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TN Code § 6-54-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-501. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Code” means and includes any published compilation of rules and regulations that have been prepared by various technical trade associations and shall include specifically, but not be limited to, building codes; plumbing codes; electrical wiring codes; codes for the slaughtering, processing, selling of meats and meat products for human consumption; codes for the production, pasteurizing and sale of milk and milk products; together with any other code that embraces rules and regulations pertinent to a subject that is a proper municipal legislative matter;   “Municipality” means and includes any city or town organized and operating under the general or special laws of the state;    “Public record” means and includes any municipal, state, or federal statute, rule, or regulation adopted prior to the exercise by any municipality of the authority to incorporate by reference granted in this part;   “Public record” does not include the municipal ordinances, rules, or regulations of any municipality, except those of the municipality that is exercising the right to incorporate by reference, nor does “public record” include the state laws, rules or regulations of any state other than the state of Tennessee; and     “Published” means printed, lithographed, multigraphed, or otherwise reproduced.
TN Code § 6-54-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-502. Adoption of Codes and Public Records by Reference — Building Code Amendments

  Any municipality is hereby authorized to adopt by reference any code or portions of any code as defined in § 6-54-501, without setting forth such codes in full; provided, that at least one (1) copy of the code that is incorporated or adopted by reference is filed in the office of the clerk or recorder of the municipality and is kept available for public use, inspection, and examination. Any municipality is likewise authorized and empowered to adopt by reference any public records; provided, likewise, that one (1) copy of such public record is kept on file in the office of the clerk of the municipality as provided above for codes. The filing requirement herein prescribed shall not be deemed to be complied with unless the required copy of such code or public record is filed with the clerk of such municipality for a period of fifteen (15) days prior to adoption of the ordinance that incorporates such code or public record by reference.   In those municipalities that have adopted building codes by reference pursuant to subsection (a), except when a municipal governing body by a vote of at least two thirds (2/3) of its total membership elects not to incorporate by reference any specific change or amendment, the municipal governing body shall incorporate by reference all such subsequent changes and amendments thereof, properly identified as to date and source, as may be adopted by the agency or association that promulgated the code.   In those municipalities that have adopted building codes by reference pursuant to subsection (a), the requirements of subsection (b) may be satisfied by having the appropriate municipal code administrative official adopt administrative regulations that incorporate by reference such subsequent changes and amendments thereof, properly identified as to date and source, as may be adopted by the agency or association that promulgated the code.   Any administrative regulations that incorporate building code amendments by reference shall become effective upon the expiration of ninety (90) calendar days or after the second official meeting of the municipal governing body following the publication of the regulations, whichever is later, unless within that period of time a resolution disapproving such administrative regulation has been adopted by the municipal governing body.   In addition to complying with all requirements for the issuance of administrative regulations by the appropriate municipal code administrative official, the filing requirement of subsection (a) shall be complied with in adopting amendments to building codes by administrative regulation.
TN Code § 6-54-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-503. Adoption of Amendments by Reference

  Any amendment that may be made to any code or public record incorporated by reference by a municipality under this part, may be likewise adopted by reference; provided, that an amended or corrected copy is filed with the clerk or recorder of such municipality for inspection, use, and examination by the public.   Ordinances adopting amendments by reference shall be required to be published as any other ordinances of the municipality and the requirements as to prior filing before passage shall apply likewise to amendments.
TN Code § 6-54-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-504. Penalty Clauses

 Nothing contained in this part shall be deemed to permit the adoption of the penalty clauses by reference that may be established in the code or public record that is being incorporated by reference, and such penalty clauses shall be set forth in full in the adopting ordinances and be published along with and in the same manner as the adopting ordinance is required to be published.
TN Code § 6-54-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-506. Validation of Ordinances Prior to 1951

