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911 Dispatch Service Agreements: A Survey Conducted for the City of Crossville
Abandonment by the City of Certain Service Drives
Ability of City Recorder to Serve as City Manager
Abolishing City Juvenile Court
Abolishing the City School System
Abolishing the Insolvency Board
Abolishing the Water Board and Transferring the Operation of the Water System to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Absent Alderman
Acceptable Use Policies
Acceptance of Gifts
Accepting a Bid from the Low Bidder If the Specifications Contained in the Bid Proposal Are Not Met
Accepting Payment of Utility Bills in Pennies
Accepting Property to be Used as a Park Exclusively for Senior Citizens
Accepting the High Bid
Accepting the Resignation of a Council Member
Accepting the Second Lowest Bid on a Construction Project
Access to and Copying of Records of the Utilities Board
Accident Reports: Public Documents or Not?
Accountant
Accounting Clerk
Accounting Supervisor
Accreditation Manager
Accumulation of Comp Time Hours
Achieving a Quorum at a City Council Meeting at Which the Resignations of Aldermen are Accepted
Acquiring a Fee Simple Title to Property
Acquiring a Utility District
Actuarial Services Resource List
ADA Amendments Act of 2008: Back to Basics
Addition of Documents to the Minutes of the Commission
Adequate Facilities Tax
Administrative Assistant to the City Manager
Administrative Assistant (1)
Administrative Assistant (2)
Administrative Assistant (3)
Administrative Assistant (Purchasing/Personnel/Communications)
Administrative Assistant/Accountant
Administrative Inspection Warrant
Administrative Judge in Contested Cases Before Municipal Boards
Administrative Secretary
Administrative Secretary for Public Safety
Administrative Secretary I for the Department of Development Services
Adopting an Annexation Ordinance to Repeal a Previous One
Adopting Building Codes and Building Code Amendments by Reference
Adoption of Policies and Procedures to Remove a Member from the Board of Zoning Appeals
Adult Business Ordinance
Adult Oriented Establishment License and Permit
Adult Use Ordinance
Advanced Court Clerks Training Material
Advertising at City Ball Parks: a Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library
Advertising on Police Cars
Advisability of Installing "Speed Bumps" on Some City Streets
Advisory Charter Commission
Advisory Committees and the Open Meetings Law
Affidavit of Code Official
After-Hours Reconnect Service for Water and Electric Service: MTAS Library Survey
Age Limit on Mobile Homes
Agreement for Reimbursement for Cost of Training, Salary and Transportation in Event of Resignation
Agreement for Sewer Service Outside Corporate Limits
AIDS in the Workplace
Airport Authority and Airport Board
Airport Manager Position Survey for the City of Lebanon: A Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library
Alcoholic Beverage Distance Requirements
Alcoholic Beverages On Premises Consumption
Alcoholic Beverages Ordinances
Alcoholic Beverages Sold Near Residential Property
Alderman's Use of Appointing Power
Alderman Operating a Municipal Vehicle as a Police Car and Stopping Citizens
Alderman Salaries : Mandatory vs. Optional
Alderman Vacancy
Alderman Voting for Himself as Mayor
Aldermen as Officers under Charter and Personnel Ordinance
Aldermen as Officers under Charter and Personnel Ordinance
Algood Public Facility Recreation Assessment
All Consumers of Publicly-Provided Utilities Must Pay for What They Receive at the Same Rate Charged to Others for a Like Service
Allocation and Distribution of Beer Tax Revenues
Allocation of the First One-Half of the Local Option Sales Tax by the County to the City
Allowing the Discharging of a Firearm at Legitimate Firearm Training Schools and Firing Ranges
Alteration of Election Dates
Alteration of Mayor's Duties
Altering the Salary of the City Clerk/Coordinator
Although Cities May Terminate Utility Service for Nonpayment, Such Authority Does Not Amount to a Lien Against the Property
Ambulance Bill for Injured Prisoner
Amending a Private Act Charter
Amending an Annexation Ordinance Between Second and Third Readings to Add Territory to the Ordinance
Amending Comprehensive Growth Plans
Amending Ordinance before Final Reading in Deannexing
Amending Ordinances Between Readings
Amending the Minutes of Municipal Meetings
