The county election commission of each county shall hold, upon no less than one hundred twenty (120) days’ notice, an election for mayor and aldermen, and other officers in any incorporated town, village, or city, according to law, who, when elected, shall have all the powers conferred on them by their respective charters of incorporation, […]
All persons living within such corporation and who have been residents thereof for three (3) months previous to the election, except at first election, and who are entitled to vote for members of the general assembly, shall be entitled to vote in municipal elections; provided, that if and when inclusion of additional territory within such […]
Immediately after the election, the county election commission or officers holding the election shall deliver to the persons having the highest number of votes a certificate of their election. Code 1858, § 1368 (deriv. Acts 1849-1850, ch. 17, § 4); impl. am. Acts 1907, ch. 436; Shan., § 1951; mod. Code 1932, § 3370; impl. […]
In any municipality that has adopted home rule, where any question subject to local approval, under the provisions of the Constitution of Tennessee, article XI, § 9 has not been approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the local governing body, a petition signed by the qualified voters of the municipality in a number amounting […]
Notwithstanding any other law or municipal charter, whenever a vacancy occurs in the membership of any city board of education whose members are elected by vote of the people or in the office of city judge who is elected by vote of the people in any city having a population in excess of one hundred […]
Notwithstanding any other law or charter, whenever a vacancy occurs in the membership of the city council of any city having a population in excess of one hundred thousand (100,000) within counties, except those counties with the metropolitan form of government, having a population in excess of two hundred thousand (200,000), each according to the […]
The charter of any municipality to the contrary notwithstanding, any petition or petitions required to be filed under a municipal charter in order to cause a recall election of whatever type or kind, whether in the nature of a new municipal election prior to the next regular election or otherwise, shall contain one (1) or […]
Notwithstanding general law, private act, or municipal charter to the contrary, no minimum age qualification for membership on the legislative body of any municipality or city shall be greater than twenty-one (21) years of age at the time of taking office nor less than eighteen (18) years of age as a candidate for election to […]
Notwithstanding any other law or charter to the contrary, no member of the legislative body of a municipality, a popularly elected school board, or any other similarly constituted and elected board or commission of a county or municipality shall be elected to such office through an election procedure requiring candidates to be nominated from a […]
When a home rule city having a city board of education changes its charter to repeal prospectively its charter provisions authorizing it to maintain a separate school system from the county in which it is located, no further election for the city’s board of education shall be held within the period of three (3) years […]
