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TN Code § 7-32-127 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-127. New Assessment to Replace Assessment Set Aside

 If in any court any final assessment made in pursuance of this chapter is set aside for irregularities, omissions, or defects in the proceedings, then the legislative body of such city may, upon recommendation and notice as required in the making of an original assessment, make a new assessment in accordance with this chapter.
TN Code § 7-32-128 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-128. Correction of Errors

 Any error, mistake of name, number of lot, amount, or other irregularity may at any time be corrected; and no such levy or assessment shall ever be declared void or invalid by reason of any error, mistake, or irregularity, but the person aggrieved may have the error, mistake, or irregularity corrected by application to the legislative body of the city or town.
TN Code § 7-32-129 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-129. Delivery of Assessments to Tax Collector — Indexing of Information

  After the legislative body has levied the assessments against certain parcels of property, the city clerk or person designated shall deliver the assessments to the tax collector of the municipality, who shall enter the assessments into the tax collector's records, which shall include the following information:  Name of owner of the property;   The amount that has been assessed against the parcel of property; and   Any other information deemed appropriate.     The information in subsection (a) shall be indexed according to the names of the owners of the property.
TN Code § 7-32-130 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-130. Entries in Assessment Book — Copies

 The special assessment book referred to in § 7-32-129 shall be a book of original entries for any and all purposes, and certified copies of the entries shall be competent evidence in all cases in all the courts.
TN Code § 7-32-131 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-131. Lien of Assessment — Tax Sale

  All such assessments shall constitute a lien on the respective lots or parcels of land upon which they are levied, superior to all other liens except those of the state, county and city for taxes.   The enforcement by the state, county, and city of their liens for taxes on any lot or parcel of land upon which has been levied an assessment for any improvement authorized by this chapter shall not operate to discharge or in any manner affect the city's or town's lien for such assessment; however, a purchaser at a tax sale by the state, county, or city of any lot or parcel of land upon which the assessment has been levied shall take the same subject to the lien of such assessment, and if bought by the state, any conveyance of the title thus acquired or any redemption shall be subject to the lien of such assessment.
TN Code § 7-32-132 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-132. Warrant for and Payment of Assessments

 The tax collector shall issue the tax collector's receivable warrant to the individual or owner desiring to pay any of the assessments, which amount shall be paid to the treasurer of the city as other taxes and revenues of the city are now paid.
TN Code § 7-32-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-133. Date Assessments Due — Installment Payments

  All assessments levied by virtue of this chapter shall be due and payable within thirty (30) days after the assessment is made final pursuant to § 7-32-125; but at the election of the property owner, to be expressed by notice as provided in § 7-32-134, the assessment may be paid in five (5) annual installments, and shall bear interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum, interest payable semiannually.   For an assessment levied pursuant to § 7-32-115(b), the municipality may permit payment of the assessment in installments, made not more frequently than monthly and amortized for a period not to exceed thirty (30) years from the date of acquisition and accruing interest at a rate to be determined by the municipality; however, the interest rate shall not exceed the maximum rate of interest permitted by law. Property owners at the time of the initial assessment shall enter into a written agreement detailing the terms of the installment payments pursuant to § 7-32-134.
TN Code § 7-32-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-134. Contract for Installment Payments

  A property owner desiring to exercise the privilege of payment by installments shall, before the expiration of the thirty (30) days provided for in § 7-32-133, enter into an agreement in writing with the municipality that, in consideration of such privilege, the property owner will make no objection to any illegality or irregularity with regard to the assessment against such property owner's property, and will pay the assessment, as required by law, with the specified interest. Where an assessment is levied against a parcel of property that is subject to or becomes subject to a horizontal property regime, a condominium regime, a time-share regime or a vacation club regime, the officers of the organization representing the owners of interests in such parcel of property or managing such property on behalf of the owners of interests in such parcel of property may enter into such agreement to pay the assessment by installments and such agreement shall be binding upon all owners of interests in property represented in such organization or managed by such organization.   The agreement shall be filed in the office of the city clerk or person designated by the municipality.
TN Code § 7-32-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-135. Payment Date Without Installment Contract

 In all cases where an agreement pursuant to § 7-32-134 has not been signed and filed within the time limit, the entire assessment shall be payable in cash, without interest, before the expiration of thirty (30) days.
TN Code § 7-32-136 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-136. Prepayment of Installments

  Any property owner who elects to pay the property owner's assessments in five (5) annual installments pursuant to § 7-32-134 shall have the right and privilege of paying the assessment in full at any installment period by paying the full amount of the installments, together with all accrued interest, and an additional sum equal to one half (½) the annual interest on the installments.   Notwithstanding subsection (a), an owner of property subject to an assessment may irrevocably waive the owner's right to prepay the assessment in the contract for installment payments described in § 7-32-134 or by otherwise evidencing waiver in writing.
TN Code § 7-32-137 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-137. Default in Installment Payments

