As used in chapters 1-6 of this title, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) 'City governing body' means the city council or other public agency possessing power and authority usually possessed by a city council;(2) 'County governing body' means that body in a particular county that is vested with the power to levy property taxes;(3) 'General services district' means a service district within a metropolitan government whose geographical limits are coextensive with the total area in which the government functions;(4) 'Metropolitan government' means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities;(5) 'Metropolitan government charter commission' or 'charter commission' means a commission established to propose to the voters for adoption the charter for a metropolitan government;(6) 'Municipal corporation' means an incorporated city or town;(7) 'Principal city' means: (A) That municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county; or(B) If the municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a county fails to adopt l corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county; or(B) If the municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a county fails to adopt a consolidation resolution within ninety (90) days of the county's adoption of a consolidation resolution, the county seat of that county, if the county seat is an incorporated municipality;(8) 'Smaller city' means any municipal corporation other than the principal city; and(9) 'Urban services district' means a service district within a metropolitan government in which are furnished by the metropolitan government municipal services additional to those provided in the general services district.Amended by 2019 Tenn. Acts, ch. 314,s 1, eff. 5/8/2019.Acts 1957, ch. 120, § 1; 1977, ch. 453, § 1; T.C.A., § 6-3701.
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