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TN Code § 7-64-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 64 - Real Property Tax Deferral|Part 2 - Chapter 659 Deferral|§ 7-64-210. Termination of Deferral. [For Contingent Amendment, See the Compiler's notes.]

 The deferred payments shall not only become due and payable at the time of sale of the residence and at time of death of the beneficiary hereunder, but shall also become due and payable in the event of change of use of the property from the principal place of residence of the beneficiary or beneficiaries.
TN Code § 7-64-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 64 - Real Property Tax Deferral|Part 2 - Chapter 659 Deferral|§ 7-64-211. Disabled Persons and Veterans — Eligibility

 The deferral benefits provided for in this part shall also be extended to totally and permanently disabled taxpayers, as defined by § 67-5-703, and disabled veterans as defined in § 67-5-704.
TN Code § 7-64-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 64 - Real Property Tax Deferral|Part 2 - Chapter 659 Deferral|§ 7-64-212. Application Deadline

 Applications for deferral of real property taxes shall be made annually on or before March 1 of each year, unless a later date for applications is provided by resolution of the legislative body of the county or municipality authorizing the program. Any applications received by the county trustee or collector of municipal taxes after the appropriate date shall be considered for deferral of real property taxes for the following tax year.
TN Code § 7-81-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-101. Petition for Election

  In any community where there are as many as twenty (20) residences within one square mile (1 sq. mi.), whether the parties owning the residences reside in the community during the whole year or not, any ten (10) of the registered voters may file with the county election commission of the county in which the square mile, or the greater part of the square mile lies, a petition in substance as follows:  “To the county election commission of  county:We, the undersigned registered voters, desire that a square mile (or such other quantity as may be desired) be incorporated by the name of (here insert name of town). The incorporated territory lies in civil district No.  , county of  , and is bounded as follows: (here insert boundaries of territory). We therefore pray that you hold an election to determine whether the territory shall be incorporated.”    The petition shall be sworn to by some one (1) of the signers, who shall state under oath that such person is acquainted with the other signers, and that they are registered voters within the territory to be incorporated.
TN Code § 7-81-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-102. “Registered Voters” Defined

 “Registered voters” in this chapter means registered voters who are residents of the territory that is proposed for or has been incorporated.
TN Code § 7-81-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-103. Notice of Election

 In addition to all other election notices required by law, the county election commission shall post in three (3) conspicuous places in the proposed sanitary district, five (5) days before the election, a notice substantially in the following language:   NOTICE   State of Tennessee   County of   On the  day of  , 20  , between the hours of  and  ,  .m., the  county election commission will hold an election to determine whether the following territory: (here set out the boundaries as in the petition), shall be incorporated. All registered voters who are residents of the territory may vote in the election.   Chair   Chair
TN Code § 7-81-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-104. Certification of Result

 The county election commission shall determine and declare the results of the election and shall certify the results within forty-eight (48) hours after the commission completes its duties under § 2-8-105(3). The county election commission shall file the certificate with the county clerk.
TN Code § 7-81-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-105. Certification of Majority for Incorporation

 If the number of votes cast in favor of incorporation equals the majority of persons entitled to vote in the election, the county election commission shall immediately forward a certified copy of the certificate to the secretary of state.
TN Code § 7-81-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-106. Duties of Secretary of State — Charter of Incorporation

 Upon receipt of the certified copy of the certificate by the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall copy it in a well-bound book and index the certified copy of the certificate. The secretary of state shall then return the certificate to the register of the county with a certificate that it has been copied in the proper book in such secretary of state's office, and shall issue a certificate of incorporation as follows:   STATE OF TENNESSEE—CHARTER OF INCORPORATIONBe it known, That the town of  (here insert name and boundaries of town) is duly and legally incorporated, and is entitled to all the benefits of title 7, chapter 81 of the Tennessee Code Annotated.
TN Code § 7-81-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-107. Registration of Election Report and Charter — Fees

  The register shall copy the certificate, together with the certificate of the secretary of state, in the charter book in such register's office, which shall complete the incorporation.   The register shall be entitled to the regular recording fees received for recording corporate charters for services performed as directed in this part.
TN Code § 7-81-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-108. Fees of Public Officers

 The fees of the sheriff shall be two dollars ($2.00), of the county clerk one dollar ($1.00) each, and the secretary of state two dollars ($2.00) for the services directed to be performed in this part.
TN Code § 7-81-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-109. Incorporation — Designation as Sanitary Districts

  Upon the registration of the certificate, the petitioners and their successors and all other voters of the town shall be incorporated and be vested with the right conferred by this chapter, and none other, it being the intention not to confer upon the corporation the powers of incorporated towns in this state.   The corporations organized under this chapter shall be known as “Sanitary Districts.”
TN Code § 7-81-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 1 - Incorporation|§ 7-81-110. General Municipal Laws Preserved

