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TN Code § 5-6-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-105. Compensation

  The county mayor shall devote full time to the duties and demands of the office unless the voters of the county, by means of a referendum authorized by Acts 1979, chapter 145, § 2, determine that such duties and demands are insufficient to require full-time action.    The county mayor shall receive for the county mayor's services such compensation as established in § 8-24-102.   Such minimum salary shall apply to a county mayor who devotes full time to such office.   The salary of a county mayor who devotes less than full time to such office shall be determined by resolution of the county legislative body.
TN Code § 5-6-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-106. Powers and Duties — Generally — Ex Officio Memberships — Appointments

  The county mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the county and shall have all the powers and duties formerly exercised by the county judge, county chair, or elected official exercising general supervision of the county government as provided by this chapter, other general law, special, local or private acts.    The county mayor shall serve as a nonvoting ex officio member of the county legislative body. The county mayor or the county mayor's designated representative shall serve as a nonvoting ex officio member of each committee of the county legislative body and of each board, commission or authority of the county government, except as provided by law or by action of the county legislative body.   In those circumstances not addressed by subdivision (b)(1), the county mayor may designate, from time to time, a professional staff member with appropriate training or a member of the county legislative body to sit in the county mayor's place on any board, authority or commission that the county mayor serves upon by virtue of holding the office of county mayor. Any such designee shall have the powers, including the power to vote, as are otherwise conferred upon the county mayor when serving upon such board, authority or commission. At any such meeting attended by the county mayor, only the county mayor shall exercise voting power.     Except as otherwise provided by general law, or special or private act, the county mayor shall appoint members of county boards and commissions and county department heads. Such appointees shall be subject to confirmation by the county legislative body, and in so doing, the legislative body may express its views fully and freely and shall vote for or against confirmation. The legislative body shall not seek or interview such prospective employees prior to their appointment by the county mayor. Such appointment and confirmation are not applicable to employees appointed by other elected county officials.
TN Code § 5-6-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-107. Powers and Duties — Action on Legislation

   The county mayor has the power of veto with respect to resolutions of the county legislative body.   Such veto shall apply only to legislative resolutions and shall not apply to resolutions in which the legislative body is exercising administrative or appellate authority.      Every resolution shall be submitted to the county mayor.   If the county mayor signs it, the resolution shall become effective immediately or at a later date if the resolution so provides.   If the county mayor vetoes the resolution, the county mayor shall return it to the county legislative body for action on the county mayor's veto, in which case it shall become effective only upon subsequent passage by a majority of all the members comprising the county legislative body.   Such passage must take place within twenty (20) days of receiving the county mayor's message of veto or at the next regular meeting of the county legislative body, whichever is later.   If the county mayor fails either to sign or to veto a resolution and to report the county mayor's action to the county legislative body within ten (10) days after the resolution is submitted to the county mayor, the resolution shall become effective without the county mayor's signature upon the expiration of the ten-day period or at a later date if the resolution so provides.     The veto may not be exercised with respect to specific items or parts of items in the annual county budget, and may only be exercised with respect to the whole.    This section shall not be applicable to counties of Class 1 as established by § 8-24-101, that have comparable provisions in special or private acts establishing a veto power in the county mayor.   This section shall not be applicable in any county in which the county mayor is elected as chair of the county legislative body as provided in § 5-5-103.   This section shall be applicable in counties having a population of not less than twelve thousand three hundred fifty (12,350) nor more than twelve thousand three hundred seventy-five (12,375), by the federal census of 1970 or any subsequent federal census.   This section shall be applicable in counties having a population of not less than thirty-eight thousand eight hundred (38,800) nor more than thirty-eight thousand nine hundred (38,900), by the federal census of 1970 or any subsequent federal census.
TN Code § 5-6-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-108. Powers and Duties — County Property and Accounts