 Any municipality that has before March 16, 1951, enacted a code or public record by reference thereto shall not be required to reenact such code or public record by reason of this part, and all previous incorporations by reference that would have been valid if this part had then been in effect are hereby ratified and declared effective; provided, that a copy was forthwith filed with the clerk or recorder of the municipality, if it had not already been filed.
TN Code § 6-54-507 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-507. Adoption of Model Traffic Ordinance

 All cities, towns and municipalities in this state are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt by reference the model traffic ordinance produced by the national committee on uniform traffic laws and ordinances.
TN Code § 6-54-508 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-508. Adoption of Municipal Code

  Commencing March 21, 1955, no municipality, whether required by charter or otherwise, shall be required to publish its code of ordinances in a newspaper.   A public hearing shall be held prior to adoption of a code of ordinances, and advance notice thereof shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.   Any code of ordinances adopted before March 21, 1955, by any municipality is hereby validated with respect to any requirements for publication thereof.   If any part of such code of ordinances contains new provisions of a penal nature, then such published notice shall specifically state such fact and shall also state that a copy of such new provisions is available at the city recorder's office for examination.
TN Code § 6-54-509 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-509. Notice of Adoption of Code

 Any municipality that, on or after March 21, 1955, adopts a code of ordinances shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality a notice that a code of ordinances has been adopted and that a copy is available at the city recorder's office for anyone who desires to examine it. Such notice shall also include a statement providing notice of any new provisions of a penal nature in such code of ordinances.
TN Code § 6-54-510 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-510. Validation of Codified Ordinances

  When any municipality has its ordinances codified and adopts a code of ordinances in accordance with this part, or when a municipality has its code of ordinances updated from time to time, the adoption of the code or the updating of the code of ordinances shall cure any defects that occurred in the adoption of any of the individual ordinances that are codified or referred to in the code.   The adoption of all ordinances codified or referred to in all municipal codes of ordinances previously adopted and in existence on April 16, 1990, is hereby expressly validated and ratified, notwithstanding that defects may have occurred in the adoption.
TN Code § 6-54-511 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-511. Inspections of Residential Rental Property With Code Violations

   If any residential rental property has three (3) code violations cited on three (3) separate dates within a six-month period, the municipal agency or department that is responsible for enforcement of building codes is authorized to conduct an in-home inspection of the property, regardless of whether the landlord or a tenant is in possession of the property.   The municipal agency or department that is responsible for enforcement of building codes may enter the dwelling unit only:  With the consent of the tenant in possession;   With a validly issued search warrant; or   In the event of an emergency presenting an immediate threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the tenant in possession.     Entry shall comply in all respects with Amendment IV of the Constitution of the United States, as well as Article I, § 7 of the Constitution of Tennessee. Entry shall be made in such manner as to cause the least possible inconvenience to the tenant in possession.     This section shall apply to any county having a metropolitan form of government and a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census, or any subsequent federal census, and to any county having a population in excess of eight hundred thousand (800,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census.   This section shall apply to any municipality having a population of not less than thirteen thousand seven hundred (13,700) nor more than thirteen thousand eight hundred (13,800), and to any municipality having a population of not less than twenty-seven thousand two hundred (27,200) nor more than twenty-seven thousand four hundred (27,400).
TN Code § 6-54-512 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-512. Actions of Governing Body to Be by Ordinance

 The following actions of the governing body of a municipality shall be by ordinance unless otherwise allowed by general law to be done by resolution:   Any action required by general law or the charter of a municipality to be by ordinance; or   Any action that:  Levies a tax;   Makes a special assessment;   Is permanent in nature; or   Has a regulatory or penal effect.
TN Code § 6-54-513 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 5 - Ordinances and Codes|§ 6-54-513. Notice to Owner of Motor Vehicle Before Forwarding Unpaid Parking Tickets to Collection Agency

