2024 Tennessee Code
Title 5 - COUNTIES (§§ 5-1-101 — 5-23-112)
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 5-1-101 — 5-1-310)
Part 1 - COUNTIES GENERALLY (§§ 5-1-101 — 5-1-134)
Section 5-1-110 - District maps and boundaries

• (a)
  • (1) The county legislative body shall make, or have made, a map showing civil districts of the county and shall have typed or printed a description of the boundaries of the civil districts.
  • (2) The county legislative body shall make, or have made, a map showing the county districts from which the members are elected to the county legislative body. The county legislative body may also make, or have made, a census block equivalency file or a typed or printed description of the boundaries of the county districts. In the event of any discrepancy between the boundaries set forth on the map showing the county districts from which the members are elected to the county legislative body and the census block equivalency file or typed or printed description of the boundaries of the county districts, the boundaries set forth on the map shall control.

• (b) A copy of the map or maps and the accompanying descriptions of the civil district boundaries and, if any, the county district boundaries shall be filed with the county clerk, and a copy also shall be filed with the secretary of state and the comptroller of the treasury.

• (c) Revised maps shall be filed within ninety (90) days of any revision in any civil district or any other district from which members of the county legislative body are elected.

Amended by 2018 Tenn. Acts, ch. 528,s 1, eff. 3/7/2018.

Code 1858, § 80 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 1, § 6); Shan., § 98; Code 1932, § 115; Acts 1968, ch. 599, § 9; 1978, ch. 934, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 5-110; Acts 2011, ch. 96, §§ 1-3.