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TENNESSEE STATUTES AND CODES
5-1-201 - Purpose Construction.
5-1-201. Purpose Construction.
(a) It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent and purpose of this part to provide for the right to charter for counties as an alternate form of county government.
(b) This part shall be liberally construed as a utilization of the constitutional power granted by amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee, article VII, § 1 approved at an election on March 7, 1978.
[Acts 1979, ch. 402, § 1; T.C.A., § 5-121.]
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