54-8-107 - Public road equipment Purchase authorized.

54-8-107. Public road equipment Purchase authorized.

The county highway commission has complete control and authority over all public road equipment, and is authorized to purchase additional equipment that, in the judgment of the commissioners, is necessary to the proper working, repairing and maintaining of the public roads, levees and bridges of the county, but in the event a single purchase should be made in excess of five hundred dollars ($500), it shall not be binding upon the county until approved by the county legislative body.

[Acts 1929, ch. 54, § 4(g), as added by Acts 1931, ch. 101, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 3280.7; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 16, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-710.]