Title 6, Cities And Towns

When a municipality is required by any law to sell surplus property by public auction, “public auction” includes the sale by Internet auction.

(a) For purposes of this section, “pet dog” means a dog other than a service or guide dog assisting a handicapped person. (b) Notwithstanding any other prohibition to the contrary, certain jurisdictions, as provided in subsection (c), may, by ordinance or resolution, authorize th…

(a) Any city or town may establish and collect, through all entities creating public records, except for the office of the county register, an archives and record management fee not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) per record filed. (b) Any city or town may establish and collect th…

(a) Any municipality has the exclusive right to use:(1) The full corporate name of the municipality as stated in the municipality's charter or as otherwise officially adopted by the municipality; and(2) Any seal, insignia, flag, coat of arms, emblem, sign, logo or other visual im…

(a) Notwithstanding any private act of a municipality to the contrary, the legislative body of a municipality may by ordinance change the date of municipal elections to coincide with the August or November general election. The ordinance changing the election date shall provide f…

(a) If a municipality:(1) Contains the minimum number of persons as actual residents of the municipality required pursuant to the general law charter under which it incorporates;(2) Has continuously functioned as a municipality pursuant to its charter since its incorporation; and…

Each city and town is authorized to display, in municipal public buildings and on municipal public grounds, replicas of historical documents, including, but not limited to, the Ten Commandments, Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, United States Constituti…

(a) As provided in § 38-6-103, the following fees shall be adjudged as a part of the costs in each case upon conviction of the following offenses:(1) Controlled substances, narcotics, drugs $ 20.00(2) Driving a motor vehicle, or operating a boat while under the influence of intox…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any contract or agreement, together with all supporting records and documentation, that obligates public funds as part of a municipality's economic and community development program to assist new and existing businesses and indust…

(a) By passage of an ordinance, by a two-thirds (⅔) vote, a municipal legislative body may allow a service member who is deployed for thirteen (13) months or less while serving as a member of the municipal legislative body to attend sessions of the body through the use of two-way…

(a) As used in this section, “municipality” means any incorporated town, city, or metropolitan government. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c), a municipality shall not adopt or enforce an ordinance that prohibits or restricts, or has the effect of prohibiting or restricting…

(a) A municipality shall display in the city hall or other building that houses the municipality's seat of local government, a sign at least eleven inches (11″) in height and seventeen inches (17″) in width stating: PURSUANT TO TENNESSEE CODE ANNOTATED, § 33-2-405, IT IS UNLAWFUL…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Business” means any enterprise carried on for the purpose of gain or economic profit; and(2) “Gross receipts”:(A) Means all receipts from whatever sources derived before any deductions; and(B) Does not include tips, gratuities, or other amounts cu…

(a) As used in this section, “online marketplace” means a person or entity that:(1) Provides for consideration, regardless of whether the consideration is deducted as a fee from the transaction, an online application, software, website, system, or other medium, through which a go…

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Energy project” means energy infrastructure improvements, whether composed of real or personal property, or both, for clean or green energy or renewable energy as those terms are defined in § 7-51-2401, inclu…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding title 8, chapter 44, part 1, or any private act, home rule, or general law charter to the contrary, and upon adoption of this section by the municipal legislative body by a two-thirds (⅔) majority vote, a member of a municipal legislative body may particip…

(a) (1) A municipal government shall not use a discriminatory preference in an effort to increase diversity, equity, or inclusion or establish or maintain an office, division, or department for such purposes. All mandates, policies, programs, activities, guidance, regulations, en…

(a) The general assembly finds that local governments are at their most effective when the employees of the local government are the most highly qualified candidates for employment with the local government and that hiring decisions should be based on merit rather than any other …

(a) (a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (d), each department, agency, or official of a municipal government who assesses and collects a fee related to development in excess of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) shall maintain documentation describing the justification and cost…

The chief executive officer of a municipality may order the flags flown on municipal property to be lowered to half-staff to honor the death of a prominent citizen of that municipality.

