Protests against plan; notice of hearing; filing of objections; adoption, rejection or modification of plan.
Memphis Charter, art. 54, § 548
in effectSec. 548. - Protests against plan; notice of hearing; filing of objections; adoption, rejection or modification of plan.
After such plans and description have been filed, the governing authorities of such municipality shall, at some regular meeting within thirty days thereafter, determine whether or not said plans shall be adopted. The governing authorities of said municipality shall by proper resolution appoint the time and place [at] which the said governing authorities will meet to hear protests, if any, against the making of said improvement.
Said time shall not be less than twenty days from the passage of said resolution; and due notice of such hearing shall be given by the Comptroller by at least four publications in some daily paper in said City, the last of which shall be at least five days before the date of the meeting.
Said notice shall state the general character of the improvement and the metes and bounds thereof.
Any person desiring to object to said improvement shall file his objection with the Comptroller in writing on or before the date of hearing, and at the time fixed for the hearing shall appear in person or by attorney and present his objections to the said governing authorities.
Said governing authorities shall have the power to adopt, reject or modify said plans; and if said plan is adopted or modified and said modifications do not so materially alter the plan as to make it substantially a new plan, then the governing authorities shall proceed further with said work as hereinafter provided.
(Priv. Acts 1923, ch. 426, § 3; Priv. Acts 1937, ch. 123, § 18)
Source: City of Memphis, Code of Ordinances and Charter and Related Laws (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tn/memphis/codes/charter?nodeId=PTICHRELA_ART54STIMUNDIPLNOFRFO_S548PRAGPLNOHEFIOBADREMOPLFetched: 10/28/2026