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Technical Bulletins: Special Unemployment For City Employees, Mtas

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The Tennessee Department of Employment Security entered into an agreement with the U.S. Secretary of Labor making city employees who are laid off eligible for Special Unemployment Insurance. The following general information was extracted from an Employment Security pamphlet to assist in understanding this benefit.

Technical Bulletins: Declaration Of Overtime Exemption For Fire And Police Personnel, Mtas

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This Technical Bulletin addresses the exemption of fire and police personnel from the standard requirement of a 40-hour work week. Included is a sample resolution declaring the intention of a town/city to claim exemption of Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) relative to overtime wages for public safety personnel.

Technical Bulletins: F.L.S.A.: Minimizing The Effect Of Compulsory Overtime Pay, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin looks at the federal minimum wage law and overtime pay.

Technical Bulletins: Dol Final Regulations On Police And Fire Personnel, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On Friday, December 20, 1974, the Department of Labor issued final regulations governing the minimum wages and maximum hours for police and fire personnel.

Technical Bulletins: Dol Preliminary Flsa Regulations On Police And Firefighters, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On Friday, November 1, 1974, the Department of Labor issued preliminary regulations governing the minimum wages and maximum hours for police and fire personnel. This Technical Bulletin summarizes the preliminary regulations.

Technical Bulletins: Street Lighting, Energy Conservation, And Crime, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin looks at the debate over the merits of saving energy by turning off street lights.

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Exemption From Federal And State Gasoline Taxes, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This bulletin explained how, and under what conditions, Tennessee cities might obtain gasoline tax exemptions.

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Gas Systems' Payments And Free Services To Municipalities, Mtas

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This Technical Bulletin addresses the numerous inquiries that MTAS had received as to whether municipally-owned gas systems pay tax equivalents or make other payments to their respective municipal governments.

Technical Bulletins: $120 Million In Rural Water And Waste Disposal Grant Funds Released, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The information in this report was taken from City Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 10, May 24, 1974, a biweekly federal administrative report of the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The report describes a program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that released $120 million in rural water and waste disposal grant funds.

Technical Bulletins: Potential Firefighter Schedules Beginning Jan. 1, 1975, William Danielson

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The following analysis was prepared by William Danielson for the National League of Cities to show possible firefighter schedules permissible (without necessitating overtime payment) under the Fair Labor Standards Act Amendments for the next four years.

Technical Bulletins: How Fair Labor Standards Amendments Of 1974 Affect Municipalities, Mtas

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The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974 extended minimum wage and overtime coverage to include most local government employees, effective May 1, 1974.

Technical Bulletins: Davis-Bacon Requirements For Revenue Sharing Projects, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin is an update of the July 3, 1973, "Revenue Sharing: Wage Requirements" by MTAS, providing cities with the current wage determinations for street construction work statewide as published in the Federal Register.

Technical Bulletins: Local Government Energy Conservation Measures, Mtas

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In this bulletin, MTAS listed various practices, beyond the temperature-speed reduction requests of the President, that some Tennessee municipalities were adopting to reduce energy usage.

Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing Data Corrections, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This bulletin was intended to offer practical advice to supplement the more general instructions that had been sent to each Tennessee municipality along with a revenue sharing data computation form (ORS Form 3233) in October 1973.

Technical Bulletins: Surplus Personal Property Of State Agencies Now Available For Purchase By Tennessee Cities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

By action of the 1973 Tennessee General Assembly, surplus personal property of state agencies was made available for purchase by Tennessee cities, counties and other agencies of the state.

Technical Bulletins: General Outline Of Requirements For Public Fire Protection (For Incorporated Municipalities Or Utility Districts Of Less Than 2500 Population To Obtain Eighth Class Grading), Mtas

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MTAS reproduced these guidelines, prepared by the Insurance Services Office of Tennessee, which describe the requirements for small incorporated municipalities or utility districts contemplating the installation of water works systems and other public fire protection facilities, with a view to obtaining credit in fire insurance rates.

Technical Bulletins: Must Your City File New Eeoc Employee Report?, Mtas

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This Technical Bulletin discusses regulations related to employment reports. As required by Title 29, Chapter XIV, Part 1602, Code of Federal Regulations, all local and state governments with 100 or more employees must file employment reports with the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by Oct. 31, 1973. The report form--EE0-4--requires reporting the race, sex, salary range and job classification of all employees. (See copy on reverse side.) The reporting regulations were mandated by the 1972 amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which brought local and state government under the anti-discrimination clauses of the Act.

Technical Bulletins: Effects Of State Tax Refund Program On Municipalities, Mtas

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This Technical Bulletin discusses Article 2, Section 28 of the Tennessee state Constitution, which addresses tax relief for elderly low-income taxpayers. According to this bulletin, MTAS research indicates there will be no loss in municipal tax revenues as a result of the new constitutional provision.

Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing: Wage Requirements, Mtas

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This Technical Bulletin discusses the responsibility of city officials to make sure that Federal Revenue Sharing Funds in excess of 25% of total project cost spent for contractual work meet the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act on prevailing wages. Included is a table of the prevailing wages which should hold for the balance of 1973 for highway construction in Tennessee.

Technical Bulletins: Do You Really Know How Much Your Landfill Costs?, Mtas

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This Technical Bulletin discusses the cost of operating a sanitary landfill. This cost is more than just the amount of one man's salary and one machine to move dirt and compact the solid waste. There are many expenses that often are overlooked in estimating the potential cost of a landfill or budgeting for an existing one.

Technical Bulletins: Parking Meters In Tennessee: Their Number, Use, Yield, Successful Practices And Model Meter Ordinance, E. W. Meisenhelder

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This technical bulletin, for the information of Tennessee municipal officials, reports the number, use, yield and successful practices employed in the operation of parking meters in Tennessee, and offers a model parking meter ordinance.

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