 The county mayor shall be the accounting officer and general agent of the county; and, as such, the county mayor shall have power, and it shall be the county mayor's duty to:   Have the care and custody of all the county property, except such as is by law placed in the custody of other officers;   Appoint an agent or attorney to take care of such property, and fix such agent's or attorney's compensation;   Control all books, papers and instruments pertaining to the county mayor's office;   Audit all claims for money against the county;   Draw, without seal, all warrants upon the county treasury;   Audit and settle the accounts of the county trustee, and those of any other collector or receiver of county revenue, taxes, or incomes, payable into the county treasury, and those of any persons entrusted to receive or expend any money of the county;   Require such officers or persons to render and settle their accounts as directed by law, or by the authority under which they act;   Enter in a book, to be known as the warrant book, in the order of issuance, the number, date, amount and name of the drawee of each warrant drawn upon the treasury;   Keep in a suitable book an account of the receipts and expenditures of the county, so as to show clearly the assets of the county, and the debts payable to and by it, balancing the account semiannually, and generally to superintend the financial concerns of the county; and   Report, in writing, semiannually, to the county legislative body all moneys received and paid out, and a complete statement of the financial condition of the county, and the county mayor shall settle the county mayor's accounts once every year.    Code 1858, § 421 (deriv. Acts 1855-1856, ch. 253, § 8; 1857-1858, ch. 38, § 8); impl. am. Acts 1859-1860, ch. 120, § 8; Acts 1879, ch. 76, § 3; Shan., § 517; Code 1932, § 769; Acts 1978, ch. 934, § 21; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-608; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2.
TN Code § 5-6-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-109. Powers and Duties — Bond

 All county mayors shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, enter into an official bond prepared in accordance with title 8, chapter 19, to be approved by the county legislative bodies, in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or in a greater sum as the county legislative body may determine, payable to the state, for the use of their respective counties, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties as accounting officers and general agents of their counties, during their official terms, as set forth in § 5-6-108. The bond shall be recorded in the office of the county register of deeds and transmitted to the office of the county clerk for safekeeping.
TN Code § 5-6-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-110. Powers and Duties — Duties as Financial Officer

 It is the duty of the county mayor to:   Draw the county mayor's warrant on the county trustee for the payment of any judgment recovered against, or debt due from, the county;   Reduce to writing the testimony of any witness examined by the county mayor touching any settlement, and file the same therewith;   Minutely examine and settle the accounts of county officers, referring to the records, documents, dockets and papers in the offices to verify each item;   Report to the county legislative body the settlements, under oath that the county mayor believes that the report contains a true schedule of the revenue collected by each officer, and that the county mayor is bound by law to pay to the county trustee;   Make duplicates of the settlements with the clerks of the circuit, chancery and appellate courts, and deliver one (1) of the duplicates to the county clerk, and file the others in each of the clerk's offices.    Code 1858, § 525; Acts 1879, ch. 162, § 2; impl. am. Acts 1907, ch. 602, § 45; Shan., § 669; Code 1932, § 1065; impl. am. Acts 1937, ch. 33, § 51; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 14; Acts 1978, ch. 934, § 21; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-610; Acts 1998, ch. 1080, § 10; 2003, ch. 90, § 2.
TN Code § 5-6-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-114. Powers and Duties — Acting for Clerk

 When the county clerk is incompetent, because of interest or relationship, to do or perform any official act required by law to be done by the county clerk, it shall be lawful, and is made the duty of the county mayor to do and perform that act.
TN Code § 5-6-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-115. Incompetency of Clerk — Additional Provisions

 When the county clerk is incompetent to take and state any account, the same shall be taken and stated by a special commissioner, to be appointed by the county legislative body as provided by law.
TN Code § 5-6-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-116. Clerical Assistants

 The county mayor for each county may employ one (1) or more clerical assistants as may be necessary for the performance of the county mayor's official duties. The county mayor shall establish the compensation of any such assistant within the amount appropriated for such purpose by the county legislative body.
TN Code § 5-6-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-120. Transfer of Duties to Water and Wastewater Treatment Authorities

