Municipal Code

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This copy of the Municipal Code of the City of Cookeville is provided solely for convenience; the Municipal Code provisions contained herein are NOT the official Municipal Code of the City of Cookeville. You are urged to verify the current status and wording or content of any code provision or graphics contained herein against the official Municipal Code of the City of Cookeville before relying on any provision or graphic. At the time of distribution, this copy of the Municipal Code was current. Provisions herein may have since been amended by the Cookeville City Council. The official Municipal Code of the City of Cookeville is retained in the City Clerk's Office and may be viewed during regular business hours. Current copies of the Code of the City of Cookeville may be obtained from the City of Cookeville. For further information regarding the official version of any of the City of Cookeville Municipal Code, please contact the City Clerk's Office at (931) 520-5246.

Your Municipal Code

Ordinances are to a city what laws enacted by the legislature are to the state.  When the Cookeville City Council adopts new ordinances the ordinances have to be incorporated into the City’s Municipal Code book. Once a year, typically in January, ordinances adopted throughout the year are reviewed and compiled by the City Clerk, and sent to Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) for the annual code update service.

As background information for those of you not familiar with MTAS, it is an agency of The University of Tennessee’s Institute for Public Service providing technical assistance to various city governing bodies, mayors, city administrators, city clerks, and city department heads. Cookeville city officials use MTAS services for many purposes and projects. With regard to the city’s Municipal Code, MTAS prepares the new pages for our Municipal Code book after merging the new ordinances with the old.

It is extremely important that the City Code be kept up-to-date as new ordinances are passed. Without proper maintenance of the Code it would be difficult to know which ordinances are new, correct, and in force. Also which ones have been changed, amended, or repealed. 

Ordinances are to a city what laws enacted by the legislature are to the state.

All Department Directors have been issued a copy of the City’s Municipal Code Book. This booklet provides information for everyone to view. Ask to see a copy and look through it to learn about the City Charter and your City government.