Amendments to the General Law Mayor-Aldermanic Charter
Amendments to the Original Appropriations Ordinance
Amortization of Signs
Analysis of Floodplain Zoning Ordinance
Analysis of Greene County and Greeneville Solid Waste RFP Results
Analysis of the Lien Provisions of TCA
Analysis of the Need For a City Administrator: City of Centerville, Tennessee
Analysis of the Need for a City Manager
Analysis of the Term "Citizen"
Animal Control and Animal Shelter Regulatory Information
Animal Control Attendant
Animal Control in Wartrace, Tennessee: A Review
Animal Control Law Revised by Legislature
Animal Control Officer
Animal Control Officers' Salaries: A Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library
Animal Control Operations: a Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library
Animal Control Service and Shelters
Animal Control Services Contracting: an MTAS Library Survey
Animal Service Proposal for Jefferson County
Animal Shelter Fees: A Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library
Annexation Handbook for Cities and Towns in Tennessee II
Annexation Process and Resolution
Annexation Questions Pertaining to Notice Provisions Related to School Systems and Recording Minutes
Annexation Study for the Town of Bell Buckle
Annexation Study Two for the Town of Bell Buckle
Annexing and Zoning Property in the Same Ordinance
Annexing Territory Without Providing Sewer Service
Annual Publication of Notice under the Open Meetings Law
Annual Reporting Requirements of the State Division of Local Finance
Anonymous Complaints of Code Violations
Appeals by City Employees Regarding Disciplinary Action or Termination A Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library
Appeals from Decisions of the City's Board of Zoning Appeals
Appeals of Building Code Violations
Application for a Use on Review for the Siting of a Cellular Tower
Application for Certificate of Public Purpose and Necessity for Industrial Parks
Application for Wastewater Service
Application of Jackson Law to Private Landfill
Application of Municipal Budget Law of 1982
Application of Nepotism Policy to Employee Whose Brother is Elected to Council
Application of Sunshine Law to Certain Personnel Processes
The Application of the Municipal Purchasing Law to "Confidential" Purchases with Drug Fund Money
Application of the Preexisting Nonconforming Use Law on Certain Property
Applying City Zoning and Building Code Regulations to County Buildings
Applying Tennessee's Preexisting Nonconforming Use Law to Fireworks Establishments
Applying the Open Space Requirements in the City's Zoning Ordinance to Abutting Land in the County Zoned Residential
Appointed Positions Within City Government A Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library
Appointing a City Administrator
Appointing a Member of a Three-Way Tie to the Vacant Office of Alderman
Appointing a Member of City Council to Run the Police Department
Appointing an Alderman to Fill the Vacancy Left by an Appointed Alderman Who Did Not Run for Reelection
Appointive City Offices
Appointment of City Judge
Appointment of Temporary Judge
Appointment of the Mayor by Board of Commissioners by Secret Ballot
Appointment of the Mayor to the Office of City Administrator
Appointments to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen
Appointments to the Water and Sewer Board
Apprentice Lineworker
Aquatic Centers
Arborist
Architectural Zoning Regulations
Assessment Center Job Analyis Form
The Assessment Center Process
Assessment of Impact Fees by Home Rule Municipality
Assignment and Use of Cellular Telephones
Assistant Chief of Police (1)
Assistant Chief of Police (2)
Assistant Chief of Police (3)
Assistant City Administrator
Assistant City Manager
Assistant City Manager for Development Services
Assistant City Manager: Development Services
Assistant Civil Engineer
Assistant Golf Pro
Assistant Manager: Information Services
Assistant Purchasing Manager
Assistant Superintendent of Building Construction and Maintenance
Assistant Superintendent of Water and Sewer
At-Large Electoral Systems and Voting Rights
At Large Elections of School Boards
At Will Employees
Audio Tapes of Board Meetings
The Authority of an E-911 Board Regarding Towing
Authority of City Official or Commission to Appoint Volunteer Fire Chief
Authority of City to Hold Binding or Nonbinding Referendum on Raising Property Tax for Library Purposes
