Tennessee § 6-1-208 - Succession to old corporation.

§ 6-1-208. Succession to old corporation.

This charter shall take effect in any municipality immediately after the election and qualification of the first board of mayor and aldermen, and any then-existing charter of the municipality shall immediately become null and void. The right, title and ownership of all property of the municipality and all of its uncollected taxes, dues, claims, judgments, and choses in action, and all of its rights of every kind whatsoever, shall immediately become vested in the new corporation chartered under chapters 1-4 of this title. The new corporation shall answer and be liable for all debts, contracts and obligations of the corporation it succeeds in the same manner and proportion and to the same extent as the former corporation was liable under existing laws. All ordinances, resolutions and bylaws duly enacted and in force under the preexisting charter and not inconsistent with this charter shall remain in full force until repealed, modified or amended. Any zoning ordinance applicable to any territory incorporated under this charter shall continue to apply to that territory until the municipality enacts a zoning ordinance, or enacts an ordinance rescinding the zoning that applied to such territory. Acts 1991, ch. 154, § 1. Compiler's Notes. Former part 2, §§ 6-1-201 — 6-1-218 (Code 1858, §§ 1349, 1353, 4562; Acts 1875, ch. 92, §§ 1-7, 17; 1877, ch. 121, §§ 1, 3-9; 1899, ch. 307, § 2; Shan., §§ 1855, 1881-1896, 1900-1902, 6400; mod. Code 1932, §§ 3292-3307, 3311-3313, 10704; Acts 1951, ch. 166, § 1; modified; 1955, ch. 295, §§ 1, 2; 1957, ch. 346, § 1; 1959, ch. 295, §§ 1-6; 1970, ch. 426, §§ 1-6; 1971, ch. 260, § 1; 1974, ch. 776, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 6-101 — 6-116, 6-120, 6-121; Acts 1980, ch. 500, § 1; 1980, ch. 515, §§ 1-3; 1983, ch. 33, §§ 1, 2; 1984, ch. 743, § 1), concerning areas not already within municipalities, was repealed and replaced by Acts 1991, ch. 154, § 1, effective July 1, 1991.