54-8-101 - County highway commissions Election Organization. - Tennessee Statutes

54-8-101. County highway commissions Election Organization.

Authority is granted to each county in which a county highway organization does not already exist by legislative act, to create a county highway commission, to be elected by the county legislative body from freeholders of the county above eighteen (18) years of age and consisting of no more than three (3) members, selected to serve, respectively, for terms of one (1), two (2) and three (3) years, and of whom one (1) shall be named chair by the county legislative body; provided, that no member of the commission shall be a member of the county legislative body.

[Acts 1929, ch. 54, § 1; Code 1932, § 3278; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 413, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-701.]