Title 5, Counties

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the county commission shall cause to be published the proposed annual operating budget, no later than five (5) days after the budget is presented to the governing body, in a newspaper of general circulation, if the newspaper is p…

(1) The county legislative body may appropriate moneys as follows:(1) For the payment of jurors;(2) For the payment of costs of criminal prosecutions chargeable by law to the county;(3) For the support of people who are indigent or have mental illness or intellectual or developme…

The county legislative bodies may make appropriations of money to provide for exhibits of their agriculture, horticulture, and mineral products and resources and manufactured products and the erection of buildings and other permanent improvements at the fairs to be held within th…

The county legislative body is authorized to appropriate money towards the construction or maintenance of a public market house, to be erected within the confines of the county, and to be used for general public market purposes.

The county legislative bodies are empowered to appropriate annually such an amount of money as may be deemed necessary or expedient in order to cooperate with the division of extension of the college of agricultural sciences and natural resources of the University of Tennessee, i…

(a) The county legislative body, composed of the members thereof, is authorized to purchase, from time to time, compilations of the public and permanent statutes of this state, for the use of judges of the court of general sessions and county officers, and to make appropriations …

(a) The county legislative bodies in all counties having soil and water conservation districts are hereby authorized and empowered to:(1) Appropriate county funds for the purchase of equipment that is not available locally on a fair rental basis as may be needed in conservation w…

(a) Any county may make financial contributions to any watershed development authority created by special act of the general assembly, where a portion or all of the watershed development administered by such authority lies within the territory of such county. (b) Such contributio…

(a) The county legislative body or governing body of each county is authorized and empowered in its discretion to appropriate from the general funds of such county a sum of money for the purpose of defraying the cost of acquiring real estate and partially funding the operation of…

(a) (1) The county legislative body or governing body of each county may appropriate funds for the financial aid of any nonprofit charitable organization, any chamber of commerce, exempt from taxation pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, § 501(c)(6) (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(…

The several counties of the state, after the affirmative vote on reference of the question to the people, shall be empowered to levy a tax and provide for the administration of its proceeds for the purpose of securing humane treatment of animals therein that are not subject to th…

(a) The legislative body of each county is authorized to appropriate funds for the purpose of defraying the cost of dues to associations of particular county officeholders or associations made up of groups of county officeholders. (b) If the county legislative body of a county ap…

(a) The legislative body of each county is authorized to appropriate funds for the purpose of providing assistance to low-income elderly residents of the county. (b) If a county chooses to provide assistance, such funds shall be appropriated on an annual basis based on the partic…

(a) The county legislative body of any county with a metropolitan government and a population not less than five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2010 federal census or any subsequent federal census, is authorized to appropriate funds for affordable housing or workfor…

(a) A county may agree, for a determinate period of time, pursuant to an interlocal agreement entered into under § 12-9-104, that relates to the joint development or operation of a transition center. (b) Any amounts contributed to the transition center pursuant to subsection (a) …

A county shall not expend funds for the purposes of assisting a person in obtaining a criminal abortion. This prohibition includes expending funds as part of a health benefit plan or for travel to another state for the purpose of obtaining an abortion that would be a criminal abo…

(a) Advertising the commercial, social, agricultural, industrial, scenic, recreational, historical, educational and other advantages, the points of interest and attractions within the various counties of Tennessee, and tourist promotion generally are declared to be a county purpo…

The funds appropriated pursuant to authority vested in the various county legislative bodies or governing bodies of counties in § 5-9-201 shall be used and expended under the direction and control of the county legislative bodies so appropriating the funds, or through such agency…

(1) To carry out the purpose and intent of this part, the counties are authorized and empowered to:(1) Form contracts with agencies of any type or wherever situated that will tend to promote the objectives of advertising the advantages of the various counties of this state;(2) Ga…

(a) It is the duty of the county clerk to keep a book in which applications for appropriation shall be entered when made to the county legislative body, and the same shall be open for the inspection of the citizens of the county. (b) The county legislative body shall not consider…

In making appropriations of money, the vote of the members of the county legislative body present shall be taken by ayes and nayes, the clerk calling and recording the name of each member, together with each member's vote, aye or no, as it is given, which shall be entered on the …

(a) In the revenue docket shall be entered all appropriations or allowances made by the county legislative body, all claims of jurors and officers for attendance, and all other claims chargeable against the county. (b) The entry shall set forth the character, description, purpose…

The evidence upon which claims of jurors shall be entered shall be a list of the same, with the number of days each has served, and the amount due to such juror, made out by the clerk of the court in which the service was rendered, under the seal of the court, delivered to the co…

No warrant shall be drawn for any claim against the county treasury until the claim has been registered, by order of the county mayor, in the revenue docket.

