PREAMBLE
WE, the people of the City of Brownsville and Haywood County, Tennessee, by adopting this Charter, intend to use the authority provided to the people by the Constitution and laws of the State of Tennessee to consolidate, unify and simplify the functions of local government in order to establish a more efficient, accountable, responsive and effective local government that will provide a better instrument to create a more prosperous future.
ARTICLE 1
UNIFICATION, TERRITORY, AND POWERS
SECTION 1.01–Unification: The Governmental and corporate functions vested in the City of Brownsville, Tennessee, are hereby unified and consolidated with the Governmental and corporate functions of Haywood County, Tennessee. A single Government is hereby created that replaces and supersedes the Governments of Brownsville and Haywood County. The name of this new Government is the Metropolitan Government of Brownsville/Haywood County. This new Metropolitan Government is established pursuant to constitutional power granted by Article XI, Section 9 and Article VII, Section 1, of the Constitution of Tennessee, as amended, and in conformity with section 7-1-101 et seq. of Tennessee Code Annotated, as amended.
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