Definitions — Chapters 1-6

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities
4. Metropolitan Government—general Provisions
5. Definitions — Chapters 1-6

As used in chapters 1-6 of this title, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. “City governing body” means the city council or other public agency possessing power and authority usually possessed by a city council;
2. “County governing body” means that body in a particular county that is vested with the power to levy property taxes;
3. “General services district” means a service district within a metropolitan government whose geographical limits are coextensive with the total area in which the government functions;
4. “Metropolitan government” means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities;
5. “Metropolitan government charter commission” or “charter commission” means a commission established to propose to the voters for adoption the charter for a metropolitan government;
6. “Municipal corporation” means an incorporated city or town;
7. “Principal city” means:
   1. That municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county; or
   2. If the municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a county fails to adopt a consolidation resolution within ninety (90) days of the county's adoption of a consolidation resolution, the county seat of that county, if the county seat is an incorporated municipality;
8. “Smaller city” means any municipal corporation other than the principal city; and
9. “Urban services district” means a service district within a metropolitan government in which are furnished by the metropolitan government municipal services additional to those provided in the general services district.

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