(a) No money shall be drawn out of the treasury of the county except upon the warrant of the county mayor. (b) (1) Upon the absence, death or incapacity of the county mayor, the chair of the county legislative body appointed pursuant to § 5-5-103(g), shall serve in the office of …

(a) No warrant shall be drawn for costs against a county, unless the same has been regularly taxed by the clerk, examined by the presiding judge of the court in which the costs accrued, and by them certified, under the seal of the court, to be correctly taxed and lawfully chargea…

If the county mayor, when a bill of costs authenticated as provided for in § 5-9-308 is presented to the county mayor, and the county mayor's warrant for the payment of the same demanded, conceives that the bill of costs, or any part of it, is not lawfully chargeable to the count…

(a) The county mayor, after the bills referred to in § 5-9-308 have been examined and approved by the judge and district attorney general, is granted full power, and it is made the county mayor's duty, to examine into, inspect and audit all bills of cost accruing against the coun…

No warrant shall be drawn to pay for the funeral or cremation expenses of a pauper, unless the claim is accompanied by an affidavit showing the cost of the same, that the expenses were incurred for the interment of a pauper in the county, and that the claimant has no other means …

Where judgment is obtained against a county, the county legislative body shall impose a tax to pay it, at the next regular imposition of taxes after the judgment; and the taxes, when levied and collected, shall be immediately applied to the payment of such judgment.

(a) If, upon application of the person owning the judgment, the county legislative body refuses to impose the tax, a mandamus may be issued from either of the courts of law or equity in the county, ordering and compelling the imposition of a tax sufficient to discharge the amount…

All funds from whatever source derived, including, but not limited to, taxes, county aid funds, federal funds, and fines, that are to be used in the operation and respective programs of the various departments, commissions, institutions, boards, offices and agencies of county gov…

(a) The county board of education, county highway commissioners or superintendents, and each of the other operating departments, commissions, institutions, boards, offices, and agencies of county government that expend county funds shall file with the county mayor for study and s…

In all cases in which the form of the budget is not otherwise provided for by law, the comptroller of the treasury is authorized to prescribe the form, including certain standard accounts and classifications for the various operating departments of the several counties, and when …

(a) It is the duty of the county legislative bodies in regard to all departments, commissions, institutions, boards, offices, or agencies to adopt a budget and appropriate funds for the ensuing fiscal year. (b) (1) In the event that the local fiscal body has not adopted a budget …

The requirements set forth in §§ 5-9-401 — 5-9-404 shall constitute the minimum requirements of any department, commission, institution, board, office or agency of county government.

This part shall not apply with respect to offices that operate on fees collected by such offices.

(a) Under any procedure for amending the budget provided in this section, the budget may not be amended to reduce any expenditure required by law, and all requests for amendments to the school budgets shall be approved by the school board. (b) Once a budget has been adopted, the …

The county legislative body shall not adopt a budget that reduces the budget for the county mayor's office below the budgeted amount for the previous fiscal year for office personnel salaries and benefits, office supplies, communication expenses, postal charges, duplicating servi…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “County Budgeting Law of 1957.”

(a) This part shall be local in effect and shall become effective in a particular county upon the contingency of a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the county legislative body or other governing body of the county approving this law, or upon the contingency of the majority of the voters ca…

Any county that adopts this law, or the budgeting system provided for in this part, in accordance with § 5-12-102, shall follow the general procedures set forth in this part in the preparation, adoption and execution of all budgets respecting all funds, activities and agencies of…

(a) A county budget committee is hereby created. (b) (1) Except as provided in subsection (e), the committee shall consist of five (5) members, one (1) of whom shall be the county mayor, and the other four (4) shall be appointed by the county mayor with the approval of the county…

(a) There is hereby created a fiscal year for the counties and for each office, department, institution, activity and agency thereof, which fiscal year shall begin on July 1 of each year and shall end on June 30 next following. (b) The fiscal year shall constitute the budget year…

(a) The county highway commissioners or superintendent shall, in accordance with a timeline provided for in § 5-12-105, file with the director of accounts and budgets an itemized statement of the funds estimated to be required for the county road program for the ensuing fiscal ye…