Tennessee Code Title 65. Public Utilities and Carriers § 65-7-103

(a) Before any county makes any subscription under this chapter, the president, or other authorized officer or agent of the railroad company, shall submit to the county mayor an application in the name of the company, setting forth the proposed termini of its railroad, the amount of the subscription asked for, the time within which its road will be constructed through the county, and that the application is made under this chapter, and the same shall be accompanied by a plan or map, certified by the chief engineer of the company, showing the general direction and line of its railroad in the county.

(b) Before an incorporated city or town shall make any subscription under this chapter, such application must be submitted to its mayor or chief executive officer, showing the proposed termini of its railroad, accompanied with the declaration, on the part of the company, that it will locate and construct its railroad within one (1) mile of such incorporated city or town, within such time as shall be fixed in the application.