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TN Code § 7-3-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 4 - Metro Sheriffs' Restitution Act of 1978|§ 7-3-405. Selection of Inmate Participants

 Participating inmates shall be carefully screened and the committing courts shall be consulted before an inmate is placed in the restitution program.
TN Code § 7-3-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-501. Enforcement of Ordinances, Laws or Regulations — Citations and Warrants

 When any person violates an ordinance, law or regulation of a metropolitan government, any police or peace officer of such metropolitan government or any employee of the metropolitan government authorized to enforce such ordinance, law or regulation, in whose presence the violation is committed or who determines after investigation that there is probable cause such a violation has been committed, may issue a citation or civil warrant, giving a copy to the violator, showing the ordinance, law or regulation violated and the date, time and place when the violator is to appear in court.
TN Code § 7-3-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-502. Notice on Citation or Warrant

 Each citation or civil warrant issued pursuant to this part shall have printed on it, in large, conspicuous block letters, the following:   NOTICE: FAILURE TO APPEAR IN COURT ON THE DATE ASSIGNED BY THIS CITATION/WARRANT CAN RESULT IN: THE COURT ORDERING YOU TO PAY A CIVIL FINE/PENALTY, COURT COSTS AND LITIGATION TAXES TO THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT; THE ISSUANCE OF AN EXECUTION AND GARNISHMENT TO COLLECT THE FINE/PENALTY, COSTS AND TAXES; AND THE ISSUANCE OF A BENCH WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT, WITH A PENALTY OF UP TO FIVE (5) DAYS IN JAIL AND/OR A FINE OF UP TO TEN DOLLARS ($10.00).
TN Code § 7-3-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-503. Service of Citation or Warrant

 If the police or peace officer or employee of a metropolitan government authorized to enforce such ordinance, law or regulation is unable to serve the citation or civil warrant issued pursuant to § 7-3-501 at the time the ordinance, law or regulation is violated, the citation or civil warrant may be served by the police or peace officer or any employee of the metropolitan government authorized to enforce such ordinance, law or regulation or charged with the duty to serve civil or criminal process and who is at least eighteen (18) years of age. Service may be made by delivering a copy of the citation or civil warrant to the violator personally or, if the violator evades service, by leaving a copy of the citation or warrant at the violator's dwelling house or usual place of abode, with some person of suitable age and discretion then residing in the dwelling house or abode, whose name shall appear on the proof of service.
TN Code § 7-3-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-504. Service by Mail

 Service by mail of a citation or civil warrant upon the violator may be made by any employee of a metropolitan government, by any additional plaintiff, or the violator's attorney, or by any person authorized by statute. The person serving the citation or civil warrant by mail shall send, postage prepaid, a copy of the citation or civil warrant to the violator by registered, return receipt, or by certified, return receipt mail. Service by mail shall not be the basis for the entry of a judgment by default unless the record contains a return receipt showing personal acceptance by the violator or by the violator's authorized agent.
TN Code § 7-3-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-505. Failure to Produce Identification — Arrest — Release — Bond

 When any police or peace officer of a metropolitan government or any employee of a metropolitan government authorized to enforce ordinances, laws or regulations of the metropolitan government or charged with the duty to serve civil or criminal process, asks the violator for identification for the purpose of issuing a citation or civil warrant to that person, the failure to produce or give such identification shall be grounds for the violator to be arrested by an officer authorized to make arrests pursuant to title 40, chapter 7. In such event, the violator shall be arrested, transported to the police station or jail, booked, photographed and fingerprinted for identification purposes and, thereafter, shall be served with the citation or civil warrant and released from custody without being required to post a bond.
TN Code § 7-3-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-506. Injunctions and Restraining Orders

 Injunctions or restraining orders issued by any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce any ordinance, law or regulation of any metropolitan government or to restrain the violation of any ordinance, law or regulation of any metropolitan government shall not be stayed pending appeal, unless such stay is requested by motion in the court that issued the injunction and an appropriate bond approved by the court is posted. The court having issued the injunction or restraining order shall retain jurisdiction to consider such motion for a stay after an appeal has been filed. This section shall not be applicable in any proceeding where the procedure is governed by the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure or the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure.
TN Code § 7-3-507 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-507. Penalties

 All metropolitan governments are empowered to set a penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500) per day for each day during which the violation of ordinances, laws and regulations of such metropolitan government continues or occurs. No penalty in excess of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) may be imposed on any property owner who is charged with violating any ordinance, law or regulation relating to zoning or housing standards when the principal use of the property is for an owner-occupied residential dwelling and the appraised value of such property as shown on the records of the assessor of property does not exceed thirty thousand dollars ($30,000).
TN Code § 7-3-508 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 3 - Metropolitan Government—operation and Powers|Part 5 - Violation of Ordinances, Laws and Regulations|§ 7-3-508. Powers Deemed Additional and Supplemental

 The powers conferred by this part are in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other laws, charter or home rule provision.
TN Code § 7-4-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-103. Tax Added to Room Invoice — Tax on Short-Term Rental Unit — Collection and Remittance of Tax

