Legal Opinion
State Ex Rel. Maner v. Leech
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided October 9, 1979PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HENRY, Justice.
This is another lawsuit coming in the wake of the adoption of Chapter 934 of the Public Acts of 1978, the legislative enactment designed to implement certain local government provisions of the 1977 amendments to Article VII of the Constitution of Tennessee.
The specific issue is whether Section 35(b) of the Public Acts of 1978, carried forward into the Official Code as Section 5-551(b), T.C.A., violates Article XI, Section 9 of the Constitution in that it applies only to Knox County and its effectiveness is not conditioned upon approval by the local legislative body or a…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- West v. Tennessee Housing Development AgencyTennessee Supreme Court · 1974
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