All laws and ordinances now in force and use in this state, not in consistent with this Constitution, shall continue in force and use until they shall expire, be altered or repealed by the Legislature; but ordinances contained in any former Constitution or schedule thereto are hereby abrogated.
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Tenn. Const. art. XI, § 1, under Miscellaneous Provisions.
Tenn. Const. art. XI, § 1
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