Tennessee § 5-3-102 - County consolidation committee.
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§ 5-3-102. County consolidation committee.
Upon receipt of a petition, signed by qualified voters of any one (1) county, equal in number to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the number of votes cast in the county for governor in the last general election, requesting the consolidation of the county or parts of the county with one (1) or more adjoining counties, the state consolidation committee shall appoint a county consolidation committee for the county. The county consolidation committee shall be composed of the county mayor and the county trustee of the petitioning county, the county mayors of the adjoining counties, and five (5) signers of the petition designated by the governor. Acts 1939, ch. 224, § 3; C. Supp. 1950, § 136.2 (Williams, § 136.3); impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 16, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-302; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2. 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. Cross-References. Option to redesignate county mayor as county executive by private act, § 5-6-101 . Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 8 Tenn. Juris., Counties, § 6.
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