Authority of City to Levy Whatever Tax Rate It Considers Necessary to Fund Municipal Purposes
Authority of City to Prohibit Volunteer Firement From Running Red Lights and Using Sirens
Authority of County Relative to Rural Self-Contained Wastewater Systems
Authority of Court Clerk
Authority of Interim City Manager
Authority of Municipalities to Enact Age-Restricted Elderly or Retirement Housing
Authority of the City to Impose Sewer Hook Up Charges
Authority of the City to Require a Commercial Property Owner, Whose Property Lies Partly Within and Partly Without the Corporate Limits, To Comply With the City Sign Ordinance
Authority of the Mayor to Hire Municipal Employees, Specifically His Grandchildren and His Wife
Authority to Accept and Quit Utility Easements
Authority to Call Special Meetings
Authority to Issue Arrest and Search Warrants
Authority to Levy Fine for Ordinance Violation of Fifty Dollars per Day
The Authority to Set Forfeitures in Municipal Ordinance Violation Cases
Authority to Suspend Driver License
Authorization to Round Property Taxes and Penalties
Auto Dealers Failure to Collect City Sales Tax
Awarding of Construction Contract and Competitive Bidding
Back Pay for Former City Police Officer
Band Uniforms
Baneberry, Tennessee, Fire Protection Organizational Report
Bargaining with Unions by Tennessee municipalities
Basic Benefit Survey: MTAS Survey
Basics of Marriage in Tennessee
Bean Station Sewer System
Beer Board Authority to Suspend or Revoke Beer Permit
Beer Board Questions
Beer Establishments in Annexed Areas
Beer License and Proximity to Day Care Center
Beer Permit for a Grocery Store in a Shopping Center
Beer Permits for Golf Courses
Beer Permits, Workers Compensation, and Street Damage Caused by Trucks
Beer Permits: Restrictions on Fees, Taxes, Charges
Beer Regulations
Beer Sales and Alcohol Awareness Training: A Telephone Survey Conducted by the MTAS Library for the City of Morristown
Benefits Coordinator
Bid Specifications for Residential Garbage Collection
Bidding Professional Services
Bidding Requirements
Bids for Fire Truck
Bill of Rights for Water Quality Control Act Permit Applicants
Billboards and Nonconforming Use: A Telephone Survey Conducted for the City of Cookeville
Billboards: A Survey Conducted for the City of Athens
Billing for Emergency Services When There Is No Contract
Biomonitoring for the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permit (NPDES) (2008)
Blue Lights on Personal Cars
Board Member Responsibilities and Job Description
Board of Mayor and Aldermen Has the Power to Correct the Minutes
Board of Mayor and Aldermen Serving as the Beer Board
Board of Zoning Appeals Grants Variances for Mobile Homes That It Does Not Have Authority to Grant
Board Restricted to the Discussion of Business Stated in the Call of a Special Called Meeting
Body-Piercing
Body Armor Policy
Bond Resolution Repeal
Bonuses for Board Members
Booking Persons Charged with Crimes Before They Are Released
Borrowing Funds for School Construction
Breaking a Tie in the Election of an Alderman
Bringing Swimming Pool and Swimming Pool Restrooms into Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
Bristol, Tennessee Subdivision Incentives Review
Brown-Bagging Regulations
Brush and Debris Pickup: MTAS Library Survey
Brush Collection Policies
Budget Information: A Survey Conducted for Oliver Springs
Budget Manual: An MTAS Guide for Municipal Budget Development and Execution
Budget Officer
Building a Fire Hall in an R-1 Area
Building and Property Maintenance Codes Review
Building and Property Maintenance Standards Review
Building Codes Employee Classification System
Building Codes Inspector
Building Inspector and Building Permits
Building Inspector Compensation: MTAS Library Survey
Building Inspectors and Building Codes
Building Officials and Inspectors Salary Information: MTAS Library Survey
Building Permit Issued by Mistake
Burning Permit Sample Ordinance
Burying Bodies in the Backyard
Business Office Supervisor
Business Tax Collections for FY '04 for Selected Cities
Business Tax Distress Warrant
Business Tax Exemption
Business Tax Licensing
Business Tax Paid in One County While Operating in a Second County
Business Zones
Bylaws of the Industrial Development Corporation of the Industrial Development Corporation of the City of _______, Tennessee
Last Updated 11/05/2009


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