Tennessee Code Title 5. Counties § 5-7-117

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any county operating a water utility system pursuant to previous transfer or merger under the authority of title 7, chapter 82, or operating under private acts, or otherwise, may by resolution agree to transfer all or any part of such water system to a utility district having all or part of its official territory within the county, which utility district was either previously formed or formed for the purpose of receiving transfer of such system; provided, that the resolution must contain a provision requiring the protection of all rights of bondholders, and must specifically state all other conditions to the transfer that may be imposed by the county legislative body, and such resolution must be approved by a two-thirds ( 2/3 ) vote of such county legislative body.

(b) Before voting to sell, transfer, convey or set over such system, the county legislative body shall cause notices to be mailed to all customers of such county water system or the part thereof intended to be transferred, and shall provide such customers an opportunity to testify in a public hearing, the date of which shall be fixed in such notice.

(c) When all conditions of such resolution shall have been met, the county mayor and president of the utility district shall sign an addendum to the contract, identifying the county and the utility district resolutions of which the contract consists, certifying that all conditions therein have been met, and shall cause such addendum to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the county at the expense of the utility district, upon which publication the transfer shall thereupon be consummated by operation of law without the need for the execution of any instruments of transfer.