  The tax shall be added by each and every operator to each invoice prepared by the operator for the occupancy of the operator's hotel, such invoice to be given directly or transmitted to the transient, and the tax shall be collected by the operator from the transient and remitted to the tax collection official.   Notwithstanding this part to the contrary, on or after January 1, 2021, the tax, when levied upon the occupancy of a short-term rental unit secured through a short-term rental unit marketplace, must be collected and remitted in accordance with title 67, chapter 4, part 15.
TN Code § 7-4-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-104. When Tax Collected and Remitted — Compensation to Operator for Administrative Expenses

  The tax levied by this chapter shall be remitted by all operators who lease, rent, or charge for any rooms to the metropolitan department of finance not later than the twentieth of each month next following collection from the transient. The operator is hereby required to collect the tax from the transient at the time of the presentation of the invoice for the occupancy whether prior to occupancy or not, as may be the custom of the operator; the obligation to the metropolitan government entitled to such tax shall be that of the operator.   For the purpose of compensating the operator in accounting for and remitting the tax levied by this chapter, the operator shall be allowed two percent (2%) of the amount of tax due and accounted for and remitted to the tax collection official in the form of a deduction in submitting the operator's report and paying the amount due by the operator; provided, that the amount due was not delinquent at the time of payment.
TN Code § 7-4-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-105. Prohibited Representations

 No operator of a hotel shall advertise or state in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, that the tax or any part of the tax will be assumed or absorbed by the operator, or that it will be added to the rent, or that, if added, any part will be refunded.
TN Code § 7-4-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-106. Violations and Penalties — Delinquent Taxes

  Taxes collected by an operator that are not remitted to the tax collection official on or before the due dates are delinquent.   An operator shall be liable for interest on such delinquent taxes from the due date at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum, and in addition for penalty of one percent (1%) for each month or fraction of a month that such taxes are delinquent. Such interest and penalty shall become a part of the tax required in this chapter to be remitted.   Willful refusal of an operator to collect or remit the tax or willful refusal of a transient to pay the tax imposed is a Class C misdemeanor.   Any fine levied in this chapter shall be applicable to each individual transaction involving lodging services paid by a customer to the operator in those cases when the operator fails or refuses to pay the tax payable.
TN Code § 7-4-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-107. Records

 It is the duty of every operator liable for the collection and payment of any tax imposed by this chapter to keep and preserve for a period of three (3) years all records necessary to determine the amount of the tax, which records the tax collection official shall have the right to inspect at all reasonable times.
TN Code § 7-4-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-108. Administration and Enforcement — Taxpayer Remedies

  In administering and enforcing this chapter, the tax collection official shall have, as additional powers, those powers and duties with respect to collection of taxes provided in title 67 or otherwise provided by law; provided, that title 67, chapter 1, part 17, does not apply to any record, document, or other information pertaining to a tax on the privilege of occupancy in a hotel imposed pursuant to this chapter.   Upon any claim of illegal assessment and collection, the taxpayer has the remedy provided in § 67-1-911, it being the intent of this chapter that the provisions of law that apply to the recovery of state taxes illegally assessed and collected be conformed to apply to the recovery of taxes illegally assessed and collected under the authority of this chapter; provided, that the tax collection official shall possess those powers and duties as provided in § 67-1-707, with respect to the adjustment and settlement with taxpayers of all errors of taxes collected by the tax collection official under the authority of this chapter and to direct the refunding of the adjustments and settlements. Notice of any tax paid under protest shall be given to the tax collection official, and suit for recovery shall be brought against the tax collection official.
TN Code § 7-4-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-109. Tourist Commission

   For the purpose of promoting tourist, convention, and recreational activity, authorization is granted to establish, and there shall be established, a tourist commission of either seven (7) members or nine (9) members as provided in this section. This commission shall be comprised of persons selected by the mayor of the metropolitan government in the following manner:  Three (3) commissioners from a list of five (5) persons submitted by the hotel and motel association, or if expanded pursuant to subdivision (a)(2), four (4) commissioners from a list of not less than six (6) persons submitted by the hotel and motel association;   One (1) commissioner from a list of three (3) persons submitted by the area chamber of commerce; and   Three (3) commissioners selected by the mayor of the metropolitan government from tourist related industries, or, if expanded pursuant to subdivision (2), four (4) commissioners selected by the mayor of the metropolitan government from tourist related industries.     At least two (2) of the members of the commission shall be selected from minorities, as well as members of the sex that historically have been underrepresented on the tourist commission. 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 tourist commission consisting of nine (9) members, at least two (2) of the members of the tourist commission shall be appointed consistent with this subdivision (a)(2).     The commissioners shall be appointed for terms of three (3) years, and vacancies shall be filled in the same manner that original appointments are made but shall be for the duration of the unexpired term only; commencing in 1988, the terms of the commissioners shall be of such length and so arranged that the terms of one third (1/3) of the commission shall expire each year.   As relating to budgetary and fiscal matters and expenditures, the commission shall be subject to the same provisions of the local organic law as the other boards and commissions established by the charter of the metropolitan government, and the commission shall be responsible for preparing and submitting a budget for all funds to be expendable pursuant to § 7-4-110(a)(1) and (2) for appropriate action by the metropolitan government.
TN Code § 7-4-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-111. Tax Additional to Other Taxes and Fees

