CHARTER OF THE CITY OF COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE
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1 Priv. Acts 1961, ch. 223, is the current basic charter act for the City of Cookeville, Tennessee. The text of the basic charter act set out herein includes all its amendments through the 2012 session of the Tennessee General Assembly. Sections of the charter which have been amended contain at the end of those sections the citation to the official private act or acts constituting the amendment or amendments. No other changes have been made to the charter except the addition of a table of contents to facilitate its use. A list of all the private acts including the basic charter appears at the end of the charter. Acts which did not expressly or in effect amend any particular section or part of the basic charter, but which supplemented it, have been placed after the basic charter act as "Related Private Acts." Acts of a temporary nature with no general or continuing application, such as bond authorization and validation acts have not been included in this compilation.
CHAPTER NO. 223
House Bill No. 816
(By Dero Brown)
House Bill No. 816
(By Dero Brown)
AN ACT to amend the Charter of Cookeville, Tennessee, being Chapter 542 of the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee of 1903, and all Acts amendatory thereto.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Article I.
Amending Provision, Boundaries, Form of Government, Corporate Powers
Amending Provision, Boundaries, Form of Government, Corporate Powers
1.01. Amendment of charter
1.02. City of Cookeville
1.03. Corporate boundaries
1.04. Form of government
1.05. Corporate powers
Article II.
Mayor and Council
Mayor and Council
2.01. Number, selection, term
2.02. Qualifications
2.03. Compensation
2.04. Presiding officer; mayor
2.05. Powers
2.06. Appointment of city manager
2.07. Removal of city manager
2.08. Council not to interfere in appointments or removals
2.09. Vacancies in council
2.10. Creation of new departments or offices
2.11. City clerk
2.12. Induction of council into office; meetings of council
2.13. Rules of procedure; journal
2.14. Ordinances
2.15. City legislation
2.16. Permissive referendum; effective date of ordinances
2.17. Independent annual audit
Article III.
The City Manager
The City Manager
3.01. The city manager; qualifications
3.02. The city manager; powers and duties
3.03. Absence of city manager
3.04. Administrative departments
3.05. Directors of departments
3.06. Departmental divisions
3.07. Merit basis of appointment
Article IV.
Fiscal Administration
Fiscal Administration
4.01. Fiscal year
4.02. City manager to submit annual budgets
4.03. Contents of budgets
4.04. Capital improvement budget
4.05. Appropriation and additional revenue ordinances
4.06. Copies of budget message and budgets
4.07. Public hearing
4.08. Action by city council
4.09. Additional appropriations
4.10. Appropriations to lapse
4.11. Allotments
4.12. Budgetary reports to council
4.13. Penalty for unauthorized contract or expenditure
4.14. Annual audit
4.15. Centralized purchasing
4.16. Allotments required; advance authorization for emergency purchases
4.17. Powers and duties of purchasing agent
4.18. Stocking supplies, materials, and equipment
4.19. Who may make expenditures and contracts; bids
4.20. Bonds for public works contracts
4.21. Bid records to be preserved
4.22. Exception to purchase governmental materials
4.23. Sale of city property
4.24. Official depository
Article V.
Taxation
Taxation
5.01. Property taxes; assessment date
5.02. Property taxes on public service companies
5.03. Responsible officers
5.04. City may use county assessment or make assessment
5.05. Procedure if county assessment is used
5.06. Procedure if city assessment is made
5.07. Powers and duties of the city assessor
5.08. Board of equalization
5.09. Procedure for review of assessments
5.10. Tax levy
5.11. Tax bills; failure to send does not invalidate tax
5.12. When property taxes due and payable; penalty and interest
5.13. Collection of delinquent taxes
5.14. Lien for taxes
5.15. Collection of merchants ad valorem taxes
5.16. Mistakes or technicalities not to invalidate assessments; corrections
Article VI.
Borrowing and Bonds
Borrowing and Bonds
6.01. Notes in anticipation of current tax collections
6.02. Purposes for which bonds may be issued
6.03. Serial bonds
6.04. Sinking funds
6.05. Bond ordinance
6.06. Title of bond ordinance; two or more projects may be included
6.07. Procedure for adoption of bond ordinance; publication of notice
6.08. Effective date of bond ordinance
6.09. Period of limitations to challenge bond ordinance
6.10. Determinations in bond ordinance conclusive
6.11. Bonds may be callable
6.12. Term of bonds not be exceed life of improvements
6.13. Election required except for certain bonds
6.14. Public sale
6.15. Property tax levy to retire voted bonds
6.16. Cancellation of retired bonds and paid interest coupons
6.17. Supplementary nature of title VI
ARTICLE VIA.
Public Parking Facilities
Public Parking Facilities
6A.01. Definitions
6A.02. Provisions in this article are supplementary
6A.03. Resolution for the project, notice of public hearing, etc
6A.04. Public hearing; when referendum is required
6A.05. Construction may be on bids or by city forces
6A.06. Bond resolution
6A.07. Bids for bonds
6A.08. Disposition of bond funds
6A.09. Bonds, bond security, etc
6A.10. Basis of assessments
6A.11. Assessments against public property
6A.12. Payment of assessments; penalties and interest for delinquency
6A.13. Assessments to constitute liens
6A.14. Special fund for assessments
6A.15. Disposition of collected assessments; calculation of annual assessments, etc
6A.16. Additional bonds or funds to cover deficiency
6A.17. Refunding bonds
6A.18. Use of parking facilities; disposition of revenues
6A.19. Severability clause
6A.20. Approval required
6A.21. Date of effect
Article VII.
City Judge and City Court; City Attorney
City Judge and City Court; City Attorney
7.01. City court established; jurisdiction
7.02. Appeals
7.03. Warrant for each offense; exception
7.04. Other officers may decide lesser traffic offenses
7.05. Clerk of court and other employees
7.06. Court docket
7.07. City attorney
Article VIII.
Utilities
Utilities
8.01. Authority to own or operate public utility
8.02. Accounting system
8.03. Budgets and allotments
8.04. Other laws and ordinances may apply
8.05. Municipal utilities separate enterprises
Article IX.
Hospitals
Hospitals
9.01. Board of trustees
Article X.
Nominations and Elections
Nominations and Elections
10.01. Municipal elections
10.02. Regulation of elections
10.03. Nominations
10.04. Council ballots
10.05. Voting machines
Article XI.
Initiative and Referendum
Initiative and Referendum
11.01. Power of initiative
11.02. Power of referendum
11.03. Form of petitions: committee of petitioners
11.04. Filing, examination and certification of petitions
11.05. Amendment of petitions
11.06. Effect of certification of referendum petition
11.07. Consideration by council
11.08. Submission to electors
11.09. Form of ballot for initiated and referred ordinances
11.10. Results of election
11.11. Repealing ordinances: publication
Article XII.
[Deleted]
Article XIII.
Succession in Government
Succession in Government
13.01. Rights of officers and employees preserved
13.02. Continuance of present officers
13.03. Transfer of records and property
13.04. Continuity of offices, departments and agencies
13.05. Continuance of contracts and public improvement
13.06. Pending actions and proceedings
Article XIV.
Miscellaneous Provisions
Miscellaneous Provisions
14.01. Right of city manager and other officers in council
14.02. Investigations by council or city manager
14.03. Contracts extending beyond one year
14.04. Publicity of records
14.05. Conflicts of interest
14.06. Official bonds
14.07. Oath of office
14.08. Penalties
14.09. Repeal of laws in conflict
14.10. Severability
14.11. Local approval and date of applicability
14.12. Effective date