Tennessee § 65-6-116 - Change of terminus before final location.
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§ 65-6-116. Change of terminus before final location.
Any railroad company may, by resolution of its board of directors, change either terminus of its line of railroad at any time before the final location of the same. This resolution shall be certified by the president and secretary of the company, under its corporate seal, and filed and registered as an amendment of its charter. Acts 1887, ch. 39, §§ 1, 2; Shan., § 2415; mod. Code 1932, § 4005; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 65-619. Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 21 Tenn. Juris., Railroads, § 9.
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