A Brief Description of Tennessee Municipal Government

This paper was prepared for the 1963 Edition of Your Tennessee Government, the textbook used in the American Legion IS annual Boys State program

The Local Beer Tax: An Administrative Guide

Under the terms of legislation passed by the 1951 General Assembly, cities and counties in Tennessee have been authorized to levy a tax on the retail sale of beer, effective April 1, 1951. This bulletin has been prepared as a guide for city officials in the preparation of necessary local legislation and in the establishment of essential administrative procedures. The sample ordinances, suggested rules and regulations, and forms in this bulletin were prepared by Anders O. Hustvedt and Porter C. Greenwood, MTAS Consultants. Other MTAS staff members have contributed to the various steps required to bring this bulletin to its final published form. (Forward by Gerald W. Shaw, MTAS Executive Director

A Brief Description of Tennessee Municipal Government

When people refer to the place where they live they usually speak of it as.a city or town. Generally, we regard a small community as a town and the larger community as a city. In some other states people are accustomed to calling the smaller places villages and boroughs, but this is not the custom in Tennessee. The purpose of this paper is to describe briefly the government of cities and towns in Tennessee. Each one has a government, just as the State has a government. An effort will be made to outline the principal differences among city and town governments

Technical Bulletins: The Energy Situation

In this Technical Bulletin, MTAS Executive Director Victor C. Hobday addresses energy policy and conservation within local governments

An Analysis of the 1953 Tennessee Home Rule Amendment (2nd Edition)

Since the first edition of this work was published in 1956 a number of pertinent cases have been decided by the Tennessee courts. This edition includes these cases along with the original material still considered to be relevant

Financing Electric-Municipal Buildings in Tennessee

The purpose of this publication is to advise municipal officials with respect to the sharing of a joint building by the general municipal government and an electric distribution system. It is an expansion of an article on the same subject that appeared in the Technical Section of the November 1952 issue of Tennessee Town & City magazine. The information contained herein is oriented particularly toward officials responsible for the general government of Tennessee\u27s municipalities, but it may also be of some value to officials of electric distribution systems

Documents Relating to Joint Electric System Municipal Buildings

We have assembled in this publication copies of resolutions, ordinances, minute entries, floor plans, and other documents from several Tennessee cities that have constructed buildings for joint use by an electric system and the general city government. We have done this with the thought in mind that these documents would be helpful guides and reference materials to the officials of a city about to undertake such a project