   The duties of the county mayor in regard to any petition filed pursuant to title 7, chapter 82, are transferred to the water and wastewater treatment authority board under title 68, chapter 221, part 6 in any county that has created such authority. The preceding sentence does not apply to any petition by any governmental entity or state instrumentality that does not purport to adjust or otherwise modify any territory included in the service area of a water and wastewater treatment authority. Such petitions may be granted if the board determines in its sole discretion that the public convenience and necessity require the same. The general assembly enacts this section as a statement of its intent that this section is a clarification of title 68, chapter 221, part 6. From and after the creation of a water and wastewater treatment authority and the establishment of its service area, the authority shall be the sole and exclusive provider of its authorized services in its service area. The designated service area for any particular function or service shall not include any area located within the boundaries of another governmental entity providing the same function or service on the date the service area is established. Different service areas may be established for different functions or services. The authority may cede all or any portion of its functions or service area to another governmental entity upon the board determining in its sole discretion that the public convenience and necessity require the same.   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the transfer of duties as provided in subdivision (a)(1) do not apply to a county which:  Is served by a water and wastewater treatment authority that does not provide water service;   Has its water provided by more than five (5) utility districts; and   Has, under state law, had its county mayor hear petitions of utility districts.       The authority granted in this section shall prevail over any other law to the contrary for all water and wastewater service providers proposing to provide such services in the service area of the authority. Any city proposing to provide such services in the service area of the authority shall have authorization to do so only by filing a petition in the manner established by this section and receiving a cession by the authority.
TN Code § 5-6-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 1 - Substantive Provisions|§ 5-6-121. County Fire Marshal — Appointment — Compensation — Qualifications

  The county mayor for each county may appoint a fire marshal, whose duty shall be to coordinate the efforts of volunteer fire departments, enforce local fire safety regulations and assist in the prevention of fire and arson. If a county fire marshal is employed, the county mayor shall establish the compensation of the county fire marshal within the amount appropriated for such purpose by the county legislative body.   The county fire marshal shall:  Have at least five (5) years of experience as a firefighter;   Have and maintain certification from the state fire marshal in accordance with § 68-120-113; and   Serve at the pleasure of the county mayor.
TN Code § 5-6-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 6 - County Mayors|Part 2 - Transitional Provisions|§ 5-6-205. Effect on Private and Other Acts

  Any law, private act or general act of local application in conflict with this chapter and chapters 1 and 5 of this title is hereby repealed.   Any law, private act or general law of local application not in conflict with this chapter and chapters 1 and 5 of this title shall remain in full force and effect; provided, that any conflict shall be construed in favor of implementing this chapter and chapters 1 and 5 of this title and repealing the conflicting law.   Nothing in this chapter and chapters 1 and 5 of this title shall be construed as affecting the operation or existence of boards, commissions, committees or other agencies of local government except as necessary to avoid conflict with express provisions hereof.
TN Code § 5-8-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 5-8-101. Sources of County Revenue — Gifts and Donations

  County revenue is derived from taxes on property, privileges, litigation, merchants, peddlers; from fines and forfeitures; and from money remaining unclaimed more than two (2) years in clerks' offices.   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a county is authorized to accept and receive gifts and donations of money, intangible personal property, tangible personal property and real property. If any such gift or donation is offered subject to conditional or restrictive terms, then the gift must be accepted by majority vote of the county legislative body and must be used by the county subject to the terms of such conditions or restrictions. If an unrestricted gift or donation of money is accepted and received, then such money must be deposited in the county general fund and must be appropriated and expended in accordance with county budgetary procedures. If an unrestricted gift or donation of personal or real property is accepted and received, and if the property is subsequently leased or sold, then the proceeds from such lease or sale must be deposited in the county general fund and must be appropriated in accordance with county budgetary procedures.    Code 1858, § 482; Shan., § 644; mod. Code 1932, § 1035; impl. am. Acts 1963, ch. 14, § 1; Acts 1979, ch. 23, § 5; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-801; Acts 1999, ch. 109, § 1.
TN Code § 5-8-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 5-8-103. Exempt or Taxable Property, Privileges

 The property and privileges that are taxable or exempt from taxation, for county purposes, are the same that are taxable or exempt from taxation for state revenue.   Code 1858, § 483; Shan., § 645; Code 1932, § 1036; Acts 1979, ch. 23, § 6; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-803.
TN Code § 5-8-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 5-8-104. Fines Applied to County Use

 Fines, amercements, forfeitures, and recoveries in prosecutions for offenses below the grade of petit larceny, shall be applied to the use of the county where they originate.   Code 1858, § 486 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 55, § 2); Shan., § 646; Code 1932, § 1037; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-804.
TN Code § 5-8-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 5-8-105. Fines Adjudged by General Sessions Judges

