Municipal Handbook


Information Product

Title:Municipal Handbook
Summary:A comprehensive manual on municipal government in Tennessee. Updated through July 2008.
Original Author:Huffer, Dennis
Co-Author:
Product Create Date:08/25/2009
Subject:Municipal government--Manuals; Municipal government--Administration
Type:Full Pub
Original Document: Municipal Handbook 2008 Final.pdf

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Text of Document: Please contact MTAS if you'd like to be sent smaller PDF files of grouped chapters.

Table of Contents

Chapter One
State Constitutional Provisions 1

Chapter Two
Elections 3

Chapter Three
Forms of Government and
Governing Bodies 8

Chapter Four
Ordinances and Codes 11

Chapter Five
Sunshine Law and Public Documents 14

Chapter Six
City Courts 19

Chapter Seven
Municipal Revenues 23

Chapter Eight
Capital Funds 37

Chapter Nine
Fiscal Administration 45

Chapter Ten
Purchasing 50

Chapter Eleven
Personnel 56

Chapter Twelve
Economic Development 69

Chapter Thirteen
Business Regulation 74

Chapter Fourteen
Environmental Quality 81
Chapter Fifteen
Health and Sanitation 84

Chapter Sixteen
Utilities 86

Chapter Seventeen
Public Safety 95

Chapter Eighteen
Streets and Other Public Ways 107

Chapter Nineteen
Transportation and Motor Vehicles 110

Chapter Twenty
Parks and Recreation 119

Chapter Twenty-One
Code Enforcement and
Building Inspection 121

Chapter Twenty-Two
Planning and Zoning 126

Chapter Twenty-Three
Countywide Growth Plan, Annexation
and Boundary Adjustments, and
Dissolution 131

Chapter Twenty-Four
Airports 132

Chapter Twenty-Five
Education 136

Chapter Twenty-Six
County Functions Related to Cities 138

Chapter Twenty-Seven
Tort Liability 140

Chapter Twenty-Eight
Miscellaneous 144