Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-501 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-501
Creation and powers of authority for a county
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided herein, a housing authority may be created for any county, and the commissioners of such authority may be appointed, in the same manner as provided in this chapter, for the creation of a housing authority for a city and the appointment of the commissioners of such authority. Each housing authority created for a county and the commissioners thereof shall have the same functions, rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities and limitations provided for housing authorities created for cities and the commissioners of such housing authorities, and all law applicable to housing authorities created for cities and the commissioners of such authorities shall be applicable to housing authorities created for counties and the commissioners of such authorities. (b) For all such purposes, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "City" or "city and the area within ten (10) miles from the territorial boundaries thereof" means county; (2) "City clerk" means county clerk; and (3) "Mayor" or "council" as used in this chapter and any amendment thereto are construed as meaning county legislative body. (c) A housing authority created for a county shall not be subject to the limitations provided in § 13-20-113(a)(4) with respect to housing projects for farmers of low income. Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 33, as added by Acts 1943, ch. 22, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.26 (Williams, § 3647.29i); impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1001.
(a) Except as otherwise provided herein, a housing authority may be created for any county, and the commissioners of such authority may be appointed, in the same manner as provided in this chapter, for the creation of a housing authority for a city and the appointment of the commissioners of such authority. Each housing authority created for a county and the commissioners thereof shall have the same functions, rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities and limitations provided for housing authorities created for cities and the commissioners of such housing authorities, and all law applicable to housing authorities created for cities and the commissioners of such authorities shall be applicable to housing authorities created for counties and the commissioners of such authorities.
(b) For all such purposes, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: (1) "City" or "city and the area within ten (10) miles from the territorial boundaries thereof" means county; (2) "City clerk" means county clerk; and (3) "Mayor" or "council" as used in this chapter and any amendment thereto are construed as meaning county legislative body.
(1) "City" or "city and the area within ten (10) miles from the territorial boundaries thereof" means county;
(2) "City clerk" means county clerk; and
(3) "Mayor" or "council" as used in this chapter and any amendment thereto are construed as meaning county legislative body.
(c) A housing authority created for a county shall not be subject to the limitations provided in § 13-20-113(a)(4) with respect to housing projects for farmers of low income.
Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 33, as added by Acts 1943, ch. 22, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.26 (Williams, § 3647.29i); impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1001.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-604 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-604
Power to mortgage when project financed with aid of government
Status: in_force

In connection with any project financed in whole or in part or otherwise aided by a government, whether through a donation of money or property, a loan, the insurance or guarantee of a loan, or otherwise, the authority also has the power to mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired and thereby to: (1) Vest in a government the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings, so long as a government shall be the holder of any of the bonds secured by such mortgage; (2) Vest in a trustee or trustees the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings; (3) Vest in other obligees the right to foreclose such mortgage by judicial proceedings; and (4) Vest in any obligee, including a government, the right, in foreclosing any mortgage as aforementioned, foreclose such mortgage as to all or such part or parts of the property covered thereby as such obligee, in its absolute discretion, shall elect; the institution, prosecution and conclusion of any such foreclosure proceedings and/or sale of any such parts of the mortgaged property shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the lien of the mortgage on the parts of the mortgaged property not included in such proceedings or not sold as aforementioned. Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 17; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.16 (Williams, § 3647.17); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1104.
In connection with any project financed in whole or in part or otherwise aided by a government, whether through a donation of money or property, a loan, the insurance or guarantee of a loan, or otherwise, the authority also has the power to mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired and thereby to:
(1) Vest in a government the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings, so long as a government shall be the holder of any of the bonds secured by such mortgage;
(2) Vest in a trustee or trustees the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings;
(3) Vest in other obligees the right to foreclose such mortgage by judicial proceedings; and
(4) Vest in any obligee, including a government, the right, in foreclosing any mortgage as aforementioned, foreclose such mortgage as to all or such part or parts of the property covered thereby as such obligee, in its absolute discretion, shall elect; the institution, prosecution and conclusion of any such foreclosure proceedings and/or sale of any such parts of the mortgaged property shall not affect in any manner or to any extent the lien of the mortgage on the parts of the mortgaged property not included in such proceedings or not sold as aforementioned.
Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 17; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.16 (Williams, § 3647.17); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1104.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-7-205 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 7 / Section 13-7-205
Board of appeals - Creation - Appointment of members - Terms - Rules governing organization -Training and continuing education
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The chief legislative body may create a board of zoning appeals of three (3), five (5), seven (7), or nine (9) members, may specify the mode of appointment of members of such board and their terms, which terms shall be of such length and so arranged that the term of one (1) member shall expire each year, or the chief legislative body may designate the planning commission of the municipality as the board of zoning appeals. The compensation of the members of the board shall be as affixed by the chief legislative body; provided, that in those counties having a metropolitan government the chief legislative body may create a board of three (3), five (5), seven (7), or nine (9) members, at least two (2) of whom shall be selected from minorities as well as members of the sex which historically have been under-represented on the board of zoning appeals, subject to this section. If a county with a metropolitan form of government having a population of not less than four hundred seventy thousand (470,000) nor more than five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, creates a board of zoning appeals consisting of nine (9) members, at least two (2) of the members thereof shall be appointed consistent with this subsection (a). (2) In the county town of any county having a population of more than two hundred eighty thousand (280,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the chief legislative body may create a board of zoning appeals of nine (9) members, and may specify the mode of appointment of members of such board and their terms. Such terms shall be of a length and so arranged that the term of one (1) member shall expire each year. This subdivision (a)(2) shall not apply to a county having a charter form of government or any county having a metropolitan form of government. (3) A municipality having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand eight hundred fifty (32,850) nor more than thirty-four thousand (34,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, may increase its board of zoning appeals from five (5) members to seven (7) members, with the terms of such members being arranged in accordance with this subsection (a). (b) (1) The chief legislative body may provide and specify, in its zoning or other ordinance, general rules to govern the organization and procedure and jurisdiction of the board of appeals, which rules shall not be inconsistent with this part and part 3 of this chapter, and the board of appeals may adopt supplemental rules of procedure, not inconsistent with this part and part 3 of this chapter or such general rules. (2) The supplemental rules of procedure may address, but shall not be limited to, the following: (A) Maintenance of a record of the board's resolutions, transactions, motions and actions, which shall be a public record; (B) Election from its membership of a chair and other officers as the board deems necessary; and (C) The inclusion of statements of reasons for the board's actions as part of each motion or action, including such findings of fact and statements of material evidence as the board may deem pertinent. (c) (1) Each board of zoning appeals member shall, within one (1) year of initial appointment and each calendar year thereafter, attend a minimum of four (4) hours of training and continuing education in one (1) or more of the subjects listed in subdivision (c)(5). (2) Each full-time or contract building commissioner or professional planner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals shall, each calendar year, attend a minimum of eight (8) hours of training and continuing education in one (1) or more of the subjects listed in subdivision (c)(5). A professional planner who is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) shall be exempt from this requirement. (3) Each of the individuals listed in subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) shall certify by December 31 of each calendar year such individual's attendance by a written statement filed with the secretary of such individual's respective board of zoning appeals. Each statement shall identify the date of each program attended, its subject matter, location, sponsors, and the time spent in each program. (4) The legislative body of the municipality shall be responsible for paying the training and continuing education course registration and travel expenses for each board of zoning appeals member and full-time building commissioner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals. (5) The subjects for the training and continuing education required by subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) shall include, but not be limited to, the following: land use planning; zoning; flood plain management; transportation; community facilities; ethics; public utilities; wireless telecommunications facilities; parliamentary procedure; public hearing procedure; land use law; natural resources and agricultural land conservation; economic development; housing; public buildings; land subdivision; and powers and duties of the board of zoning appeals. Other topics reasonably related to the duties of the board of zoning appeals and the building commissioner or other administrative officials whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals may be approved by majority vote of the board of zoning appeals prior to December 31 of the year for which credit is sought. (6) Each local board of zoning appeals shall keep in its official public record originals of all statements and the written documentation of attendance required to comply with these provisions for three (3) years after the calendar year in which each statement and appurtenant written documentation is filed. (7) Each board of zoning appeals member and each building commissioner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals shall be responsible for obtaining written documentation signed by a representative of the sponsor of any training and continuing education course for which credit is claimed, acknowledging the fact that the individual attended the program for which credit is claimed. (8) If a board of zoning appeals member fails to complete the requisite number of hours of training and continuing education within the time allotted by this subsection (c) or fails to file the statement required by this subsection (c), then this shall constitute a cause for the removal of the board of zoning appeals member from the board of zoning appeals. (9) The legislative body of the municipality may, at any time, opt out of this subsection (c) by passage of an ordinance. Further any such legislative body that has opted out may, at a later date, opt in by passage of an ordinance. Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 693, s 2, eff. 3/24/2016. Acts 1935, ch. 44, § 5; C. Supp. 1950, § 3407.5; Acts 1979, ch. 324, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-705; Acts 1988, ch. 845, §§ 1, 2; 1998, ch. 721, § 1; 1999, ch. 78, § 1; 2002, ch. 862, § 6; 2009 , ch. 47, § 11; 2011 , ch. 279, § 2.
(a) (1) The chief legislative body may create a board of zoning appeals of three (3), five (5), seven (7), or nine (9) members, may specify the mode of appointment of members of such board and their terms, which terms shall be of such length and so arranged that the term of one (1) member shall expire each year, or the chief legislative body may designate the planning commission of the municipality as the board of zoning appeals. The compensation of the members of the board shall be as affixed by the chief legislative body; provided, that in those counties having a metropolitan government the chief legislative body may create a board of three (3), five (5), seven (7), or nine (9) members, at least two (2) of whom shall be selected from minorities as well as members of the sex which historically have been under-represented on the board of zoning appeals, subject to this section. If a county with a metropolitan form of government having a population of not less than four hundred seventy thousand (470,000) nor more than five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, creates a board of zoning appeals consisting of nine (9) members, at least two (2) of the members thereof shall be appointed consistent with this subsection (a). (2) In the county town of any county having a population of more than two hundred eighty thousand (280,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the chief legislative body may create a board of zoning appeals of nine (9) members, and may specify the mode of appointment of members of such board and their terms. Such terms shall be of a length and so arranged that the term of one (1) member shall expire each year. This subdivision (a)(2) shall not apply to a county having a charter form of government or any county having a metropolitan form of government. (3) A municipality having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand eight hundred fifty (32,850) nor more than thirty-four thousand (34,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, may increase its board of zoning appeals from five (5) members to seven (7) members, with the terms of such members being arranged in accordance with this subsection (a).
(1) The chief legislative body may create a board of zoning appeals of three (3), five (5), seven (7), or nine (9) members, may specify the mode of appointment of members of such board and their terms, which terms shall be of such length and so arranged that the term of one (1) member shall expire each year, or the chief legislative body may designate the planning commission of the municipality as the board of zoning appeals. The compensation of the members of the board shall be as affixed by the chief legislative body; provided, that in those counties having a metropolitan government the chief legislative body may create a board of three (3), five (5), seven (7), or nine (9) members, at least two (2) of whom shall be selected from minorities as well as members of the sex which historically have been under-represented on the board of zoning appeals, subject to this section. If a county with a metropolitan form of government having a population of not less than four hundred seventy thousand (470,000) nor more than five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, creates a board of zoning appeals consisting of nine (9) members, at least two (2) of the members thereof shall be appointed consistent with this subsection (a).
(2) In the county town of any county having a population of more than two hundred eighty thousand (280,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the chief legislative body may create a board of zoning appeals of nine (9) members, and may specify the mode of appointment of members of such board and their terms. Such terms shall be of a length and so arranged that the term of one (1) member shall expire each year. This subdivision (a)(2) shall not apply to a county having a charter form of government or any county having a metropolitan form of government.
(3) A municipality having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand eight hundred fifty (32,850) nor more than thirty-four thousand (34,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, may increase its board of zoning appeals from five (5) members to seven (7) members, with the terms of such members being arranged in accordance with this subsection (a).
(b) (1) The chief legislative body may provide and specify, in its zoning or other ordinance, general rules to govern the organization and procedure and jurisdiction of the board of appeals, which rules shall not be inconsistent with this part and part 3 of this chapter, and the board of appeals may adopt supplemental rules of procedure, not inconsistent with this part and part 3 of this chapter or such general rules. (2) The supplemental rules of procedure may address, but shall not be limited to, the following: (A) Maintenance of a record of the board's resolutions, transactions, motions and actions, which shall be a public record; (B) Election from its membership of a chair and other officers as the board deems necessary; and (C) The inclusion of statements of reasons for the board's actions as part of each motion or action, including such findings of fact and statements of material evidence as the board may deem pertinent.
(1) The chief legislative body may provide and specify, in its zoning or other ordinance, general rules to govern the organization and procedure and jurisdiction of the board of appeals, which rules shall not be inconsistent with this part and part 3 of this chapter, and the board of appeals may adopt supplemental rules of procedure, not inconsistent with this part and part 3 of this chapter or such general rules.
(2) The supplemental rules of procedure may address, but shall not be limited to, the following: (A) Maintenance of a record of the board's resolutions, transactions, motions and actions, which shall be a public record; (B) Election from its membership of a chair and other officers as the board deems necessary; and (C) The inclusion of statements of reasons for the board's actions as part of each motion or action, including such findings of fact and statements of material evidence as the board may deem pertinent.
(A) Maintenance of a record of the board's resolutions, transactions, motions and actions, which shall be a public record;
(B) Election from its membership of a chair and other officers as the board deems necessary; and
(C) The inclusion of statements of reasons for the board's actions as part of each motion or action, including such findings of fact and statements of material evidence as the board may deem pertinent.
(c) (1) Each board of zoning appeals member shall, within one (1) year of initial appointment and each calendar year thereafter, attend a minimum of four (4) hours of training and continuing education in one (1) or more of the subjects listed in subdivision (c)(5). (2) Each full-time or contract building commissioner or professional planner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals shall, each calendar year, attend a minimum of eight (8) hours of training and continuing education in one (1) or more of the subjects listed in subdivision (c)(5). A professional planner who is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) shall be exempt from this requirement. (3) Each of the individuals listed in subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) shall certify by December 31 of each calendar year such individual's attendance by a written statement filed with the secretary of such individual's respective board of zoning appeals. Each statement shall identify the date of each program attended, its subject matter, location, sponsors, and the time spent in each program. (4) The legislative body of the municipality shall be responsible for paying the training and continuing education course registration and travel expenses for each board of zoning appeals member and full-time building commissioner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals. (5) The subjects for the training and continuing education required by subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) shall include, but not be limited to, the following: land use planning; zoning; flood plain management; transportation; community facilities; ethics; public utilities; wireless telecommunications facilities; parliamentary procedure; public hearing procedure; land use law; natural resources and agricultural land conservation; economic development; housing; public buildings; land subdivision; and powers and duties of the board of zoning appeals. Other topics reasonably related to the duties of the board of zoning appeals and the building commissioner or other administrative officials whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals may be approved by majority vote of the board of zoning appeals prior to December 31 of the year for which credit is sought. (6) Each local board of zoning appeals shall keep in its official public record originals of all statements and the written documentation of attendance required to comply with these provisions for three (3) years after the calendar year in which each statement and appurtenant written documentation is filed. (7) Each board of zoning appeals member and each building commissioner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals shall be responsible for obtaining written documentation signed by a representative of the sponsor of any training and continuing education course for which credit is claimed, acknowledging the fact that the individual attended the program for which credit is claimed. (8) If a board of zoning appeals member fails to complete the requisite number of hours of training and continuing education within the time allotted by this subsection (c) or fails to file the statement required by this subsection (c), then this shall constitute a cause for the removal of the board of zoning appeals member from the board of zoning appeals. (9) The legislative body of the municipality may, at any time, opt out of this subsection (c) by passage of an ordinance. Further any such legislative body that has opted out may, at a later date, opt in by passage of an ordinance.
(1) Each board of zoning appeals member shall, within one (1) year of initial appointment and each calendar year thereafter, attend a minimum of four (4) hours of training and continuing education in one (1) or more of the subjects listed in subdivision (c)(5).
(2) Each full-time or contract building commissioner or professional planner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals shall, each calendar year, attend a minimum of eight (8) hours of training and continuing education in one (1) or more of the subjects listed in subdivision (c)(5). A professional planner who is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) shall be exempt from this requirement.
(3) Each of the individuals listed in subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) shall certify by December 31 of each calendar year such individual's attendance by a written statement filed with the secretary of such individual's respective board of zoning appeals. Each statement shall identify the date of each program attended, its subject matter, location, sponsors, and the time spent in each program.
(4) The legislative body of the municipality shall be responsible for paying the training and continuing education course registration and travel expenses for each board of zoning appeals member and full-time building commissioner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals.
(5) The subjects for the training and continuing education required by subdivisions (c)(1) and (2) shall include, but not be limited to, the following: land use planning; zoning; flood plain management; transportation; community facilities; ethics; public utilities; wireless telecommunications facilities; parliamentary procedure; public hearing procedure; land use law; natural resources and agricultural land conservation; economic development; housing; public buildings; land subdivision; and powers and duties of the board of zoning appeals. Other topics reasonably related to the duties of the board of zoning appeals and the building commissioner or other administrative officials whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals may be approved by majority vote of the board of zoning appeals prior to December 31 of the year for which credit is sought.
(6) Each local board of zoning appeals shall keep in its official public record originals of all statements and the written documentation of attendance required to comply with these provisions for three (3) years after the calendar year in which each statement and appurtenant written documentation is filed.
(7) Each board of zoning appeals member and each building commissioner or other administrative official whose duties include advising the board of zoning appeals shall be responsible for obtaining written documentation signed by a representative of the sponsor of any training and continuing education course for which credit is claimed, acknowledging the fact that the individual attended the program for which credit is claimed.
(8) If a board of zoning appeals member fails to complete the requisite number of hours of training and continuing education within the time allotted by this subsection (c) or fails to file the statement required by this subsection (c), then this shall constitute a cause for the removal of the board of zoning appeals member from the board of zoning appeals.
(9) The legislative body of the municipality may, at any time, opt out of this subsection (c) by passage of an ordinance. Further any such legislative body that has opted out may, at a later date, opt in by passage of an ordinance.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 693, s 2, eff. 3/24/2016.
Acts 1935, ch. 44, § 5; C. Supp. 1950, § 3407.5; Acts 1979, ch. 324, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-705; Acts 1988, ch. 845, §§ 1, 2; 1998, ch. 721, § 1; 1999, ch. 78, § 1; 2002, ch. 862, § 6; 2009 , ch. 47, § 11; 2011 , ch. 279, § 2.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-23-125 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 23 / Section 13-23-125
Annual reports - Audits
Status: in_force

