MTAS was asked to determine if an ordinance was properly drafted.

MTAS was asked whether the mayor can veto the appointment by the board to fill the office of alderman.

The Annexation Handbook III has three purposes: 1) Provide a guide to answer the question of whether a contemplated annexation is even legally possible; Public Acts 2014, Chapter 707, made the answer to that question problematic over the short term, and perhaps over the long term. 2) To help municipalities determine whether a contemplated annexation makes sense from political and economic perspectives. Public Acts 1998, Chapter 1101 is responsible for a significant long-term financial obligation of cities to counties when the former annexes property in the latter. But annexation has many financial impacts on both the annexing cities and the annexed territory, including the cost of providing services to the annexed territory. 3) To reconcile the 'old' and the 'new' annexation laws, the latter generally wrought by Public Acts 1998, Chapter 1101, and Public Acts 2014, Chapter 707.

MTAS was asked about an extension where one developer is paying for the extension and another developer is allowed to tap the extended line free of charge.

MTAS was asked to survey selected municipalities regarding their compensation compensatory time policies and practices such as maximum number of hours offered, a timeframe for using the hours and more.

The title of the document should read compensatory and not compensation.

An ordinance that states which officials may declare a state of emergency.

MTAS was asked whether Tennessee's Preexisting Nonconforming Use Law applies to fireworks establishments and what police powers a municipality can exercise against such establishments.

MTAS was asked to provide a review of the Street Dept. for the City of Fairview.

MTAS was asked whether there is any legal way the remaining homeowners in the neighborhood can be assured their neighborhood is safe from future rezoning if the rezoning of the property in question is approved.

A number of Tennessee city and towns were surveyed to find out if they use a rain gauge network and if so, how they obtain the data gathered.