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TN Code § 6-35-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 3 - Financial Matters|§ 6-35-314. Financial Records of Utilities

 Separate financial and accounting records shall be maintained for each utility in accordance with accepted principles of utility accounting and as may be required by the city council, without impairing the authority of the city to manage and operate the utilities with the same personnel and equipment.
TN Code § 6-35-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 3 - Financial Matters|§ 6-35-315. Annual Operating Budget — Publication — Budgetary Comparison

  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the governing body shall publish the annual operating budget and budgetary comparisons of the proposed budget with the prior year's actual figures and the current year's estimated figures, which information shall include the following:  Revenues and expenditures for the following governmental funds: general, streets/public works, general purpose school and debt service;   Revenues for each fund shall be listed separately by local taxes, state of Tennessee, federal government and other sources;   Expenditures for each fund shall be listed separately by salaries and other costs;   Beginning and ending fund balances shall be shown for each fund; and   The number of full-time equivalent employee positions shall be shown for each fund.     The publication shall be in a newspaper of general circulation and shall be published not less than ten (10) days prior to the meeting where the governing body will consider final passage of the budget.
TN Code § 6-35-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-401. City Clerk

 The city manager shall appoint a city clerk, together with such deputy city clerks as may be authorized by ordinance. The city clerk shall be responsible for keeping and preserving the city seal and all records of the council, attending meetings of the council and keeping a journal of proceedings at such meetings, preparing and certifying copies of official records in the city clerk's office, for which fees may be prescribed by ordinance, and performing all other duties as are prescribed by the council or city manager.
TN Code § 6-35-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-402. Appointment, Removal and Supervision of Personnel

 The manager has the power to appoint, promote, suspend, transfer, and remove, or to take any other established personnel action consistent with  §§ 6-35-403 — 6-35-411 with regard to all administrative officers and employees of the city responsible to the manager; or the manager may, at the manager's discretion, authorize the head of a department or office responsible to the manager to take such actions regarding subordinates in such department or office. The manager shall appoint such heads of administrative offices, organization units, and activities as the manager may deem necessary. The manager may combine, or personally hold, any such administrative offices established pursuant to this section or otherwise established, or may delegate parts of the duties of the manager's office to designated subordinates.
TN Code § 6-35-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-403. Merit System

  The policy of the city shall be to employ those persons best qualified to carry out the functions of the city. To this end, the council shall, by ordinance, establish a merit system providing for the appointment and promotion of city officers and employees solely on the basis of competence and fitness.   All officers and employees shall be included in such merit system, except:  Council members;   Members of boards who are not city employees;   The manager and the manager's secretary;   Department heads; and   Organizations and their employees and other persons who are engaged by the city on a contractual basis.
TN Code § 6-35-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-404. Manager to Administer Personnel System

  The manager shall be responsible for the administration of the merit system. The manager shall:  With the advice of the personnel advisory board, develop, maintain, and apply suitable provisions for the classification of positions and for the recruitment, compensation, training, promotions and disciplinary and related aspects of personnel management; and   Develop and revise, as necessary, a comprehensive pay plan and personnel rules setting forth employment conditions.     The personnel advisory board shall review such plans and rules and proposed revisions thereof, and submit them to the council with recommendations for adoption.
TN Code § 6-35-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-405. Investigation of Complaints by Personnel Advisory Board

  The personnel advisory board shall investigate complaints made to it in writing by any officer or employee who is included in the merit system and who is suspended or removed from such officer's or employee's position or otherwise adversely affected by a personnel action.    If, in the opinion of the board, the procedures established for such personnel action were not complied with, the board shall make decisions that shall be binding on the administrative officer of the city.   In all other cases, the board shall report its findings and recommendations, which shall be advisory in nature, in writing to the manager, and the decision of the manager shall be final. In all such cases any such officer or employee shall have the right to common law certiorari to review the action of the board and the manager.
TN Code § 6-35-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-406. Personnel Advisory Board to Assist Manager

 The personnel advisory board shall assist the manager in other personnel matters as may be set forth by ordinance and may investigate and make recommendations and reports to the council and manager on improvements in conditions of municipal employment and on significant violations of the principles of sound personnel administration.
TN Code § 6-35-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-407. Compensation

 Except as otherwise provided in this charter, the compensation of all officers and employees of the city shall be fixed by the manager within the limits of budget appropriations and in accordance with a comprehensive pay plan adopted by the council.
TN Code § 6-35-408 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-408. Disposition of Fees and Commissions

 The compensation of officers and employees as fixed or otherwise provided for by this charter shall be in full payment for all official services of such officers or employees, and shall be in lieu of any and all fees, commissions, and other compensation that may be receivable by such officers in performance of the duties of their offices. Such fees, commissions and compensation shall belong to the city, be collected and accounted for by such officers, and be paid over to the city.
TN Code § 6-35-409 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-409. Employee Benefits

