincorporated, the new corporation is declared to be the successor of the old corporation for the purposes of this section, §§ 6-52-106 and 6-52-107.
TN Code § 6-52-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-52-106. Property and Debts Passing to Successor

 Such new corporation shall be liable for the debts of such old corporation, and shall be entitled to the property and assets of such old corporation, which shall pass to and be vested in such new corporation for the same uses and purposes for which it was held and to be used by the old corporation.
TN Code § 6-52-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-52-107. Collection of Taxes and Dues by Successor

 Such new corporation is invested with the right to collect, receive, and receipt for all taxes and dues to the old corporation to which it succeeds, and shall be entitled to exercise all the remedies provided by law for the collection of such taxes and dues.
TN Code § 6-52-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 2 - Abolition of Charter|§ 6-52-201. Petition for Abolition

 The people of any incorporated municipality, which was chartered or incorporated under the general laws providing for the organization of municipal corporations, who desire to surrender or abolish their charter, may do so in the following manner:   Whenever ten percent (10%) or more of the registered voters of any such town or city shall petition the county election commission of the county in which the town or city is located, setting forth in the petition that they desire and pray that an election be held of the qualified voters of the town or city, submitting to them the question of “charter” or “no charter,” the county election commission shall cause to be held an election in the town or city, in the several wards thereof, if there are such wards, to ascertain the will of the people of the town or city, as to the surrender or nonsurrender of their charter. If the municipal corporation includes territory in two (2) or more counties, such election shall be called and conducted by the county election commissions of the counties in which the territory is situated, and the results certified to the county clerks of all such counties;   Notwithstanding subdivision (1), or § 6-52-205 to the contrary, no such petition shall be accepted nor election with respect to such question scheduled to be held by the county election commission of the county in which the town or city is located, unless two (2) years shall have expired from the date of the incorporation of the municipality or the date of the holding of the most recent election in the municipality on the question of “charter” or “no charter,” whichever shall have last occurred.
TN Code § 6-52-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 2 - Abolition of Charter|§ 6-52-202. Notice of Election

 Upon the receipt of such petition, the county election commission shall give notice of the time of holding such election, by written or printed handbills posted at five (5) or more public places in the town or city and every ward thereof, at least thirty (30) days before the day of election, stating the object of the election, and shall also cause the same to be published for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper, if there is one published in the town or city.
TN Code § 6-52-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 2 - Abolition of Charter|§ 6-52-203. Conduct of Election

  On the day fixed in the notices of election and at the usual place or places of holding elections in the town or city, the county election commission shall cause the elections to be held in the manner prescribed by law in cases of general election.   All persons who are entitled to vote in the town or city for officers thereof shall be entitled to vote in the election, and those who desire to surrender or abolish the charter shall have printed or written on their tickets the words “no charter,” and those opposed to the repeal or surrender of the charter shall have printed or written on their tickets the word “charter.”
TN Code § 6-52-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 2 - Abolition of Charter|§ 6-52-204. Return and Canvass of Election

 When the election is closed, the officers, judges and clerks holding the election shall certify the result of the election, together with the poll list of voters and ballots, and the same shall be duly returned to the county election commission, which shall canvass the ballots and verify the same as required by law in case of general elections.
TN Code § 6-52-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 2 - Abolition of Charter|§ 6-52-205. Results of Election

  When the county election commission has duly canvassed the vote and the returns, and ascertained the result of the election, if it should appear that “no charter” has a majority of the votes cast, the county election commission shall make a triplicate certificate of the result of the election and file one (1) with the original petition with the county clerk; it shall also file one (1) of the certificates, together with a copy of the original petition, with the secretary of state, to be filed and recorded in the secretary of state's office; and it shall cause one (1) of the certificates to be registered in the register's office of the county in which the town or city is situated. When the certificates are duly filed and registered as provided in this subsection (a), the corporation shall be abolished and become extinct.   If a majority of the votes cast in the election are for “charter,” the county election commission shall make one (1) statement and certificate of the result, which it shall file with the county clerk of the county, together with the original petition. No other election shall be held for the repeal of the charter of such town or city until after the expiration of twelve (12) months.
TN Code § 6-52-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 2 - Abolition of Charter|§ 6-52-206. Time for Election

