reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
TN Code § 54-9-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-121. Removal of Commissioners

 The road commissioners shall be subject to removal for cause by the judge of the circuit court or chancellor of the county, due notice having been given of the charges preferred.
TN Code § 54-9-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-122. County Legislative Body Called to Fill Vacancy — Other Members Act Till Vacancy Is Filled

 Should any vacancy occur in the commission, it shall be the duty of the county mayor to call the county legislative body together immediately to elect a successor to fill the vacancy, and the remaining commissioners shall transact any business as if no vacancy had occurred until the vacancy has been filled.
TN Code § 54-9-123 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-123. Road Commissioners Not to Be Members of County Legislative Body, nor Related to Members

 No road commissioner shall be a member of the county legislative body or related to any member of the county legislative body within the third degree, either by affinity or consanguinity, computed by the civil law.
TN Code § 54-9-124 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-124. Contracts Let Upon Advertised Competitive Biddings — Bid Accepted

  All work of grading, macadamizing, concreting, bridge building, etc., shall be let to contractors by the commissioners. It shall be their duty to advertise the letting or lettings in one (1) or more newspapers published in the county and otherwise as their judgment may direct, and receive sealed bids for the work.   They shall adopt, not later than one (1) week after the time set for opening the bids, the bid of the lowest responsible bidder, if in their judgment to do so would be to the best interest of the county and taxpayers.
TN Code § 54-9-125 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-125. Work May Be Let in Sections or as a Whole — Rejection of All Bids and Resubmission

 The commissioners may let the work in sections, or they may let different kinds of work to different contractors, or they may let the whole to one (1) bidder, if in their judgment it is to the best interest of the taxpayers to do so; provided, that after having examined all bids and after having thoroughly investigated the methods of other counties in the state or elsewhere, where conditions are similar, a majority of the commissioners may be of the opinion that to accept none of the bids would be to the best interest of the county, and they may resubmit to another bidding; or, in their discretion, they may adopt any other method of letting the work, either in whole or in part, as the results of their investigation and judgment may indicate.
TN Code § 54-9-126 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-126. Contract — Contents

 In receiving and letting the contracts, the commissioners shall at all times include the laying of all drain tiles or pipe for the draining of the roads, after the drain tiles or pipe have been placed on the road, by the county, and further include the tamping or packing of the dirt around the pipe or drain tiles, without additional cost to the county where they are being placed under fills for drainage of the roads.
TN Code § 54-9-127 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-127. Maximum Prices for Certain Work Fixed by County Legislative Body — Prices of Contract Work Left to Commissioners

  The price for moving dirt, per cubic yard, the price per yard for the laying of macadam, or the price for moving loose or solid rock from the roadbed shall not in any event exceed the maximum price fixed for the removal of those things by the county legislative body of any county authorizing bonds for that purpose.   The county legislative body has the right to define what is meant by “loose rock,” and to define what is meant by “solid rock.”   The county legislative body has the right to provide a maximum amount to be paid for an overhaul, both in the removal of dirt and in the laying of macadam on any road to be built within the county, or the price to be paid for moving dirt, the laying of macadam, clearing rights-of-way, amount to be paid for hands employed on force account, and the price to be paid to the engineers or assistant engineers, the amount per cubic yard of concrete where concrete culverts, concrete bridges, or the price per cubic yard on any kind of concrete work ordered to be placed or used on any road, and the price for any or all contract work may be left to the discretion of the commissioners elected to carry out the work for any county building roads under this chapter, but at all times the county legislative body shall reserve the right to fix a maximum price to be paid for any kind of work when in its judgment it is in the best interest of the county to do so.
TN Code § 54-9-128 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-128. Officials, Commissioners, or Employees Not to Be Interested in Contracts

 No commissioners or member of the county legislative body or any officer or employee of the commissioners shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job of work or material, or profits of any contract or job, to be furnished or performed under §§ 54-9-124 — 54-9-127.
TN Code § 54-9-129 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-129. Damages for Rights-of-Way Paid by Authority of County Legislative Body, or Upon Condemnation

