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1993 Tennessee Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1993)

handle is hein.sag/sagtn0137 and id is 1 raw text is: OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TENNESSEE Published by Authority of Chapter 276 Public Acts of 1971 December, 1993 93-72 EMERGENCY COMNUNICATIONS DISTRICT LAW: A municipa I I is authorized by T.C.A. 57-86-101 et ases. to creast a municipal emergency communications district without the approval of a county-wide emergency communicatimn district in which the municipality is located. Th authorizing referendum should be held within fhe municipality and a municipal emergency commununications district, once created, will be excluded from the service area of the county-wide district. Thus, Ihui municipal disLrict will be entitled to user feew, generated within its boundaries to the exclusion of the existing county-wide district, and the county-wide district will retain no obligations within the boundaries of the new municipal district, beyond the obligation of both districts to coordinate their efforts to ensure prompt, efficient service to all the residents in the area. T.C.A. §6-2-201, 5f-51-1l, §7-86-101-105, §7-86-108, §12-9-101; Op. Tenn. Atty. Gen. U90-104 (June 26, 1990). 93-73 CONFLICT OF INTEREST:County Officials: Under T.C.A. §12-4-101, an official is directly interested in any contract between the governmental entity he or she serves and the official personally, and between the governmental entity and any business in which such official is the sole proprietor, partner, or person having the controlling interest. Controllino interest includes the individual with the ownership or control of the largest number of outstanding shate.s owned by any single individual or corporation. Unide'r T.C.A. §12-4-101(b), an official is indirectly interested in any contract of the governmental ntity he or she serves in which the officer is interested but not directly so, but includes contracts where th. officer is directly interested but is the sole supplier of goods or services in a municipality or county. A county commissioner is indirectly interested in any contract between the county and a family member (as in medical insurance coverage when a family member or spouse receive the benefit of county-paid premiums), if the official and the family member commingle assets. Such indirect interest in unlawful unless the officer publicly acknowledges his

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