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to alter, repeal, or amend the general laws for organizing municipal corporations or taxing districts in this state.
TN Code § 7-81-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 2 - Town Assembly|§ 7-81-201. Legislative Power — Name of Assembly

 The legislative power of the town shall reside in the voters of the town properly assembled at a convenient place, and such assembly shall be known as the “town assembly.”
TN Code § 7-81-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 2 - Town Assembly|§ 7-81-202. Meetings

 The first meeting of the assembly shall be called upon proper notice signed by at least five (5) of the voters and posted in three (3) conspicuous places in the town. Subsequent meetings shall be held at such times as the assembly may determine.
TN Code § 7-81-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 2 - Town Assembly|§ 7-81-203. Called Assembly Meetings

 The mayor shall, when such mayor deems it necessary, or when five (5) voters request it in writing, call a meeting of the assembly, and the business of the meeting shall be restricted to matters set out in the call.
TN Code § 7-81-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 2 - Town Assembly|§ 7-81-204. Temporary Officers of Assembly — Qualifications of Members

 At the first meeting of the assembly, there shall be elected a chair and secretary, who shall act until the election of mayor and clerk. The assembly shall be the sole judge of the qualification of its members.
TN Code § 7-81-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 2 - Town Assembly|§ 7-81-205. List of Voters — Election of Mayor

 Upon the assembly coming to order, the chair shall take a list of the voters present, and the clerk shall record them. The meeting shall then proceed to the election of a mayor, who shall qualify by announcing to the assembly that such mayor will faithfully, impartially, and honestly administer the office of mayor as long as such mayor may occupy the office. The chair shall then cease to preside, and the mayor shall thereafter be the presiding officer.
TN Code § 7-81-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 2 - Town Assembly|§ 7-81-206. Election of Clerk and Inspector — Terms of Officers — Voting — When Elections Held

  The assembly shall then proceed to elect a clerk and a sanitary inspector.   The terms of all officers shall be for one (1) year, or until their successors are appointed and qualified.   All elections shall be by viva voce vote upon the call of the roll, and shall be held annually the second Monday night in June.
TN Code § 7-81-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-301. Filling of Vacancies

 The mayor has the power to fill vacancies occasioned by sickness, absence, or other disability of any town officer.
TN Code § 7-81-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-302. Suspension of Officers

 The mayor has the power to suspend any officer for misconduct in office or neglect of duty, reporting the mayor's action, with reason for the action, in writing, to the next meeting of the town assembly, by whom final action shall be taken.
TN Code § 7-81-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-303. Mayor — Enforcement of Ordinances

 The mayor shall take care that all of the ordinances are duly observed and respected.
TN Code § 7-81-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-304. Mayor Having Judicial Powers

 The mayor has the power and jurisdiction and shall exercise the functions formerly exercised by a justice of the peace, but only for the preservation of peace within the corporate limits and the trial of offenses against the town ordinances.
TN Code § 7-81-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-305. Mayor's Control of Finances

 The mayor shall receive and hold all the moneys and property of the corporation, audit and pay all bills incurred by the corporation, but shall have no power to issue any negotiable paper. The mayor shall make, in writing, to each meeting of the assembly, an itemized statement of the money expended since the last meeting, and the financial condition of the town treasury.
TN Code § 7-81-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-306. Clerk as Acting Mayor

 In case of the absence, resignation, or inability to act of the mayor, the town clerk shall take the mayor's place until the next regular meeting of the assembly, when another mayor shall be elected, if the assembly shall deem the mayor's absence sufficiently long to warrant another election.
TN Code § 7-81-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-307. Duties of Clerk

 It is the duty of the clerk of the assembly to attend each meeting of the assembly, to keep in a well-bound book a full and complete record of the acts and doings of the assembly, to file and safely keep all papers and records belonging to the corporation, to issue notice of the meetings of the assembly, and do all other service of a clerical nature imposed upon the clerk by the assembly.
TN Code § 7-81-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-308. Copies of Records as Evidence

 A copy of any record or ordinance made and certified by the clerk shall be prima facie evidence of its contents in all courts.
TN Code § 7-81-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 3 - Officers|§ 7-81-309. Sanitary Inspector

 It is the duty of the sanitary inspector to thoroughly and carefully inspect the premises of each resident of the town, and to remove and abate all nuisances at such times as the assembly may prescribe, and to perform such other duties as the assembly may impose. The sanitary inspector shall, during such inspector's term of office, be vested with the powers and duties of a constable within the corporate limits of the town, but shall not serve civil process. The sanitary inspector's compensation and the manner of paying the compensation shall be fixed by the assembly. The sanitary inspector shall not be required to reside within the corporate limits of the town.
TN Code § 7-81-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 4 - Ordinances and Violations|§ 7-81-401. Form of Ordinances — Effective Date