  The commissioners elected under this chapter shall not expend the money obtained by the sale of any road bonds for any rights-of-way without first being authorized to do so by the county legislative body, or for any release, or for any damage growing out of the road building in any way or manner, unless it is after condemnation proceedings where it becomes necessary to condemn land for the purpose of barrow pits, or rock quarries for the purpose of obtaining rock for the roads or dirt to make fills where the cuts are not sufficient to make the fills.   The commissioners shall have the right, where it is not possible to obtain rights-of-way otherwise, to condemn land or buildings for rights-of-way.
TN Code § 54-9-130 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-130. Contractors Paid Monthly — Reservation of Percentage to Protect County

 The commissioners shall pay all contractors every thirty (30) days upon estimates made by the engineer in charge of the work for the county, or upon estimates of the assistant engineer for the county, reserving not in excess of ten percent (10%) of the amount of work done at that time as may be evidenced by estimates of the engineer or the engineer's assistants; but the engineers shall be sure at all times that their estimates are not for more than the amount of work actually done, and the commissioners shall at all times reserve an ample amount or percentage to protect the interest of the county.
TN Code § 54-9-131 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-131. Engineers — Employment — Duties

  The commissioners shall employ a competent engineer, and, if need be, assistant engineers.   The engineers shall be employed to lay out the work on the roads provided for, making estimates on the roads and work done by the contractors building the roads.
TN Code § 54-9-132 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-132. Bond of Engineers — Forfeiture

  The engineer shall execute a bond to the county for not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or more if a larger bond is demanded by the county legislative body, conditioned that the engineer will honestly and faithfully execute all work entrusted to the engineer's care by the commissioners.   In the event the engineer willfully or grossly negligently fails to execute any work entrusted to the engineer's care in a manner that is not in the best interest of the county employing the engineer, then the bond shall be forfeited to the county, the bond to be signed by good and solvent personal bondspersons, or by a company authorized to do surety business in the state.
TN Code § 54-9-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-133. Compensation of Engineer

 As compensation for the faithful performance of duty, the engineer shall receive an amount agreed upon by the engineer and the road commissioners having charge of the work.
TN Code § 54-9-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-134. Oath of Engineers

 Each engineer so employed shall take and subscribe an oath before entering upon the engineer's duties that all work will be honestly and faithfully executed as entrusted to the engineer's care, without partiality to any section of the county.
TN Code § 54-9-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-135. Removal of Engineers — Cause

 Any engineer employed under this chapter shall be subject to removal or discharge by the commissioners for the county, at any time when, in the judgment of a majority, it appears to the best interest of the county to remove the engineer, first giving the engineer thirty (30) days' notice of removal.
TN Code § 54-9-136 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-136. Expenditure of Surplus on Other Roads

 After all the roads laid out and provided for in the resolution have been graded, macadamized or otherwise improved for the full length of each road, should there remain a surplus, it shall be expended on such other road or roads not set forth in the resolutions, that in the judgment of the commissioners will serve the greatest number of people within the county.
TN Code § 54-9-137 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-137. Record of Expenditures and Expenses Kept by Commissioners — Open to Public — Violations a Misdemeanor — Removal

  The commissioners shall keep a well-bound book, in which shall be recorded in detail the amount of money expended by them on the roads, and where and for what purpose the money was expended.   The book shall show to whom the funds have been paid, giving the date and the amount of the payments; and it shall further show any and all expenses paid by the commissioners.   There shall be a proper accounting for all the funds coming to their hands, and how expended.    The book shall be open to the public at all reasonable times and places.   Failure to keep the book and failure to show the book to anyone of the public is a Class A misdemeanor upon the part of the commissioners and, in addition, subjects them to removal.
TN Code § 54-9-138 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-138. Commissioners to Keep Minutes of Proceedings — Report Bond Sales, Receipts and Disbursements, Other Information

