Be it further enacted, that the City Council may elect or employ a city attorney to represent the City of Crossville as hereinafter provided, who shall serve at the will of the City Council at a compensation to be fixed by agreement or resolution. The attorney shall be an attorney at law entitled to practice in the courts of the state. The employment of such attorney may be terminated at any time by a majority vote of the entire membership of the City Council and the attorney may resign at any time. In the event of such termination of employment or resignation by the attorney, the city shall not be liable for any further compensation to the attorney. The city attorney, at the request of the City Council, shall file and prosecute to a conclusion suits for all back or delinquent taxes and special assessments certified or referred to such attorney by the finance director. The city attorney shall be required to collect attorney's fees in the same amounts and as provided for by Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 67-5-2410, in the collection of delinquent taxes and special assessments; but the attorney's fees so collected on delinquent taxes, or other revenue due the City of Crossville, shall be collected and held by the city attorney as additional compensation. Attorney's fees on such collections may be remitted at the discretion of the city attorney. The city attorney shall attend all meetings of the City Council, advise the City Council, city manager, and the heads of all departments or divisions, as to all legal questions affecting city's interest; and approve as to form all contracts, deeds, bonds, ordinances, resolutions and other documents to be signed in the name, or made by or with City of Crossville. He shall prosecute, on appeal, all cases originating in the city court. For the foregoing services he shall receive no compensation other than the agreed compensation.
The city attorney may be employed by the City Council for specific services in litigation, or otherwise, not hereinbefore enumerated, and the City Council may fix his compensation for such additional services. The council, in its discretion, may also employ competent and efficient counsel to aid the city attorney or firm of attorneys in special matters and/or litigation, or the council may employ competent and efficient counsel to act without the aid of the city attorney and fix his compensation therefor. (As amended by Priv. Acts 1972, ch. 416, sec. 7, Priv. Acts 1995, ch. 55, secs. 2 and 5, and Priv. Acts 2014, ch. 55, sec. 1)