{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-7-35-409","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-35-409","heading":"Board of commissioners - Bond - Oath - Officers of board - Meetings - Compensation","body":"(a) Each member shall give such bond, if any, as may be required by ordinance, and shall qualify by taking the same oath of office as required for governing officials of the city or town. Within ten (10) days after appointment and qualification of members, the board shall hold a meeting to elect a chair, and designate a secretary and treasurer, or a secretary-treasurer, who need not be a member or members of the board, and fix the amount of the surety bond that shall be required of such treasurer and shall fix such person's compensation. The board shall hold public meetings at least once per month, at such regular time and place as the board may determine. Changes in the time and place of meeting shall be made known to the public as far in advance as practicable. Except as otherwise expressly provided, the board shall establish its own rules of procedure.\n(b) All members of the board shall serve without compensation, but they shall be allowed necessary traveling and other expenses while engaged in the business of the board, including an allowance not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per month for attendance at meetings. Such expenses, as well as the salaries of the secretary and treasurer, or secretary-treasurer, shall constitute a cost of operation and maintenance.\n(c) All members of the board shall receive an additional allowance, not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00), per month for attendance at meetings when the municipalities have thereby authorized to transfer to and confer upon the board of waterworks or sewerage commissioners the jurisdiction over the gas system. Such additional allowances shall constitute a cost of operation and maintenance of the utility systems.","path":["TN Code","Title 7","Chapter 35"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"891ff49bc5fa9e93d92a4792b10a33a584e4ed714f162016e3edd5d89ea21d65","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-7-35-408","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-7-35-410","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}