  It is the duty of the commissioners to keep accurate minutes of all the proceedings had by them, the minutes to be kept in a well-bound book and preserved as a record of their office.    The commissioners shall make a written report quarterly to the county legislative body, showing the number of bonds sold since their last report, to whom sold, and the amount realized from the bonds, and also an itemized list of all their receipts and disbursements.   The report shall likewise contain other information that may be presumed to be of interest to the taxpayers of the county, and the report shall be spread on the minutes of the county legislative body.
TN Code § 54-9-139 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-139. Bonds Issued for Specified Road and Bridge Purposes — Determination of Kind of Improvement — Form of Bonds

  Under this chapter, any county in the state is authorized to issue bonds pursuant to title 9, chapter 21, for the purposes of grading roads, grading and macadamizing roads, grading and concreting roads, building complete concrete roads, building macadam roads with an asphalt surface, building bridges on roads, draining roads, or maintaining or reconstructing roads already constructed, or for any kind of standard road improvement or construction.   The kind of improvement shall at all times be subject to the determination of the county legislative body and shall be approved by the department of transportation.   All plans and specifications for the improvement of the roads or bridges shall be approved by the department.
TN Code § 54-9-140 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 54-9-140. Local Laws for Issuance of Bonds for Road Purposes — Cumulative Power

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as repealing any local law authorizing the issuance of bonds for road purposes, but the power conferred in this chapter shall only be cumulative to the power conferred in the local laws.
TN Code § 54-9-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 2 - Construction of County Highways, Roads and Bridges|§ 54-9-201. Bonds Issued — State Aid Pledged

 Any county may authorize the issuance of bonds pursuant to title 9, chapter 21, for the construction of county highways, roads and bridges and may irrevocably pledge, during each fiscal year, moneys received by way of state aid grants for rural roads, an amount not exceeding fifty percent (50%) of state aid funds derived from the distribution of the gasoline tax for rural roads, to the retirement of principal of and interest on the bonds, but in computing the amount of state grants, state funds used in matching federal funds shall be excluded.
TN Code § 54-9-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 2 - Construction of County Highways, Roads and Bridges|§ 54-9-202. Surveys and Plans of Proposed Projects — Contents — Approval by County — Reviewed and Approved by State — Adoption by County Legislative Body

  Prior to the issuance of bonds, the county highway department shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, surveys and plans of proposed county highways, roads and bridges, or proposed project or projects, to be constructed, showing the location, design and construction of the proposed improvement project and the estimated cost of the project, based on current costs. When the surveys and plans have been approved by the county highway department, they shall be submitted to the department of transportation. They shall be reviewed by the department for feasibility, practicability and completeness as to design and type of construction for a permanent county highway, road or bridge improvement, in accordance with the established standards for state-aid highways and roads constructed under the state-aid highway program. If the department approves the surveys and plans, it shall certify its approval to the presiding officer of the county legislative body, who shall submit the the surveys and plans for approval or disapproval to the county legislative body at either a regular or called session to be held not less than thirty (30) nor more than forty-five (45) days from the date of submission.   Within five (5) days after the receipt of the surveys and plans, as certified by the department, the presiding officer of the county legislative body shall appoint a committee of no less than three (3), nor more than nine (9) members of the county legislative body, for the purpose of studying the surveys and plans, so that the committee may recommend approval or disapproval to the county legislative body. Within ten (10) days, the committee shall reduce its recommendations to writing and file them with the county clerk. Both majority and minority reports may be filed. At the meeting of the county legislative body, the plans, surveys, certification by the department and the recommendations of the committee appointed by the presiding officer shall be considered. If a majority of the authorized membership of the county legislative body approves, a resolution allowing the issuance of bonds, in accordance with this chapter, may be adopted. The county shall have no authority to change or alter, in any way, the surveys and plans approved and certified by the department, unless approved by the department.
TN Code § 54-9-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 2 - Construction of County Highways, Roads and Bridges|§ 54-9-203. Bond Resolution, Contents

