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Tennessee Code Title 54. Highways, Bridges and Ferries § 54-9-137

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The commissioners shall keep a well-bound book, in which shall be recorded in detail the amount of money expended by them on the roads, and where and for what purpose the money was expended.

(b) The book shall show to whom the funds have been paid, giving the date and the amount of the payments; and it shall further show any and all expenses paid by the commissioners.

(c) There shall be a proper accounting for all the funds coming to their hands, and how expended.

(d)(1) The book shall be open to the public at all reasonable times and places.

(2) Failure to keep the book and failure to show the book to anyone of the public is a Class A misdemeanor upon the part of the commissioners and, in addition, subjects them to removal.

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