§ 71-5-2314. Payment of Claims Under Tenncare Partners Program
This section is intended to ensure the prompt and accurate payment of all claims incurred by providers delivering services to enrollees of the TennCare partners program, and to formalize the resolution of all claims disputes arising under the partners program. Accordingly, the standards and requirements set forth at § 56-32-126(b), shall be applicable to the […]
§ 71-5-2305. Employment of Poor by Contracts
Such contractors under §§ 71-5-2303 and 71-5-2304 may employ a poor person in any work for which such person’s age, health, and strength are competent, but subject to the supervision of the commissioners of the poor, and, in the last resort, of the county legislative body. Code 1858, § 1617; Shan., § 2701; Code 1932, […]
§ 71-5-2306. Supervision of Contractors
The commissioners of the poor are required, if the poor of the county, or any of them, are bound or farmed out, as provided in §§ 71-5-2303 — 71-5-2305, to: Examine and report upon the manner in which such poor are kept and treated; Prescribe the manner in which they shall be maintained and provided […]
§ 71-5-2205. Removal — Vacancies
The county legislative body may remove the commissioners, or any one (1) of them, at pleasure, and proceed to fill the vacancy at any time; and should any one (1) or more of them die, resign, remove from the county, or fail or refuse to act, the county mayor may fill the vacancy, and such […]
§ 71-5-2206. Order for Expenditures — Warrants
When money is to be drawn from the county treasury for the purchase of the site of the asylum, the erection of the buildings, for improvements, repairs, or for the ordinary expenses of the maintenance of the poor, it shall be done upon an order of the commission, entered upon its minutes, specifying the purpose […]
§ 71-5-2207. Book of Accounts — Items Entered
The commissioners shall keep a book of accounts, in which they shall charge themselves with all moneys drawn by them from the treasury of the county, specifying the number and date of the warrant on which each sum was drawn, and credit themselves with their disbursements, giving the number and date of each voucher, and […]
§ 71-5-2208. Examination and Preservation of Accounts
The book of accounts shall be balanced every year, and, on or before December 31, shall be submitted to the county mayor for settlement, together with the vouchers. If the county mayor finds the account correct, the county mayor shall write beneath the same the words, “examined and approved,” and sign the county mayor’s name […]
§ 71-5-2209. Liability for Expenditures
The commissioners shall be jointly and severally liable for the application of any money drawn on their order from the county treasury for the use of the asylum. Code 1858, § 1604; Shan., § 2688; Code 1932, § 4805; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 14-909, 14-20-209.
§ 71-5-2210. Annual Report
The commissioners shall report to the county legislative body, at its January session every year, the condition of the asylum, making the superintendent’s report a part of their own. Code 1858, § 1612; Shan., § 2696; Code 1932, § 4813; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 14-910, 14-20-210.
§ 71-5-2301. Allowances by County Legislative Body
The county legislative body may, in its discretion, allow and pay to poor persons who may become chargeable as paupers, and who will probably be benefited thereby, such sums or such annual allowance, to be paid according to the direction of the legislative body, as will not exceed the charge of their maintenance in the […]