2010 Tennessee Code
Title 6 - Cities And Towns
Chapter 51 - Change of Municipal Boundaries
Part 4 - Merger of Municipalities
6-51-408 - Debts and liabilities Bond funds.

6-51-408. Debts and liabilities Bond funds.

(a)  All outstanding debts and liabilities of the former municipalities shall be assumed by the consolidated municipality.

(b)  All the territory included within the limits of the consolidated municipality shall be liable for the floating and bonded indebtedness, including interest, of all the territory included within the consolidated municipality.

(c)  Whenever at the time of the merger, however, any of the respective municipalities have on hand any bond funds voted for public improvements not already appropriated or contracted for, this money shall be kept in a separate fund and devoted to public improvements in the territory for which the bonds were voted.

[Acts 1989, ch. 176, § 1.]  

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