(a) The agency may, in accordance with the rules, regulations, policies and procedures of the state publications committee, submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to the governor, comptroller of the treasury, and the general assembly. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement of the agency during such year. The annual report shall set forth an annual statistical report including, but not limited to, the amount of mortgage loans made and the geographic location of the property having such mortgages; the number, size and average income of families benefiting from the agency's activities; the improved size of housing for such families; and comparison of the loan interest rates for such families with and without the agency's activities. (b) (1) The annual report, including financial statements, all books, accounts and financial records of the agency shall be audited annually by the comptroller of the treasury. (2) All audits performed by the internal audit staff of the agency shall be conducted in accordance with the standards established by the comptroller of the treasury pursuant to § 4-3-304(9) . Acts 1973, ch. 241, § 15; 1974, ch. 702, § 10; 1977, ch. 483, § 12; T.C.A., § 13-2325; Acts 1984, ch. 794, § 9; 1990, ch. 1024, § 15; 2004, ch. 656, § 2.
(a) The agency may, in accordance with the rules, regulations, policies and procedures of the state publications committee, submit an annual report of its activities for the preceding year to the governor, comptroller of the treasury, and the general assembly. Each such report shall set forth a complete operating and financial statement of the agency during such year. The annual report shall set forth an annual statistical report including, but not limited to, the amount of mortgage loans made and the geographic location of the property having such mortgages; the number, size and average income of families benefiting from the agency's activities; the improved size of housing for such families; and comparison of the loan interest rates for such families with and without the agency's activities.
(b) (1) The annual report, including financial statements, all books, accounts and financial records of the agency shall be audited annually by the comptroller of the treasury. (2) All audits performed by the internal audit staff of the agency shall be conducted in accordance with the standards established by the comptroller of the treasury pursuant to § 4-3-304(9) .
(1) The annual report, including financial statements, all books, accounts and financial records of the agency shall be audited annually by the comptroller of the treasury.
(2) All audits performed by the internal audit staff of the agency shall be conducted in accordance with the standards established by the comptroller of the treasury pursuant to § 4-3-304(9) .
Acts 1973, ch. 241, § 15; 1974, ch. 702, § 10; 1977, ch. 483, § 12; T.C.A., § 13-2325; Acts 1984, ch. 794, § 9; 1990, ch. 1024, § 15; 2004, ch. 656, § 2.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-507 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-507
Commissioners of regional housing authority - Appointment - Term - Vacancies - Powers - Organization
Status: in_force

(a) The legislative body of each county included in a regional housing authority shall appoint one (1) person as a commissioner of such authority, and each such commissioner to be first appointed by the legislative body of a county may be appointed at or after the time of the adoption of the resolution declaring the need for such regional housing authority, or of declaring the need for the inclusion of such county in the area of operation of such regional housing authority. When the area of operation of a regional housing authority is increased to include an additional county or counties as provided above, the legislative body of each such county shall thereupon appoint one (1) additional person as a commissioner of the regional housing authority. The legislative body of each county shall appoint the successor of the commissioner appointed by it. If any county is excluded from the area of operation of a regional housing authority, the office of the commissioner of such regional housing authority appointed by the legislative body of such county shall be thereupon abolished. (b) If the area of operation of a regional housing authority consists at any time of an even number of counties, the commissioners of the regional housing authority appointed by the legislative bodies of such counties shall appoint one (1) additional commissioner, as well as such person's successor, whose term of office shall be as herein provided for a commissioner of a regional housing authority, except that such term shall end at any earlier time when the area of operation of the regional housing authority shall be changed to consist of an odd number of counties. A certificate of the appointment of any commissioner of a regional housing authority shall be signed by the appointing officer or officers and filed with the other records of the regional housing authority, and shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of such commissioner. (c) The commissioners shall be appointed for terms of five (5) years, except that all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term. Each commissioner shall hold office until such commissioner's successor has been appointed and has qualified, except as otherwise provided herein. For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner may be removed by the officer or officers, or their successors, appointing such commissioner, but such commissioner shall be removed only after such commissioner has been given a copy of the charges at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing thereon and has had an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel. In the event of the removal of such commissioner, a record of the proceedings, together with the charges and findings thereon, shall be filed with the other records of the regional housing authority. (d) The commissioners shall constitute the regional housing authority, and the powers of such authority shall be vested in such commissioners in office from time to time. (e) The commissioners shall elect a chair from among the commissioners and shall have power to select or employ such other officers and employees as the regional housing authority may require. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum of such authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes. Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 39, as added by Acts 1943, ch. 22, § 6; mod. C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.29C (Williams, § 3647.29o); impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1007.
(a) The legislative body of each county included in a regional housing authority shall appoint one (1) person as a commissioner of such authority, and each such commissioner to be first appointed by the legislative body of a county may be appointed at or after the time of the adoption of the resolution declaring the need for such regional housing authority, or of declaring the need for the inclusion of such county in the area of operation of such regional housing authority. When the area of operation of a regional housing authority is increased to include an additional county or counties as provided above, the legislative body of each such county shall thereupon appoint one (1) additional person as a commissioner of the regional housing authority. The legislative body of each county shall appoint the successor of the commissioner appointed by it. If any county is excluded from the area of operation of a regional housing authority, the office of the commissioner of such regional housing authority appointed by the legislative body of such county shall be thereupon abolished.
(b) If the area of operation of a regional housing authority consists at any time of an even number of counties, the commissioners of the regional housing authority appointed by the legislative bodies of such counties shall appoint one (1) additional commissioner, as well as such person's successor, whose term of office shall be as herein provided for a commissioner of a regional housing authority, except that such term shall end at any earlier time when the area of operation of the regional housing authority shall be changed to consist of an odd number of counties. A certificate of the appointment of any commissioner of a regional housing authority shall be signed by the appointing officer or officers and filed with the other records of the regional housing authority, and shall be conclusive evidence of the due and proper appointment of such commissioner.
(c) The commissioners shall be appointed for terms of five (5) years, except that all vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term. Each commissioner shall hold office until such commissioner's successor has been appointed and has qualified, except as otherwise provided herein. For inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, a commissioner may be removed by the officer or officers, or their successors, appointing such commissioner, but such commissioner shall be removed only after such commissioner has been given a copy of the charges at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing thereon and has had an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel. In the event of the removal of such commissioner, a record of the proceedings, together with the charges and findings thereon, shall be filed with the other records of the regional housing authority.
(d) The commissioners shall constitute the regional housing authority, and the powers of such authority shall be vested in such commissioners in office from time to time.
(e) The commissioners shall elect a chair from among the commissioners and shall have power to select or employ such other officers and employees as the regional housing authority may require. A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum of such authority for the purpose of conducting its business and exercising its powers and for all other purposes.
Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 39, as added by Acts 1943, ch. 22, § 6; mod. C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.29C (Williams, § 3647.29o); impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1007.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-7-111 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 7 / Section 13-7-111
Violation of regulations - Penalties - Modes of enforcement and remedies
Status: in_force

It is unlawful to erect, construct, reconstruct, alter, maintain or use any building or structure or to use any land in violation of any regulation in any provision of any ordinance or any amendment thereof enacted or adopted by any county legislative body under the authority of this part. A violation of this part is a Class C misdemeanor. Each and every day during which such illegal erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance or use continues is deemed a separate offense. In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, maintained or used or any land is or is proposed to be used in violation of this part or of any regulation or provision enacted or adopted by any county legislative body under the authority granted by this part, such county legislative body, the attorney general and reporter, the district attorney general for the judicial district in which such violation occurs or is threatened, the county building commissioner or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specially damaged by such violation, in addition to other remedies provided by law, may institute injunction, mandamus, abatement or any other appropriate action, actions, proceeding or proceedings to prevent, enjoin or abate or remove such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance or use. Acts 1935, ch. 33, § 8; C. Supp. 1950, § 10268.8; modified; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-411; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
It is unlawful to erect, construct, reconstruct, alter, maintain or use any building or structure or to use any land in violation of any regulation in any provision of any ordinance or any amendment thereof enacted or adopted by any county legislative body under the authority of this part. A violation of this part is a Class C misdemeanor. Each and every day during which such illegal erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance or use continues is deemed a separate offense. In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, maintained or used or any land is or is proposed to be used in violation of this part or of any regulation or provision enacted or adopted by any county legislative body under the authority granted by this part, such county legislative body, the attorney general and reporter, the district attorney general for the judicial district in which such violation occurs or is threatened, the county building commissioner or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specially damaged by such violation, in addition to other remedies provided by law, may institute injunction, mandamus, abatement or any other appropriate action, actions, proceeding or proceedings to prevent, enjoin or abate or remove such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance or use.
Acts 1935, ch. 33, § 8; C. Supp. 1950, § 10268.8; modified; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-411; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-24-102 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 24 / Section 13-24-102
Homes in which persons with disabilities reside classified as single family residence
Status: in_force

For the purposes of any zoning law in Tennessee, the classification "single family residence" includes any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated persons with disabilities reside, and may include three (3) additional persons acting as support staff or guardians, who need not be related to each other or to any of the persons with disabilities residing in the home. Acts 1978, ch. 863, § 2; 1979, ch. 361, § 2; T.C.A., § 13-2402; Acts 1999, ch. 204, § 1; 2011, ch. 47, § 10; 2011, ch. 158, § 9.
For the purposes of any zoning law in Tennessee, the classification "single family residence" includes any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated persons with disabilities reside, and may include three (3) additional persons acting as support staff or guardians, who need not be related to each other or to any of the persons with disabilities residing in the home.
Acts 1978, ch. 863, § 2; 1979, ch. 361, § 2; T.C.A., § 13-2402; Acts 1999, ch. 204, § 1; 2011, ch. 47, § 10; 2011, ch. 158, § 9.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-204 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-204
Disposal and use of land consistent with redevelopment plan - Purchase by owner occupant
Status: in_force

