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.
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