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TN Code § 42-2-225 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 2 - State Administration|Part 2 - Department of Transportation|§ 42-2-225. Reporter — Official Record — Transcripts

 The department is authorized and directed to employ a competent court reporter or stenographer, whose salary or charges shall be paid out of the general appropriations for the department, and whose duties it shall be to take down and transcribe all testimony offered in contested cases, to prepare the official record of all contested cases, which record shall include all petitions, applications, testimony, exhibits and such other matter as required by law or as the department may direct, and to perform such other duties as the department may direct; provided, that the department may in its discretion direct the reporter not to transcribe particular proceedings if it appears that no transcript is necessary; and provided further, that any party to a contested case may obtain copies of the transcript of testimony made by the department's reporter upon the payment to the department of the cost of the transcript at such rate as the department may determine; and provided further, that expense of taking down and preparing the official record shall be deemed as part of the costs of such proceeding and all or any part thereof shall be ordered paid by such party or parties as the department shall deem proper.
TN Code § 42-2-226 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 2 - State Administration|Part 2 - Department of Transportation|§ 42-2-226. Proceedings Before Hearing Examiners

 In any contested case the department may direct that the proceedings or any part of the proceedings be heard by a hearing examiner to be appointed by the department. Proceedings before a hearing examiner shall be according to this chapter, other applicable laws and the rules of the department. Whenever a contested case, or any part of a contested case, is heard by a hearing examiner, the hearing examiner shall make a proposal for decision in writing, which shall include findings of fact and conclusions of law made by the hearing examiner. The proposal for decision shall be served on all parties of record, and each party who would be adversely affected by the proposed decision shall be given an opportunity to file exceptions and present argument in writing to the department itself. Before the department enters a final order in such cases, the members thereof shall personally consider the entire record, or the portion of the record cited by the parties, and shall make its decision in the form and manner prescribed by this chapter for decisions in contested cases.
TN Code § 42-3-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Airport Authorities Act.”
TN Code § 42-3-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-105. Certificate of Incorporation of Regional Airport Authority

  Original Certificate.  The commissioners of the regional airport authority shall present to the secretary of state an application signed by them, which shall set forth, without any detail other than mere recital:  That the governing bodies (naming the municipalities) of the municipalities by ordinances or resolutions created a regional airport authority and thereafter appointed them as commissioners;   The name and official residence of each of the commissioners, together with a certified copy of the appointment evidencing their right to office, the date and place of induction into and taking oath of office, and that they desire the municipal airport authority to become a public body and a body corporate and politic under this chapter;   The term of office of each of the commissioners;   The name that is proposed for the corporation; and   The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation.  The application shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the commissioners before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take and certify oaths, who shall certify upon the application that the officer personally knows the commissioners and knows them to be the officers as appointed in the application and that each subscribed and swore thereto in the officer's presence. The secretary of state shall examine the application and if the secretary of state finds that the name proposed for the corporation is not identical with that of a person or of any other corporation of this state, or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, the secretary of state shall receive and file it and shall record it in an appropriate book of record in the secretary of state's office.      When the application has been made, filed and recorded, as provided in subdivision (a)(1), the authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic under the name proposed in the application and the secretary of state shall make and issue to the commissioners a certificate of incorporation, pursuant to this chapter, under the seal of the state and shall record the certificate with the application.   Upon receiving the certificate of incorporation, the commissioners shall cause it to be placed of record in the register's office of each county in which is located one (1) or more of the participating municipalities.     Amended Certificate.  When a regional airport authority is increased or decreased pursuant to § 42-3-104, it shall forward to the secretary of state a certified copy of each resolution adopted pursuant to the increase or decrease and upon receipt of the resolution, the secretary of state shall issue an amended certificate of incorporation in accordance with the resolution, which amended certificate shall be placed of record in the county register's office of each county in which is located one (1) or more of the participating municipalities.
TN Code § 42-3-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-106. Proof of Existence of Authority

  Municipal Authorities.  In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of a municipal airport authority, created pursuant to § 42-3-103, the municipal authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact its business and exercise its powers under this chapter upon proof of the adoption by the municipality of the resolution creating the municipal airport authority, the appointment and qualification of the first commissioners of the authority, and of the issuance and recording of a certificate of incorporation. Duly certified copies of the resolution creating the authority, the certificates of appointment of the commissioners, and the certificate of incorporation shall be admissible in evidence in any suit, action, or proceeding.   Regional Authorities.  In any suit, action, or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of a regional airport authority, the regional airport authority shall be conclusively deemed to have become established and authorized to transact its business and exercise its powers under this chapter upon proof of the issuance by the secretary of state of a certificate of incorporation of the regional airport authority. A copy of the certificate of incorporation, duly certified by the secretary of state, or by the county register in whose office the certificate of incorporation is recorded, shall be admissible in evidence in any suit, action, or proceeding.
TN Code § 42-3-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-107. Commissioners