(a) The authority may make land in a redevelopment project available for use by private enterprise or public agencies in accordance with the redevelopment plan. Such land may be made available at its use value, which represents the value, whether expressed in terms of rental or capital price, at which the authority determines such land should be made available in order that it may be developed or redeveloped for the purposes specified in such plan. (b) (1) To assure that land acquired in a redevelopment project is used in accordance with the redevelopment plan, an authority, upon the sale or lease of such land, shall obligate purchasers or lessees to: (A) Use the land for the purpose designated in the redevelopment plan; (B) Begin the building of their improvements within a period of time which the authority fixes as reasonable; or, except in counties having a population of: not less than nor more than 23,751 23,759 25,501 25,999 28,600 28,650 44,000 45,999 according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, if the purchaser is a public agency which proposes to develop such lands as an industrial park or to meet the needs of specific industrial prospects, carry on a program for attracting industry and develop such land for this purpose when and as needed, in counties of this state having a population of not less than two hundred thirty seven thousand (237,000) nor more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000), according to the federal census of 1960 or any subsequent federal census; and (C) Comply with such other conditions as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (2) Any such obligations by the purchaser shall be covenants and conditions running with the land where the authority so stipulates. (c) (1) As used in this subsection (c): (A) "Developer" means any private enterprise or public agency developing or redeveloping residential property as provided in this subsection (c); (B) "Owner occupant" means the person having title to and residing at the residential property at the time it was acquired by eminent domain; and (C) "Residential units" includes one-family and two-family dwellings and dwelling units as defined in this chapter. (2) On redevelopment projects developed after June 8, 1989, the authority shall provide the opportunity for owner occupants of residential property acquired by eminent domain for a redevelopment project to relocate within the project area if or at such time as residential units are constructed and offered for sale to the general public as a part of the project. A developer shall publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the county where the project area is located. Such notice shall provide to each owner occupant of residential property acquired by eminent domain for a redevelopment project an offer to relocate within the project area. The notice shall contain a description of the property to be redeveloped. The notice shall contain a name and address to whom the owner occupant may respond to accept the offer. The developer shall also record the notice in the registrar's office. Each owner occupant shall have ninety (90) days from the date of publication to accept the offer contained in the notice. Any acceptance shall be in writing. Any owner occupant who has not responded to the notice before the expiration of the ninety (90) days from publication shall be deemed to have rejected such offer, and any interest therein shall be deemed to be terminated. (3) This subsection (c) shall apply only if the initial redevelopment project for which such property is acquired is for residential purposes. (4) No provision of this subsection (c) shall be construed to vest any interest or rights in the heirs or estate of any deceased owner occupant. (5) This subsection (c) shall not apply to residential units or dwelling units developed under programs limiting income of purchasers to a certain maximum income or other requirements for which the original owner occupant is not eligible. (6) This subsection (c) shall only apply in counties having a population of not less than four hundred seventy-seven thousand (477,000) nor more than four hundred seventy-eight thousand (478,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census. Acts 1945, ch. 114, § 5; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.29Q (Williams, § 3647.56); Acts 1965, ch. 194, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-816; Acts 1989, ch. 570, §§ 1, 2.
(a) The authority may make land in a redevelopment project available for use by private enterprise or public agencies in accordance with the redevelopment plan. Such land may be made available at its use value, which represents the value, whether expressed in terms of rental or capital price, at which the authority determines such land should be made available in order that it may be developed or redeveloped for the purposes specified in such plan.
(b) (1) To assure that land acquired in a redevelopment project is used in accordance with the redevelopment plan, an authority, upon the sale or lease of such land, shall obligate purchasers or lessees to: (A) Use the land for the purpose designated in the redevelopment plan; (B) Begin the building of their improvements within a period of time which the authority fixes as reasonable; or, except in counties having a population of: not less than nor more than 23,751 23,759 25,501 25,999 28,600 28,650 44,000 45,999 according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, if the purchaser is a public agency which proposes to develop such lands as an industrial park or to meet the needs of specific industrial prospects, carry on a program for attracting industry and develop such land for this purpose when and as needed, in counties of this state having a population of not less than two hundred thirty seven thousand (237,000) nor more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000), according to the federal census of 1960 or any subsequent federal census; and (C) Comply with such other conditions as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. (2) Any such obligations by the purchaser shall be covenants and conditions running with the land where the authority so stipulates.
(1) To assure that land acquired in a redevelopment project is used in accordance with the redevelopment plan, an authority, upon the sale or lease of such land, shall obligate purchasers or lessees to: (A) Use the land for the purpose designated in the redevelopment plan; (B) Begin the building of their improvements within a period of time which the authority fixes as reasonable; or, except in counties having a population of: not less than nor more than 23,751 23,759 25,501 25,999 28,600 28,650 44,000 45,999 according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, if the purchaser is a public agency which proposes to develop such lands as an industrial park or to meet the needs of specific industrial prospects, carry on a program for attracting industry and develop such land for this purpose when and as needed, in counties of this state having a population of not less than two hundred thirty seven thousand (237,000) nor more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000), according to the federal census of 1960 or any subsequent federal census; and (C) Comply with such other conditions as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(A) Use the land for the purpose designated in the redevelopment plan;
(B) Begin the building of their improvements within a period of time which the authority fixes as reasonable; or, except in counties having a population of: not less than nor more than 23,751 23,759 25,501 25,999 28,600 28,650 44,000 45,999 according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, if the purchaser is a public agency which proposes to develop such lands as an industrial park or to meet the needs of specific industrial prospects, carry on a program for attracting industry and develop such land for this purpose when and as needed, in counties of this state having a population of not less than two hundred thirty seven thousand (237,000) nor more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000), according to the federal census of 1960 or any subsequent federal census; and
not less than nor more than 23,751 23,759 25,501 25,999 28,600 28,650 44,000 45,999
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according to the 1960 federal census or any subsequent federal census, if the purchaser is a public agency which proposes to develop such lands as an industrial park or to meet the needs of specific industrial prospects, carry on a program for attracting industry and develop such land for this purpose when and as needed, in counties of this state having a population of not less than two hundred thirty seven thousand (237,000) nor more than two hundred fifty thousand (250,000), according to the federal census of 1960 or any subsequent federal census; and
(C) Comply with such other conditions as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(2) Any such obligations by the purchaser shall be covenants and conditions running with the land where the authority so stipulates.
(c) (1) As used in this subsection (c): (A) "Developer" means any private enterprise or public agency developing or redeveloping residential property as provided in this subsection (c); (B) "Owner occupant" means the person having title to and residing at the residential property at the time it was acquired by eminent domain; and (C) "Residential units" includes one-family and two-family dwellings and dwelling units as defined in this chapter. (2) On redevelopment projects developed after June 8, 1989, the authority shall provide the opportunity for owner occupants of residential property acquired by eminent domain for a redevelopment project to relocate within the project area if or at such time as residential units are constructed and offered for sale to the general public as a part of the project. A developer shall publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the county where the project area is located. Such notice shall provide to each owner occupant of residential property acquired by eminent domain for a redevelopment project an offer to relocate within the project area. The notice shall contain a description of the property to be redeveloped. The notice shall contain a name and address to whom the owner occupant may respond to accept the offer. The developer shall also record the notice in the registrar's office. Each owner occupant shall have ninety (90) days from the date of publication to accept the offer contained in the notice. Any acceptance shall be in writing. Any owner occupant who has not responded to the notice before the expiration of the ninety (90) days from publication shall be deemed to have rejected such offer, and any interest therein shall be deemed to be terminated. (3) This subsection (c) shall apply only if the initial redevelopment project for which such property is acquired is for residential purposes. (4) No provision of this subsection (c) shall be construed to vest any interest or rights in the heirs or estate of any deceased owner occupant. (5) This subsection (c) shall not apply to residential units or dwelling units developed under programs limiting income of purchasers to a certain maximum income or other requirements for which the original owner occupant is not eligible. (6) This subsection (c) shall only apply in counties having a population of not less than four hundred seventy-seven thousand (477,000) nor more than four hundred seventy-eight thousand (478,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
(1) As used in this subsection (c): (A) "Developer" means any private enterprise or public agency developing or redeveloping residential property as provided in this subsection (c); (B) "Owner occupant" means the person having title to and residing at the residential property at the time it was acquired by eminent domain; and (C) "Residential units" includes one-family and two-family dwellings and dwelling units as defined in this chapter.
(A) "Developer" means any private enterprise or public agency developing or redeveloping residential property as provided in this subsection (c);
(B) "Owner occupant" means the person having title to and residing at the residential property at the time it was acquired by eminent domain; and
(C) "Residential units" includes one-family and two-family dwellings and dwelling units as defined in this chapter.
(2) On redevelopment projects developed after June 8, 1989, the authority shall provide the opportunity for owner occupants of residential property acquired by eminent domain for a redevelopment project to relocate within the project area if or at such time as residential units are constructed and offered for sale to the general public as a part of the project. A developer shall publish a notice in a newspaper of general circulation within the county where the project area is located. Such notice shall provide to each owner occupant of residential property acquired by eminent domain for a redevelopment project an offer to relocate within the project area. The notice shall contain a description of the property to be redeveloped. The notice shall contain a name and address to whom the owner occupant may respond to accept the offer. The developer shall also record the notice in the registrar's office. Each owner occupant shall have ninety (90) days from the date of publication to accept the offer contained in the notice. Any acceptance shall be in writing. Any owner occupant who has not responded to the notice before the expiration of the ninety (90) days from publication shall be deemed to have rejected such offer, and any interest therein shall be deemed to be terminated.
(3) This subsection (c) shall apply only if the initial redevelopment project for which such property is acquired is for residential purposes.
(4) No provision of this subsection (c) shall be construed to vest any interest or rights in the heirs or estate of any deceased owner occupant.
(5) This subsection (c) shall not apply to residential units or dwelling units developed under programs limiting income of purchasers to a certain maximum income or other requirements for which the original owner occupant is not eligible.
(6) This subsection (c) shall only apply in counties having a population of not less than four hundred seventy-seven thousand (477,000) nor more than four hundred seventy-eight thousand (478,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
Acts 1945, ch. 114, § 5; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.29Q (Williams, § 3647.56); Acts 1965, ch. 194, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-816; Acts 1989, ch. 570, §§ 1, 2.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-614 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-614
Taxes pledged for repayment of indebtedness for redevelopment projects
Status: in_force

(a) An authority is hereby authorized and empowered to irrevocably pledge to the payment of principal of and interest on any bonds, loans or other indebtedness incurred by the authority to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, the project facilities authorized under subsection (c), that portion of taxes which pursuant to § 13-20-205(a)(2) is to be paid into the special fund of the authority. Such portion of taxes shall be considered "revenues" within the meaning of § 13-20-601 . (b) The authority shall create a special fund or funds for the sole purpose of paying the principal of and interest on such bonds, loans or other indebtedness and into which taxes allocated to the authority pursuant to § 13-20-205(a)(2) will be, from time to time, deposited. The authority shall be obligated and bound to set aside from such taxes an amount sufficient to pay such indebtedness as the same shall become due, and, as provided in the proceedings authorizing the incurrence of any indebtedness of the authority, to maintain adequate reserves for the payment of such indebtedness. (c) The special fund shall be used solely for the payment of principal of and interest, and redemption premiums, on bonds, loans and other indebtedness incurred by the authority in connection with the redevelopment project financed from the proceeds of such bonds, loans or other indebtedness. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, in order to secure any bonds, notes or other indebtedness incurred by the authority, the authority shall have the power to mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired, and thereby to vest in a trustee or trustees the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, to foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings. Acts 1978, ch. 854, § 4; T.C.A., § 13-1114.
(a) An authority is hereby authorized and empowered to irrevocably pledge to the payment of principal of and interest on any bonds, loans or other indebtedness incurred by the authority to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, the project facilities authorized under subsection (c), that portion of taxes which pursuant to § 13-20-205(a)(2) is to be paid into the special fund of the authority. Such portion of taxes shall be considered "revenues" within the meaning of § 13-20-601 .
(b) The authority shall create a special fund or funds for the sole purpose of paying the principal of and interest on such bonds, loans or other indebtedness and into which taxes allocated to the authority pursuant to § 13-20-205(a)(2) will be, from time to time, deposited. The authority shall be obligated and bound to set aside from such taxes an amount sufficient to pay such indebtedness as the same shall become due, and, as provided in the proceedings authorizing the incurrence of any indebtedness of the authority, to maintain adequate reserves for the payment of such indebtedness.
(c) The special fund shall be used solely for the payment of principal of and interest, and redemption premiums, on bonds, loans and other indebtedness incurred by the authority in connection with the redevelopment project financed from the proceeds of such bonds, loans or other indebtedness.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, in order to secure any bonds, notes or other indebtedness incurred by the authority, the authority shall have the power to mortgage all or any part of its property, real or personal, then owned or thereafter acquired, and thereby to vest in a trustee or trustees the right, upon the happening of an event of default, as defined in such mortgage, to foreclose such mortgage through judicial proceedings or through the exercise of a power of sale without judicial proceedings.
Acts 1978, ch. 854, § 4; T.C.A., § 13-1114.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-23-402 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 23 / Section 13-23-402
Creation of housing program fund - Reallocation of revenues
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created and established a housing program fund to be administered by the agency and to consist of the following: (1) Moneys transferred from the assets fund; and (2) Such allocation of federal block grant or other federal funds as may be available and properly directed for housing programs. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997, all allocations of tax revenues directed to the agency by former subdivisions (a)(2) and (3) in excess of six million dollars ($6,000,000) shall be reallocated to the state general fund; and, notwithstanding subsection (a), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, all allocations of tax revenues directed to the agency by former subdivisions (a)(2) and (3) in excess of nine million dollars ($9,000,000) shall be reallocated to the state general fund. Thereafter, no such reallocation shall be made. (c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), or any other provision of law to the contrary, for a period of one (1) year beginning with the fiscal year starting July 1, 1999, all allocations of tax revenues directed to the agency by former subdivisions (a)(2) and (3) shall be reallocated to the state general fund. Acts 1988, ch. 900, § 10; 1991, ch. 211, § 1; 1997, ch. 537, § 2; 1998, ch. 816, § 1; 1999, ch. 411, § 1; 2000, ch. 983, § 1.
(a) There is hereby created and established a housing program fund to be administered by the agency and to consist of the following: (1) Moneys transferred from the assets fund; and (2) Such allocation of federal block grant or other federal funds as may be available and properly directed for housing programs.
(1) Moneys transferred from the assets fund; and
(2) Such allocation of federal block grant or other federal funds as may be available and properly directed for housing programs.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1997, all allocations of tax revenues directed to the agency by former subdivisions (a)(2) and (3) in excess of six million dollars ($6,000,000) shall be reallocated to the state general fund; and, notwithstanding subsection (a), for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, all allocations of tax revenues directed to the agency by former subdivisions (a)(2) and (3) in excess of nine million dollars ($9,000,000) shall be reallocated to the state general fund. Thereafter, no such reallocation shall be made.
(c) Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), or any other provision of law to the contrary, for a period of one (1) year beginning with the fiscal year starting July 1, 1999, all allocations of tax revenues directed to the agency by former subdivisions (a)(2) and (3) shall be reallocated to the state general fund.
Acts 1988, ch. 900, § 10; 1991, ch. 211, § 1; 1997, ch. 537, § 2; 1998, ch. 816, § 1; 1999, ch. 411, § 1; 2000, ch. 983, § 1.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-14-106 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 14 / Section 13-14-106
Powers and duties of boards
Status: in_force

