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Hot Topic: National Guard's Weekend Drills Are Considered Training, Richard Stokes
Hot Topic: National Guard's Weekend Drills Are Considered Training, Richard Stokes
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
This Hot Topic discusses the Attorney General's Opinion No. 98-155, which addresses whether National Guard weekend drills are considered training under the law and subject to the military leave provisions of the Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.). According to the Attorney General's opinion, "Weekend training appears to be within the statutory terms of the T.C.A." The term "training" ordinarily would encompass the term "drill." Drill is defined by Webster's dictionary as "the act of training soldiers in the military art ... a kind or method of military exercises." The A.G. cited an Alabama case, Britton vs. Jackson, 414 So.2d 966 (Ala. …
Hot Topic: Community Water Systems Required To Distribute Consumer Confidence Reports, Steve Wyatt
Hot Topic: Community Water Systems Required To Distribute Consumer Confidence Reports, Steve Wyatt
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
A recent amendment to the Safe Drinking Water Act established the requirement for community water systems (CWS) to prepare a consumer confidence report (CCR) to distribute to their customers.
Hot Topic: Public Acts Affecting Cities, Dennis Huffer
Hot Topic: Public Acts Affecting Cities, Dennis Huffer
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
The 1998 Tennessee General Assembly passed into law several acts that affect Tennessee municipalities. This Hot Topic summarizes some of these acts.
Hot Topic: State Revises Travel Reimbursement Rates, Mtas
Hot Topic: State Revises Travel Reimbursement Rates, Mtas
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
The state of Tennessee revised its travel reimbursement rates, with new, higher state rates effective August 1, 1998.
Hot Topic: New Law Requires Countywide Growth Plan And Limits Annexation And Incorporation, Jim Finane, Sid Hemsley
Hot Topic: New Law Requires Countywide Growth Plan And Limits Annexation And Incorporation, Jim Finane, Sid Hemsley
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
Effective May 19, 1998, Public Acts 1998, Chapter 1101, was a new law governing annexation and incorporation in Tennessee. Changes in annexation and incorporation included a required countywide land use planning process that limits annexations and incorporations to certain areas and subjects them to new restrictions. The law also gave counties a major new role in the annexation planning process and in annexation and incorporation decisions. It also preserved their revenues in newly-annexed and incorporated territories.
Hot Topic: The 1997/98 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes
Hot Topic: The 1997/98 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefit Survey, Richard Stokes
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
The MTAS annual salary and fringe benefit survey for 1997/98 is complete and shows salary increases for city employees rose at a rate faster than 1996/97. This report contains a summary of the findings as well as a means to request specific information.
Hot Topic: Federal And State Reimbursement Rates For Travel, Mtas
Hot Topic: Federal And State Reimbursement Rates For Travel, Mtas
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
For those cities that elected to reimburse for travel using the federal reimbursement rates, the federal government increased the vehicle-cents-per-mile reimbursement rate to 32.5 cents per mile, up from 31.5 cents per mile in 1997.
Hot Topic: New Regulations Will Apply To Small Stormwater Discharges, Sharon Rollins
Hot Topic: New Regulations Will Apply To Small Stormwater Discharges, Sharon Rollins
MTAS Publications: Hot Topics
Discusses a major new rule, proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that would require permits for small stormwater dischargers in urbanized areas of 50,000 or more, various commercial operations, and construction sites of less than five acres.