 The council may provide for the retirement of the city's nonelective officers and employees and make available to them any group, life, hospital, health, or accident insurance, either independently of, or as a supplement to, any retirement or other employee welfare benefits otherwise provided by law.
TN Code § 6-35-410 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-410. Resignations

 The council shall prescribe by ordinance appropriate procedures with respect to resignations of officers and employees and with respect to the orderly transfer of records, assets, and other effects in the custody of such officers and employees to their successors or supervisors.
TN Code § 6-35-411 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-411. Surety Bonds

 All city officers or employees receiving, disbursing or responsible for city funds shall be bonded. The council may require any officer or employee to give a bond, approved by and in such amount as the council shall determine. All such bonds shall be corporate surety bonds, and the premiums thereon shall be paid by the city. No such bond shall be issued for a term exceeding four (4) years. No bond required by this section shall be renewed upon its  expiration or in the event of the reappointment of any officer or employee to a position for which a bond is required, but a new bond shall be furnished. The resignation, removal, or discharge of any officer or employee of the city shall not, nor shall the election or appointment of another to such officer's or employee's office or employment, exonerate such officer or employee or such officer's or employee's sureties from liability incurred by such officers or employees, or such officer's or employee's sureties.
TN Code § 6-35-412 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-412. Pecuniary Interest Prohibited

  No officer or employee of the city shall have any financial interest other than the common public interest in the profits of any contract, service, or other work performed for the city; or personally profit directly or indirectly from any contract, purchase, sale, or service between the city and any person or company; or personally as an agent provide any surety, bail, or bond required by law or subject to approval by the council.   No officer or any employee shall accept any free or preferred services, benefits or concessions from any person or company, except that free transportation may be provided for police officers and firefighters on official duty.   Any officer or employee who violates this section commits misconduct of office.
TN Code § 6-35-413 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 35 - City Manager—administration of City Affairs Under Modified Manager-Council Charter|Part 4 - Officers and Employees|§ 6-35-413. Political Activity Prohibited — Penalty

  No officer or employee of the city, other than council members, or members of the board of education, shall continue in the employment of the city after becoming a candidate for nomination or election to any public office nor hold office in any political activity.   No officer or employee of the city shall orally, by letter or otherwise, solicit or be in any manner concerned in soliciting any assessment, subscription or contribution for any political party or political purpose from any officer or employee of the city.   No officer or employee of the city, other than council members or board of education members, shall make any contribution to the campaign funds of any candidate in any city election, nor shall such person take part in the management, affairs or political campaign of any city election, other than in the exercise of such person's rights as a citizen to express such person's opinions and to cast such person's vote.    Any person who alone or with others willfully or corruptly violates any provision of this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.   Any person who is convicted under this section shall be ineligible to hold any office or position of employment in the city government for a period of five (5) years thereafter and, if such person is an officer or employee at the time of conviction, shall immediately forfeit and vacate the office or position held.
TN Code § 6-51-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-101. Part Definitions and Definitions for § 6-51-301

 As used in this part and § 6-51-301, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Larger” and “smaller” refer to population and not area;   “Municipality” or “municipalities” means any incorporated city or cities, or town or towns, and does not include any utility district, sanitary district, school district, or other public service district, whether organized under public or private acts; and   “Notice” means publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality at least seven (7) days in advance of a hearing. The notice shall be satisfied by inclusion of a map that includes a general delineation of the area or areas to be annexed by use of official road names or numbers, or both, names of lakes and waterways, or other identifiable landmarks, as appropriate.
TN Code § 6-51-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-105. Referendum on Annexation

  At least thirty (30) days and not more than sixty (60) days after the last of such publications, the proposed annexation of territory shall be submitted by the county election commission in an election held on the request and at the expense of the proposing municipality, for approval or disapproval of the qualified voters who reside in or own property in the territory proposed for annexation; provided, that not more than two (2) persons are entitled to vote based upon ownership of an individual tract of property, regardless of the number of owners of such property.   The legislative body of the municipality affected may also at its option submit the questions involved to a referendum of the people residing within the municipality.   In the election or elections to be held, the questions submitted to the qualified voters shall be “For Annexation” and “Against Annexation.”   The county election commission shall promptly certify the results of the election or elections to the municipality. Upon receiving the certification from the county election commission, the municipality shall forward a copy of the certification to the county mayor in whose county the territory being annexed is located.   If a majority of all the qualified voters voting thereon in the territory proposed to be annexed, or in the event of two (2) elections as provided for in subsections (a) and (b), a majority of the voters voting thereon in the territory to be annexed and a majority of the voters voting thereon in the municipality approve the resolution, annexation as provided therein shall become effective thirty (30) days after the certification of the election or elections.   [Deleted by 2015 amendment.]
TN Code § 6-51-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-106. Abandonment of Proceedings

 Any annexation proceeding initiated under § 6-51-104 may be abandoned and discontinued at any time by resolution of the governing body of the municipality.
TN Code § 6-51-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-107. Referral to Planning Agency