(a) Each board created under this chapter has the authority to: (1) Organize itself into a public body, elect its officers, and adopt bylaws for purposes of carrying out functions authorized under this chapter; (2) Receive and expend funds from any sources for staffing, for research, planning, coordination, economic development, demonstration projects, and other activities deemed necessary to promote the efficient, harmonious and economic development of the district; and receive grants from private foundations for purposes of research and for demonstration projects oriented to human, physical and natural resources utilization; (3) Contract with local, state and federal agencies, and with consultants for services to be provided; (4) Prepare broad plans for the economic development of the district, including, but not limited to, comprehensive land use and plans for physical development. Such plans shall be made with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, efficient and economic development of the district which will, in accordance with present and future needs and resources, best promote the health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and welfare of the citizens, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, including distribution of population, urbanization, and the uses of land and resources for trade, industry, recreation, forestry, agriculture and tourism, and will tend to create conditions favorable to transportation, health, safety and otherwise promote the general welfare of the citizens. Such plans may include the design and layout of industrial parks and feasibility studies for extension of utilities and services to areas deemed suitable for industrial development; (5) Cooperate and coordinate its activities with local and state planning agencies and other districts in developing and implementing plans for development; (6) Cooperate and coordinate its activities with the federal agencies responsible for developing natural, human and physical resources of the district; recommend projects which will enhance the development of all resources, to be carried out through existing governmental units or through a combination of these as applicable under state laws, including, but not limited to, the former Area Redevelopment Program [terminated], the Appalachian program and the former Economic Opportunity Act [repealed]; (7) Cooperate with local and regional finance companies in assembling financial resources for commercial, industrial and other development; (8) Compile, prepare, publish and disseminate information about the economic resources of the district and about sub-areas; (9) Encourage and assist in the creation of private and semipublic, nonprofit organizations as needed and under existing laws of the state for carrying out specific projects and programs initiated under federal and state laws; (10) Enter into compacts or contractual arrangements with planning agencies of other adjoining or neighboring states, for the purpose of preparing joint-comprehensive plans for development of a broader area or region. Boards are hereby expressly authorized to expend funds for interstate planning, notwithstanding the fact that in doing so portions of such funds may be used for planning work outside of the state boundary; (11) Contract with the commission on aging and disability to operate the program established by title 34, chapter 7; and (12) Have and exercise other authority as deemed necessary to further and promote the orderly and economic development of the state. (b) Each governing board operating under this chapter shall: (1) Jointly adopt statewide uniform travel regulations subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration and shall reimburse its officers and employees for official travel in conformance with such regulations; (2) Develop a system of competitive bidding on purchases of supplies and equipment and other contracts and shall submit the written procedures governing such system to the state procurement commission for approval; (3) Develop written personnel procedures to be filed with the commissioner of finance and administration for the hiring, promotion, demotion and dismissal of all employees, and shall include an employee compensation plan based on a salary comparability analysis which takes into account state salary schedules, local government salary schedules, and regional private market variations; and (4) Submit, annually, to the department of economic and community development, or such other office as may be directed by the governor, a work program and budget, together with such other information as may be requested. Acts 1965, ch. 241, § 6; 1976, ch. 665, §§ 1-3; 1979, ch. 381, § 1; T.C.A., § 13-1406; Acts 1989, ch. 196, § 1; 1990, ch. 654, § 2; 1995, ch. 501, § 5; 2011, ch. 295, § 19.
(a) Each board created under this chapter has the authority to: (1) Organize itself into a public body, elect its officers, and adopt bylaws for purposes of carrying out functions authorized under this chapter; (2) Receive and expend funds from any sources for staffing, for research, planning, coordination, economic development, demonstration projects, and other activities deemed necessary to promote the efficient, harmonious and economic development of the district; and receive grants from private foundations for purposes of research and for demonstration projects oriented to human, physical and natural resources utilization; (3) Contract with local, state and federal agencies, and with consultants for services to be provided; (4) Prepare broad plans for the economic development of the district, including, but not limited to, comprehensive land use and plans for physical development. Such plans shall be made with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, efficient and economic development of the district which will, in accordance with present and future needs and resources, best promote the health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and welfare of the citizens, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, including distribution of population, urbanization, and the uses of land and resources for trade, industry, recreation, forestry, agriculture and tourism, and will tend to create conditions favorable to transportation, health, safety and otherwise promote the general welfare of the citizens. Such plans may include the design and layout of industrial parks and feasibility studies for extension of utilities and services to areas deemed suitable for industrial development; (5) Cooperate and coordinate its activities with local and state planning agencies and other districts in developing and implementing plans for development; (6) Cooperate and coordinate its activities with the federal agencies responsible for developing natural, human and physical resources of the district; recommend projects which will enhance the development of all resources, to be carried out through existing governmental units or through a combination of these as applicable under state laws, including, but not limited to, the former Area Redevelopment Program [terminated], the Appalachian program and the former Economic Opportunity Act [repealed]; (7) Cooperate with local and regional finance companies in assembling financial resources for commercial, industrial and other development; (8) Compile, prepare, publish and disseminate information about the economic resources of the district and about sub-areas; (9) Encourage and assist in the creation of private and semipublic, nonprofit organizations as needed and under existing laws of the state for carrying out specific projects and programs initiated under federal and state laws; (10) Enter into compacts or contractual arrangements with planning agencies of other adjoining or neighboring states, for the purpose of preparing joint-comprehensive plans for development of a broader area or region. Boards are hereby expressly authorized to expend funds for interstate planning, notwithstanding the fact that in doing so portions of such funds may be used for planning work outside of the state boundary; (11) Contract with the commission on aging and disability to operate the program established by title 34, chapter 7; and (12) Have and exercise other authority as deemed necessary to further and promote the orderly and economic development of the state.
(1) Organize itself into a public body, elect its officers, and adopt bylaws for purposes of carrying out functions authorized under this chapter;
(2) Receive and expend funds from any sources for staffing, for research, planning, coordination, economic development, demonstration projects, and other activities deemed necessary to promote the efficient, harmonious and economic development of the district; and receive grants from private foundations for purposes of research and for demonstration projects oriented to human, physical and natural resources utilization;
(3) Contract with local, state and federal agencies, and with consultants for services to be provided;
(4) Prepare broad plans for the economic development of the district, including, but not limited to, comprehensive land use and plans for physical development. Such plans shall be made with the purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted, efficient and economic development of the district which will, in accordance with present and future needs and resources, best promote the health, safety, morals, order, convenience, prosperity and welfare of the citizens, as well as efficiency and economy in the process of development, including distribution of population, urbanization, and the uses of land and resources for trade, industry, recreation, forestry, agriculture and tourism, and will tend to create conditions favorable to transportation, health, safety and otherwise promote the general welfare of the citizens. Such plans may include the design and layout of industrial parks and feasibility studies for extension of utilities and services to areas deemed suitable for industrial development;
(5) Cooperate and coordinate its activities with local and state planning agencies and other districts in developing and implementing plans for development;
(6) Cooperate and coordinate its activities with the federal agencies responsible for developing natural, human and physical resources of the district; recommend projects which will enhance the development of all resources, to be carried out through existing governmental units or through a combination of these as applicable under state laws, including, but not limited to, the former Area Redevelopment Program [terminated], the Appalachian program and the former Economic Opportunity Act [repealed];
(7) Cooperate with local and regional finance companies in assembling financial resources for commercial, industrial and other development;
(8) Compile, prepare, publish and disseminate information about the economic resources of the district and about sub-areas;
(9) Encourage and assist in the creation of private and semipublic, nonprofit organizations as needed and under existing laws of the state for carrying out specific projects and programs initiated under federal and state laws;
(10) Enter into compacts or contractual arrangements with planning agencies of other adjoining or neighboring states, for the purpose of preparing joint-comprehensive plans for development of a broader area or region. Boards are hereby expressly authorized to expend funds for interstate planning, notwithstanding the fact that in doing so portions of such funds may be used for planning work outside of the state boundary;
(11) Contract with the commission on aging and disability to operate the program established by title 34, chapter 7; and
(12) Have and exercise other authority as deemed necessary to further and promote the orderly and economic development of the state.
(b) Each governing board operating under this chapter shall: (1) Jointly adopt statewide uniform travel regulations subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration and shall reimburse its officers and employees for official travel in conformance with such regulations; (2) Develop a system of competitive bidding on purchases of supplies and equipment and other contracts and shall submit the written procedures governing such system to the state procurement commission for approval; (3) Develop written personnel procedures to be filed with the commissioner of finance and administration for the hiring, promotion, demotion and dismissal of all employees, and shall include an employee compensation plan based on a salary comparability analysis which takes into account state salary schedules, local government salary schedules, and regional private market variations; and (4) Submit, annually, to the department of economic and community development, or such other office as may be directed by the governor, a work program and budget, together with such other information as may be requested.
(1) Jointly adopt statewide uniform travel regulations subject to the approval of the commissioner of finance and administration and shall reimburse its officers and employees for official travel in conformance with such regulations;
(2) Develop a system of competitive bidding on purchases of supplies and equipment and other contracts and shall submit the written procedures governing such system to the state procurement commission for approval;
(3) Develop written personnel procedures to be filed with the commissioner of finance and administration for the hiring, promotion, demotion and dismissal of all employees, and shall include an employee compensation plan based on a salary comparability analysis which takes into account state salary schedules, local government salary schedules, and regional private market variations; and
(4) Submit, annually, to the department of economic and community development, or such other office as may be directed by the governor, a work program and budget, together with such other information as may be requested.
Acts 1965, ch. 241, § 6; 1976, ch. 665, §§ 1-3; 1979, ch. 381, § 1; T.C.A., § 13-1406; Acts 1989, ch. 196, § 1; 1990, ch. 654, § 2; 1995, ch. 501, § 5; 2011, ch. 295, § 19.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-21-308 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 21 / Section 13-21-308
Exemption for compliance - Revocation of exemption
Status: in_force

Following the initial or periodic inspection of a residential rental dwelling unit found to be deteriorated or in the process of deteriorating and that is subject to a residential rental inspection ordinance, and provided that there are no violations of applicable codes and ordinances, or violations are remedied in a timely manner, the public authority shall provide to the owner or party in interest of the residential rental dwelling unit an exemption from the residential rental inspection ordinance for a minimum of four (4) years. For the purposes of this section, timely manner shall be construed to mean less than ninety (90) days after the owner has been given notice of violation. If a residential rental dwelling unit has been issued a certificate of occupancy within the last four (4) years, an exemption shall be granted for a minimum period of four (4) years from the date of the issuance of the certificate of occupancy by the public authority. If the residential rental dwelling unit becomes in violation of local housing, building, plumbing, electrical, fire, health or related codes during the exemption period, the public authority may revoke the exemption granted by this section. Acts 2006, ch. 949, § 1.
Following the initial or periodic inspection of a residential rental dwelling unit found to be deteriorated or in the process of deteriorating and that is subject to a residential rental inspection ordinance, and provided that there are no violations of applicable codes and ordinances, or violations are remedied in a timely manner, the public authority shall provide to the owner or party in interest of the residential rental dwelling unit an exemption from the residential rental inspection ordinance for a minimum of four (4) years. For the purposes of this section, timely manner shall be construed to mean less than ninety (90) days after the owner has been given notice of violation. If a residential rental dwelling unit has been issued a certificate of occupancy within the last four (4) years, an exemption shall be granted for a minimum period of four (4) years from the date of the issuance of the certificate of occupancy by the public authority. If the residential rental dwelling unit becomes in violation of local housing, building, plumbing, electrical, fire, health or related codes during the exemption period, the public authority may revoke the exemption granted by this section.
Acts 2006, ch. 949, § 1.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-4-301 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 4 / Section 13-4-301
Part definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Chief legislative body" means the chief legislative body of the municipality, whether designated board of aldermen, board of commissioners or by other title; (2) "Plat" includes plat, plan, plot or replot; (3) "Street" or "streets" means and includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys and other ways; and (4) (A) "Subdivision" means, in any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,700) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred sixty (32,760), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites or other division of less than five (5) acres for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or area subdivided; (B) (i) "Subdivision" means, in all counties except those in subdivision (4)(A), the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites, or other divisions requiring new street or utility construction, or any division of less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of resubdividing or to the land or area subdivided; (ii) As used in subdivision (4)(B)(i), "utility construction" does not include the mere extension of individual service pipes or lines for the purpose of directly connecting a single lot, site or other division to existing utility mains. Acts 1935, ch. 45, § 8; C. Supp. 1950, § 3407.9 (Williams, § 3407.17); Acts 1976, ch. 831, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-601; Acts 1984, ch. 961, §§ 2-4; 1985, ch. 149, §§ 2, 3; 1986, ch. 679, § 1; 1988, ch. 597, § 2; 2008, ch. 746, § 2.
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Chief legislative body" means the chief legislative body of the municipality, whether designated board of aldermen, board of commissioners or by other title;
(2) "Plat" includes plat, plan, plot or replot;
(3) "Street" or "streets" means and includes streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, lanes, alleys and other ways; and
(4) (A) "Subdivision" means, in any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,700) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred sixty (32,760), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites or other division of less than five (5) acres for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or area subdivided; (B) (i) "Subdivision" means, in all counties except those in subdivision (4)(A), the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites, or other divisions requiring new street or utility construction, or any division of less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of resubdividing or to the land or area subdivided; (ii) As used in subdivision (4)(B)(i), "utility construction" does not include the mere extension of individual service pipes or lines for the purpose of directly connecting a single lot, site or other division to existing utility mains.
(A) "Subdivision" means, in any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,700) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred sixty (32,760), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites or other division of less than five (5) acres for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and, when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of subdividing or to the land or area subdivided;
(B) (i) "Subdivision" means, in all counties except those in subdivision (4)(A), the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites, or other divisions requiring new street or utility construction, or any division of less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of resubdividing or to the land or area subdivided; (ii) As used in subdivision (4)(B)(i), "utility construction" does not include the mere extension of individual service pipes or lines for the purpose of directly connecting a single lot, site or other division to existing utility mains.
(i) "Subdivision" means, in all counties except those in subdivision (4)(A), the division of a tract or parcel of land into two (2) or more lots, sites, or other divisions requiring new street or utility construction, or any division of less than five (5) acres, for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of sale or building development, and includes resubdivision and when appropriate to the context, relates to the process of resubdividing or to the land or area subdivided;
(ii) As used in subdivision (4)(B)(i), "utility construction" does not include the mere extension of individual service pipes or lines for the purpose of directly connecting a single lot, site or other division to existing utility mains.
Acts 1935, ch. 45, § 8; C. Supp. 1950, § 3407.9 (Williams, § 3407.17); Acts 1976, ch. 831, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-601; Acts 1984, ch. 961, §§ 2-4; 1985, ch. 149, §§ 2, 3; 1986, ch. 679, § 1; 1988, ch. 597, § 2; 2008, ch. 746, § 2.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-21-107 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 21 / Section 13-21-107
Powers given public officer by ordinance
Status: in_force

An ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality may authorize the public officer to exercise such powers as may be necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this part, including the following powers in addition to others herein granted, to: (1) Investigate conditions in the municipality in order to determine which structures therein are unfit for human occupation or use; (2) Administer oaths, affirmations, examine witnesses and receive evidence; (3) Enter upon premises for the purpose of making examinations; provided, that such entries shall be made in such manner as to cause the least possible inconvenience to the persons in possession; (4) Appoint and fix the duties of such officers, agents and employees as the public officer deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the ordinances; and (5) Delegate any of such public officer's functions and powers under the ordinance to such officers and agents as the public officer may designate. Acts 1939, ch. 152, § 7; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.36 (Williams, § 3647.48); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1207; Acts 1985, ch. 286, §§ 4, 5.
An ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality may authorize the public officer to exercise such powers as may be necessary or convenient to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this part, including the following powers in addition to others herein granted, to:
(1) Investigate conditions in the municipality in order to determine which structures therein are unfit for human occupation or use;
(2) Administer oaths, affirmations, examine witnesses and receive evidence;
(3) Enter upon premises for the purpose of making examinations; provided, that such entries shall be made in such manner as to cause the least possible inconvenience to the persons in possession;
(4) Appoint and fix the duties of such officers, agents and employees as the public officer deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the ordinances; and
(5) Delegate any of such public officer's functions and powers under the ordinance to such officers and agents as the public officer may designate.
Acts 1939, ch. 152, § 7; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.36 (Williams, § 3647.48); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1207; Acts 1985, ch. 286, §§ 4, 5.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-13-101 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 13 / Section 13-13-101
Short title
Status: in_force

This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Local Neighborhood Development Corporation Act of 1987." Acts 1987, ch. 343, § 1; 1992, ch. 864, § 1.
This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Local Neighborhood Development Corporation Act of 1987."
Acts 1987, ch. 343, § 1; 1992, ch. 864, § 1.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-23-116 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 23 / Section 13-23-116
Insured construction loans for development or rehabilitation - Loans for energy-saving improvements and solar water heaters - Energy use considered in making loans
Status: in_force

