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Subterfuge afoot in Nashville?

By R. Neal
Created Feb 22 2007 - 12:16

Here's a curious bit of legislation being proposed over in Nashville. SB1761 [1]:

County Officers - Clarifies that the duties of constitutional county officers shall not be altered or abolished under a county charter form of government and failure to specifically create or specify duties of such officers shall not be deemed to abolish the offices. - Amends TCA Section 5-1-210.

Wonder what that's all about? I suppose it prevents future confusion such as the argument that Knox County's charter is deficient because it doesn't enumerate the constitutional officers.

But that part about "shall not be altered", uh, altered like as in imposing term limits? This could be interesting.


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