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Sumner County committee backs move to ask commission to repeal 1981 private act, requests written legal opinion
Summary
Members of the Sumner County Financial Management Committee voted to recommend that the County Commission seek repeal of the county'level 1981 private act and requested a written legal opinion on how the 1981 and 2012 acts interact.
The Sumner County Financial Management Committee voted to recommend the County Commission seek repeal of the county's 1981 private act and asked the county law director for a written legal opinion clarifying the relationship between the 1981 act and the 2012 financial management act.
The committee chair moved that the committee "recommend to the commission to repeal the 1981 act," a motion that was seconded and carried after a recorded voice vote. Committee members voiced differing readings of whether the 2012 act ever superseded the 1981 act and whether the 2012 act had been fully implemented. Law Director Eric Sittler told the committee that, in his legal view, the 1981 act…
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