Tennessee § 5-12-208 - Each department head to provide proposed budget document.

§ 5-12-208. Each department head to provide proposed budget document.

The head of each department, office or agency covered by this part shall provide the county mayor or, if a director of accounts and budgets, director of finance, or similar person is provided by law, then to such official, with a proposed budget document on the budget forms on or before March 1 of each year. The director of schools and the chief administrative officer of the county highway department shall file, with the proposed budget, a proposed tax rate on the tax rate resolution form necessary to fund the requested budget of the department. The proposed budget submitted by these officials shall include estimated total revenues and other resources sufficient to fund the total proposed appropriations. Appropriations shall be included in an amount sufficient to fund the annual county debt service requirements. The county mayor or budget committee shall allow any department, office, or agency to alter or amend the submitted budget at any time prior to when the proposed budget is submitted to the county legislative body. The county mayor or budget committee may allow submission of amendments after the budget is submitted to the county legislative body, but not later than the adoption of the budget. Acts 1993, ch. 431, § 8; 2003, ch. 90, § 2; 2016, ch. 1080, §§ 10, 11. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2, directed the code commission to change all references from “county executive” to “county mayor” and to include all such changes in supplements and replacement volumes for the Tennessee Code Annotated. Amendments. The 2016 amendment, effective January 1, 2017, substituted “March 1 of each year” for “April 1 of each year” at the end of (a); and, in (c), substituted “prior to when the proposed budget is submitted to the county legislative body” for “prior to May 15, or such other time as the proposed budget is submitted to the county legislative body, whichever occurs first” at the end of the first sentence, substituted “but not later than the adoption of the budget” for “but not later than June 15 or the adoption of the budget, whichever occurs first” at the of the second sentence, and deleted the former last sentence which read: “Each alteration or amendment must be submitted in writing.” Effective Dates. Acts 2016, ch. 1080, § 18. January 1, 2017. Cross-References. Option to redesignate county mayor as county executive by private act, § 5-6-101 .