16-21-104 - Vacancies in membership. - Tennessee Statutes

16-21-104. Vacancies in membership.

The council shall have and possess the power, whenever any member of the council fails to attend two (2) consecutive regular meetings of the council without sufficient excuse for failure to attend, after due notice and hearing, if requested, to declare that member's place on the council vacant and to certify the fact of the vacancy to the person or body charged with the right to fill such vacancies, and such appointing power shall proceed to fill the vacancy upon receipt of due notice.

[Acts 1943, ch. 130, § 2a, as added by Acts 1947, ch. 47, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 738.3 (Williams, § 738.6b); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 16-904.]