Tennessee § 8-3-204 - Local action on private or local act to be indicated in published acts.
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§ 8-3-204. Local action on private or local act to be indicated in published acts.
The secretary of state shall indicate, in the published volumes of private acts, what action has been taken on every act which is private or local in form or effect which requires a notification of the secretary of state pursuant to § 8-3-205 . If the deadline for local action, either as fixed in the act or by § 8-3-202 , has passed with no action having been taken, the secretary of state shall so indicate in the published volumes. In no case shall such an act in the published volumes have appended thereto a statement that local action is unknown. Acts 1957, ch. 379, § 4; T.C.A., § 8-311; Acts 2010, ch. 758, § 5.
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