| Article I. AMENDING PROVISION, BOUNDARIES, FORM OF GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE POWERS. |
| § 1.01. Amendment of Charter. |
| § 1.02. City of Cookeville. |
| § 1.03. Corporate Boundaries. |
| § 1.04. Form of Government. |
| § 1.05. Corporate Powers. |
| Article II. MAYOR AND COUNCIL. |
| § 2.01. Number, Selection, Term. |
| § 2.02. Qualifications. |
| § 2.03. Compensation. |
| § 2.04. Presiding officer; Mayor. |
| § 2.05. Powers. |
| § 2.06. Appointment of City Manager. |
| § 2.07. Removal of City Manager. |
| § 2.08. Council Not to Interfere in Appointments or Removals. |
| § 2.09. Vacancies in Council. |
| § 2.10. Creation of new departments or offices. |
| § 2.11. City Clerk. |
| § 2.12. Induction of Council into Office; Meetings of Council. |
| § 2.13. Rules of Procedure; Journal. |
| § 2.14. Ordinances. |
| § 2.15. City Legislation. |
| § 2.16. Permissive Referendum; Effective Date of Ordinances. |
| § 2.17. Independent Annual Audit. |
| Article III. THE CITY MANAGER |
| § 3.01. The City Manager; Qualifications. |
| § 3.02. The City Manager; Powers and Duties. |
| § 3.03. Absence of City Manager. |
| § 3.04. Administrative Departments. |
| § 3.05. Directors of Departments. |
| § 3.06. Departmental Divisions. |
| § 3.07. Merit Basis of Appointment. |
| Article IV. FISCAL ADMINISTRATION |
| § 4.01. Fiscal Year. |
| § 4.02. City Manager to Submit Annual Budgets. |
| § 4.03. Contents of Budgets. |
| § 4.04. Capital Improvement Budget. |
| § 4.05. Appropriation and Additional Revenue Ordinances. |
| § 4.06. Copies of Budget Message and Budgets. |
| § 4.07. Public Hearing. |
| § 4.08. Action by City Council. |
| § 4.09. Additional Appropriations. |
| § 4.10. Appropriations to Lapse. |
| § 4.11. Allotments. |
| § 4.12. Budgetary Reports to Council. |
| § 4.13. Penalty for Unauthorized Contract or Expenditure. |
| § 4.14. Annual Audit. |
| § 4.15. Centralized Purchasing. |
| § 4.16. Allotments Required; Advance Authorization for Emergency Purchases. |
| § 4.17. Powers and Duties of Purchasing Agent. |
| § 4.18. Stocking Supplies, Materials, and Equipment. |
| § 4.19. Who May Make Expenditures and Contracts; Bids. |
| § 4.20. Bonds for Public Works Contracts. |
| § 4.21. Bid Records to be Preserved. |
| § 4.22. Exception to Purchase Governmental Materials. |
| § 4.23. Sale of City Property. |
| § 4.24. Official Depository. |
| Article V. TAXATION. |
| § 5.01. Property Taxes; Assessment Date. |
| § 5.02. Property Taxes on Public Service Companies. |
| § 5.03. Responsible Officers. |
| § 5.04. City May Use County Assessment or Make Assessment. |
| § 5.05. Procedure if County Assessment is Used. |
| § 5.06. Procedure if City Assessment is Made. |
| § 5.07. Powers and Duties of the City Assessor. |
| § 5.08. Board of Equalization. |
| § 5.09. Procedure for Review of Assessments. |
| § 5.10. Tax Levy. |
| § 5.11. Tax Bills; Failure to Send Does Not Invalidate Tax. |
| § 5.12. When Property Taxes Due and Payable; Penalty and Interest. |
| § 5.13. Collection of Delinquent Taxes. |
| § 5.14. Lien for Taxes. |
| § 5.15. Collection of Merchants Ad Valorem taxes. |
| § 5.16. Mistakes or Technicalities not to Invalidate Assessments; Corrections. |
| Article VI. BORROWING AND BONDS |
| § 6.01. Notes in Anticipation of Current Tax Collections. |
| § 6.02. Purposes for Which Bonds May be Issued. |
| § 6.03. Serial Bonds. |
| § 6.04. Sinking Funds. |
| § 6.05. Bond Ordinance. |
| § 6.06. Title of Bond Ordinance; Two or More Projects May Be Included. |
| § 6.07. Procedure for Adoption of Bond Ordinance: Publication of Notice. |
| § 6.08. Effective Date of Bond Ordinance. |
| § 6.09. Period of Limitations to Challenge Bond Ordinance. |
| § 6.10. Determinations in Bond Ordinance Conclusive. |
| § 6.11. Bonds May be Callable. |
| § 6.12. Term of Bonds Not To Exceed Life of Improvements. |