 Such an election will be held in conjunction with the next scheduled city or county-wide election, primary or referendum that is held forty-five (45) days after the petitions for abolition are filed with the election commission.
TN Code § 6-52-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 3 - Forfeiture of Charter|§ 6-52-301. Requisites for Forfeiture

  If any municipal corporation with a population of one hundred (100) inhabitants or fewer according to the latest federal census fails to exercise its corporate powers as described in § 6-52-302, then it shall, as a municipal corporation, forfeit its charter.   Such forfeiture shall become effective upon the issuance of a court decree to that effect as prescribed in § 6-52-303.
TN Code § 6-52-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 3 - Forfeiture of Charter|§ 6-52-302. Failure to Exercise Corporate Powers

 “Failure to exercise corporate powers” under § 6-52-301 shall include either subdivisions (1)(A)-(C) combined, or subdivision (2) alone:    Failure to elect a mayor or legislative body, or both, for more than one (1) year after the time fixed for such elections; and   Failure to levy and collect any municipal ad valorem property taxes for a period of three (3) successive years; and   Failure to expend any funds for municipal purposes or adopt a budget for municipal expenditures for a period of three (3) successive years; or     Failure to hold any municipal elections for more than twenty (20) years.
TN Code § 6-52-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 3 - Forfeiture of Charter|§ 6-52-303. Procedure

  Any five (5) qualified voters of a municipal corporation that has failed to exercise municipal powers as described in § 6-52-302 may petition the chancery court or court of record with equity jurisdiction in the county in which the municipal corporation is located to declare the charter of the municipal corporation forfeited.   A hearing shall be held not more than sixty (60) days after the filing of the petition to determine whether the municipal corporation meets all the conditions set forth in § 6-52-302. If the court determines that such conditions are met, then it shall issue a decree declaring the charter of the municipal corporation forfeited.   Such decree shall be transmitted by certified mail by the clerk of the court to the secretary of state who shall attach the decree to the charter of the municipal corporation and note its dissolution on all records relating to the municipal corporation. Failure of the secretary of state to make such notations shall have no effect on the forfeiture.
TN Code § 6-52-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 52 - Dissolution and Liquidation of Affairs|Part 3 - Forfeiture of Charter|§ 6-52-304. Outstanding Debts — Disposition of Municipal Property

  If there are any outstanding debts in the form of bonds or otherwise owed by the municipal corporation at the time of forfeiture of the charter, the county legislative body of the county in which the municipal corporation is located is authorized to levy a special tax within the territory embraced within the corporate limit of the former corporation for the purposes set forth in § 6-52-101. The collection and disposition of such a tax shall be pursuant to § 6-52-102.   If a municipal corporation that has forfeited its charter pursuant to this part retains any property or assets, or both, that property or assets, or both shall first be applied to any indebtedness owed by the municipal corporation. If any such property or assets, or both remain after the payment of any indebtedness, then such property or assets, or both shall become the property or assets, or both of the county in which the municipal corporation is located.
TN Code § 6-54-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-101. Division Into Wards

 The governing board may divide any municipal corporation into as many wards as it may deem necessary.   Code 1858, § 1384 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 17, § 11); Shan., § 1978; mod. Code 1932, § 3393; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-601.
TN Code § 6-54-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-102. Redistricting Into New Wards

 Municipalities may redistrict into new wards whenever, for proper reasons, they deem it expedient so to do.
TN Code § 6-54-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-103. Owning Real Estate Outside Limits

 All municipal corporations may, for corporate purposes, hold real estate beyond their limits.   Code 1858, § 1363 (deriv. Acts 1857-1858, ch. 28, § 1); Acts 1875, ch. 92, § 17; Shan., § 1922; Code 1932, § 3334; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-603.
TN Code § 6-54-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-104. Regulation of Electrical Work

