Title 6, Cities And Towns

(a) Municipalities are authorized to create, by ordinance, the office of administrative hearing officer to hear building and property maintenance code violations. (b) Such authorizing ordinance must, at minimum, contain:(1) Reference to the municipal code sections subject to admi…

(a) The administrative body has jurisdiction to hear cases involving violations of municipal ordinances regulating building and property maintenance, including:(1) Locally adopted building codes;(2) Locally adopted residential codes;(3) Locally adopted plumbing codes;(4) Locally …

(a) Unless required for the disposition of ex parte matters specifically authorized by statute, an administrative hearing officer presiding over a contested case proceeding may not communicate, directly or indirectly, regarding any issue in the proceeding, while the proceeding is…

(a) Any party may participate in the hearing in person or, if the party is a corporation or other artificial person, by a duly authorized representative. (b) Whether or not participating in person, any party may be advised and represented at the party's own expense by counsel or,…

(a) (1) In any action set for hearing, the administrative hearing officer, upon the administrative hearing officer's own motion, or upon motion of one (1) of the parties or such party's qualified representatives, may direct the parties or the attorneys for the parties, or both, t…

(a) Each administrative hearing officer shall be appointed by the local governing body for a four-year term and serve at the pleasure of the appointing governing body. Such administrative hearing officer may be reappointed. (b) An administrative hearing officer shall be one (1) o…

(a) Each person appointed to serve as an administrative hearing officer shall, within the six-month period immediately following the date of such appointment, participate in a program of training conducted by the University of Tennessee's municipal technical advisory service, ref…

(a) Upon the issuance of a citation for violation of a municipal ordinance referenced in the municipality's administrative hearing ordinance, the issuing officer shall provide written notice of:(1) A short and plain statement of the matters asserted. If the issuing officer is una…

(a) Upon receipt of a citation issued pursuant to § 6-54-1008, an administrative hearing officer shall, within seven (7) business days of receipt, review the appropriateness of an alleged violation. Upon determining that a violation does exist, the hearing officer has the authori…

The governing board may divide any municipal corporation into as many wards as it may deem necessary.

(a) If a party fails to attend or participate in a prehearing conference, hearing or other stage of a contested case, the administrative hearing officer may hold the party in default and either adjourn the proceedings or conduct them without the participation of that party, havin…

(a) The administrative hearing officer shall grant one (1) or more petitions for intervention if:(1) The petition is submitted in writing to the administrative hearing officer, with copies mailed to all parties named in the notice of the hearing, at least seven (7) business days …

(a) The administrative hearing officer shall regulate the course of the proceedings, in conformity with the prehearing order, if any. (b) To the extent necessary for full disclosure of all relevant facts and issues, the administrative hearing officer shall afford to all parties t…

(a) In administrative hearings:(1) The administrative hearing officer shall admit and give probative effect to evidence admissible in a court, and when necessary to ascertain facts not reasonably susceptible to proof under the rules of court, evidence not admissible thereunder ma…

(a) An administrative hearing officer shall render a final order in all cases brought before the officer's body. (b) A final order shall include conclusions of law, the policy reasons therefor, and findings of fact for all aspects of the order, including the remedy prescribed. Fi…

(a) All final orders shall state when the order is entered and effective. (b) A party may not be required to comply with a final order unless the final order has been mailed to the last known address of the party or unless the party has actual knowledge of the final order.

A municipality may collect a fine levied pursuant to this section by any legal means available to a municipality to collect any other fine, judgment or debt.

(a) A person who is aggrieved by a final decision in a contested case is entitled to judicial review under this chapter, which shall be the only available method of judicial review. (b) Proceedings for judicial review of a final order are instituted by filing a petition for revie…

(a) An aggrieved party may obtain a review of any final judgment of the chancery court under this chapter by appeal to the court of appeals of Tennessee. (b) The record certified to the chancery court and the record in the chancery court shall constitute the record in an appeal. …

Municipalities may redistrict into new wards whenever, for proper reasons, they deem it expedient so to do.

All municipal corporations may, for corporate purposes, hold real estate beyond their limits.

All incorporated cities, towns, and villages, however formed, are empowered to regulate the business of electricians and electrical work in such cities, towns, or villages, and to enforce efficiency of same, and to that end to pass all ordinances necessary to carry out and enforc…

All corporate towns may pass laws to require articles usually sold by dry or heaped measure, to be sold by weight, within their corporate limits.

