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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 6-51-204

  • County: means the county in which any such city or territory to be incorporated under chapters 30-36 of this title is located, or in which the major portion of the population of any such city or territory to be incorporated is located as indicated by the last federal census. See Tennessee Code 6-30-102
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Officer: means the mayor, aldermen, city attorney and city judge. See Tennessee Code 6-1-101
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) Except for responsibility for debt newly contracted after the territory was annexed and prior to the surrender of jurisdiction, all municipal jurisdiction ceases over the territory excluded from the municipality’s corporate limits on:

(A) The effective date of the ordinance if the contraction is done by ordinance;
(B) The date of the certification of the results of the election if the contraction is done by election; or
(C) The operative date of a contraction accomplished through a petition by an owner of property used primarily for agricultural purposes pursuant to § 6-51-201(c).
(2) The municipality may continue to levy and collect taxes on property in the excluded territory to pay the excluded territory’s proportion of debt newly contracted after the territory was annexed and prior to the exclusion.
(b) The chief executive officer of the municipality shall notify the county assessor of property as to contractions in the territorial limits of the municipality and shall provide the county assessor of property with a complete description of all property affected by the contractions.
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