As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) 'Charter' means a document containing a unified government structure, pursuant to this chapter, that constitutes the fundamental law of the unified government;(2) 'Charter commission' means a commission established to propose the charter to the voters for adoption as provided in this chapter;(3) 'Chief executive officer of the county' means the officer vested by either the county charter or general law with the executive powers of the county government;(4) 'City legislative body' means the city council, board of mayor and aldermen or other body possessing the legislative power and authority of the government of a municipality;(5) 'County' means any county whose voters have adopted a county charter government;(6) 'County legislative body' means that body vested by either the county charter or general law with the legislative powers of the county government;(7) 'Mayor' means such officer vested by either the city charter or general law with the executive powers of a municipality;(8) 'Municipality' means an incorporated city or town located within the boundaries of a county whose voters have adopted a county charter r or general law with the executive powers of a municipality;(8) 'Municipality' means an incorporated city or town located within the boundaries of a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government;(9) 'Participating governmental unit' means a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government or a municipality located within that county's boundaries that has elected to participate in the preparation of a charter pursuant to this chapter;(10) 'Principal city' means that municipality having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county;(11) 'Smaller city' means any municipality within a county other than the principal city;(12) 'Unification' or 'unified' means consolidation or consolidated pursuant to this chapter and that power granted by the Constitution of Tennessee, Article XI, § 9 to consolidate any or all of the governmental and corporate functions now, or hereafter, vested in a county government with one (1) or more municipalities located within that county's boundaries;(13) 'Unified government' means the governmental entity created by the unification of the governmental and corporate functions of a charter county government with ated within that county's boundaries;(13) 'Unified government' means the governmental entity created by the unification of the governmental and corporate functions of a charter county government with the governmental and corporate functions of one (1) or more municipalities within that county's boundaries; and(14) 'Unified municipality' means a former municipality that has merged into a unified government pursuant to this chapter.Acts 1991, ch. 497, § 104.
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