 If any property owner defaults in the payment of any installment and interest on the installments, all of the installments, with interest, and an additional sum equal to one half (½) the annual interest, shall become immediately due and payable.
TN Code § 7-32-138 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-138. Attachment on Delinquency in Payments — Sale of Land

  Whenever any installments of any assessments become past due for a period of sixty (60) days, it is the duty of the tax collector of the city to certify the installment and all other installments of the same assessment to the city attorney, whose duty it shall be to immediately enforce the collection of the installment or installments, by attachment levied upon the lot or parcel of ground upon which such assessment was levied. In case of any such delinquency, attachment shall be sued out and the lien under the attachment enforced in the chancery court of the county where the land is located. Alternatively, the municipality may collect any installments of any assessments that are past due in the same manner that the municipality is authorized to collect property taxes of the municipality.   Any land so attached may be sold in the attachment proceedings in bar of the equity of redemption and all other rights, legal or equitable, belonging to the owners of the land.
TN Code § 7-32-139 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-139. Purchase by City — Resale by City

 Whenever such proceedings taken by any such city or town result in the sale of any lot of ground to pay any installment or installments of such levies or assessments, the mayor of such city or town shall have the right to bid at such sale up to the amount of all of the assessments that are outstanding against the property. If the property is struck off to the mayor, the title of the property shall be taken in the name of the municipality. The mayor shall thereafter have the power to execute a quitclaim deed of such city to any individual who tenders in consideration of the quitclaim deed the amount of such special assessments that may have been levied against such property, together with all costs, interest, or charges that may have been incurred in the effort to collect such assessments.
TN Code § 7-32-140 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-140. Power to Borrow and Pay for Improvements

 The municipalities affected by this chapter shall have the authority and power to borrow money for the purpose of making payments for the improvements contemplated in this chapter in anticipation of realization of funds, either by the sale of bonds or special assessments. Such municipalities are further authorized to make payments out of any funds on hand or such funds as may be available for either that portion of the work to be assessed against the abutting property owners or owners of property in a flood plain or to be paid by the municipality itself. Nothing in this chapter or chapter 33 of this title shall be construed to prohibit the municipalities affected hereby from making payment of the entire cost of such improvements out of any funds that may be provided or available for such purposes.
TN Code § 7-32-141 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-141. Supplemental to Other Law

 This chapter and chapter 33 of this title shall not repeal, modify, or interfere with the operation of any special or local assessment or abutting property law enacted for the benefit of any particular city or cities; provided, that such chapters shall be additional and supplemental to the powers conferred by such local or special law, and any municipality may take advantage of any of the rights, powers, and authority conferred by such chapters, in addition to those which such cities now possess.
TN Code § 7-32-142 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 32 - Improvements by Special Assessment|§ 7-32-142. Construction of Chapter

 This chapter, being necessary to secure and preserve public health, safety, convenience and welfare, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes.
TN Code § 7-34-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Revenue Bond Law.”
TN Code § 7-34-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Governing body” means bodies and boards, by whatsoever names they may be known, charged with the governing of a municipality;   “Municipality” means any county or incorporated city or town of the state; and   “Public works” means any one (1) or combination of two (2) or more of the following: water, sewerage, gas or electric heat, light or power works, plants and systems or parking facilities, together with all parts thereof and appurtenances thereto, including, but not limited to, supply and distribution systems, electrical power purchased from the Tennessee Valley authority or similar governmental agencies, on a current or long-term purchase basis, reservoirs, dams, sewage treatment and disposal works and generating plants.
TN Code § 7-34-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-103. Declaration of Policy

  It is declared to be the policy of this state that any municipality acquiring, purchasing, constructing, reconstructing, improving, bettering or extending any public works pursuant to this chapter shall manage such public works in the most efficient manner consistent with sound economy and public advantage, to the end that the services of the public works shall be furnished to consumers at the lowest possible cost.   No municipality shall operate public works for gain or profit or primarily as a source of revenue to the municipality, but shall operate public works for the use and benefit of the consumers served by the public works and for the promotion of the welfare and for the improvement of the health and safety of the inhabitants of the municipality.   No use of revenues authorized by this chapter shall be construed as being contrary to the policy declared in this section.
TN Code § 7-34-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-105. Works Within Other Municipalities

 No municipality shall construct public works wholly or partly within the corporate limits of another municipality, other than to perform maintenance on or make improvements to its existing public works system in its service area, except with the consent of the governing body of the other municipality.
TN Code § 7-34-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-106. Exemption From Utilities Regulation

 It is unnecessary for a municipality proceeding under this chapter to obtain a certificate of convenience or necessity, franchise, license, permit, or other authorization from a bureau, board, commission, or other like instrumentality of the state to acquire, construct, purchase, reconstruct, improve, extend, maintain, or operate public works, except as provided in § 68-221-1017.
TN Code § 7-34-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-107. Deposit of Revenues

