7-1-101 - Definitions.
7-1-101. Definitions.
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 that municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county;
(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.
[Acts 1957, ch. 120, § 1; 1977, ch. 453, § 1; T.C.A., § 6-3701.]