 All incorporated cities, towns, and villages, however formed, are empowered to regulate the business of electricians and electrical work in such cities, towns, or villages, and to enforce efficiency of same, and to that end to pass all ordinances necessary to carry out and enforce the powers delegated.
TN Code § 6-54-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-105. Regulation of Sale of Commodities

 All corporate towns may pass laws to require articles usually sold by dry or heaped measure, to be sold by weight, within their corporate limits.   Code 1858, § 1364 (deriv. Acts 1857-1858, ch. 55, § 10); Shan., § 1923; Code 1932, § 3335; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-612.
TN Code § 6-54-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-106. Regulation of Powder Magazines

 The governing body of any incorporated municipality may authorize the building of powder magazines at any safe and prudent distance from the limits of the corporation. When it gives such authority, it shall be by order upon its records, designating and appointing the places within its county where such magazines may be erected, in which it shall be lawful to deposit and keep gunpowder. The corporate authorities shall adopt such regulations in regard to the construction of such magazines as may, in their opinion, best secure the community from danger.   Code 1858, §§ 1395-1397 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 169, §§ 1, 2); Shan., §§ 1992-1994; mod. Code 1932, §§ 3494-3496; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-613.
TN Code § 6-54-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-107. Interest of Officer in Municipal Contracts Prohibited

  No person holding office under any municipal corporation shall, during the time for which such person was elected or appointed, be capable of contracting with such corporation for the performance of any work that is to be paid for out of the treasury. Nor shall such person be capable of holding or having any other direct interest in such a contract. “Direct interest” means any contract with any business in which the official is the sole proprietor, a partner, or the person having the controlling interest. “Controlling interest” includes the individual with the ownership or control of the largest number of outstanding shares owned by any single individual or corporation.   No officer in a municipality shall be indirectly interested in any contract to which the municipality is a party unless the officer publicly acknowledges such officer's interest. “Indirectly interested” means any contract in which the officer is interested but not directly so, but includes contracts where the officer is directly interested but is the sole supplier of goods or services in a municipality.    Any member of a local governing body of a municipality who is also an employee of the same municipality may vote on matters in which such member has a conflict of interest if the member informs the governing body immediately prior to the vote as follows:  “Because I am an employee of (name of governmental unit), I have a conflict of interest in the proposal about to be voted. However, I declare that my argument and my vote answer only to my conscience and to my obligation to my constituents and the citizens this body represents.”    In the event a member of a local governing body of a municipality has a conflict of interest in a matter to be voted upon by the body, the member may abstain for cause by announcing such to the presiding officer. Any member of a local governing body of a municipality who abstains from voting for cause on any issue coming to a vote before the body shall not be counted for the purpose of determining a majority vote.   The vote of any person having a conflict of interest who does not inform the governing body of such conflict as provided in subdivision (c)(1) shall be void if challenged in a timely manner. As used in this subdivision (c)(3), “timely manner” means during the same meeting at which the vote was cast and prior to the transaction of any further business by the body.   Nothing in this subsection (c) alters, amends, or otherwise affects § 12-4-101(a). In the event of any conflict between this subsection (c) and § 12-4-101(a), § 12-4-101(a) shall prevail.   The legislative body of any metropolitan form of government or charter form of government may opt out of this subsection (c) by resolution.      Code 1858, § 1398 (deriv. Acts 1857-1858, ch. 7, § 1); Shan., § 1995; Code 1932, § 3497; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-626; Acts 1983, ch. 388, §§ 2, 6; 1985, ch. 236, § 1; 1986, ch. 765, §§ 1-3; 2016, ch. 1072, § 4.
TN Code § 6-54-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-108. Penalty for Unlawful Interest of Officer