(a) The general assembly occupies the entire field of the regulation of shopping carts, including, but not limited to, their purchase, use, taxation, manufacture, ownership, sale, storage, and transportation, to the exclusion of all municipal government laws, ordinances, resoluti…

(a) Advertising the commercial, social, agricultural, industrial, scenic, recreational, historical, educational, and other advantages, the points of interest and attractions within the various municipalities, and tourist promotion generally are declared to be a municipal purpose.…

The funds provided for in § 6-54-201(b) shall be used and expended under the direction and control of the governing body of the municipal corporation or through such agency or agencies as they shall prescribe, and under such rules and regulations as the governing body of the muni…

(a) Should the governing body of any municipal corporation fail to levy such tax at the regular tax levy then, upon a petition containing the signatures of not less than five percent (5%) of the registered voters of the municipal corporation being presented to the governing body,…

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, records held by a city whose primary industry is tourism that address a specific amount of money expended in a given market for digital or traditional media or that address the specific detail of targeted audiences identified for marketing…

The police authority of all incorporated towns and cities shall extend to a distance of one (1) mile from the lawful corporate limits thereof, for the suppression of all disorderly acts and practices forbidden by the general laws of the state; provided, that such jurisdiction of …

Any duly and regularly appointed police officer of a municipality having a duly constituted city or municipal court has the authority to serve warrants for the arrest of persons for municipal offenses committed within the municipal limits, at any point within the county wherein t…

(a) In all municipal courts where the judge has entered a judgment for fines and costs, and same remain unpaid for thirty (30) days thereafter, the court is authorized by and through its clerk to issue execution thereon from the court in the same manner and methods as prescribed …

(a) The procedure set out in § 6-54-303 shall likewise apply to judgments for fines and costs of municipal courts exercising concurrent jurisdiction with general sessions courts. (b) (1) Upon collection of state fines and costs, the clerk shall remit those portions due the county…

Any municipality or metropolitan government having a city or metropolitan court is empowered to permit by ordinance service of process through the use of registered mail or certified mail, addressee only, return receipt requested, in lieu of personal service of process in an acti…

(a) All home rule municipalities are empowered to set maximum penalties of thirty (30) days imprisonment or monetary penalties and forfeitures, or both imprisonment and monetary penalties and forfeitures, up to five hundred dollars ($500), or both, to cover administrative expense…

(a) (1) Incorporated cities and towns are authorized to enter into contracts and mutual aid agreements with other incorporated cities and towns, counties, and metropolitan airport authorities that provide law enforcement service within the state and with those of any other states…

(a) Except as provided in § 6-54-306 for home rule municipalities, the legislative body of any other municipality may establish a monetary penalty not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) for each violation of an ordinance of such municipality. (b) The authority for increased mo…

It is the duty of the mayors, commissioners, council members, aldermen, chiefs of police, recorders, municipal judges, marshals, and police officers of each municipal corporation, to faithfully maintain and enforce, within the corporate limits of their respective municipalities, …

The willful failure or neglect of any of such officials or police officers to perform the duties prescribed by § 6-54-401 is a Class C misdemeanor and the offender shall be dismissed from office.

Any municipality in a county having a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the federal census of 1960 or any subsequent federal census, may by ordinance create and establish a regulatory board for the review and classification of commercial mot…

For the purpose of §§ 6-54-403 — 6-54-406 “minor” means any person under eighteen (18) years of age.

The motion picture regulatory board may be empowered to classify commercial motion picture films prior to or after the commencement of their presentation to the public as to their suitability for viewing by minors, and to forbid the showing of commercial films to minors unless in…

(a) The municipality may enforce the lawful orders of the board by fine or other penalty within the power of the municipality to impose, and by obtaining an injunction in any circuit, chancery or criminal court of this state against the showing to minors of any motion picture fil…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Code” means and includes any published compilation of rules and regulations that have been prepared by various technical trade associations and shall include specifically, but not be limited to, building codes; …

(a) Any municipality is hereby authorized to adopt by reference any code or portions of any code as defined in § 6-54-501, without setting forth such codes in full; provided, that at least one (1) copy of the code that is incorporated or adopted by reference is filed in the offic…

(a) Any amendment that may be made to any code or public record incorporated by reference by a municipality under this part, may be likewise adopted by reference; provided, that an amended or corrected copy is filed with the clerk or recorder of such municipality for inspection, …

Nothing contained in this part shall be deemed to permit the adoption of the penalty clauses by reference that may be established in the code or public record that is being incorporated by reference, and such penalty clauses shall be set forth in full in the adopting ordinances a…

Any municipality that has before March 16, 1951, enacted a code or public record by reference thereto shall not be required to reenact such code or public record by reason of this part, and all previous incorporations by reference that would have been valid if this part had then …

All cities, towns and municipalities in this state are hereby authorized and empowered to adopt by reference the model traffic ordinance produced by the national committee on uniform traffic laws and ordinances.

(a) Commencing March 21, 1955, no municipality, whether required by charter or otherwise, shall be required to publish its code of ordinances in a newspaper. (b) A public hearing shall be held prior to adoption of a code of ordinances, and advance notice thereof shall be publishe…