7-1-101 - Definitions. - Tennessee Statutes

7-1-101. Definitions.

As used in chapters 1-6 of this title, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “City governing body” means the city council or other public agency possessing power and authority usually possessed by a city council;

     (2)  “County governing body” means that body in a particular county that is vested with the power to levy property taxes;

     (3)  “General services district” means a service district within a metropolitan government whose geographical limits are coextensive with the total area in which the government functions;

     (4)  “Metropolitan government” means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities;

     (5)  “Metropolitan government charter commission” or “charter commission” means a commission established to propose to the voters for adoption the charter for a metropolitan government;

     (6)  “Municipal corporation” means an incorporated city or town;

     (7)  “Principal city” means that municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county;

     (8)  “Smaller city” means any municipal corporation other than the principal city; and

     (9)  “Urban services district” means a service district within a metropolitan government in which are furnished by the metropolitan government municipal services additional to those provided in the general services district.

[Acts 1957, ch. 120, § 1; 1977, ch. 453, § 1; T.C.A., § 6-3701.]