 Fines and forfeitures arising in pursuance of the judgment of any judge of the court of general sessions, on any penal statute, shall belong to the county.   Code 1858, § 487 (deriv. Acts 1815, ch. 131, § 1); Shan., § 647; Code 1932, § 1038; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 68, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-805.
TN Code § 5-8-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 5-8-106. Revenue Docket

 A book, to be called the revenue docket, shall be kept by the county clerk, in which the county clerk shall record all the sources of the county revenue, whether consisting of taxes upon property, or upon sales of merchandise and patent medicines, or on the exercise of privileges, or of fines and forfeitures, or otherwise.   Code 1858, § 495; Shan., § 653; Code 1932, § 1052; impl. am. Acts 1963, ch. 14, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1973, ch. 226, § 4; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-806.
TN Code § 5-8-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 5-8-107. Use of Revenue, Generally

  Any revenue of a county, the use of which is not otherwise expressly restricted, and that is derived from taxes levied by the state and distributed to the various counties, from which taxes the cities likewise receive a portion thereof from the state collection, and any revenue of a county derived solely from taxes on privileges exercised in that county outside the corporate limits of any city, may be spent in such manner as the local governing body of each county shall direct, including, but not limited to, the retirement of bonds issued by such county, regardless of the obligation recited in the bond issue for the servicing and retirement thereof.   This section shall not affect municipal revenues.
TN Code § 5-8-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 5-8-108. Authority to Seek and Use Public Funds

 Counties of this state, acting through their appropriate governing bodies, have the power and are authorized to apply for, receive and disburse for public purposes grants, loans and funds from the federal and state governments or any department or agency thereof authorized to administer grant, loan or similar programs.
TN Code § 5-8-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 2 - Bank Accounts|§ 5-8-201. Deposits Authorized — Finance Committee — Securing of Funds

   The county legislative body in regular session assembled, a quorum being present, is authorized to adopt a resolution to contract with a bank or banks making the highest and best bid or bids to pay interest on daily balances of the county's funds; and to appoint three (3) of its members, who, in conjunction with the county trustee and county mayor, shall constitute the county finance committee, with the county mayor as chair of the committee.   Before making any such contract, the trustee shall receive the bids from the banks and shall file an analysis of the bids that have been submitted with the county clerk who shall provide a copy of this report to each member of the county legislative body on or before the next meeting of the county legislative body. The analysis shall recommend the bank making the highest and best bid or bids to pay interest on daily balances of the county's funds, considering the lowest service charges, and considering other factors affecting safety and liquidity of county moneys.     Any county shall require any financial institution that becomes a depository of county funds to secure such funds as provided in a collateral pool created under title 9, chapter 4, part 5, or in the same manner and under the same conditions as state deposits under title 9, chapter 4, parts 1 and 4.   If the county finance committee does not have a contract with a bank or other financial institution, the county trustee may contract with a bank or banks or other financial institutions for deposit, safekeeping, and earning of interest on daily balances of the county's funds, according to the same terms as are required by this section for a county finance committee. Additionally, the county trustee is authorized to enter into such agreements with banks and other financial institutions as necessary for the maintenance of collateral to secure the daily balances of the county's funds on deposit with banks or other financial institutions.   Notwithstanding any general law or private act to the contrary, at least once every four (4) years and not less than once every term of office, the county trustee shall evaluate whether the contract entered into pursuant to this section should be rebid. The evaluation shall be based on obtaining proposals from at least two (2) banks or other financial institutions. The trustee shall prepare a written evaluation of the proposals and preserve the evaluation for a period of not less than three (3) years.
TN Code § 5-8-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 5 - Counties|Chapter 8 - Receipt and Management of Funds|Part 2 - Bank Accounts|§ 5-8-202. Contracts — Execution and Effect

 The finance committee, to carry out the will of the county legislative body, shall be vested with full power to formulate, make and sign a contract upon the terms and conditions specified, which contract shall be approved by the county mayor, and attested by the county clerk, with the county seal attached, on the part of the county, and shall be binding on the county.