Election

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Counties
  4. County Mayors
  5. Substantive Provisions
  6. Election

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Election of the county mayor shall be in accordance with the following provisions:

  1. In counties of Class 1 and counties of Class 2 having a county council form of county government as established by § 8-24-101, in counties having a population of not less than twelve thousand three hundred fifty (12,350) nor more than twelve thousand three hundred seventy-five (12,375), or not less than thirty-eight thousand eight hundred (38,800) nor more than thirty-eight thousand nine hundred (38,900), by the federal census of 1970 or any subsequent federal census, and in counties having a chair of the county court on May 11, 1978, the county mayor shall be elected in the regular August election in 1978 and every four (4) years thereafter.
  2. In all other counties, the county mayor shall be elected in the regular August election in 1978 and every four (4) years thereafter.

Code 1858, § 4187 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 6, § 4); impl. am. Acts 1887, ch. 236, § 2; Shan., § 6004; Code 1932, § 10202; impl. am. Acts 1935, ch. 10, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 10202; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-601 (b); Acts 1978, ch. 934, § 16; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-602; Acts 1981, ch. 219, § 3; 2003, ch. 90, § 2.

Compiler's Notes. For table of U.S. decennial populations of Tennessee counties, see Volume 13 and its supplement.

Former §5-6-102(2), concerning counties having an incumbent county judge elected in 1974, was deemed obsolete by the code commission in 2005.


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