Limitation on tax levies and appropriations

Tenn. Code Ann. § 6-56-207, under Municipal Budget Law of 1982.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 6-56-207

Except in cases of emergency as set out in § 6-56-205, no levy of property taxes shall be made by any municipality unless and until a budget ordinance has been adopted and no appropriation of moneys or revenues shall be made for any purpose contrary to the estimates in the budget ordinance.