Chapter Definitions

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1. “Charter” means a document containing a unified government structure, pursuant to this chapter, that constitutes the fundamental law of the unified government;
  2. “Charter commission” means a commission established to propose the charter to the voters for adoption as provided in this chapter;
  3. “Chief executive officer of the county” means the officer vested by either the county charter or general law with the executive powers of the county government;
  4. “City legislative body” means the city council, board of mayor and aldermen or other body possessing the legislative power and authority of the government of a municipality;
  5. “County” means any county whose voters have adopted a county charter government;
  6. “County legislative body” means that body vested by either the county charter or general law with the legislative powers of the county government;
  7. “Mayor” means such officer vested by either the city charter or general law with the executive powers of a municipality;
  8. “Municipality” means an incorporated city or town located within the boundaries of a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government;
  9. “Participating governmental unit” means a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government or a municipality located within that county's boundaries that has elected to participate in the preparation of a charter pursuant to this chapter;
  10. “Principal city” means that municipality having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county;
  11. “Smaller city” means any municipality within a county other than the principal city;
  12. “Unification” or “unified” means consolidation or consolidated pursuant to this chapter and that power granted by the Constitution of Tennessee, Article XI, § 9 to consolidate any or all of the governmental and corporate functions now, or hereafter, vested in a county government with one (1) or more municipalities located within that county's boundaries;
  13. “Unified government” means the governmental entity created by the unification of the governmental and corporate functions of a charter county government with the governmental and corporate functions of one (1) or more municipalities within that county's boundaries; and
  14. “Unified municipality” means a former municipality that has merged into a unified government pursuant to this chapter.


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