(a) The agency shall be empowered to make or participate in the making of insured construction loans to qualified sponsors, developers and builders for land development and/or residential housing, including the rehabilitation thereof, for lower and moderate income persons or families when the financial assistance programs of this part become effective under this part. However, the agency will not make or participate in the making of any insured construction loans until it has notified all qualified lenders that the insured construction loan program is in effect and that the agency is prepared to enter into working agreements with qualified lenders for the making of insured construction loans to qualified sponsors, developers and builders; and it has determined that the insured construction loan is not otherwise available, totally or in part, from qualified lenders upon reasonably equivalent terms and conditions. Except as provided herein, the agency may make such loans directly only after the agency has notified all qualified lenders with whom working agreements have been established of a sponsor's, developer's or builder's loan application with the agency and after a reasonable time from the date of notification, no qualified lender has agreed in writing with the sponsor to make the insured construction loan either as a mortgagee or agent for a mortgagee, upon reasonably equivalent terms and conditions. Such loans made under this section to public housing agencies, public and private nonprofit corporations or other public or private nonprofit entities, or limited distribution entities, may be made by the agency to such borrower directly when the agency has determined that the loan is not otherwise available, totally or in part, from private qualified lenders upon reasonably equivalent terms and conditions. (b) (1) The agency may make loans to qualified lenders under terms and conditions requiring the proceeds thereof to be used for the making of loans for the construction or rehabilitation of residential housing by qualified sponsors, developers, and builders. Such loans may be made only after the agency has issued to the qualified sponsor, developer, or builder its commitment to make or participate in the making of an insured mortgage loan, or the agency has received evidence of an existing commitment to make the permanent loan, and the qualified lender has entered into an agreement with the agency agreeing to make the construction or rehabilitation loan on terms and conditions consistent with this part and the agency's rules and regulations. (2) The agency may require that such loans to qualified lenders be secured as to payment of both principal and interest by a pledge of and lien upon collateral security in such amounts as the agency shall determine to be necessary to assure the payment of such loans and the interest thereon as the same become due. Such collateral security shall consist of: (A) Direct general obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States or the state; (B) Bonds, debentures, participation certificates or notes issued by the federal national mortgage association or the federal home loan mortgage corporation or by an agency or corporation which has been or is hereafter created by or pursuant to an act of the congress of the United States as an agency or instrumentality thereof; or (C) Mortgages insured or guaranteed by the United States or an instrumentality thereof as to payment of principal and interest. (c) In making loans for rehabilitation of residential housing, the agency shall consider proposals for energy-saving improvements and solar hot water heaters, and, if feasible, include the costs of such improvements or heaters in the amount of the loan. (d) The agency shall be empowered to make loans for energy-saving improvements and solar hot water heaters to persons and families of lower and moderate incomes for residential housing occupied and owned or rented by such person or family. Such loans shall be under such conditions, with such security, and with such repayment plans as the agency may determine. In determining repayment schedules, however, the agency shall attempt to match repayments with the savings resulting to the person or family in their residential utility bill from the improvement or solar water heater. Consideration shall also be given to providing a revolving loan fund. (e) The agency shall be provided with standards for a listing of reliable and efficient solar hot water heaters by the appropriate federal agency. (f) The agency shall give consideration, in making any loan authorized by this chapter, to energy-saving improvements and appliances included in the proposed design, improvement or rehabilitation of residential housing and shall, in making loans, give maximum consideration to any proposal which would decrease energy use typical of present construction or designs. Acts 1973, ch. 241, § 6; 1974, ch. 702, § 4; 1975, ch. 320, § 2; 1977, ch. 483, § 11; 1978, ch. 884, §§ 3-5; T.C.A., § 13-2316.
(a) The agency shall be empowered to make or participate in the making of insured construction loans to qualified sponsors, developers and builders for land development and/or residential housing, including the rehabilitation thereof, for lower and moderate income persons or families when the financial assistance programs of this part become effective under this part. However, the agency will not make or participate in the making of any insured construction loans until it has notified all qualified lenders that the insured construction loan program is in effect and that the agency is prepared to enter into working agreements with qualified lenders for the making of insured construction loans to qualified sponsors, developers and builders; and it has determined that the insured construction loan is not otherwise available, totally or in part, from qualified lenders upon reasonably equivalent terms and conditions. Except as provided herein, the agency may make such loans directly only after the agency has notified all qualified lenders with whom working agreements have been established of a sponsor's, developer's or builder's loan application with the agency and after a reasonable time from the date of notification, no qualified lender has agreed in writing with the sponsor to make the insured construction loan either as a mortgagee or agent for a mortgagee, upon reasonably equivalent terms and conditions. Such loans made under this section to public housing agencies, public and private nonprofit corporations or other public or private nonprofit entities, or limited distribution entities, may be made by the agency to such borrower directly when the agency has determined that the loan is not otherwise available, totally or in part, from private qualified lenders upon reasonably equivalent terms and conditions.
(b) (1) The agency may make loans to qualified lenders under terms and conditions requiring the proceeds thereof to be used for the making of loans for the construction or rehabilitation of residential housing by qualified sponsors, developers, and builders. Such loans may be made only after the agency has issued to the qualified sponsor, developer, or builder its commitment to make or participate in the making of an insured mortgage loan, or the agency has received evidence of an existing commitment to make the permanent loan, and the qualified lender has entered into an agreement with the agency agreeing to make the construction or rehabilitation loan on terms and conditions consistent with this part and the agency's rules and regulations. (2) The agency may require that such loans to qualified lenders be secured as to payment of both principal and interest by a pledge of and lien upon collateral security in such amounts as the agency shall determine to be necessary to assure the payment of such loans and the interest thereon as the same become due. Such collateral security shall consist of: (A) Direct general obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States or the state; (B) Bonds, debentures, participation certificates or notes issued by the federal national mortgage association or the federal home loan mortgage corporation or by an agency or corporation which has been or is hereafter created by or pursuant to an act of the congress of the United States as an agency or instrumentality thereof; or (C) Mortgages insured or guaranteed by the United States or an instrumentality thereof as to payment of principal and interest.
(1) The agency may make loans to qualified lenders under terms and conditions requiring the proceeds thereof to be used for the making of loans for the construction or rehabilitation of residential housing by qualified sponsors, developers, and builders. Such loans may be made only after the agency has issued to the qualified sponsor, developer, or builder its commitment to make or participate in the making of an insured mortgage loan, or the agency has received evidence of an existing commitment to make the permanent loan, and the qualified lender has entered into an agreement with the agency agreeing to make the construction or rehabilitation loan on terms and conditions consistent with this part and the agency's rules and regulations.
(2) The agency may require that such loans to qualified lenders be secured as to payment of both principal and interest by a pledge of and lien upon collateral security in such amounts as the agency shall determine to be necessary to assure the payment of such loans and the interest thereon as the same become due. Such collateral security shall consist of: (A) Direct general obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States or the state; (B) Bonds, debentures, participation certificates or notes issued by the federal national mortgage association or the federal home loan mortgage corporation or by an agency or corporation which has been or is hereafter created by or pursuant to an act of the congress of the United States as an agency or instrumentality thereof; or (C) Mortgages insured or guaranteed by the United States or an instrumentality thereof as to payment of principal and interest.
(A) Direct general obligations of, or obligations the principal of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States or the state;
(B) Bonds, debentures, participation certificates or notes issued by the federal national mortgage association or the federal home loan mortgage corporation or by an agency or corporation which has been or is hereafter created by or pursuant to an act of the congress of the United States as an agency or instrumentality thereof; or
(C) Mortgages insured or guaranteed by the United States or an instrumentality thereof as to payment of principal and interest.
(c) In making loans for rehabilitation of residential housing, the agency shall consider proposals for energy-saving improvements and solar hot water heaters, and, if feasible, include the costs of such improvements or heaters in the amount of the loan.
(d) The agency shall be empowered to make loans for energy-saving improvements and solar hot water heaters to persons and families of lower and moderate incomes for residential housing occupied and owned or rented by such person or family. Such loans shall be under such conditions, with such security, and with such repayment plans as the agency may determine. In determining repayment schedules, however, the agency shall attempt to match repayments with the savings resulting to the person or family in their residential utility bill from the improvement or solar water heater. Consideration shall also be given to providing a revolving loan fund.
(e) The agency shall be provided with standards for a listing of reliable and efficient solar hot water heaters by the appropriate federal agency.
(f) The agency shall give consideration, in making any loan authorized by this chapter, to energy-saving improvements and appliances included in the proposed design, improvement or rehabilitation of residential housing and shall, in making loans, give maximum consideration to any proposal which would decrease energy use typical of present construction or designs.
Acts 1973, ch. 241, § 6; 1974, ch. 702, § 4; 1975, ch. 320, § 2; 1977, ch. 483, § 11; 1978, ch. 884, §§ 3-5; T.C.A., § 13-2316.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-30-115 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 30 / Section 13-30-115
Liberal construction
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes as complete and independent authorization for the performance of each and every act and thing authorized by this chapter, and all powers granted shall be broadly interpreted to effectuate the intent and purposes and not as a limitation of powers. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this chapter, in the exercise of its powers and duties under this chapter and its powers relating to property held in the land bank, the corporation shall have complete control as fully and completely as if it represented a private property owner and shall not be subject to restrictions imposed by the charter, ordinances or resolutions of a local unit of government. Acts 2012, ch. 1096, § 1.
This chapter shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and the purposes as complete and independent authorization for the performance of each and every act and thing authorized by this chapter, and all powers granted shall be broadly interpreted to effectuate the intent and purposes and not as a limitation of powers. Except as otherwise expressly set forth in this chapter, in the exercise of its powers and duties under this chapter and its powers relating to property held in the land bank, the corporation shall have complete control as fully and completely as if it represented a private property owner and shall not be subject to restrictions imposed by the charter, ordinances or resolutions of a local unit of government.
Acts 2012, ch. 1096, § 1.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-18-118 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 18 / Section 13-18-118
Waiver of state or local law enacted after commencement of construction
Status: in_force

(a) The joint review team is authorized to waive application of any state or local statutes, regulations, or requirements enacted or promulgated after the commencement of construction of a major energy project, unless the general assembly explicitly prohibits such waiver. No waiver pursuant to this section shall take effect unless: (1) The team finds that the waiver is necessary to ensure timely and cost-effective completion and operation of the facility; and (2) The team, after consultation with the agency responsible for implementing the statute, regulation, or requirement to be waived, finds that the waiver will not unduly endanger public health or safety. (b) (1) For the purposes of this section, "commencement of construction" means that the owner or operator of a major energy project has obtained all necessary preconstruction approvals or permits required by state or local laws or regulations and either has: (A) Begun or caused to begin, a continuous program of physical on-site construction of the facility, including site clearance, grading, dredging, or land filling in preparation for the fabrication, erection, or installation of the building components of the facility; or (B) Entered into binding agreements or contractual obligations, which cannot be cancelled or modified without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to undertake a program of construction of the facility to be completed within a reasonable time. (2) For the purpose of this subsection (b), interruptions resulting from acts of God, strikes, litigation, or other matters beyond the control of the owner shall be disregarded in determining whether such construction is continuous. Acts 1981, ch. 131, § 18.
(a) The joint review team is authorized to waive application of any state or local statutes, regulations, or requirements enacted or promulgated after the commencement of construction of a major energy project, unless the general assembly explicitly prohibits such waiver. No waiver pursuant to this section shall take effect unless: (1) The team finds that the waiver is necessary to ensure timely and cost-effective completion and operation of the facility; and (2) The team, after consultation with the agency responsible for implementing the statute, regulation, or requirement to be waived, finds that the waiver will not unduly endanger public health or safety.
(1) The team finds that the waiver is necessary to ensure timely and cost-effective completion and operation of the facility; and
(2) The team, after consultation with the agency responsible for implementing the statute, regulation, or requirement to be waived, finds that the waiver will not unduly endanger public health or safety.
(b) (1) For the purposes of this section, "commencement of construction" means that the owner or operator of a major energy project has obtained all necessary preconstruction approvals or permits required by state or local laws or regulations and either has: (A) Begun or caused to begin, a continuous program of physical on-site construction of the facility, including site clearance, grading, dredging, or land filling in preparation for the fabrication, erection, or installation of the building components of the facility; or (B) Entered into binding agreements or contractual obligations, which cannot be cancelled or modified without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to undertake a program of construction of the facility to be completed within a reasonable time. (2) For the purpose of this subsection (b), interruptions resulting from acts of God, strikes, litigation, or other matters beyond the control of the owner shall be disregarded in determining whether such construction is continuous.
(1) For the purposes of this section, "commencement of construction" means that the owner or operator of a major energy project has obtained all necessary preconstruction approvals or permits required by state or local laws or regulations and either has: (A) Begun or caused to begin, a continuous program of physical on-site construction of the facility, including site clearance, grading, dredging, or land filling in preparation for the fabrication, erection, or installation of the building components of the facility; or (B) Entered into binding agreements or contractual obligations, which cannot be cancelled or modified without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to undertake a program of construction of the facility to be completed within a reasonable time.
(A) Begun or caused to begin, a continuous program of physical on-site construction of the facility, including site clearance, grading, dredging, or land filling in preparation for the fabrication, erection, or installation of the building components of the facility; or
(B) Entered into binding agreements or contractual obligations, which cannot be cancelled or modified without substantial loss to the owner or operator, to undertake a program of construction of the facility to be completed within a reasonable time.
(2) For the purpose of this subsection (b), interruptions resulting from acts of God, strikes, litigation, or other matters beyond the control of the owner shall be disregarded in determining whether such construction is continuous.
Acts 1981, ch. 131, § 18.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-7-118 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 7 / Section 13-7-118
Land use plan in certain counties that are in an early action compact or in nonattainment for air quality
Status: in_force

(a) This section applies to any county in the state that either is in an early action compact or is in nonattainment for air quality according to the environmental protection agency as of April 15, 2004. (b) Any county that qualifies under subsection (a) and whose population according to the 2000 federal census was sixty thousand (60,000) or more and the county as of April 15, 2004, did not have a land use plan, shall adopt a land use plan which states that air quality issues will be considered as part of the county-wide land use plans. Acts 2004, ch. 901, §§ 1, 2.
(a) This section applies to any county in the state that either is in an early action compact or is in nonattainment for air quality according to the environmental protection agency as of April 15, 2004.
(b) Any county that qualifies under subsection (a) and whose population according to the 2000 federal census was sixty thousand (60,000) or more and the county as of April 15, 2004, did not have a land use plan, shall adopt a land use plan which states that air quality issues will be considered as part of the county-wide land use plans.
Acts 2004, ch. 901, §§ 1, 2.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-217 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-217
Airport noise mitigation programs
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in addition to those powers specified in this chapter, any municipal housing authority exercising any of the powers specified in this chapter is hereby authorized to enter into cooperative agreements, with any county with a metropolitan form of government which adopts an airport noise mitigation program pursuant to § 7-3-313 , to implement or administer the airport noise mitigation program or any portion thereof. (b) No state funds shall be obligated or expended to implement this section. Acts 1991, ch. 500, §§ 2, 3.
(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in addition to those powers specified in this chapter, any municipal housing authority exercising any of the powers specified in this chapter is hereby authorized to enter into cooperative agreements, with any county with a metropolitan form of government which adopts an airport noise mitigation program pursuant to § 7-3-313 , to implement or administer the airport noise mitigation program or any portion thereof.
(b) No state funds shall be obligated or expended to implement this section.
Acts 1991, ch. 500, §§ 2, 3.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-709 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-709
Appeal of decision regarding transit-oriented redevelopment project to legislative appeal board
Status: in_force

