Athens City Charter

CHAPTER NO. 455

Senate Bill No. 639
(By Guffey)

AN ACT to provide a new charter for the City of Athens, in McMinn County, Tennessee, and to embrace all of such charter in one Act; and to incorporate said City of Athens under such new charter; and to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act.

¹Priv. Acts 1953, ch. 455 is the present basic charter act for the City of Athens. The text of the basic charter act set out herein was last amended to reflect legislation passed in the 2024 session of the Tennessee General Assembly and is current with the laws from the 2024 Regular Session of the 113th Tennessee General Assembly. Where a section of the charter has been amended the citation of the official act or acts making such change is carried at the end of the section so amended. Otherwise, no changes have been made in the wording of the charter as set out herein except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected, catch lines have been added to articles I and II and a table of contents has been added.