 The governing body of a municipality shall, if its charter so provides, and otherwise may, refer any proposed annexation to the planning agency of the municipality for study of all pertinent matters relating thereto, and the planning agency expeditiously shall make such a study and report to the governing body.
TN Code § 6-51-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-109. Annexation of Smaller Municipality by Larger Municipality

  Upon receipt of a petition in writing of twenty percent (20%) of the qualified voters of a smaller municipality, voting at the last general election, such petition to be filed with the chief executive officer of the smaller municipality who shall promptly submit the petition to the chief executive officer of the larger municipality, such larger municipality may annex such portion of the territory of the smaller municipality described in the petition or the totality of such smaller municipality if so described in the petition only after a majority of the qualified voters voting in an election in such smaller municipality vote in favor of the annexation.   The county election commission shall hold such an election on the request and at the expense of the larger municipality, the results of which shall be certified to each municipality.   If a majority of the qualified voters voting in such election are in favor of annexation, the corporate existence of such smaller municipality shall end within thirty (30) days after the certification of the election results, and all of the choses in action, including the right to collect all uncollected taxes, and all other assets of every kind and description of the smaller municipality shall be taken over by and become the property of the larger municipality. All legally subsisting liabilities, including any bonded indebtedness, of the smaller municipality shall be assumed by the larger municipality, which shall thereafter have as full jurisdiction over the territory of the smaller municipality as over that lying within the existing corporate limits of the larger municipality.
TN Code § 6-51-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-110. Priority of Municipalities in Annexation

  Nothing in this part and § 6-51-301 shall be construed to authorize annexation proceedings by a smaller municipality with respect to territory within the corporate limits of a larger municipality nor, except in counties having a population of not less than sixty-five thousand (65,000) nor more than sixty-six thousand (66,000) and counties having a population of four hundred thousand (400,000) or more, according to the federal census of 1970 or any subsequent federal census, and except in counties having a metropolitan form of government, by a larger municipality with respect to territory within the corporate limits of a smaller municipality in existence for ten (10) or more years. Notwithstanding this chapter to the contrary, in counties of this state having a population of not less than two hundred seventy-six thousand (276,000) nor more than two hundred seventy-seven thousand (277,000), according to the federal census of 1970 or any subsequent federal census, nothing in this part shall be construed to authorize annexation proceedings by a larger municipality with respect to territory within the corporate limits of any smaller municipality in existence at the time of the proposed annexation.   If two (2) municipalities that were incorporated in the same county shall initiate annexation proceedings with respect to the same territory, the proceedings of the municipality having the larger population shall have precedence and the smaller municipality's proceedings shall be held in abeyance pending the outcome of the proceedings of such larger municipality.   If two (2) municipalities that were incorporated in different counties shall initiate annexation proceedings with respect to the same territory, the proceedings of the municipality that was incorporated in the same county in which the territory to be annexed is located shall have precedence and the other municipality's proceedings shall be held in abeyance pending the outcome of the proceedings of the municipality that was incorporated in the same county as the territory to be annexed.   Except in counties having a population of not less than sixty-five thousand (65,000) nor more than sixty-six thousand (66,000) and counties having a population of four hundred thousand (400,000) or more, according to the federal census of 1970 or any subsequent federal census, and except in counties having a metropolitan form of government, annexation proceedings shall be considered as initiated upon passage on first reading of an ordinance of annexation.   [Deleted by 2015 amendment]   When a larger municipality initiates annexation proceedings for a territory that could be subject to annexation by a smaller municipality, the smaller municipality shall have standing to challenge the proceedings in the chancery court of the county where the territory proposed to be annexed is located.   [Deleted by 2015 amendment]
TN Code § 6-51-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-113. Provisions Supplemental

 Except as specifically provided in this part, the powers conferred by this part shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other general, special, or local law, and the limitations imposed by this part shall not affect such powers.
TN Code § 6-51-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-114. Special Census After Annexation

 In the event any area is annexed to any municipality, the municipality may have a special census and in any county having a population of not less than two hundred seventy-six thousand (276,000) nor more than two hundred seventy-seven thousand (277,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the municipality shall have such special census within the annexed area taken by the federal bureau of the census or in a manner directed by and satisfactory to the department of economic and community development, in which case the population of such municipality shall be changed and revised so as to include the population of the annexed area as shown by such supplemental census. The population of such municipality as so changed and revised shall be its population for the purpose of computing such municipality's share of all funds and moneys distributed by the state among the municipalities of the state on a population basis, and the population of such municipality as so revised shall be used in computing the aggregate population of all municipalities of the state, effective on the next July 1 following the certification of such supplemental census results to the commissioner of finance and administration.
TN Code § 6-51-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 6 - Cities and Towns|Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries|Part 1 - Annexation|§ 6-51-117. Annexation of Regional Airport Commission Property

 If three (3) or more municipalities and counties jointly create and participate in a regional airport commission and if the property of the regional airport commission is located outside the boundaries of the participating municipalities, then no municipality shall annex any property of the regional airport commission without the prior consent of the legislative bodies of the participating municipalities and counties.