(a) A property owner within the area covered by a transit-oriented redevelopment plan may appeal a decision of an authority, or any committee of an authority, regarding a transit-oriented redevelopment project to a legislative appeal board, created under subsection (b). (b) (1) In any area that is covered by a transit-oriented redevelopment plan, there is created a legislative appeal board that is composed of: (A) The members of the general assembly, as nonvoting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located; (B) The members of the local legislative bodies, as voting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located; and (C) Two (2) members appointed by the members of the general assembly who are ex officio members of the board. (2) The terms of the appointed members are coterminous with the terms of the appointing authority's term. The appointed members serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. (3) The members of the legislative appeal board do not receive compensation for their service on the board. (4) A majority of the members serving on the board constitutes a quorum. (c) To initiate an appeal under subsection (a), a property owner shall notify the authority and each member of the legislative appeal board of the property owner's intent to appeal by certified mail, return receipt requested. The notification must contain information identifying the transit-oriented redevelopment project and the specific decision of the authority or committee the property owner is appealing. (d) Upon notification under subsection (c), the authority shall send copies of any documentation regarding the transit-oriented redevelopment project that is germane to the appeal, including a statement of the reasoning behind the decision under appeal, to each member of the legislative appeal board. (e) The legislative appeal board shall meet at least once each quarter at a location that is convenient to the members, unless there are no appeals filed in that quarter, in which case the legislative appeal board does not have to meet. (f) Upon convening under subsection (e), the legislative appeal board may overrule any decision of an authority or committee that is the subject of the appeal, and such decision is binding on the authority or committee. Added by 2019 Tenn. Acts, ch. 317,s 1, eff. 7/1/2019.
(a) A property owner within the area covered by a transit-oriented redevelopment plan may appeal a decision of an authority, or any committee of an authority, regarding a transit-oriented redevelopment project to a legislative appeal board, created under subsection (b).
(b) (1) In any area that is covered by a transit-oriented redevelopment plan, there is created a legislative appeal board that is composed of: (A) The members of the general assembly, as nonvoting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located; (B) The members of the local legislative bodies, as voting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located; and (C) Two (2) members appointed by the members of the general assembly who are ex officio members of the board. (2) The terms of the appointed members are coterminous with the terms of the appointing authority's term. The appointed members serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. (3) The members of the legislative appeal board do not receive compensation for their service on the board. (4) A majority of the members serving on the board constitutes a quorum.
(1) In any area that is covered by a transit-oriented redevelopment plan, there is created a legislative appeal board that is composed of: (A) The members of the general assembly, as nonvoting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located; (B) The members of the local legislative bodies, as voting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located; and (C) Two (2) members appointed by the members of the general assembly who are ex officio members of the board.
(A) The members of the general assembly, as nonvoting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located;
(B) The members of the local legislative bodies, as voting, ex officio members, who represent the districts, in whole or in part, within the area where the transit-oriented redevelopment project is located; and
(C) Two (2) members appointed by the members of the general assembly who are ex officio members of the board.
(2) The terms of the appointed members are coterminous with the terms of the appointing authority's term. The appointed members serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority.
(3) The members of the legislative appeal board do not receive compensation for their service on the board.
(4) A majority of the members serving on the board constitutes a quorum.
(c) To initiate an appeal under subsection (a), a property owner shall notify the authority and each member of the legislative appeal board of the property owner's intent to appeal by certified mail, return receipt requested. The notification must contain information identifying the transit-oriented redevelopment project and the specific decision of the authority or committee the property owner is appealing.
(d) Upon notification under subsection (c), the authority shall send copies of any documentation regarding the transit-oriented redevelopment project that is germane to the appeal, including a statement of the reasoning behind the decision under appeal, to each member of the legislative appeal board.
(e) The legislative appeal board shall meet at least once each quarter at a location that is convenient to the members, unless there are no appeals filed in that quarter, in which case the legislative appeal board does not have to meet.
(f) Upon convening under subsection (e), the legislative appeal board may overrule any decision of an authority or committee that is the subject of the appeal, and such decision is binding on the authority or committee.
Added by 2019 Tenn. Acts, ch. 317,s 1, eff. 7/1/2019.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-103 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 11 / Section 13-11-103
Chapter definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Business" means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily: (A) For the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property; (B) For the sale of services to the public; (C) By a nonprofit organization; or (D) Solely for the purposes of § 13-11-105 , for assisting in the purchase, sale, resale, manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, personal property, or services by the erection and maintenance of an outdoor advertising display or displays, whether or not such display or displays are located on the premises on which any of the above activities are conducted; (2) "Comparable replacement dwelling" means any dwelling that is: (A) Decent, safe, and sanitary; (B) Adequate in size to accommodate the occupants; (C) Within the financial means of the displaced person; (D) Functionally equivalent to the dwelling from which the occupant was displaced; (E) In an area not subject to unreasonable adverse environmental conditions; and (F) In a location generally not less desirable than the location of the displaced person's dwelling with respect to public utilities, facilities, services, and the displaced person's place of employment; (3) "Displaced person" means, except as provided in subdivision (2)(B): (A) Any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property: (i) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of such real property in whole or in part for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or (ii) On which such person is a residential tenant or conducts a small business, a farm operation, or a business defined in subdivision (1)(D), as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance in any case in which the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent; and (iii) Solely for the purposes of §§ 13-11-105(a) and (b) and 13-11-108 , any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property as a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of other real property, in whole or in part, on which such person conducts a business or farm operation, for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, of other real property on which such person conducts a business or a farm operation, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance where the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent; (B) "Displaced person" does not include: (i) A person who has been determined, according to criteria established by the governor or the governor's designee, to be either in unlawful occupancy of the displacement dwelling or to have occupied such dwelling for the purpose of obtaining assistance under this chapter; or (ii) In any case in which the displacing agency acquires property for a program or project, any person, other than a person who was an occupant of such property at the time it was acquired, who occupies such property on a rental basis for a short term or a period subject to termination when the property is needed for the program or project; (4) "Displacing agency" means any state agency undertaking a program or project with or without federal financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced, a local agency undertaking a program or project with federal or state financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced, or a person undertaking a program or project with federal financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced; (5) "Farm operation" means any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one (1) or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale or home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support; (6) "Local agency" means any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, or instrumentality of a political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, or instrumentality of two (2) or more political subdivisions of the state when carrying out or undertaking programs or projects with federal or state financial assistance; (7) "Mortgage" means such classes of liens as are commonly given to secure advances on or the unpaid purchase price of, real property, under the laws of this state, together with the credit instruments, if any, secured thereby; (8) "Person" means and includes, but is not limited to, a partnership, company, corporation, association, individual, or family who is undertaking programs or projects with federal financial assistance, or such other person, business or farm operation which is entitled to any financial or other benefit as a result of federal financial assistance, or the undertaking of any program or project by a state agency; (9) "State agency" means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state when carrying out or undertaking programs or projects with or without federal financial assistance, or when providing state financial assistance; and (10) "State financial assistance" means a grant, loan, or contribution provided by the state, except any state guarantee or insurance, any interest reduction payment to an individual in connection with the purchase and occupancy of a residence by that individual, and any annual payment or capital loan to the state. Acts 1972, ch. 608, § 3; T.C.A., § 13-1903; Acts 1985, ch. 264, § 1; 1988, ch. 627, § 2.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Business" means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily: (A) For the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property; (B) For the sale of services to the public; (C) By a nonprofit organization; or (D) Solely for the purposes of § 13-11-105 , for assisting in the purchase, sale, resale, manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, personal property, or services by the erection and maintenance of an outdoor advertising display or displays, whether or not such display or displays are located on the premises on which any of the above activities are conducted;
(A) For the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property;
(B) For the sale of services to the public;
(C) By a nonprofit organization; or
(D) Solely for the purposes of § 13-11-105 , for assisting in the purchase, sale, resale, manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, personal property, or services by the erection and maintenance of an outdoor advertising display or displays, whether or not such display or displays are located on the premises on which any of the above activities are conducted;
(2) "Comparable replacement dwelling" means any dwelling that is: (A) Decent, safe, and sanitary; (B) Adequate in size to accommodate the occupants; (C) Within the financial means of the displaced person; (D) Functionally equivalent to the dwelling from which the occupant was displaced; (E) In an area not subject to unreasonable adverse environmental conditions; and (F) In a location generally not less desirable than the location of the displaced person's dwelling with respect to public utilities, facilities, services, and the displaced person's place of employment;
(A) Decent, safe, and sanitary;
(B) Adequate in size to accommodate the occupants;
(C) Within the financial means of the displaced person;
(D) Functionally equivalent to the dwelling from which the occupant was displaced;
(E) In an area not subject to unreasonable adverse environmental conditions; and
(F) In a location generally not less desirable than the location of the displaced person's dwelling with respect to public utilities, facilities, services, and the displaced person's place of employment;
(3) "Displaced person" means, except as provided in subdivision (2)(B): (A) Any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property: (i) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of such real property in whole or in part for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or (ii) On which such person is a residential tenant or conducts a small business, a farm operation, or a business defined in subdivision (1)(D), as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance in any case in which the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent; and (iii) Solely for the purposes of §§ 13-11-105(a) and (b) and 13-11-108 , any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property as a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of other real property, in whole or in part, on which such person conducts a business or farm operation, for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, of other real property on which such person conducts a business or a farm operation, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance where the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent; (B) "Displaced person" does not include: (i) A person who has been determined, according to criteria established by the governor or the governor's designee, to be either in unlawful occupancy of the displacement dwelling or to have occupied such dwelling for the purpose of obtaining assistance under this chapter; or (ii) In any case in which the displacing agency acquires property for a program or project, any person, other than a person who was an occupant of such property at the time it was acquired, who occupies such property on a rental basis for a short term or a period subject to termination when the property is needed for the program or project;
(A) Any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property: (i) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of such real property in whole or in part for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or (ii) On which such person is a residential tenant or conducts a small business, a farm operation, or a business defined in subdivision (1)(D), as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance in any case in which the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent; and (iii) Solely for the purposes of §§ 13-11-105(a) and (b) and 13-11-108 , any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property as a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of other real property, in whole or in part, on which such person conducts a business or farm operation, for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, of other real property on which such person conducts a business or a farm operation, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance where the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent;
(i) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of such real property in whole or in part for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or
(ii) On which such person is a residential tenant or conducts a small business, a farm operation, or a business defined in subdivision (1)(D), as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance in any case in which the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent; and
(iii) Solely for the purposes of §§ 13-11-105(a) and (b) and 13-11-108 , any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property as a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of other real property, in whole or in part, on which such person conducts a business or farm operation, for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance; or as a direct result of rehabilitation, demolition, or such other displacing activity as the governor or the governor's designee may prescribe, of other real property on which such person conducts a business or a farm operation, under a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance where the head of the displacing agency determines that such displacement is permanent;
(B) "Displaced person" does not include: (i) A person who has been determined, according to criteria established by the governor or the governor's designee, to be either in unlawful occupancy of the displacement dwelling or to have occupied such dwelling for the purpose of obtaining assistance under this chapter; or (ii) In any case in which the displacing agency acquires property for a program or project, any person, other than a person who was an occupant of such property at the time it was acquired, who occupies such property on a rental basis for a short term or a period subject to termination when the property is needed for the program or project;
(i) A person who has been determined, according to criteria established by the governor or the governor's designee, to be either in unlawful occupancy of the displacement dwelling or to have occupied such dwelling for the purpose of obtaining assistance under this chapter; or
(ii) In any case in which the displacing agency acquires property for a program or project, any person, other than a person who was an occupant of such property at the time it was acquired, who occupies such property on a rental basis for a short term or a period subject to termination when the property is needed for the program or project;
(4) "Displacing agency" means any state agency undertaking a program or project with or without federal financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced, a local agency undertaking a program or project with federal or state financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced, or a person undertaking a program or project with federal financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced;
(5) "Farm operation" means any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one (1) or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale or home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support;
(6) "Local agency" means any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, or instrumentality of a political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, or instrumentality of two (2) or more political subdivisions of the state when carrying out or undertaking programs or projects with federal or state financial assistance;
(7) "Mortgage" means such classes of liens as are commonly given to secure advances on or the unpaid purchase price of, real property, under the laws of this state, together with the credit instruments, if any, secured thereby;
(8) "Person" means and includes, but is not limited to, a partnership, company, corporation, association, individual, or family who is undertaking programs or projects with federal financial assistance, or such other person, business or farm operation which is entitled to any financial or other benefit as a result of federal financial assistance, or the undertaking of any program or project by a state agency;
(9) "State agency" means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state when carrying out or undertaking programs or projects with or without federal financial assistance, or when providing state financial assistance; and
(10) "State financial assistance" means a grant, loan, or contribution provided by the state, except any state guarantee or insurance, any interest reduction payment to an individual in connection with the purchase and occupancy of a residence by that individual, and any annual payment or capital loan to the state.
Acts 1972, ch. 608, § 3; T.C.A., § 13-1903; Acts 1985, ch. 264, § 1; 1988, ch. 627, § 2.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-3-412 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 3 / Section 13-3-412
New subdivision developments in the vicinity of established sport shooting ranges
Status: in_force

(a) For any new subdivision development that is located in whole or in part within one thousand feet (1,000') of any portion of the outside boundary of any land on which is contained a sport shooting range that was established, by clear and convincing evidence, constructed or operated prior to the development of the subdivision, the owner of the development shall provide on any plat filed with the appropriate municipal or county official, or both, the following notice: Sport Shooting Range Area This property is located in the vicinity of an established sport shooting range. It can be anticipated that customary uses and activities at this shooting range will be conducted now and in the future. The use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or inconvenience that may result from these uses and activities. (b) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Established" means a sport shooting range that is known by custom, reputation or otherwise to exist within a community or area prior to the time of the proposed subdivision development. Indicia of a sport shooting range being "established" are: (A) The range is listed in the area telephone book; (B) The range is, from time to time, advertised in the yellow pages of a telephone book, newspapers, billboards or flyers; (C) There are directional signs on public roads, streets or highways indicating the correct route to the shooting range; (D) The range is indicated on a road or other map of the area that predates the proposed subdivision development; (E) The shooting range is listed with the better business bureau or chamber of commerce of the area in which it is located; or (F) The owner of the range has a business license on file with the appropriate clerk; and (2) "Sport shooting range" or "range" means an area designed and operated for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder, or any other similar sport shooting. (c) This section shall only apply to counties that have a planning commission and subdivision regulations. Acts 2004, ch. 494, § 1.
(a) For any new subdivision development that is located in whole or in part within one thousand feet (1,000') of any portion of the outside boundary of any land on which is contained a sport shooting range that was established, by clear and convincing evidence, constructed or operated prior to the development of the subdivision, the owner of the development shall provide on any plat filed with the appropriate municipal or county official, or both, the following notice: Sport Shooting Range Area This property is located in the vicinity of an established sport shooting range. It can be anticipated that customary uses and activities at this shooting range will be conducted now and in the future. The use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or inconvenience that may result from these uses and activities.
Sport Shooting Range Area
This property is located in the vicinity of an established sport shooting range. It can be anticipated that customary uses and activities at this shooting range will be conducted now and in the future. The use and enjoyment of this property is expressly conditioned on acceptance of any annoyance or inconvenience that may result from these uses and activities.
(b) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Established" means a sport shooting range that is known by custom, reputation or otherwise to exist within a community or area prior to the time of the proposed subdivision development. Indicia of a sport shooting range being "established" are: (A) The range is listed in the area telephone book; (B) The range is, from time to time, advertised in the yellow pages of a telephone book, newspapers, billboards or flyers; (C) There are directional signs on public roads, streets or highways indicating the correct route to the shooting range; (D) The range is indicated on a road or other map of the area that predates the proposed subdivision development; (E) The shooting range is listed with the better business bureau or chamber of commerce of the area in which it is located; or (F) The owner of the range has a business license on file with the appropriate clerk; and (2) "Sport shooting range" or "range" means an area designed and operated for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder, or any other similar sport shooting.
(1) "Established" means a sport shooting range that is known by custom, reputation or otherwise to exist within a community or area prior to the time of the proposed subdivision development. Indicia of a sport shooting range being "established" are: (A) The range is listed in the area telephone book; (B) The range is, from time to time, advertised in the yellow pages of a telephone book, newspapers, billboards or flyers; (C) There are directional signs on public roads, streets or highways indicating the correct route to the shooting range; (D) The range is indicated on a road or other map of the area that predates the proposed subdivision development; (E) The shooting range is listed with the better business bureau or chamber of commerce of the area in which it is located; or (F) The owner of the range has a business license on file with the appropriate clerk; and
(A) The range is listed in the area telephone book;
(B) The range is, from time to time, advertised in the yellow pages of a telephone book, newspapers, billboards or flyers;
(C) There are directional signs on public roads, streets or highways indicating the correct route to the shooting range;
(D) The range is indicated on a road or other map of the area that predates the proposed subdivision development;
(E) The shooting range is listed with the better business bureau or chamber of commerce of the area in which it is located; or
(F) The owner of the range has a business license on file with the appropriate clerk; and
(2) "Sport shooting range" or "range" means an area designed and operated for the use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder, or any other similar sport shooting.
(c) This section shall only apply to counties that have a planning commission and subdivision regulations.
Acts 2004, ch. 494, § 1.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-119 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 11 / Section 13-11-119
State as federal agent
Status: in_force

A state agency shall be authorized to act as the agent of a federal agency to carry out the federal agency's responsibilities under federal law which are consistent with this chapter. Acts 1988, ch. 627, § 15.
A state agency shall be authorized to act as the agent of a federal agency to carry out the federal agency's responsibilities under federal law which are consistent with this chapter.
Acts 1988, ch. 627, § 15.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-23-404 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 23 / Section 13-23-404
Housing program reserve fund - Pilot program
Status: in_force