 All ordinances passed by the assembly shall begin by an enacting clause as follows: “Be it enacted by the mayor and town assembly of  (fill in blank with name of town),” and shall at the end of the act state the time when the ordinance is to take effect, otherwise it will take effect ten (10) days from passage.
TN Code § 7-81-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 4 - Ordinances and Violations|§ 7-81-402. Ordinance Procedure

 No ordinance shall become a law without having been passed at two (2) separate meetings by a majority of all the votes of the town and signed by the mayor. It is the duty of the mayor to carefully examine all ordinances passed, and should any of them not meet such mayor's approbation, to return the ordinance to the next meeting of the assembly with such mayor's objection in writing. No law or ordinance so vetoed by the mayor shall go into effect unless the law or ordinance be passed by a majority of the whole number of voters of the town. If the mayor fails to return any ordinance to the next meeting of the assembly, such mayor shall be deemed to have approved the ordinance, and the ordinance shall take effect without further action.
TN Code § 7-81-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 4 - Ordinances and Violations|§ 7-81-403. Fines for Violation of Ordinances — Lien of Judgment

 The violation of any ordinance or law of the town shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00), recoverable before the mayor of the town upon warrant issued as for the recovery of the debt before a judge of the court of general sessions. The judgment, when so recovered, shall constitute a lien on the realty of the defendant situate within the corporate limits of the town.
TN Code § 7-81-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 81 - Sanitary Districts|Part 4 - Ordinances and Violations|§ 7-81-404. Confinement for Violation of Ordinances

 Any town incorporated under this chapter has the power to erect and maintain a calaboose or workhouse for the confinement and detention of persons violating any ordinance of the corporation. A person who fails to pay any fine and costs imposed by the corporation commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 7-82-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Utility District Law of 1937.”
TN Code § 7-82-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-104. Exemption From State Regulation — Rules of Construction

  Neither the Tennessee public utility commission nor any other board or commission of like character hereafter created shall have jurisdiction over the district in the management and control of any system, including the regulation of its rates, fees, tolls or charges, except to the extent provided by this chapter and by the Wastewater Facilities Act of 1987, compiled in title 68, chapter 221, part 10.   It shall be the obligation of every judge and every public official having occasion to construe §§ 7-82-102 and 7-82-402(b) to so construe them as to accomplish the ends indicated by the findings and policies set forth in the preamble and section 1 of Acts 1973, ch. 249.
TN Code § 7-82-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-105. Exemption From Taxation

 So long as a district shall own any system, the property and revenue of such system shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation. Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter and the income from the bonds shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation, except inheritance, transfer and estate taxes.
TN Code § 7-82-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-106. Prohibition of Racial Discrimination

  It is unlawful for any utility district organized under this chapter, the Utility District Law of 1937, or under any other public or private act, to discriminate on account of race in providing utility services or in laying out the services that they are to provide.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 7-82-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-107. Chapter Unaffected by Other Law — Construction

 This chapter is complete in itself and shall be controlling. The provisions of any other law, general, special or local, except as provided in this chapter, shall not apply to a district incorporated under this chapter; provided, that nothing in this chapter shall be construed as impairing the powers and duties of the department of environment and conservation.
TN Code § 7-82-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-109. Water Utility System Operated by County — Transfer to Utility District — Procedure

 Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any utility district having all or part of its official territory within a county may by resolution agree to accept transfer of all or a part of a water utility system operated by the county pursuant to a previous transfer of such system by a utility district to the county under this chapter, or its operation under a private act, or otherwise, which resolution must contain provisions agreeing to operate such system for the public benefit, and requiring the protection of all rights of bondholders, and which resolution must specifically state that the transfer shall be upon such conditions as may be contained in the county legislative resolution theretofore or thereafter adopted under § 5-7-117. When all conditions of such resolutions shall have been met, the county mayor and president of the utility district shall sign an addendum to the contract, identifying the county and the utility district resolutions of which the contract consists, certifying that all conditions therein have been met, and shall cause such addendum to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the county at the expense of the utility district, upon which publication the transfer shall thereupon be consummated by operation of law without the need for the execution of any instruments of transfer.
TN Code § 7-82-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-110. Natural Gas Utility Districts Adjacent to Tourist Resort Counties

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any natural gas utility district that is located and operated in a tourist resort county may also provide natural gas service to consumers in any municipality in an adjacent tourist resort county.   As used in this section, “tourist resort county” means a county having more than five percent (5%) of its territory located within the boundaries of a national park established pursuant to 16 U.S.C. § 403.
TN Code § 7-82-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-111. Membership in Local Chambers of Commerce

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit a utility district from becoming a member of a local chamber of commerce.