 Every officer of such corporation who shall unlawfully be concerned in making such contract, or who shall unlawfully pay money upon the same to or for any person declared incapable in § 6-54-107, shall forfeit the amount so paid; and such officer shall be jointly and severally liable to an action for the same, which action may be prosecuted by any citizen of the corporation in its name.   Code 1858, § 1399 (deriv. Acts 1857-1858, ch. 7, § 1); Shan., § 1996; mod. Code 1932, § 3498; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-627; Acts 1983, ch. 388, § 3.
TN Code § 6-54-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-109. Municipal Control of Utilities

 It is not lawful for:   Any corporation chartered or authorized to build or operate, or operating, a street railway, whether by steam, electricity, or otherwise;   Any corporation chartered or authorized to manufacture or furnish, or furnishing gas, electricity, or other substance for the lighting of the streets or public places of any town or city, or for the use or consumption by the inhabitants of such town or city; or   Any corporation chartered or authorized to supply, or supplying, any town or city or the inhabitants thereof with water;  to acquire the franchises or property of any similar corporation carrying on its operations with any city or town, or partly in such city or town and in the territory adjacent to same, by consolidation, purchase, lease or other mode, except only by and with the permission and consent, expressed officially in writing, of the municipal government of the city or town in which the corporation whose franchises or property is being acquired carries on its business, wholly or in part, and then only upon such terms and conditions as the municipal government may prescribe; provided, that such terms and conditions shall not violate any law.
TN Code § 6-54-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-110. Oil and Natural Gas — Powers and Duties

  Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality, its agencies or divisions thereof, may within or without the state engage in investigating, exploring, prospecting, drilling, and mining for and producing natural gas and oil and mineral by-products thereof, and construct the appropriate facilities to produce, save, take care of, maintain, treat and transport natural gas and oil and mineral by-products thereof, or to contract for same with any person, federal agency, municipality or public or private corporation.   No municipality, its agencies, or division thereof, is granted any additional power of eminent domain to carry out this section.
TN Code § 6-54-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-112. Mayors and Commissioners — Substitutes to Serve on Boards, Etc

   Any mayor or full-time commissioner of a municipality who serves on a municipal, county, regional board, commission, or authority or development district board, in an appointed, elected, or ex officio capacity, may from time to time designate a person qualified to hold the official's office, a professional staff member of the municipality with appropriate training, or a member of the municipality's governing body to sit in the municipal official's place on the board, commission, or authority.   Any such designee has the same immunities and powers, including the power to vote, as are otherwise conferred on the elected municipal official on the board, commission, or authority.   No such designee may cast more than one (1) vote.   At any meeting attended by the elected municipal official, only the elected municipal official, and not the designee, shall exercise voting power.      Subsection (a) shall not be applicable when there is a charter, private act, ordinance, or general law provision providing for a substitute for the local government official, nor shall subsection (a) apply to boards, commissions, or authorities whose members are appointed by the governor.   Subsection (a) shall not apply to the members of local boards of education.
TN Code § 6-54-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-114. Municipal Civil Service Board — Members — Qualifications — Appointment

  Notwithstanding any municipal charter to the contrary, each member of a municipal civil service board shall be a domiciled resident of the municipality that the board serves for at least one (1) year prior to appointment. During a member's term of office, no such member shall engage in any type of business with the municipality or any employee of such municipality.   Notwithstanding any municipal charter or ordinance to the contrary, all members of any municipal civil service board in any county with a population greater than three hundred thousand (300,000), created by ordinance or charter, shall be appointed by the mayor of the municipality which the board serves. Such appointments shall be subject to confirmation by the municipal legislative body. At least one (1) member shall be a woman and one (1) member shall be a minority citizen.   This section shall not apply to municipalities with a mayor-aldermen form of government.
TN Code § 6-54-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 6-54-115. Exemption of Property From Seizure

 The public property of every municipality, of every character and description, used for strictly municipal purposes, is exempt from seizure by attachment, execution or other legal process; nor shall municipal funds in the hands of its treasurer or depository be subject to garnishment or other legal process, except as is elsewhere provided. There shall be no priority, by pledge of property or taxes, given to creditors.