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TN Code § 7-87-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 87 - Port Authority Act|§ 7-87-108. Acquisition of Land

 Any municipality, county, or any other form of local government may acquire any interest in land within the boundaries of the local government by gift, purchase, lease, condemnation or any other means, and may transfer that interest to any authority by sale, lease or gift. The transfer may be authorized by resolution or by ordinance of the governing body of the local government without submission of the question to the voters and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, limitations, or other provisions contained in any other general, special, or local law.
TN Code § 7-87-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 87 - Port Authority Act|§ 7-87-110. Civil Service Plan

  The authority, by action of its board, may elect to come under the civil service plan of the municipality, to be administered by the civil service commission or board of such municipality, or may adopt its own civil service plan to be administered by the board, which plan shall include, but need not be limited to, the following provisions:  Entry into the service on the basis of open competition and service, promotions and remuneration on the basis of merit, efficiency and fitness;   Classifications of the positions in the service;   The rating of candidates on the basis of publicly announced competitive examinations and the maintenance of lists of eligible candidates;   Employment of candidates from the eligible lists in the highest qualified rating;   Probationary periods not to exceed six (6) months;   Disciplinary action, suspension or discharge of employees for cause, only with the right of notice and review;   Schedules of compensation and pay increases prepared by the president and approved by the board;   Promotion on the basis of ascertained merit, seniority in service, and competitive examinations;   Provision for keeping service records on all employees;   Regulations for hours of work, attendance, holidays, leaves of absence and transfers, and procedures for layoffs, discharge, suspension, discipline and reinstatement; and   Review by the board at the request of the employee in question, and after notice and public hearing of any disciplinary action, suspension or discharge of any employee, which action, suspension or discharge may be affirmed, modified or reversed by the board. Findings of fact by the board are not subject to review by any court, except for illegality or want of jurisdiction.     A civil service plan adopted and administered by the board may include a provision exempting from the plan those persons employed to render professional, scientific, technical or expert service of a temporary or unusual character; persons primarily employed on projects funded from the proceeds of bonds issued by the authority or from grants or loans to be repaid from the proceeds of bonds issued by the authority or from grants received by the authority; and persons employed for a period of less than six (6) months in any twelve-month period or working thirty (30) hours or less per week.
TN Code § 7-87-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 87 - Port Authority Act|§ 7-87-111. Powers of Municipalities With Regard to Port Authorities

 Any municipality or municipalities with respect to which the authority has been created has all necessary powers in order to further the purposes of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following, any or all of which powers may be exercised by resolution of its governing body:   Advance, donate or lend money or real or personal property to the authority;   Provide that any funds on hand or that become available to it for port purposes shall be paid directly to the authority;   Cause water, sewer, gas, electric or other utility services to be provided to the authority;   Sell, lease, dedicate, donate or otherwise convey to the authority any of the municipality's interest in any existing port or other related property, or grant easements, licenses or other rights or privileges in the port or other related property to the authority;   Open and improve streets, roads and alleys to the port;   Provide police and fire protection services to the port; and   Enter into agreements with the authority with regard to the transfer of its port employees to the authority with the retention of such employees of any civil service status and accrued rights in pension, disability, hospitalization and death benefits.
TN Code § 7-87-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 87 - Port Authority Act|§ 7-87-112. Dissolution of an Authority

  Whenever the governing body of the municipality or municipalities with respect to which the authority has been created shall, by resolution, determine that the purposes for which the authority was created have been substantially accomplished, that all of the bonds and other obligations of the authority have been fully paid, and that such municipality has determined, or such municipalities have agreed on, the distribution of the funds and other properties of the authority, then the executive officers of such municipality or the executive officers of such municipalities shall execute and file for record with the secretary of state a certificate of dissolution reciting such facts and declaring the authority to be dissolved.   Upon such filing, the authority is dissolved and title to all funds and other properties of the authority at the time of such dissolution shall vest in and be delivered to such municipalities in accordance with the terms of their agreement relating to the dissolution.
TN Code § 7-87-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 87 - Port Authority Act|§ 7-87-113. Powers Supplemental to Existing Powers

  The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and are not in substitution for such powers, and the limitations imposed by this chapter shall not affect such powers.   The powers granted in this chapter may be exercised without regard to requirements, restrictions or procedural provisions contained in any other law or charter, except as expressly provided in this chapter.   Any municipality authorized under this chapter to create a port authority may do so without the necessity of a charter amendment, notwithstanding anything in its charter to the contrary.
TN Code § 7-87-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 87 - Port Authority Act|§ 7-87-114. Construction

 This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes set forth in this chapter, and insofar as this chapter may be inconsistent with any other law, this chapter shall be controlling.
TN Code § 7-88-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998.”
TN Code § 7-88-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-102. Purpose of Chapter

