Be it further enacted, that all city elections, including all elections respecting bond issues, shall be held under the supervision of the County Board of Election Commissioners, and in accordance with the law governing all state and county elections, as hereinbefore set out.
In any election under this Act, all registered voters, otherwise legally qualified to vote in county and state elections held in Cumberland County, Tennessee, and who are bona fide residents of said City and who have been such for three (3) months preceding any election under this act, and all persons otherwise legally qualified to vote in county and state elections held in Cumberland County, Tennessee, owning a taxable freehold assessed on the city tax books at a value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more, such ownership to be evidenced by a registered conveyance placed of record at least three (3) months before the election, or a certificate from the tax assessor that property is so assessed, shall be entitled to vote.
The county election commission shall be requested to prepare and maintain separate voters' registration forms and books for voters eligible to vote in city elections.
(As amended by Priv. Acts of 1965, ch. 259, sec. 4; Priv. Acts 1972, ch. 416, sec. 1; Priv. Acts 1982, ch. 281, sec. 1; Priv. Acts of 1994, ch. 116, sec. 1; and Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)