When money is to be drawn from the county treasury for the purchase of the site of the asylum, the erection of the buildings, for improvements, repairs, or for the ordinary expenses of the maintenance of the poor, it shall be done upon an order of the commission, entered upon its minutes, specifying the purpose to which the money is to be applied; upon production of a copy of which, signed by the county mayor and attested by one (1) of the other commissioners, to the county legislative body, and appropriation shall on approval be made for the amount specified in the order, to be drawn on warrant of the county mayor, as in other cases.
Code 1858, § 1601; Shan., § 2685; mod. Code 1932, § 4802; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 16, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 14-906, 14-20-206; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2.
Compiler's Notes. Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2, directed the code commission to change all references from “county executive” to “county mayor” and to include all such changes in supplements and replacement volumes for the Tennessee Code Annotated.