(a) If the report of the joint committee recommends that the petitioning county be consolidated, the county election commission of the petitioning county shall, after publication of the report, call an election in the county on the question of whether a constitutional majority of the qualified voters in the county are in favor of the plan of consolidation as recommended by the joint committee.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 5-3-104
Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) All registered voters in the county may vote in the election.(c)(1) After completion of its duties under § 2-8-105(3), the county election commission shall determine and certify the result of the election.(2) One (1) copy of the certificate shall be delivered by the county election commission to the county clerk of each of the counties affected, one (1) copy shall be delivered to the state consolidation committee, one (1) copy shall be delivered to the county consolidation committee, and one (1) copy shall be delivered to the secretary of state.(3) Any irregularity in the certificate or any failure or omission to deliver, to forward, to file, or to record the certificate, as provided in subdivision (c)(2), shall not affect the validity of the act, or the legality of the consolidation of the petitioning county with any other county or counties; provided, that it be a fact that a constitutional majority of the qualified voters of the petitioning county voted for the consolidation of the county at the election.