 A municipality shall have no authority to forward to a collection agency unpaid parking tickets for collection without notifying the owner of record of the motor vehicle for which the parking ticket was issued. The notification shall be sent by postal mail to the owner of record of such motor vehicle that such action will occur unless the owner pays the unpaid tickets within thirty (30) days from the date the letter is mailed to the owner.  The municipality shall also include in the notification a statement that, if the ticket is forwarded to a collection agency for collection, the agency may notify the credit bureau or credit agency of such fact, which could affect the owner's credit rating.
TN Code § 6-54-601 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 6 - Mutual Assistance in Firefighting|§ 6-54-601. Contracts and Mutual Aid Agreements

  Incorporated cities and towns are authorized to enter into contracts and mutual aid agreements with other incorporated cities and towns, with counties, with private incorporated fire departments, with utility districts that provide firefighting service, with metropolitan airport authorities that provide firefighting service, and with industrial fire departments to furnish one another assistance in fighting fires.   Incorporated cities and towns may also enter into contracts with organizations of residents and property owners of unincorporated communities for the purpose of providing firefighting assistance to the unincorporated community.   Any incorporated city or town may provide fire protection to citizens outside the territorial limits of the municipality on an individual contractual basis whenever an agreement has been made for the extension of that service by the legislative body of the municipality and the legislative body of the county in which the fire protection is to be provided. In addition, any municipality may provide fire protection to citizens within an area outside the territorial limits of the municipality without individual contracts whenever an agreement has been made by the legislative body of the municipality, and the legislative body of the county in which fire protection is to be provided for the extension of that service and establishing the area to be served. Counties may appropriate funds for the payment of compensation to the municipalities for the extension of firefighting service.   Contracts or mutual aid agreements entered into pursuant to this section by an incorporated city or town shall, in the judgment of the city's or town's governing body, be advantageous to and serve the public interest of the city or town.   The authority in this section for municipalities to go outside their corporate limits to provide firefighting service is in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, any such authority in any other general law or in any municipality's charter.
TN Code § 6-54-602 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 6 - Mutual Assistance in Firefighting|§ 6-54-602. Mutual Assistance as Governmental Function

 In authorizing or permitting its fire department to answer calls outside the corporate limits as authorized in this part, and in answering such calls, the city or town and its officers and employees shall be considered as acting in a governmental capacity.
TN Code § 6-54-603 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 6 - Mutual Assistance in Firefighting|§ 6-54-603. Rights, Duties and Immunities of Officers and Employees

 Any officer or employee of a fire department of an incorporated city or town, while engaged in any duty or activity in connection with this part or pursuant to orders or instructions from such person's officers or superiors, shall be entitled to all rights, privileges, exemptions and immunities as if such duty or activity were performed within the corporate limits of the incorporated city or town by which such person is employed.
TN Code § 6-54-701 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 7 - Regulation of Transfer and Storage Businesses|§ 6-54-701. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Governing body” means the official or officials authorized by law to exercise ordinance or other law-making power of a municipality;   “Local transfer and storage business” means the business of transferring and/or storing for a profit the household goods and effects of another within the confines of the territorial limits of the municipality adopting this part;   “Municipality” means any incorporated city or incorporated town of this state, with a population in excess of four hundred thousand (400,000), according to the federal census of 1960 or any subsequent federal census;   “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, trustee, receiver or assignee; and   “Transfer and storage regulatory board” means any regulatory board created pursuant to § 6-54-702.
TN Code § 6-54-702 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 7 - Regulation of Transfer and Storage Businesses|§ 6-54-702. Creation of Regulatory Board

  Any municipality may, by ordinance, or by resolution, create a transfer and storage regulatory board, which shall be authorized to exercise its functions upon the appointment and qualification of the first members of such board.   Upon adoption of an ordinance or resolution, whichever is applicable, creating a transfer and storage regulatory board, the governing body shall, pursuant to the ordinance or resolution, appoint five (5) persons as members of the board.   The members who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (5) years respectively, but thereafter each member shall be appointed for a term of five (5) years, except that vacancies occurring otherwise than by the expiration of the terms shall be filled for the unexpired term by the governing body in the same manner as the original appointments.
TN Code § 6-54-703 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 7 - Regulation of Transfer and Storage Businesses|§ 6-54-703. Organization of Board — Rules and Regulations