 The tax levied in this chapter shall be in addition to all other taxes levied or authorized to be levied whether in the form of excise, license, or privilege taxes, and shall be in addition to all other fees and taxes now levied or authorized to be levied.
TN Code § 7-4-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-4-112. Applicability

 This chapter shall only apply to those counties having a metropolitan form of government.
TN Code § 7-4-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 2 - The Convention Center Fund|§ 7-4-201. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Metropolitan council” means the council of a county having a metropolitan form of government that has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census;   “Metropolitan government” means any county having a metropolitan form of government that has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census;   “Minority-owned business” means a business that is solely owned, or at least fifty-one  percent (51%) of the assets or outstanding stock of which is owned, by an individual who personally manages and controls the daily operations of the business and who is impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of:  Past practices of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnic background, or sex;   A disability as defined in § 4-26-102; or   Past practices of racial discrimination against African-Americans;     “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, business organization, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit; and   “Tax collection official” means the department of finance of the county or municipality, as applicable, or the county clerk, if so designated by ordinance of the legislative body of any municipality having a metropolitan government.
TN Code § 7-4-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 2 - The Convention Center Fund|§ 7-4-204. Delinquency — Interest and Penalties

  Taxes due and payable that are not remitted to the tax collection official on or before the due dates are delinquent.   The person owing the taxes shall be liable for interest on any delinquent taxes from the due date at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum, and, in addition, for a penalty of one percent (1%) for each month or fraction of a month that the taxes are delinquent. The interest and penalties shall become a part of the tax required to be remitted in this chapter.   Willful refusal of a person to collect or remit the tax or willful refusal of an operator of a contracted vehicle to keep accurate records of the tax due and payable is a Class C misdemeanor.   Any fine levied in this chapter shall be applicable to each individual transaction involving an operator of a contracted vehicle for willful refusal to keep accurate records or the willful refusal of a person to collect or remit the tax due and owing.
TN Code § 7-4-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 2 - The Convention Center Fund|§ 7-4-205. Wage Rates and Benefits for Workers

  During the construction of a new publicly owned convention center as provided in this part, any contractor entering into a contract with the metropolitan government for the performance of work on the convention center shall pay all workers performing work under those contracts not less than the mean wage for the applicable occupation under the “construction and extraction occupations” published in the Tennessee Occupational Wages Report, as defined in § 12-4-907. In addition, all such contractors shall provide health insurance coverage for all workers performing work under the contracts.   After the construction of the convention center is completed, all persons employed to perform labor or services at the convention center shall be paid a wage that is not less than the mean wage for the applicable occupation under the “construction and extraction occupations” published in the Tennessee Occupational Wages Report, as defined in § 12-4-907. In addition, health insurance coverage shall be provided to all such employees.
TN Code § 7-4-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 4 - Metropolitan Government—tourist Accommodation Tax|Part 2 - The Convention Center Fund|§ 7-4-206. Minority-Owned Businesses

  A metropolitan government, in soliciting bids for the construction of a publicly owned convention center in excess of four hundred million dollars ($400,000,000) in costs located within the territory of that metropolitan government, shall actively solicit bids from minority-owned businesses. The metropolitan government shall strive to maximize participation of minority-owned businesses through both prime and second tier business contracting opportunities.    The metropolitan council shall ensure that the funds that are deposited into the convention center fund created pursuant to this part, are expended in a nondiscriminatory manner.   The metropolitan government shall monitor the expenditure of funds from the convention center fund to ensure that all contractors, vendors, suppliers and professional services providers receiving compensation from the fund do not discriminate in hiring, partnering, contracting or subcontracting on the basis of race, religion, ethnic background, or sex.   The metropolitan government shall monitor the results of minority-owned business participation. The metropolitan government shall periodically investigate to ascertain whether minority-owned business participation is being achieved at a level contemplated pursuant to subsection (a) and shall report information to the comptroller of the treasury in the manner prescribed in subdivision (b)(4).   The metropolitan government shall prepare and submit a quarterly report entitled “the convention center compliance report,” which shall be submitted to the comptroller of the treasury no later than twenty (20) business days after the end of any calendar quarter in which funds are expended from the convention center fund. The report shall include:  Data on the race, religion, ethnic background and sex of the workforce of each person that receives funds from the convention center fund;   Data on the actual expenditure of funds to minority-owned businesses from the convention center fund; and   Data summarizing the findings of all periodic investigations conducted in accordance with subdivision (b)(3).     [Deleted by 2020 amendment.]
TN Code § 7-21-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 21 - Charter Government Unification Act|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-21-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Charter Government Unification Act.”