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STATE v. SPICEWOOD CREEK WATERSHED DIST.

848 S.W.2d 60 (1993)

STATE of Tennessee, ex rel. the METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT OF NASHVILLE AND DAVIDSON COUNTY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SPICEWOOD CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT, and Daniel B. Graves, Henry W. Brockman, Jr., Ray Bell, Sarah Oram, and Sharon E. Work, acting as the Board of Directors of the Spicewood Creek Watershed District, Defendants-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

February 8, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary A. Davis, Ray, Farmer, Eldridge & Hickman, Knoxville, for appellants.

James L. Murphy, III, Dept. of Law of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Nashville, for appellee.

R. Claybourne Petrey, Jr., Dearborn & Ewing, Nashville, for amicus curiae, Waste Management, Inc. of Tennessee.

OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

We granted this appeal to determine whether a watershed district (a quasi-governmental corporation) constitutes a public service district within the meaning of the Metropolitan Government Charter Act. The significance of this issue is more understandable when we recognize that the Metropolitan Government Charter Act prohibits a public service district from being created within the boundaries...

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