MTAS was asked whether a home rule municipality can adopt a charter amendment authorizing a public referendum on tax rates.
| Elections--Initiatives and referendums Tax rates |
MTAS was asked about municipal liability for injury resulting from a municipally-owned dam.
| Dams Governmental tort liability Liability |
MTAS was asked whether a city must hold a public hearing before issuing a beer permit, after citizens complained about the lack of a hearing.
| Beer--Licenses and permits Beer--Laws and regulations Public information Beer--Boards |
MTAS was asked four questions relative to annexation and to annexation agreements between cities.
| Contraction of city limits Annexation--Laws and regulations--Tennessee Annexation--Tennessee |
An overview of COBRA, which mandates that most group health plans offer a continuation of health insurance when employees and beneficiaries would otherwise lose group health coverage.
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Guide to COBRA bw.pdf
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| Insurance--Health Personnel--Fringe benefits Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (1985) |
A legal opinion on the maximum that a city can charge for a bad check.
| Finance--Bank services |
MTAS was asked whether the Director of the Senior Citizen Center's use of city funds to purchase the magazine subscriptions from her daughter for the Center constitutes a conflict of interest.
| Conflict of interests Purchasing--Laws and regulations |
MTAS Fire Consultant Dennis Wolf authored this template that can be used by any city or town to provide a means of measuring the quality of fire inspections performed.
| Fire--Inspection Fire--Procedures Fire--Prevention |
State law requires all municipalities with populations less than 100,000 to adopt and file with the state comptroller a travel policy that covers expense reimbursement for elected and appointed officials.
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Municipal Travel Policy 2008 bw.pdf
(1.17 MB)
Expense Claim Form.pdf
(198.33 KB)
Travel Authorization.pdf
(136.6 KB)
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| Personnel--Laws and regulations Personnel--Fringe benefits Personnel--Forms Personnel--Compensation |
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Purchasing Agent Survey.pdf
(8.01 KB)
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Purchasing Agent Survey.doc
(41 KB)
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| Purchasing Purchasing--Policies and procedures Purchasing agent |