 The bond resolution shall contain:   The amount, or maximum amount, of the bonds to be issued;   The purpose of the bond issued being for the construction of county highways, roads or bridges, as certified by the department;   The rate, or maximum rate, of interest that the bonds shall yield; and   A concise statement as to the amount or percentage of state aid funds to be irrevocably pledged and whether the taxing power of the county shall be pledged for the payment of bonds, plus interest; but the amount irrevocably pledged from state aid funds, derived from the proceeds of the gasoline tax distributed to the counties, shall not exceed fifty percent (50%) of the state aid funds.
TN Code § 54-9-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 2 - Construction of County Highways, Roads and Bridges|§ 54-9-204. County Highway Bond Account — Expenditure of Funds

 In accordance with the bond resolution, the county trustee shall place in a special account, known as the county highway bond account, the amounts of state-aid road funds and state aid funds received for county highway purposes, but not exceeding fifty percent (50%) of the state aid funds, pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds. The funds shall be expended for no other purpose. When an amount has been accumulated sufficient to pay the principal amount of the bonds, plus interest, the county trustee shall not place additional funds in the account.
TN Code § 54-9-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 2 - Construction of County Highways, Roads and Bridges|§ 54-9-209. County Highway Department Authorized to Undertake Project — Project Accomplished by Contract — Advertisement for Bids

   After the sale of the bonds for the construction of the approved projects, the county legislative body may authorize the county highway department to undertake one (1) or more of the projects or may direct that the project or projects be accomplished by contract.   In the event the county highway department undertakes the project or projects, the procedures set for and the provisions of § 54-9-202 shall be applicable, and it shall be the duty of the appropriate officials in the county to explicitly follow the surveys and plans approved by the department of transportation and they shall have no authority to change, alter, or modify them in any way.      In the event the county legislative body determines the projects shall be accomplished by contract, the county, through a committee consisting of the fiscal officer of the county, the chief administrative officer of the county highway department and the county trustee, shall advertise for bids for the construction project or projects.   The advertisement shall be placed at least once weekly for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the county, and shall concisely contain:  The time and date for filing sealed bids with the county clerk;   The time on the same date when the committee shall publicly open the bids;   A general description of the project or projects upon which bids will be received;   The offices of the county officials in which copies of the plans, specifications and contracts may be reviewed; and   Other pertinent information.
TN Code § 54-9-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 2 - Construction of County Highways, Roads and Bridges|§ 54-9-210. Contract and Performance Bond — Acceptance of Lowest Bid — Rejection of Bids — Readvertisement

  The department of transportation shall prepare a model contract and performance bond, which the counties, without exception, alteration or modification, shall use, except for filling in appropriate blanks, or spaces, as may be necessary to complete the contract and bond.   The bond shall be executed by a corporate surety authorized to do business in this state.    The committee referred to in § 54-9-209 shall accept, on behalf of the county, the lowest bid, except the committee may reject all bids if the lowest bid exceeds the estimated cost of the project by ten percent (10%); provided, that in the event the committee decides to reject the bid, the presiding officer of the county legislative body shall, within ten (10) days, call the county legislative body into special session to determine whether the bid shall be accepted or rejected.   If the bid is accepted either by the committee or the county legislative body, the contract shall be executed on behalf of the county, by the chief administrative officer of the county highway department, if any, and the presiding officer of the county legislative body, and countersigned by the county clerk, who shall affix the county clerk's seal of office to the contract.   If the county legislative body concurs with the committee in rejecting the bid, the project shall be readvertised in the same way and manner as originally and the low bid shall be accepted and the appropriate county officers shall execute the contract.   The original contract shall be filed in the office of the county clerk, and copies of the contract shall be supplied to the contractor and the county highway department.
TN Code § 54-9-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 54 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 9 - County Highway Bonds|Part 2 - Construction of County Highways, Roads and Bridges|§ 54-9-211. Inspection by Department of Transportation — Payments to Contractor

  From time to time the department of transportation shall inspect the work as it progresses on the project.   On all county road and highway projects, the contractor shall be entitled to payments on account of the contractor's contract in the same way and manner as payments are made to contractors performing state highway contracts, but no payments shall be made until the state engineer certifies that the work of the contractor, for which the contractor claims payment, has been satisfactorily performed in accordance with the contract.