The governing body of any incorporated municipality may authorize the building of powder magazines at any safe and prudent distance from the limits of the corporation. When it gives such authority, it shall be by order upon its records, designating and appointing the places withi…

(a) No person holding office under any municipal corporation shall, during the time for which such person was elected or appointed, be capable of contracting with such corporation for the performance of any work that is to be paid for out of the treasury. Nor shall such person be…

Every officer of such corporation who shall unlawfully be concerned in making such contract, or who shall unlawfully pay money upon the same to or for any person declared incapable in § 6-54-107, shall forfeit the amount so paid; and such officer shall be jointly and severally li…

(1) It is not lawful for:(1) Any corporation chartered or authorized to build or operate, or operating, a street railway, whether by steam, electricity, or otherwise;(2) Any corporation chartered or authorized to manufacture or furnish, or furnishing gas, electricity, or other su…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a municipality, its agencies or divisions thereof, may within or without the state engage in investigating, exploring, prospecting, drilling, and mining for and producing natural gas and oil and mineral by-products thereof, and construct the app…

(a) (1) The legislative body of each municipality may appropriate funds for the financial aid of any nonprofit charitable organization or any nonprofit civic organization in accordance with the guidelines required by subsection (b).(2) (A) For the purposes of this section, “nonpr…

(a) (1) Any mayor or full-time commissioner of a municipality who serves on a municipal, county, regional board, commission, or authority or development district board, in an appointed, elected, or ex officio capacity, may from time to time designate a person qualified to hold th…

(a) (1) “Municipality,” as used in this section, includes incorporated cities and towns and metropolitan governments.(2) The authority provided in this section is permissive and not mandatory and may or may not be exercised by a municipality, as each municipality deems appropriat…

(a) Notwithstanding any municipal charter to the contrary, each member of a municipal civil service board shall be a domiciled resident of the municipality that the board serves for at least one (1) year prior to appointment. During a member's term of office, no such member shall…

The public property of every municipality, of every character and description, used for strictly municipal purposes, is exempt from seizure by attachment, execution or other legal process; nor shall municipal funds in the hands of its treasurer or depository be subject to garnish…

(a) Two (2) or more municipalities, neither of which exceeds twenty-five thousand (25,000) in population, may engage jointly one (1) building inspector, and make an agreement specifying how this inspector shall be paid for the services and how the inspector's time or services sha…

All municipal corporations have the power and are authorized to purchase land and install therein roads and streets and water, sewer, electric and other utilities for the purpose of aiding in the construction and development therein of performance halls, auditoriums, theaters, or…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality may appropriate funds, which may be funds borrowed by the municipality under applicable law, for the purpose of making a loan, with reasonable interest assessed, or a contribution to an eligible industrial deve…

(a) If the legislative body of any municipality or any agency or instrumentality thereof incorporates by reference a building code, safety and health code, or any other standardized code or document, a copy of such code or document shall be obtained and retained as a public recor…

(a) After July 1, 1998, a municipality that employs an officer or employee responsible for exercising any of the duties of municipal clerk or municipal recorder, as specified in the municipal charter, or any of the duties listed in subdivision (a)(1), shall have one (1) such pers…

(a) No municipality shall have, or acquire by private act or amendment to a charter, the power to acquire undeveloped real property for the purpose of development or subdivision into residential lots for resale. (b) Subsection (a) shall not affect any power that a municipality ma…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality, in exercising its powers of eminent domain pursuant to title 29, chapters 16 and 17, or in any other manner provided by law, to condemn unincorporated territory that is located in any county where any part of the …

On or before July 1, 1998, any municipality, incorporated before June 13, 1997, that has not adopted a personnel policy by ordinance, resolution, or otherwise, shall adopt such a policy that applies fairly, impartially, and uniformly, to the extent practicable, to each department…

(a) A municipality that is the recipient of community development block grant funds shall make a report concerning the expenditure of such funds. The municipality shall place a copy of such report in the main branch of the public library located within the boundaries of the munic…

(a) It is unlawful for any municipal official or employee to purchase from the municipality any property declared to be surplus by the municipality, except by bid at public auction during the tenure of such person's office or employment, or for six (6) months thereafter. (b) A pu…

For any land that is used for agricultural purposes as of May 10, 1998, a municipality may not use its zoning power to interfere in any way with the use of such land for agricultural purposes as long as the land is used for agricultural purposes.

(a) For the purpose of promoting the public safety, health, welfare, convenience and enjoyment, to protect the public investment in public property, and to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of property visible from publicly owned property, the general assembly hereby finds a…

(a) In counties having a population in excess of one hundred thousand (100,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, it is hereby declared that access to criminal conviction histories by municipalities that choose to license and regulate persons…