The governing body shall not make any appropriations in excess of estimated available funds, except to provide for an actual emergency threatening the health, property or lives of the inhabitants of the municipality and declared by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of all members of the governing body present, when there is a quorum.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 6-56-205
Excess appropriations prohibited — Emergencies
Acts 1982, ch. 626, § 1.
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