 The purpose of this chapter is to increase state tourism and related economic development by providing a financing mechanism for the development of convention centers and other similar public use facilities that will attract and serve major tourism destinations, thereby fostering economic benefit to the state and hosting cities and counties.
TN Code § 7-88-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-104. Annual Adjustments to Base Tax Revenue

 Annual adjustments to the base tax revenues of the tourism development zone shall be made by the department of revenue within ninety (90) days of the end of each fiscal year and shall be effective immediately upon notification of such adjustment from the department to the municipality or public authority.
TN Code § 7-88-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-105. Tourism Development Zone Within a One-Mile Radius of Qualified Public Use Facility — Exception

 A tourism development zone shall not extend farther than one (1) mile from the outer perimeter of a qualified public use facility; provided, however, that if the department of finance and administration determines that the geographical configuration of a municipality requires an unusually shaped tourism development zone, such zone may extend farther than one (1) mile from the outer perimeter of a qualified public use facility, except that the size of the tourism development zone shall not exceed three square miles (3 sq. mi.).
TN Code § 7-88-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-107. Limitations on Indebtedness

  Any bonds, notes or other indebtedness relative to the cost of a qualified public use facility shall not be issued for a term longer than thirty (30) years from the date it is reasonably anticipated that the facility will commence operation as a public use facility, and the municipality or public authority is authorized to pledge all proceeds or taxes received by it, pursuant to this chapter, to the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds, notes or other indebtedness.   A municipality is authorized to enter into a structured lease agreement; provided, that the municipality complies with  § 9-21-305(c) regarding guidelines, rules or regulations adopted or promulgated by the state funding board under § 9-21-130, treating the lease as if it were a revenue bond of the municipality and the comptroller determines compliance with the guidelines. However, if the municipality is additionally obligated to make the lease payments from legally available sources, subject to appropriation, other than revenues available under § 7-88-106(b) and revenues derived from the project, then the municipality, seven (7) days before the effective date of the structured lease agreement or the amendment to a lease making it a structured lease agreement, must provide notice generally available within the municipality, disclosing the purpose for the structured lease agreement, the additional sources, whether taxes or revenues, to be used for lease payments, and the maximum liability of the municipality.   Any bonds, notes, or other indebtedness, including any refinancing or refunding, proposed to be issued under this part must be approved by the state funding board.
TN Code § 7-88-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-109. Proposed Debt Amortization Schedule

 Prior to the issuance of any bonds to finance the cost of a qualified public use facility that will be repaid in whole or in part from apportionments under this chapter, the municipality or public authority issuing such bonds shall submit a proposed debt amortization schedule for such bonds to the commissioner of finance and administration for approval. Such schedule shall show the anticipated contribution to be made to the annual debt service for such bonds from the apportionment of sales and use taxes pursuant to this chapter and all other sources. After the date of issuance of such bonds, the municipality shall continue to contribute each year thereafter until such bonds are retired or a sufficient sinking fund has been established for their retirement, an amount not less than the municipality's contribution to the annual debt service projected on the approved debt amortization schedule to the repayment of such bonds or a sinking fund for their retirement.
TN Code § 7-88-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-110. Rules and Regulations

 The department of revenue and the department of finance and administration are authorized to adopt rules and regulations in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, to implement this chapter. The state building commission is authorized to adopt procedures to implement this chapter.
TN Code § 7-88-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-111. Compliance With Civil Rights Act

 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. § 2000d, et seq.), and title 4, chapter 21, part 9, shall be strictly complied with whenever applicable under this chapter.
TN Code § 7-88-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-113. Qualified Public Use Facility as Project

 A qualified public use facility shall be deemed to be within the term “project” as defined in § 7-53-101. In addition to the powers under chapter 53 of this title, any local government having jurisdiction over any part of a qualified public use facility is authorized to use tax increment financing for such project costs in § 7-88-103(3) pursuant to § 13-20-205.
TN Code § 7-88-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 88 - Convention Center and Tourism Development Financing Act of 1998|§ 7-88-117. Fee on Sales of Services and Tangible Personal Property Within Central Business Improvement District Within Tourism Development Zone

   Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, any metropolitan government which has created a tourism development zone pursuant to this chapter and which tourism development zone completely includes one (1) or more central business improvement districts, may, by resolution of its governing body, impose an additional fee on the sales price of services and tangible personal property sold at retail within one (1) central business improvement district located within the tourism development zone; provided, that there shall be exempt from the fee imposed by this chapter any sales of the following:  Professional services;   Lodging provided to transients;   Tickets to sporting events or other live ticketed events;   Alcoholic beverages which are subject to the liquor by the drink tax in addition to sales tax;   Newspapers and other publications; and   Overnight and long term parking.     The fee authorized by this section shall not exceed the rate of twenty-five hundredths percent (0.25%).      The metropolitan government shall furnish a certified copy of the adopting resolution to the department of revenue in accordance with regulations prescribed by the department. Such resolution shall clearly designate the one (1) central business improvement district within which the additional fee applies and shall include a description of the boundaries of such district.   The department of revenue shall collect such fee concurrently with the collection of the state sales tax in the same manner as the state sales tax is collected.   Except as provided in subdivision (b)(4), the proceeds of the fee provided for in this section shall be distributed to the metropolitan government from which the fee was collected to be deposited into the event and marketing fund of such government. The funds derived from the collection of this fee shall be used to assist in the recruitment of major conventions and group meetings, the improvement of promotion, and to provide additional focused security in the central business improvement districts located within a tourism development zone. The funds derived from the collection of this fee shall not be used to assist in the recruitment of, directly or indirectly, conventions or group meetings which are considering, or would otherwise consider absent the use of this fee, other meeting and convention venues located in a county in which such fee is imposed.    For fiscal year 2013-2014, the first one hundred sixty-five thousand dollars ($165,000) of the fee collected shall be deposited into the state general fund prior to any distribution to metropolitan government.   For fiscal year 2014-2015 and subsequent fiscal years, the first fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of the fee collected shall be deposited into the state general fund prior to any distribution to metropolitan government.
TN Code § 7-89-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 89 - Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009|§ 7-89-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009.”
TN Code § 7-89-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 89 - Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009|§ 7-89-102. Legislative Findings — Purpose — Liberal Construction

  It is found and determined that:  There is an immediate need to promote and further develop tourism, convention and employment opportunities in this state, by facilitating the acquisition, construction and rehabilitation of convention center facilities along with associated hotel accommodations; transportation infrastructure; tourism, theatre, retail business and commercial office space facilities; parking facilities; parks; greenways; open space and any and all facilities related to any of these;   The development of such facilities will provide a means to attract conventions, public assemblies, conferences, trade exhibitions or other business, social, cultural, scientific and public interest events to the state, enhance the state's image as a convention destination, and encourage and foster economic development and prosperity and employment within the state;   An authority is needed in individual communities to prepare comprehensive, long-range master plans for the orderly development of convention center facilities and to promote related activities; and   In many instances, effective cooperation between various units of government has been hampered because of inadequate statutory authority.     It is the purpose of this chapter to address these findings by providing for the establishment of convention center authorities to plan, promote, finance, construct, acquire, renovate, equip and enlarge convention center facilities along with associated hotel accommodations; transportation infrastructure; tourist, theatre and retail business facilities; commercial offices; parking lots or garages and any and all facilities related to any of these. The primary purpose of any and all such facilities shall be the conduct and service of conventions, public assemblies, conferences, trade exhibitions or other business, social, cultural, scientific and public interest events and related activities, but use of these facilities need not be limited to those events.   This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with its purpose.
TN Code § 7-89-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 89 - Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009|§ 7-89-104. Adoption of Resolution to Form Authority

 If the governing body of a municipality, by appropriate resolution duly adopted, finds and determines that it is wise, expedient, necessary or advisable that a convention center authority of the municipality be formed, authorizes the chief executive officer of the municipality to form the authority and approves the form of corporate charter proposed to be used in organizing the authority, then the chief executive officer of the municipality shall execute, acknowledge and file a charter for the authority as provided in § 7-89-106. No authority may be formed unless the governing body of a municipality has adopted a resolution as provided in this section.
TN Code § 7-89-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 89 - Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009|§ 7-89-105. Charter Contents

  The charter shall set forth:  The name of the authority, which shall be the convention center authority of the city, county or metropolitan government of  , where the blank is to be filled in with the name of the municipality, if the name is available for use by the authority, and if not available, then the chief executive officer of the municipality shall designate some other similar name that is available;   A recital that permission to organize the authority has been granted by resolution duly adopted by the governing body of the municipality and the date of the adoption of the resolution;   The location of the principal office of the authority;   The purposes for which the authority is proposed to be organized;   The number of directors of the authority;   The period, which may be perpetual, for the duration of the authority;   A provision addressing conflicts of interest of members of the board of directors of the convention center authority; and   Any other matter that the chief executive officer of the municipality may choose to insert in the charter that is not inconsistent with this chapter or with the laws of the state.     The charter shall be subscribed and acknowledged by the chief executive officer of the municipality.
TN Code § 7-89-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 89 - Convention Center Authorities Act of 2009|§ 7-89-106. Filing of Charter

 When executed and acknowledged in conformity with § 7-89-105, the charter shall be filed with the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall examine the charter and, if the secretary of state finds that the recitals contained in the charter are correct, that the requirements of § 7-89-104 have been complied with and that the name is not identical with or so nearly similar to that of another authority already in existence in this state as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, the secretary of state shall approve the charter and accept it for filing. When the charter has been so made, filed and approved, the authority shall constitute a public corporation under the name set out in the charter.