| § 6.13. Election Required Except for Certain Bonds. |
| § 6.14. Public Sale. |
| § 6.15. Property Tax Levy to Retire Voted Bonds. |
| § 6.16. Cancellation of Retired Bonds and Paid Interest Coupons. |
| § 6.17. Supplementary nature of Title VI. |
| Article VIA. PUBLIC PARKING FACILITIES1 |
| § 6A.01. Definitions. |
| § 6A.02. Provisions in this article are supplementary. |
| § 6A.03. Resolution for the project, notice of public hearing, etc. |
| § 6A.04. Public hearing; when referendum is required. |
| § 6A.05. Construction may be on bids or by city forces. |
| § 6A.06. Bond resolution. |
| § 6A.07. Bids for bonds. |
| § 6A.08. Disposition of bond funds. |
| § 6A.09. Bonds, bond security, etc. |
| § 6A.10. Basis of assessments. |
| § 6A.11. Assessments against public property. |
| § 6A.12. Payment of assessments; penalties and interest for delinquency. |
| § 6A.13. Assessments to constitute liens. |
| § 6A.14. Special fund for assessments. |
| § 6A.15. Disposition of collected assessments; calculation of annual assessments, etc. |
| § 6A.16. Additional bonds or funds to cover deficiency. |
| § 6A.17. Refunding bonds. |
| § 6A.18. Use of parking facilities; disposition of revenues. |
| § 6A.19. Severability clause. |
| § 6A.20. Approval required. |
| § 6A.21. Date of effect. |
| Article VII. CITY JUDGE AND CITY COURT; CITY ATTORNEY. |
| § 7.01. City Court Established; Jurisdiction. |
| § 7.02. Appeals. |
| § 7.03. Warrant for Each Offense; Exception. |
| § 7.04. Other Officers May Decide Lesser Traffic Offenses. |
| § 7.05. Clerk of Court and Other Employees. |
| § 7.06. Court Docket. |
| § 7.07. City Attorney. |
| Article VIII. UTILITIES. |
| § 8.01. Authority to Own or Operate Public Utility. |
| § 8.02. Accounting System. |
| § 8.03. Budgets and Allotments. |
| § 8.04. Other Laws and Ordinances May Apply. |
| § 8.05. Municipal Utilities Separate Enterprises. |
| Article IX. HOSPITALS. |
| § 9.01. Board of trustees. |
| Article X. NOMINATIONS AND ELECTIONS. |
| § 10.01. Municipal Elections. |
| § 10.02. Regulation of Elections. |
| § 10.03. Nominations. |
| § 10.04. Council Ballots. |
| § 10.05. Voting Machines. |
| Article XI. INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM. |
| § 11.01. Power of Initiative. |
| § 11.02. Power of Referendum. |
| § 11.03. Form of Petitions: Committee of Petitioners. |
| § 11.04. Filing, Examination and Certification of Petitions. |
| § 11.05. Amendment of Petitions. |
| § 11.06. Effect of Certification of Referendum Petition. |
| § 11.07. Consideration by Council. |
| § 11.08. Submission to Electors. |
| § 11.09. Form of Ballot for Initiated and Referred Ordinances. |
| § 11.10. Results of Election. |
| § 11.11. Repealing Ordinances: Publication. |
| Article XII. |
| Article XIII. SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT. |
| § 13.01. Rights of Officers and Employees Preserved. |
| § 13.02. Continuance of Present Officers. Be it further enacted, |
| § 13.03. Transfer of Records and Property. |
| § 13.04. Continuity of Offices, Departments and Agencies. |
| § 13.05. Continuance of Contracts and Public Improvement. |
| § 13.06. Pending Actions and Proceedings. |
| Article XIV. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. |
| § 14.01. Right of City Manager and Other Officers in Council. |
| § 14.02. Investigations by Council or City Manager. |
| § 14.03. Contracts Extending Beyond One Year. |
| § 14.04. Publicity of Records. |
| § 14.05. Conflicts of Interest. |
| § 14.06. Official Bonds. |
| § 14.07. Oath of Office. |
| § 14.08. Penalties. |
| § 14.09. Repeal of Laws in Conflict. |
| § 14.10. Severability. |
| § 14.11. Local Approval and Date of Applicability. |
| § 14.12. Effective Date. |
| PRIVATE AND RELATED ACTS COMPRISING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF COOKEVILLE, TENNESSEE |