2010 Tennessee Code
Title 6 - Cities And Towns
Chapter 20 - Commissioners and Mayor Under City Manager-Commission Charter
Part 2 - Powers and Duties of Board
6-20-218 - Publication of penal ordinances Effective date.

6-20-218. Publication of penal ordinances Effective date.

(a)  Each ordinance of a penal nature, or the caption of each ordinance of a penal nature, shall be published after its final passage in a newspaper of general circulation in the city.

(b)  No such ordinance shall take effect until the ordinance, or its caption, is published, except as otherwise provided in chapter 54, part 5 of this title.

[Acts 1921, ch. 173, art. 5, § 5; Shan. Supp., § 1997a153; Code 1932, § 3550; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 6-2029; Acts 1981, ch. 194, § 1; 1984, ch. 811, § 2; 1989, ch. 175, § 16.]  

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