  A commissioner of an authority shall receive no compensation for services but shall be entitled to the necessary expenses, including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge of the commissioner's duties.   Each commissioner shall hold office until a successor has been appointed and has qualified. The certificates of the appointment and reappointment of commissioners shall be filed with the authority.   The powers of each authority shall be vested in the commissioners of the authority. A majority of the commissioners of an authority shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting business of the authority and exercising its powers and for all other purposes. Action may be taken by the authority upon a vote of not less than a majority of the commissioners present.   There shall be elected a chair and vice chair from among the commissioners. An authority may employ an executive director, secretary, technical experts and such other officers, agents, and employees, permanent and temporary, as it may require, and shall determine their qualifications, duties and compensation. For such legal services as it may require, an authority may call upon the chief law officer of the municipality or municipalities included in the authority or may employ its own counsel and legal staff. An authority may delegate to one (1) or more of its agents or employees such powers or duties as it may deem proper.
TN Code § 42-3-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-108. General Powers — Motor Vehicle Traffic Regulations

  An authority has all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter (excluding the power to levy and collect taxes or special assessments) including, but not limited to, the power to:   Sue and be sued;   Have a seal;   Have perpetual succession; and   Have such immunity in tort cases as do municipalities under the Municipal Airport Act, compiled in chapter 5 of this title;     Execute such contracts and other instruments and take such other action as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter;   Plan, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, and protect airports and air navigation facilities, within this state and within any adjoining state, including the acquisition, construction, installation, equipment, maintenance, and operation of such airports or buildings and other facilities for the servicing of aircraft or for the comfort and accommodation of air travelers, and the purchase and sale of supplies, goods, and commodities as are incident to the operation of its airport properties. For such purposes, an authority may, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, acquire property, real or personal, or any interest in property, including avigation easements and easements in airport hazards or land outside the boundaries of an airport or airport site, as are necessary to permit the removal, elimination, obstruction-marking, or obstruction-lighting of airport hazards or to prevent the establishment of airport hazards;   Acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, existing airports and air navigation facilities; provided, that an authority shall not acquire or take over any airport or air navigation facility owned or controlled by another authority, a municipality, or public agency of this or any other state without the consent of that authority, municipality, or public agency; and   Establish or acquire and maintain airports in, over, and upon any public waters of this state or any submerged lands under public waters; and construct and maintain terminal buildings, landing floats, causeways, roadways, and bridges for approaches to or connecting with any such airport, and landing floats and breakwaters for the protection of such structures.     Any authority that is operated by a board of commissioners whose membership is appointed by the legislative bodies of five (5) or more local governments has the power to promulgate, adopt, and enforce such motor vehicle traffic regulations for airport authority property as may be necessary to provide for the public safety.
TN Code § 42-3-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-109. Eminent Domain

 In the acquisition of property by eminent domain proceedings authorized by this chapter, an authority shall proceed in the manner provided by title 29, chapter 16. For the purpose of making surveys and examinations relative to eminent domain proceedings, it is lawful for the authority to enter upon the land, doing no unnecessary damage. Notwithstanding any other statute or other law, an authority may take possession of any property to be acquired by eminent domain proceedings at any time after the commencement of the proceedings. The authority shall not be precluded from abandoning the proceedings in any case where possession of the property has not been taken, even after a trial jury in circuit court has rendered a verdict as to damages for the property taken and at any time prior to the entry of a final decree disposing of the entire eminent domain proceedings.
TN Code § 42-3-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-110. Disposal of Airport Property

 Except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan, or agreement authorized by § 42-3-114, an authority may, by sale, lease, or otherwise, dispose of any airport, air navigation facility or other property, or portion thereof or interest therein, acquired pursuant to this chapter. Disposal by sale, lease, or otherwise, shall be in accordance with the laws of this state governing the disposition of other public property, except that in the case of disposal to another authority, a municipality or an agency of the state or federal government for use and operation as a public airport, the sale, lease, or other disposal may be effected in such manner and upon such terms as the commissioners of the authority may deem in the best interest of civil aviation.
TN Code § 42-3-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-113. Regulations — Scope — Conformity With State and Federal Law

 An authority is authorized to adopt, amend and repeal such reasonable resolutions, rules, regulations and orders as it deems necessary for the management, government and use of any airport or air navigation facility owned by it or under its control. No rule, regulation, order or standard prescribed by the department shall be inconsistent with, or contrary to, any act of congress or any regulation promulgated or standard established pursuant thereto or be inconsistent with, or contrary to, any act of the general assembly or any regulation promulgated or standard established pursuant to such act. The authority shall keep on file at the principal office of the authority for public inspection a copy of all its rules and regulations.
TN Code § 42-3-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-114. Federal and State Aid