 Immediately upon appointment, the members of the regulatory board shall select from among the members a chair and a secretary of the board and, as soon thereafter as is feasible, the board shall submit to the governing body a set of rules and regulations that it deems necessary and desirable for the protection of the citizens of the municipality, to prevent irresponsible persons from engaging in the business and to avoid the likelihood of fraud and injustice being wrought upon the citizenry.
TN Code § 6-54-704 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 7 - Regulation of Transfer and Storage Businesses|§ 6-54-704. Adoption and Enforcement of Regulations

  The governing body may then adopt or reject the recommendations of the board by ordinance or resolution or make such modifications as it deems proper.   When proper regulations, satisfactory to the board and governing body, have been established, the governing body shall empower the board to regulate and enforce the regulations, adopting in the regulations such penal provisions as it deems necessary to ensure the powers in the board to enforce the regulations, and granting to persons feeling aggrieved by the enforcement of the regulations such appellate procedural rights as it deems proper.
TN Code § 6-54-705 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 7 - Regulation of Transfer and Storage Businesses|§ 6-54-705. Compensation — Supplies and Secretarial Help — Fees

 The members of the regulatory board shall serve without compensation; provided, that the governing body may expend such sums of money as it deems necessary to provide secretarial help and office supplies to the board as might be required, and may by ordinance or resolution levy a nominal charge upon those parties engaged in the local transfer and storage business as may be necessary to defray the expense thereof.
TN Code § 6-54-801 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 8 - Minimum Fire and Police Retirement Allowances|§ 6-54-801. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Department” means the fire department or police department of any municipality that pays wages to its employees for services rendered;   “Employee” means any person who, on the adoption of this part, is a paid employee in the fire department or police department of any municipality and a member of a municipal retirement system or pension plan;   “Municipality” means any municipality having its own employees retirement system or pension plan;   “Retired employee” means any person who has been a paid employee in the fire department or police department of any municipality and who, on the adoption of this part, is receiving from such municipality a retirement allowance based upon such person's service in such department;   “Retirement allowance” means the monthly payment for life made to a retired employee or the retired employee's survivors or beneficiaries under a municipal employees retirement system or pension plan;   “Retirement system” or “pension plan” means an existing system or plan by which a municipality is paying or will pay the retired employees of its fire department or police department a retirement allowance after such employees have complied with certain conditions or requirements of employment or service to the municipality; and   “Survivor or beneficiary” includes any person, who is receiving, or who is entitled to receive, an allowance or survivor benefit from a retirement system that is based upon the retirement allowance of an employee or a retired employee.
TN Code § 6-54-802 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 54 - Municipal Powers Generally|Part 8 - Minimum Fire and Police Retirement Allowances|§ 6-54-802. Adoption of Part — Application of Part

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the governing body of any municipality may by ordinance adopt this part to establish and to authorize the payment of the minimum retirement allowance provided in § 6-54-803. The adoption of this part shall not authorize a decrease in the retirement allowance presently being paid to any retired employee. The adoption of  this part by a municipality shall be permanent and such action may not be repealed to the detriment of any retired employee or such retired employee's survivor or beneficiary.   If the department of any municipality has more than one (1) retirement system or pension plan for its retired employees, the adoption of this part by the governing body of the municipality shall not affect any provisions of such retirement system or pension plan, except as is necessary to provide the minimum retirement allowance established in subsection (a).   This part shall not apply to retirement allowances of municipal employees under the Tennessee state retirement system.   This part shall not apply to any retirement system, pension plan or division thereof in which the member's or beneficiary's benefits are computed in conjunction with or reduced by social security benefits.