(a) There is hereby created and established a housing program reserve fund to be administered by the agency, which will consist of moneys transferred from the housing program fund and the assets fund as set out in this part. No funds in the housing program reserve fund may revert to the state general fund, but shall remain available for the purposes set out in this part. Funds in the housing program reserve fund shall be invested in any investments permitted under state law, and the income from such investments is to be transferred to the housing program fund at least annually. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995, fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) of the unexpended balance of the funds in the housing program reserve funds shall be transferred to the general fund. (c) Up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) per year may be transferred from the housing program reserve fund to the housing program fund for the purposes specified in § 13-23-403(a) . Any such transfer must first be approved by the bond finance committee and the board, and such approvals must be based on a determination that such transfer is necessary to sustain the current funding levels of the grant programs of the agency, or that such transfer is necessary to accomplish a special program targeted to low income and/or special needs groups. No such funds transferred shall be used to finance or fund any multifamily rental projects. Any funds transferred pursuant to this subsection (c) shall not be subject to the requirements of former § 13-23-403(a)(2) [deleted]. In addition to the purposes specified in § 13-23-403(a) , the transfer authorized in this subsection (c) is subject to the further limitation that it may be used only to support a pilot project to create, revitalize and preserve neighborhoods in up to three (3) urban areas and up to three (3) rural areas of the state. The pilot program shall exist only for three (3) years, through the end of the 1998-1999 fiscal year. The board shall report annually to the general assembly on the progress and success of the pilot program. (d) Notwithstanding subsection (a), at year end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, all of the unexpended balance of funds in the housing program reserve fund shall be transferred to the state general fund. Once these funds have been transferred, the housing program reserve fund shall be abolished and this section shall be repealed. Acts 1988, ch. 900, § 10; 1995, ch. 450, § 1; 1995, ch. 533, § 1; 1997, ch. 537, § 5.
(a) There is hereby created and established a housing program reserve fund to be administered by the agency, which will consist of moneys transferred from the housing program fund and the assets fund as set out in this part. No funds in the housing program reserve fund may revert to the state general fund, but shall remain available for the purposes set out in this part. Funds in the housing program reserve fund shall be invested in any investments permitted under state law, and the income from such investments is to be transferred to the housing program fund at least annually.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1995, fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) of the unexpended balance of the funds in the housing program reserve funds shall be transferred to the general fund.
(c) Up to two million dollars ($2,000,000) per year may be transferred from the housing program reserve fund to the housing program fund for the purposes specified in § 13-23-403(a) . Any such transfer must first be approved by the bond finance committee and the board, and such approvals must be based on a determination that such transfer is necessary to sustain the current funding levels of the grant programs of the agency, or that such transfer is necessary to accomplish a special program targeted to low income and/or special needs groups. No such funds transferred shall be used to finance or fund any multifamily rental projects. Any funds transferred pursuant to this subsection (c) shall not be subject to the requirements of former § 13-23-403(a)(2) [deleted]. In addition to the purposes specified in § 13-23-403(a) , the transfer authorized in this subsection (c) is subject to the further limitation that it may be used only to support a pilot project to create, revitalize and preserve neighborhoods in up to three (3) urban areas and up to three (3) rural areas of the state. The pilot program shall exist only for three (3) years, through the end of the 1998-1999 fiscal year. The board shall report annually to the general assembly on the progress and success of the pilot program.
(d) Notwithstanding subsection (a), at year end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1998, all of the unexpended balance of funds in the housing program reserve fund shall be transferred to the state general fund. Once these funds have been transferred, the housing program reserve fund shall be abolished and this section shall be repealed.
Acts 1988, ch. 900, § 10; 1995, ch. 450, § 1; 1995, ch. 533, § 1; 1997, ch. 537, § 5.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-601 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-601
Types of bonds
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The housing authority has the power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. It also has the power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. The authority may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds on which the principal of and interest on are payable from income and revenues of the authority and from grants or contributions from the federal government or other source. Such income and revenues securing the bonds may be: (A) Exclusively the income and revenues of the housing project financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; (B) Exclusively the income and revenues of certain designated housing projects, whether or not they are financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; or (C) The income and revenues of the authority generally. (2) Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any income or revenues of the authority or, in certain instances as hereinafter provided, may be additionally secured by a mortgage of any housing project, projects or other property of the authority. (b) Neither the commissioners of the authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance of such bonds. (c) The bonds and other obligations of the authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of any city or municipality located within its boundaries or of the state, and neither the state nor any such city or municipality shall be liable thereon, nor in any event shall they be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of the authority. The bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory or charter debt limitation or restriction. Bonds may be issued under this chapter, notwithstanding any debt or other limitation prescribed by any statute. Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 14; 1939, ch. 74, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.13 (Williams, § 3647.14); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1101.
(a) (1) The housing authority has the power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. It also has the power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. The authority may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds on which the principal of and interest on are payable from income and revenues of the authority and from grants or contributions from the federal government or other source. Such income and revenues securing the bonds may be: (A) Exclusively the income and revenues of the housing project financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; (B) Exclusively the income and revenues of certain designated housing projects, whether or not they are financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; or (C) The income and revenues of the authority generally. (2) Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any income or revenues of the authority or, in certain instances as hereinafter provided, may be additionally secured by a mortgage of any housing project, projects or other property of the authority.
(1) The housing authority has the power to issue bonds from time to time in its discretion, for any of its corporate purposes. It also has the power to issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously issued by it. The authority may issue such types of bonds as it may determine, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, bonds on which the principal of and interest on are payable from income and revenues of the authority and from grants or contributions from the federal government or other source. Such income and revenues securing the bonds may be: (A) Exclusively the income and revenues of the housing project financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; (B) Exclusively the income and revenues of certain designated housing projects, whether or not they are financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; or (C) The income and revenues of the authority generally.
(A) Exclusively the income and revenues of the housing project financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds;
(B) Exclusively the income and revenues of certain designated housing projects, whether or not they are financed in whole or in part with the proceeds of such bonds; or
(C) The income and revenues of the authority generally.
(2) Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge of any income or revenues of the authority or, in certain instances as hereinafter provided, may be additionally secured by a mortgage of any housing project, projects or other property of the authority.
(b) Neither the commissioners of the authority nor any person executing the bonds shall be liable personally on the bonds by reason of the issuance of such bonds.
(c) The bonds and other obligations of the authority, and such bonds and obligations shall so state on their face, shall not be a debt of any city or municipality located within its boundaries or of the state, and neither the state nor any such city or municipality shall be liable thereon, nor in any event shall they be payable out of any funds or properties other than those of the authority. The bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional, statutory or charter debt limitation or restriction. Bonds may be issued under this chapter, notwithstanding any debt or other limitation prescribed by any statute.
Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 20, § 14; 1939, ch. 74, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.13 (Williams, § 3647.14); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-1101.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-7-101 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 7 / Section 13-7-101
Grant of zoning power
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The county legislative body of any county is empowered, in accordance with the conditions and the procedure specified in this part, to regulate, in the portions of such county which lie outside of municipal corporations, the location, height and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot which may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts, and other open spaces, the density and distribution of population, the uses of buildings and structures for trade, industry, residence, recreation or other purposes, and the uses of land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, soil conservation, water supply conservation or other purposes, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur. Special districts or zones may be established in those areas deemed subject to seasonal or periodic flooding, and such regulations may be applied therein as will minimize danger to life and property, and as will secure to the citizens of Tennessee the eligibility for flood insurance under Public Law 1016, 84th Congress, or subsequent related laws or regulations promulgated under such provisions. Protection and encouragement of access to sunlight for solar energy systems may be considered in promulgating zoning regulations pursuant to this section. Quarrying shall be uniformly defined, for purposes of all county zoning regulations, as the extraction, removal and mechanized processing of stone, gravel, phosphate rock, metallic ore, limestone, marble, chert, sand, dimension stone and any other solid mineral or substance of commercial value, except coal and deep metal mining, including, but not limited to zinc, found in natural deposits in the earth, for barter or sale. The definition of quarrying shall not include the reuse of these minerals on the same site from which they are extracted. This definition shall have no effect on the exception contained in § 54-1-128 . The removal of borrow material from a site and the placement of the same material on a project site without any mechanized processing shall not be considered quarrying. (2) (A) (i) The transfer of development rights may be provided for in the promulgation of zoning regulations pursuant to this section. The creation, amendment or repeal of regulations, districts or maps providing for the transfer of development rights shall be in compliance with §§ 13-7-104 and 13-7-105 . The transfer of development rights shall not be subject to taxation pursuant to title 67, chapter 4 or 6; provided, that any instruments recorded in the county register's office as the result of the transfer of development rights shall be subject to the fees set out in § 8-21-1001 . Any regulations authorizing the transfer of development rights shall provide that conveyances of development rights shall be in writing and shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds and that whenever transferred development rights are allocated to any property, such allocation shall not become effective until the transferred development rights are noted in an instrument or on a plat and recorded in the office of the register of deeds. (ii) A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may be the receiving entity of a development right without allocating or designating the transferred development right to any receiving property under its ownership or control. A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization shall be allowed to receive all or part of the donating property's development rights notwithstanding any local zoning regulations pertaining to any required ratio or amount of land area a receiving property must contain in relation to the land area of the donating property or of the total amount of density that a receiving property may obtain from the donating property. (B) This subdivision (a)(2) shall be strictly construed with the specific intent to allow a local government to establish its own plan whereby the owners of property in a restrictive area (historical, agricultural, rural area as designated in the county's growth plan, or environmental) can sell the development rights to a developer or another individual and only with the consent of the property owner and through negotiations of development rights in the free marketplace. A property owner may donate, through gift or through testamentary disposition, all or part of the development rights of the owner's property to a town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may purchase development rights from a property owner with the consent of the property owner and the purchase shall be through negotiations of the development rights in the free marketplace. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may preserve the purchased or donated development rights unused for a definite or indefinite period of time and may at any time sell the development rights so held to a property owner in a designated receiving area with the purchase being one negotiated in the free marketplace. In order to accept a donation of development rights or for the purchase or sale of developments rights by a town, city, county, or county with a metropolitan government, the donation, purchase or sale must be approved by that government's legislative body. (C) It is the legislative intent that the provisions of this section relative to the transfer of development rights are permissive and not mandatory. Such rights shall only be transferred by contract and not by operation of law. (b) The chief legislative body of any county having a population of not less than two hundred eighty-seven thousand seven hundred (287,700) nor greater than two hundred eighty-seven thousand eight hundred (287,800), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, is further authorized and empowered to rezone properties conditionally or based upon contract, where the agreed conditions are designed to ameliorate injuries created by the rezoning to surrounding property interests or to county interests. Acts 1935, ch. 33, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 10268.1; Acts 1957, ch. 306, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; Acts 1979, ch. 259, § 7; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-401; Acts 1985, ch. 44, § 1; 1987, ch. 361, §§ 1, 4; 2001, ch. 265, §§ 1 - 4; 2008 , ch. 1150, § 11; 2011 , ch. 217, § 1; 2012 , ch. 755, § 1.
(a) (1) The county legislative body of any county is empowered, in accordance with the conditions and the procedure specified in this part, to regulate, in the portions of such county which lie outside of municipal corporations, the location, height and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot which may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts, and other open spaces, the density and distribution of population, the uses of buildings and structures for trade, industry, residence, recreation or other purposes, and the uses of land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, soil conservation, water supply conservation or other purposes, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur. Special districts or zones may be established in those areas deemed subject to seasonal or periodic flooding, and such regulations may be applied therein as will minimize danger to life and property, and as will secure to the citizens of Tennessee the eligibility for flood insurance under Public Law 1016, 84th Congress, or subsequent related laws or regulations promulgated under such provisions. Protection and encouragement of access to sunlight for solar energy systems may be considered in promulgating zoning regulations pursuant to this section. Quarrying shall be uniformly defined, for purposes of all county zoning regulations, as the extraction, removal and mechanized processing of stone, gravel, phosphate rock, metallic ore, limestone, marble, chert, sand, dimension stone and any other solid mineral or substance of commercial value, except coal and deep metal mining, including, but not limited to zinc, found in natural deposits in the earth, for barter or sale. The definition of quarrying shall not include the reuse of these minerals on the same site from which they are extracted. This definition shall have no effect on the exception contained in § 54-1-128 . The removal of borrow material from a site and the placement of the same material on a project site without any mechanized processing shall not be considered quarrying. (2) (A) (i) The transfer of development rights may be provided for in the promulgation of zoning regulations pursuant to this section. The creation, amendment or repeal of regulations, districts or maps providing for the transfer of development rights shall be in compliance with §§ 13-7-104 and 13-7-105 . The transfer of development rights shall not be subject to taxation pursuant to title 67, chapter 4 or 6; provided, that any instruments recorded in the county register's office as the result of the transfer of development rights shall be subject to the fees set out in § 8-21-1001 . Any regulations authorizing the transfer of development rights shall provide that conveyances of development rights shall be in writing and shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds and that whenever transferred development rights are allocated to any property, such allocation shall not become effective until the transferred development rights are noted in an instrument or on a plat and recorded in the office of the register of deeds. (ii) A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may be the receiving entity of a development right without allocating or designating the transferred development right to any receiving property under its ownership or control. A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization shall be allowed to receive all or part of the donating property's development rights notwithstanding any local zoning regulations pertaining to any required ratio or amount of land area a receiving property must contain in relation to the land area of the donating property or of the total amount of density that a receiving property may obtain from the donating property. (B) This subdivision (a)(2) shall be strictly construed with the specific intent to allow a local government to establish its own plan whereby the owners of property in a restrictive area (historical, agricultural, rural area as designated in the county's growth plan, or environmental) can sell the development rights to a developer or another individual and only with the consent of the property owner and through negotiations of development rights in the free marketplace. A property owner may donate, through gift or through testamentary disposition, all or part of the development rights of the owner's property to a town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may purchase development rights from a property owner with the consent of the property owner and the purchase shall be through negotiations of the development rights in the free marketplace. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may preserve the purchased or donated development rights unused for a definite or indefinite period of time and may at any time sell the development rights so held to a property owner in a designated receiving area with the purchase being one negotiated in the free marketplace. In order to accept a donation of development rights or for the purchase or sale of developments rights by a town, city, county, or county with a metropolitan government, the donation, purchase or sale must be approved by that government's legislative body. (C) It is the legislative intent that the provisions of this section relative to the transfer of development rights are permissive and not mandatory. Such rights shall only be transferred by contract and not by operation of law.
(1) The county legislative body of any county is empowered, in accordance with the conditions and the procedure specified in this part, to regulate, in the portions of such county which lie outside of municipal corporations, the location, height and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot which may be occupied, the sizes of yards, courts, and other open spaces, the density and distribution of population, the uses of buildings and structures for trade, industry, residence, recreation or other purposes, and the uses of land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, soil conservation, water supply conservation or other purposes, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur. Special districts or zones may be established in those areas deemed subject to seasonal or periodic flooding, and such regulations may be applied therein as will minimize danger to life and property, and as will secure to the citizens of Tennessee the eligibility for flood insurance under Public Law 1016, 84th Congress, or subsequent related laws or regulations promulgated under such provisions. Protection and encouragement of access to sunlight for solar energy systems may be considered in promulgating zoning regulations pursuant to this section. Quarrying shall be uniformly defined, for purposes of all county zoning regulations, as the extraction, removal and mechanized processing of stone, gravel, phosphate rock, metallic ore, limestone, marble, chert, sand, dimension stone and any other solid mineral or substance of commercial value, except coal and deep metal mining, including, but not limited to zinc, found in natural deposits in the earth, for barter or sale. The definition of quarrying shall not include the reuse of these minerals on the same site from which they are extracted. This definition shall have no effect on the exception contained in § 54-1-128 . The removal of borrow material from a site and the placement of the same material on a project site without any mechanized processing shall not be considered quarrying.
(2) (A) (i) The transfer of development rights may be provided for in the promulgation of zoning regulations pursuant to this section. The creation, amendment or repeal of regulations, districts or maps providing for the transfer of development rights shall be in compliance with §§ 13-7-104 and 13-7-105 . The transfer of development rights shall not be subject to taxation pursuant to title 67, chapter 4 or 6; provided, that any instruments recorded in the county register's office as the result of the transfer of development rights shall be subject to the fees set out in § 8-21-1001 . Any regulations authorizing the transfer of development rights shall provide that conveyances of development rights shall be in writing and shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds and that whenever transferred development rights are allocated to any property, such allocation shall not become effective until the transferred development rights are noted in an instrument or on a plat and recorded in the office of the register of deeds. (ii) A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may be the receiving entity of a development right without allocating or designating the transferred development right to any receiving property under its ownership or control. A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization shall be allowed to receive all or part of the donating property's development rights notwithstanding any local zoning regulations pertaining to any required ratio or amount of land area a receiving property must contain in relation to the land area of the donating property or of the total amount of density that a receiving property may obtain from the donating property. (B) This subdivision (a)(2) shall be strictly construed with the specific intent to allow a local government to establish its own plan whereby the owners of property in a restrictive area (historical, agricultural, rural area as designated in the county's growth plan, or environmental) can sell the development rights to a developer or another individual and only with the consent of the property owner and through negotiations of development rights in the free marketplace. A property owner may donate, through gift or through testamentary disposition, all or part of the development rights of the owner's property to a town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may purchase development rights from a property owner with the consent of the property owner and the purchase shall be through negotiations of the development rights in the free marketplace. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may preserve the purchased or donated development rights unused for a definite or indefinite period of time and may at any time sell the development rights so held to a property owner in a designated receiving area with the purchase being one negotiated in the free marketplace. In order to accept a donation of development rights or for the purchase or sale of developments rights by a town, city, county, or county with a metropolitan government, the donation, purchase or sale must be approved by that government's legislative body. (C) It is the legislative intent that the provisions of this section relative to the transfer of development rights are permissive and not mandatory. Such rights shall only be transferred by contract and not by operation of law.
(A) (i) The transfer of development rights may be provided for in the promulgation of zoning regulations pursuant to this section. The creation, amendment or repeal of regulations, districts or maps providing for the transfer of development rights shall be in compliance with §§ 13-7-104 and 13-7-105 . The transfer of development rights shall not be subject to taxation pursuant to title 67, chapter 4 or 6; provided, that any instruments recorded in the county register's office as the result of the transfer of development rights shall be subject to the fees set out in § 8-21-1001 . Any regulations authorizing the transfer of development rights shall provide that conveyances of development rights shall be in writing and shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds and that whenever transferred development rights are allocated to any property, such allocation shall not become effective until the transferred development rights are noted in an instrument or on a plat and recorded in the office of the register of deeds. (ii) A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may be the receiving entity of a development right without allocating or designating the transferred development right to any receiving property under its ownership or control. A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization shall be allowed to receive all or part of the donating property's development rights notwithstanding any local zoning regulations pertaining to any required ratio or amount of land area a receiving property must contain in relation to the land area of the donating property or of the total amount of density that a receiving property may obtain from the donating property.
(i) The transfer of development rights may be provided for in the promulgation of zoning regulations pursuant to this section. The creation, amendment or repeal of regulations, districts or maps providing for the transfer of development rights shall be in compliance with §§ 13-7-104 and 13-7-105 . The transfer of development rights shall not be subject to taxation pursuant to title 67, chapter 4 or 6; provided, that any instruments recorded in the county register's office as the result of the transfer of development rights shall be subject to the fees set out in § 8-21-1001 . Any regulations authorizing the transfer of development rights shall provide that conveyances of development rights shall be in writing and shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds and that whenever transferred development rights are allocated to any property, such allocation shall not become effective until the transferred development rights are noted in an instrument or on a plat and recorded in the office of the register of deeds.
(ii) A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may be the receiving entity of a development right without allocating or designating the transferred development right to any receiving property under its ownership or control. A town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization shall be allowed to receive all or part of the donating property's development rights notwithstanding any local zoning regulations pertaining to any required ratio or amount of land area a receiving property must contain in relation to the land area of the donating property or of the total amount of density that a receiving property may obtain from the donating property.
(B) This subdivision (a)(2) shall be strictly construed with the specific intent to allow a local government to establish its own plan whereby the owners of property in a restrictive area (historical, agricultural, rural area as designated in the county's growth plan, or environmental) can sell the development rights to a developer or another individual and only with the consent of the property owner and through negotiations of development rights in the free marketplace. A property owner may donate, through gift or through testamentary disposition, all or part of the development rights of the owner's property to a town, city, county, a county with a metropolitan form of government, the state of Tennessee, or a not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may purchase development rights from a property owner with the consent of the property owner and the purchase shall be through negotiations of the development rights in the free marketplace. Any town, city, county, county with a metropolitan government, the state, or any not-for-profit conservation or preservation organization may preserve the purchased or donated development rights unused for a definite or indefinite period of time and may at any time sell the development rights so held to a property owner in a designated receiving area with the purchase being one negotiated in the free marketplace. In order to accept a donation of development rights or for the purchase or sale of developments rights by a town, city, county, or county with a metropolitan government, the donation, purchase or sale must be approved by that government's legislative body.
(C) It is the legislative intent that the provisions of this section relative to the transfer of development rights are permissive and not mandatory. Such rights shall only be transferred by contract and not by operation of law.
(b) The chief legislative body of any county having a population of not less than two hundred eighty-seven thousand seven hundred (287,700) nor greater than two hundred eighty-seven thousand eight hundred (287,800), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, is further authorized and empowered to rezone properties conditionally or based upon contract, where the agreed conditions are designed to ameliorate injuries created by the rezoning to surrounding property interests or to county interests.
Acts 1935, ch. 33, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 10268.1; Acts 1957, ch. 306, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; Acts 1979, ch. 259, § 7; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-401; Acts 1985, ch. 44, § 1; 1987, ch. 361, §§ 1, 4; 2001, ch. 265, §§ 1 - 4; 2008 , ch. 1150, § 11; 2011 , ch. 217, § 1; 2012 , ch. 755, § 1.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-20-417 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 20 / Section 13-20-417
Advances to housing authority
Status: in_force