  Acceptance Authorized; Conditions.  Except as otherwise provided by law, an authority is authorized to accept, receive, receipt for, disburse and expend federal and state moneys and other moneys, public or private, made available by grant or loan, or both, to accomplish, in whole or in part, any of the purposes of this chapter. All federal moneys accepted under this section shall be accepted and expended by the authority upon such terms and conditions as are prescribed by the United States and as are consistent with state law; and state moneys accepted under this section shall be accepted and expended by the authority upon such terms and conditions as are prescribed by the state.   Department of Transportation as Agent for Authorities in Receiving Certain Federal Funds; Exceptions.  The department shall act as agent for each authority for the purposes of applying for, receiving and disbursing federal funds made available pursuant to the former Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970, 84 Stat. 219, 49 U.S.C. 1970 ed., § 1701 et seq. [repealed], or any amendment thereto, unless an authority owns an airport having a minimum of twenty-five thousand (25,000) originating enplanements annually on regularly scheduled airline carriers as certified by the federal civil aeronautics board, in which event the authority may act as principal with respect to any airport owned by it, or may designate the department as its agent for the purposes mentioned in this subdivision (b)(1). All funds received by the department shall be deposited in the state treasury to be kept and disbursed in a manner consistent with federal requirements.   Whenever the department acts as agent, it may do so for an individual authority or authorities acting jointly and the applicable provisions of § 42-2-203(c) shall apply under either circumstance.
TN Code § 42-3-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-115. Public Purposes

 The acquisition of any land, or interest in land, pursuant to this chapter, the planning, acquisition, establishment, development, construction, improvement, maintenance, equipment, operation, regulation and protection of airports, air navigation facilities and avigation easements, including the acquisition or elimination of airport hazards and the exercise of any other powers granted in this chapter to authorities and other public agencies, to be severally or jointly exercised, are declared to be public and governmental functions, exercised for a public purpose, and matters of public necessity. All land and other property and privileges acquired and used by or on behalf of any authority or other public agency in the manner and for the purposes enumerated in this chapter shall and are declared to be acquired and used for public and governmental purposes and as a matter of public necessity.
TN Code § 42-3-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-116. Status of Airport Authorities — Property and Revenues Exempt From Taxation

  It is declared that airport authorities created pursuant to this chapter are public and governmental bodies acting as agencies and instrumentalities of the creating and participating municipalities, and that the acquiring, operating, and financing of airports and related facilities by such airport authorities are for a public and governmental purpose and matters of public necessity.   The property and revenues of the authority or any interest in such property and revenues are exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxation.
TN Code § 42-3-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-117. Authority of Municipal Corporations

 For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction or operation of airports and air navigation facilities, and acquiring avigation easements pursuant to this chapter, any municipality for which an authority has been created may, upon such terms, with or without consideration as it may determine:   Lend or donate money to the authority;   Provide that all or a portion of the taxes or funds available or to become available to, or required by law to be used by, the municipality for airport purposes, be transferred or paid directly to the airport authority as the funds become available to the municipality;   Cause water, sewer or drainage facilities, or any other facilities that it is empowered to provide, to be furnished adjacent to or in connection with airports or air navigation facilities;   Dedicate, sell, convey or lease any of its interest in any property, or grant easements, licenses or any other rights or privileges in property to the authority;   Furnish, dedicate, close, pave, install, grade, regrade, plan or replan streets, roads, roadways and walks from established streets or roads to airports or air navigation facilities;   Do any and all things, whether or not specifically authorized in this section and not otherwise prohibited by law, that are necessary or convenient to aid and cooperate with the authority in the planning, undertaking, constructing or operating of airports and air navigation facilities; and   Enter into agreements with the authority respecting action to be taken by the municipality pursuant to this section.
TN Code § 42-3-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-118. Supplementary Authority

  The powers conferred by this chapter are in addition 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 powers conferred by any other law.   The powers granted by this chapter may be exercised without regard to requirements, restrictions, or procedural provisions contained in any other law or chapter, except as expressly provided in this chapter.   In addition to the general and special powers conferred by this chapter, every authority is authorized to exercise such powers as are necessarily incidental to the exercise of such general and special powers.
TN Code § 42-3-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-119. Municipal Zoning Authority Unaffected

 Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to limit any right, power or authority of a municipality to regulate airport hazards by zoning.
TN Code § 42-3-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-3-120. Written Agreement Between Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Program and Airport. [Effective on February 1, 2021.]

  As used in this section, “peer-to-peer car sharing program” means a business platform that connects vehicle owners with drivers to enable the sharing of vehicles for financial consideration.   If a peer-to-peer car sharing program conducts business at an airport or otherwise uses airport facilities, then the program shall enter into a written agreement with an airport, or the entity responsible for regulating commerce at the airport, within this state.
TN Code § 42-3-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 2 - Joint Operations|§ 42-3-201. Joint Operations Authorized

  For the purposes of this part, unless otherwise qualified:  “Governing body” includes the commissioners of an authority, the governing body of a municipality and the head of an agency of a state or the United States if the public agency is other than an authority or municipality; and   “Public agency” includes municipality and authority, each as defined in this chapter, any agency of the state government and of the United States, and any municipality, political subdivision and agency of an adjoining state.      All powers, privileges and authority granted by this chapter may be exercised and enjoyed by an authority jointly with any public agency of this state, and jointly with any public agency of any adjoining state or of the United States to the extent that the laws of the other state or of the United States permit such joint exercise of enjoyment.   Any agency of the state government, when acting jointly with any authority, may exercise and enjoy all the powers, privileges and authority conferred by this chapter upon an authority.