MTAS Legal Consultant Stephanie Allen O'Hara responded to a request for information regarding whether or not a city planning commission has jurisdiction over a county school.
| Planning--Commissions--Tennessee Schools--Tennessee |
Jellico Community Hospital (JCH) is currentlly a nonprofit corporation that operates the hospital in Jellico, TN and is the only hospital in that city. The city is looking into leasing the hospital to a for-profit entity.
| Taxes--Property assessment and appraisal |
MTAS was asked whether the city could require auxilary police officers to sign waivers releasing the city from any liability for their negligent conduct or omissions.
| Governmental tort liability Liability Police--Liability Police--Personnel |
MTAS was asked whether the mayor has the singular authority to suspend or fire the present city attorney.
| City attorney Mayor Personnel--Dismissal Mayor--Aldermanic government |
MTAS was asked what actions may be taken by municipalities that do not have a zoning ordinance and seek to prohibit wildcat trailer parks from springing up.
| Mobile homes Municipal ordinances Zoning Zoning--Laws and regulations Zoning--Municipal ordinances |
MTAS was asked to determine whether there is any way for the city to get out of the contract under which the city waived its share of the sales tax to the county for a term ending upon the payment of a 2.4 million bond issue.
| Contracts Intergovernmental agreements Tax collection Taxes--Sales |
Twenty cities were asked whether they have a city attorney, paralegals, and a city manager, as well as questions about the city attorney's annual budget and salary, plus, if the city manager has a contract.
| City attorney City manager City manager--Contracts |
Cities are granted the right to impose taxes to raise public funds in Article II , § 29 of the Tennessee Constitution, which states: “The General Assembly shall have power to authorize the several counties and incorporated towns in this State, to impose taxes for County and Corporation purposes, respectively....” From this language has grown the public purpose doctrine, which dictates that public funds and public resources can be used only for public purposes. City credit may be extended and used for a public purpose, under which a private firm or corporation does receive benefit, but such lending of credit must be authorized by referendum vote or by specific statutory authority absent such a vote.
| Public purpose Finance--Use of public funds Municipal government--Finance--Laws and regulations State government--Constitution State government--Tennessee Tennessee--Laws and regulations Tennessee |
MTAS was asked whether a city could prohibit or limit the hours of construction and of garage sales on Sunday.
| Laws and regulations--Municipal--Tennessee Municipal government--Laws and regulations |
List generated from internal research on charter provisions of all cities regarding general law mayor-alderman municipalities that allow non-resident voting in municipal elections.
| Elections--Residency requirements Charters--City--Tennessee |
