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Committee advances bill to preserve acts of municipal judges elected before state court ruling on residency
Summary
House Bill 490 provides that municipal judges who were duly elected or appointed before the Tennessee Supreme Court’s March ruling on residency will remain de facto officers through the end of their terms; committee voted unanimously to advance the bill after municipal attorneys said it would resolve uncertainty for many cities.
Representative Hilton Haynes presented House Bill 4 90, a rewrite prompted by the Tennessee Supreme Court’s March 7 decision in McNabb v. Harrison, which interpreted Article VI, Section 4 to require one year of residency in the municipality prior to election. The sponsor said the bill would prevent disqualification or…
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