5-1-202 - Charter adoption Effect on existing offices, etc. - Tennessee Statutes

5-1-202. Charter adoption Effect on existing offices, etc.

(a)  After adoption of a charter pursuant to this part, no right, power, duty, obligation or function of any officer, agency or office of such county shall be retained and continued unless this part or the charter of such county expressly so provides, or unless such retention and continuation be required by the Constitution of Tennessee.

(b)  The adoption of a charter shall not have the effect of removing the incumbent from any county office or abridging the term or altering the salary prior to the end of the term for which such public officer was elected.

[Acts 1979, ch. 402, § 2; T.C.A., § 5-122.]