§ 17.07. Regulation of street railway companies.

The entire and complete supervision, regulation, jurisdiction and control over street railway companies operating within the territory embraced in the metropolitan government and the environs thereof shall be vested solely in and exercised solely by Nashville Transit Authority as created and established under the terms and provisions of chapter 487, Private Acts of 1953, as amended by chapter 307, Private Acts of 1955, and chapter 165, Private Acts of 1957, and as set forth in Appendix Four hereto to which reference is made. Neither the mayor nor the council nor any other officer or agency of the metropolitan government shall have or exercise any authority whatsoever over such street railway companies, or over Nashville Transit Authority except as expressly provided in said Appendix Four.

No franchise to operate a street railway company on the streets and highways of the metropolitan government shall be granted except upon referendum as hereinabove set forth and nothing in said Appendix Four shall be construed as depriving the citizens of the metropolitan government of the right to grant franchises by referendum through the procedure herein established.