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Opinion No 10-58 - County Commissions Role in Funding Special School Districts TN Court Decisions No 11-2101 - Shelby County Board of Education vs Memphis City Board of Education Judge Hardy Mays rules in favor of MCS surrendering its charter and finds the provisions of Public Chapter One (Norris-Todd) both applicable and constitutional. Robertson v. Town of Englewood Without statute, the rule of the common law would prevail, and by that rule the property is to be left where it is found and the debt upon the original debtor. *Feasibility Study (p.42) Prescott v. Town of Lennox (9/3/1898) Ruled that public property is not “owned” by a governmental instrumentality, but rather “. . . is only held in trust for the public. . . .” *Feasibility Study (p.45) --- Municipal corporations are called into being in the interest of the public, and, in order that they may better subserve their purpose, they have the right to create and control all of the agencies and appliances essential to the health, safety, and convenience of the communities constituting them. These “agencies and appliances, whether engine house, school house, hydrants, or sewers, are so distributed as to be of the most efficient service to the public. They are brought into existence to be so used. Now, when the territorial limits of a corporation are diminished by excision of a part of its territory, the power of control of the public agent over their appliances we think must be restricted to the newly-defined limits of the corporation, unless the legislature does what is unusual —– confers a power upon its agents to act extraterritorially.” *Feasibility Study (p.45) Hamilton County v. City of Chattanooga On principle, and apart from express statutory provision, a city annexing territory should not be required to compensate the county for public buildings or improvements situated in the annexed territory and already paid for, as distinguished from improvements as to which there is an existing indebtedness. Statutes departing from this principle will be strictly construed and confined in their application to cases clearly within their terms *Feasibility Study (p.48) |
* Feasibilty Study Regarding the Creation of a Municipal School District in the Town of Collierville, TN, SES Consultants (2012)
