Authority to adopt charter form
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Jordan v. Knox County (2007)
Most recently applied in Jordan v. Knox County (January 2007)
Acts 1979, ch. 402, § 3; T.C.A., § 5-123.
(1) Each county in this state may adopt a charter form of government as provided in this part.
(2) Such charter when complete shall result in the creation and establishment of an alternate form of county government to perform all the governmental and corporate functions previously performed by the county.
(3) Such charter form of government shall replace the existing form if approved by a majority of the voters in a referendum.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.