 All moneys of a municipality derived from a public works shall be deposited in one (1) or more banks or trust companies in a special account or accounts.
TN Code § 7-34-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-108. Charges to Municipality or Department

 Charges shall be made for any service rendered by a public works to a municipality or to any department or works of the municipality, at the rate applicable to other customers taking service under similar conditions. Revenues derived from such service shall be treated as all other revenues.
TN Code § 7-34-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-110. Covenants in Resolutions — Bondholders' Remedies

  Any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this chapter may contain covenants as to:  The purpose or purposes to which the proceeds of sale of bonds may be applied and the use and disposition of the proceeds;   The use and disposition of the revenue of the public works for which the bonds are to be issued, including the creation and maintenance of reserves;   The transfer from the general funds of the municipality to the account or accounts of the public works an amount equal to the cost of furnishing such municipality or any of its departments, boards or agencies with the services, facilities and commodities of the public works;   The issuance of other or additional bonds payable from the revenue of the public works;   The operation and maintenance of such public works;   The insurance to be carried on the bonds and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;   Books of accounts and the inspection and audit of the books and as to accounting methods; and   The terms and conditions upon which the holders of the bonds or any proportion of them or any trustees for the holders shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver by the chancery court, which court shall have jurisdiction in such proceedings, and which receiver may enter and take possession of the public works, operate and maintain the public works, prescribe rates, fees or charges, and collect, receive and apply all revenue thereafter arising from the public works in the same manner as the municipality itself might do.     This chapter and any such resolution or resolutions shall be a contract with the holder or holders of the bonds, and the duties of the municipality and of its governing body and officers under this chapter and any such resolution or resolutions shall be enforceable by any bondholder by mandamus or other appropriate suit, action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction.
TN Code § 7-34-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-112. Validity of Bonds

 The bonds bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing of the bonds shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before delivery of, and payment for, the bonds any or all the persons whose signatures appear on the bonds have ceased to be officers of the municipality issuing the bonds. The validity of the bonds shall not be dependent on nor affected by the validity or regularity of any proceedings relating to the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, or extension of the public works for which the bonds are issued. The resolution authorizing the bonds may provide that the bonds shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this chapter, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their issuance.
TN Code § 7-34-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-113. Lien on Public Works Revenue

  All bonds of the same issue shall, subject to the prior and superior rights of outstanding bonds, claims or obligations, have a prior and paramount lien on the revenue of the public works for which the bonds have been issued, over and ahead of all bonds of any issue payable from the revenue that may be subsequently issued, and over and ahead of any claims or obligations of any nature against the revenue subsequently arising or subsequently incurred; provided, that the proceedings authorizing any issue of bonds may provide for the issuance of additional bonds on a parity with the bonds.   All bonds of the same issue shall be equally and ratably secured without priority by reason of number, date of bonds, of sale, or execution, or of delivery, by a lien on the revenue in accordance with this chapter and the resolution or resolutions authorizing the bonds.
TN Code § 7-34-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-114. Rates Sufficient to Support Plant — Consumer Use of Auxiliary Energy Sources

  The governing body of a municipality issuing bonds pursuant to this chapter shall prescribe and collect reasonable rates, fees or charges for the services, facilities and commodities of such public works, and shall revise such rates, fees or charges, from time to time, whenever necessary so that such public works shall be and always remain self-supporting. The rates, fees or charges prescribed shall be such as will produce revenue at least sufficient to:  Pay when due all bonds and interest on the bonds, for the payment of which such revenue is or shall have been pledged, charged or otherwise encumbered, including reserves for the payment of the bonds and interest; and   Provide for all expenses of operation and maintenance of such public works, including reserves for the expenses and maintenance.     When such public works supplies its services to consumers who use solar or wind powered equipment as a source of energy, such public works shall not discriminate against such consumers by its rates, fees or charges or by altering the availability or quality of energy.   Any consumer who uses solar power, wind power, or other auxiliary source of energy shall install and operate the equipment, property, or appliance for such energy source in compliance with any state or local code or regulation applicable to the safe operation of such equipment, property, or appliance.
TN Code § 7-34-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-116. Exemption From Taxation

  So long as a municipality owns any public works, the property and revenue of such public works shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation.   Bonds and the income from bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation, except inheritance, transfer and estate taxes.
TN Code § 7-34-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 34 - Revenue Bond Law|§ 7-34-117. Exemption From Tennessee Public Utility Commission Jurisdiction

 No requirements or provisions of this chapter shall be construed so as to deprive any municipality issuing bonds pursuant to this chapter of the exemption previously granted to municipalities from the jurisdiction of the Tennessee public utility commission.