When any housing authority which is created for any city becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers therein, the governing body of the city shall immediately make an estimate of the amount of money necessary for the administrative expenses and overhead of such housing authority during the first year thereafter, and shall appropriate such amount to the authority out of any moneys in such city not appropriated to some other purposes. The moneys so appropriated shall be paid to the authority as a donation. Any municipality located in whole or in part within the area of operation of a housing authority shall have the power from time to time to lend or donate money to the authority or to agree to take such action. The housing authority, when it has money available therefor, shall make reimbursement for all such loans made to it. Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 45, § 8, as added by Acts 1937, ch. 225, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.29X (Williams, § 3647.36a); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-917.
When any housing authority which is created for any city becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers therein, the governing body of the city shall immediately make an estimate of the amount of money necessary for the administrative expenses and overhead of such housing authority during the first year thereafter, and shall appropriate such amount to the authority out of any moneys in such city not appropriated to some other purposes. The moneys so appropriated shall be paid to the authority as a donation. Any municipality located in whole or in part within the area of operation of a housing authority shall have the power from time to time to lend or donate money to the authority or to agree to take such action. The housing authority, when it has money available therefor, shall make reimbursement for all such loans made to it.
Acts 1935 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 45, § 8, as added by Acts 1937, ch. 225, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 3647.29X (Williams, § 3647.36a); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 13-917.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-14-114 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 14 / Section 13-14-114
Bond, insurance policy, or agreement requirements
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Any board member, executive committee member, employee officer, or any other authorized person of a development district, who receives public funds, has authority to make expenditures from public funds, or has access to any public funds, is hereby required to give bond to be made payable to the state of Tennessee with such sureties as hereinafter provided. Such bond is to be conditioned in all cases in which a different condition is not prescribed, upon the faithful discharge of the duties of such office, employment or other authorized activity in which such person is engaged during the time such person continues therein, or in the discharge of any part of such duties. (2) (A) A development district may obtain, in lieu of the surety bond required by subdivision (a)(1), a policy of insurance issued by an insurance company duly authorized to do business in this state or an agreement with a pool established by two (2) or more governmental entities pursuant to § 29-20-401 or an entity established pursuant to § 29-20-401(b)(2) for the administration of such agreement, which provides government crime coverage, employee dishonesty insurance coverage, or equivalent coverage that insures the lawful performance by officials and their employees of their fiduciary duties and responsibilities. (B) A policy or agreement obtained pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(A) must have limits of not less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) per occurrence. (C) A policy or agreement satisfying the requirements set forth in subdivision (a)(2)(A) is deemed to be a blanket official bond for each official or office identified in the policy or agreement for all purposes under this chapter. (D) The officials who may be covered under the policy or agreement include board members, policy council members, employees, officers, and other authorized persons of a development district who handle public funds pursuant to this chapter. (E) A copy of the policy or agreement evidencing the persons covered, the amount of coverage maintained, and the type of coverage provided must be filed in the office of the register of deeds where the office of the development district is located. (F) A policy or agreement filed pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(E) satisfies the requirement for the filing of official bonds under subsection (e). (b) Such official bond shall be executed in the same form as that prescribed by § 8-19-101 , for county and state officials and employees. (c) (1) Effective July 1, 2013, the minimum amount of such required bond shall be determined from the amount of revenues handled by the respective development district as reported in the last audit approved by the comptroller of the treasury. The minimum amount of the bond shall be based on revenues as follows: (A) Four percent (4%) of the revenues up to three million dollars ($3,000,000); and (B) Two percent (2%) of the excess over three million dollars ($3,000,000) shall be added. (2) The amounts indicated in subdivisions (c)(1)(A) and (B) shall be cumulative. (d) All such official bonds shall be signed by authorized individuals of a corporate surety, and such corporation shall be duly licensed to do business in this state as a surety. (e) The official bonds required under this section are hereby required to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds where the office of the development district is located and transmitted to the office of the county clerk in the same county for safekeeping. (f) No examination or certification of any of such bonds shall be required in this section. (g) Provisions for bonds of all state and county officers set forth in title 8, chapter 19, shall also govern the bonds of all persons covered under this section, so far as title 8, chapter 19, is not inconsistent with this section. (h) The respective development district shall pay the premiums for such bonds. Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 873, s 1, eff. 4/14/2022. Amended by 2013 Tenn. Acts, ch. 315, Secs.s 25, s 26 eff. 4/29/2013. Acts 1976, ch. 665, § 6; T.C.A., § 13-1412.
(a) (1) Any board member, executive committee member, employee officer, or any other authorized person of a development district, who receives public funds, has authority to make expenditures from public funds, or has access to any public funds, is hereby required to give bond to be made payable to the state of Tennessee with such sureties as hereinafter provided. Such bond is to be conditioned in all cases in which a different condition is not prescribed, upon the faithful discharge of the duties of such office, employment or other authorized activity in which such person is engaged during the time such person continues therein, or in the discharge of any part of such duties. (2) (A) A development district may obtain, in lieu of the surety bond required by subdivision (a)(1), a policy of insurance issued by an insurance company duly authorized to do business in this state or an agreement with a pool established by two (2) or more governmental entities pursuant to § 29-20-401 or an entity established pursuant to § 29-20-401(b)(2) for the administration of such agreement, which provides government crime coverage, employee dishonesty insurance coverage, or equivalent coverage that insures the lawful performance by officials and their employees of their fiduciary duties and responsibilities. (B) A policy or agreement obtained pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(A) must have limits of not less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) per occurrence. (C) A policy or agreement satisfying the requirements set forth in subdivision (a)(2)(A) is deemed to be a blanket official bond for each official or office identified in the policy or agreement for all purposes under this chapter. (D) The officials who may be covered under the policy or agreement include board members, policy council members, employees, officers, and other authorized persons of a development district who handle public funds pursuant to this chapter. (E) A copy of the policy or agreement evidencing the persons covered, the amount of coverage maintained, and the type of coverage provided must be filed in the office of the register of deeds where the office of the development district is located. (F) A policy or agreement filed pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(E) satisfies the requirement for the filing of official bonds under subsection (e).
(1) Any board member, executive committee member, employee officer, or any other authorized person of a development district, who receives public funds, has authority to make expenditures from public funds, or has access to any public funds, is hereby required to give bond to be made payable to the state of Tennessee with such sureties as hereinafter provided. Such bond is to be conditioned in all cases in which a different condition is not prescribed, upon the faithful discharge of the duties of such office, employment or other authorized activity in which such person is engaged during the time such person continues therein, or in the discharge of any part of such duties.
(2) (A) A development district may obtain, in lieu of the surety bond required by subdivision (a)(1), a policy of insurance issued by an insurance company duly authorized to do business in this state or an agreement with a pool established by two (2) or more governmental entities pursuant to § 29-20-401 or an entity established pursuant to § 29-20-401(b)(2) for the administration of such agreement, which provides government crime coverage, employee dishonesty insurance coverage, or equivalent coverage that insures the lawful performance by officials and their employees of their fiduciary duties and responsibilities. (B) A policy or agreement obtained pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(A) must have limits of not less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) per occurrence. (C) A policy or agreement satisfying the requirements set forth in subdivision (a)(2)(A) is deemed to be a blanket official bond for each official or office identified in the policy or agreement for all purposes under this chapter. (D) The officials who may be covered under the policy or agreement include board members, policy council members, employees, officers, and other authorized persons of a development district who handle public funds pursuant to this chapter. (E) A copy of the policy or agreement evidencing the persons covered, the amount of coverage maintained, and the type of coverage provided must be filed in the office of the register of deeds where the office of the development district is located. (F) A policy or agreement filed pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(E) satisfies the requirement for the filing of official bonds under subsection (e).
(A) A development district may obtain, in lieu of the surety bond required by subdivision (a)(1), a policy of insurance issued by an insurance company duly authorized to do business in this state or an agreement with a pool established by two (2) or more governmental entities pursuant to § 29-20-401 or an entity established pursuant to § 29-20-401(b)(2) for the administration of such agreement, which provides government crime coverage, employee dishonesty insurance coverage, or equivalent coverage that insures the lawful performance by officials and their employees of their fiduciary duties and responsibilities.
(B) A policy or agreement obtained pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(A) must have limits of not less than four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) per occurrence.
(C) A policy or agreement satisfying the requirements set forth in subdivision (a)(2)(A) is deemed to be a blanket official bond for each official or office identified in the policy or agreement for all purposes under this chapter.
(D) The officials who may be covered under the policy or agreement include board members, policy council members, employees, officers, and other authorized persons of a development district who handle public funds pursuant to this chapter.
(E) A copy of the policy or agreement evidencing the persons covered, the amount of coverage maintained, and the type of coverage provided must be filed in the office of the register of deeds where the office of the development district is located.
(F) A policy or agreement filed pursuant to subdivision (a)(2)(E) satisfies the requirement for the filing of official bonds under subsection (e).
(b) Such official bond shall be executed in the same form as that prescribed by § 8-19-101 , for county and state officials and employees.
(c) (1) Effective July 1, 2013, the minimum amount of such required bond shall be determined from the amount of revenues handled by the respective development district as reported in the last audit approved by the comptroller of the treasury. The minimum amount of the bond shall be based on revenues as follows: (A) Four percent (4%) of the revenues up to three million dollars ($3,000,000); and (B) Two percent (2%) of the excess over three million dollars ($3,000,000) shall be added. (2) The amounts indicated in subdivisions (c)(1)(A) and (B) shall be cumulative.
(1) Effective July 1, 2013, the minimum amount of such required bond shall be determined from the amount of revenues handled by the respective development district as reported in the last audit approved by the comptroller of the treasury. The minimum amount of the bond shall be based on revenues as follows: (A) Four percent (4%) of the revenues up to three million dollars ($3,000,000); and (B) Two percent (2%) of the excess over three million dollars ($3,000,000) shall be added.
(A) Four percent (4%) of the revenues up to three million dollars ($3,000,000); and
(B) Two percent (2%) of the excess over three million dollars ($3,000,000) shall be added.
(2) The amounts indicated in subdivisions (c)(1)(A) and (B) shall be cumulative.
(d) All such official bonds shall be signed by authorized individuals of a corporate surety, and such corporation shall be duly licensed to do business in this state as a surety.
(e) The official bonds required under this section are hereby required to be recorded in the office of the register of deeds where the office of the development district is located and transmitted to the office of the county clerk in the same county for safekeeping.
(f) No examination or certification of any of such bonds shall be required in this section.
(g) Provisions for bonds of all state and county officers set forth in title 8, chapter 19, shall also govern the bonds of all persons covered under this section, so far as title 8, chapter 19, is not inconsistent with this section.
(h) The respective development district shall pay the premiums for such bonds.
Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 873, s 1, eff. 4/14/2022.
Amended by 2013 Tenn. Acts, ch. 315, Secs.s 25, s 26 eff. 4/29/2013.
Acts 1976, ch. 665, § 6; T.C.A., § 13-1412.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-3-501 — TN Code / Title 13 / Chapter 3 / Section 13-3-501
"Developed area of single family residences" defined
Status: in_force

As used in this part, "developed area of single family residences" means an area generally referred to as a subdivision as indicated on a plat filed in the register of deeds office. Acts 2007, ch. 246, § 2.
As used in this part, "developed area of single family residences" means an area generally referred to as a subdivision as indicated on a plat filed in the register of deeds office.
Acts 2007, ch. 246, § 2.