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TN Code § 9-13-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 13 - Loans to Local Subdivisions in Emergencies|Part 2 - Emergency Financial Aid to Local Governments|§ 9-13-211. Penalty for Nonperformance

 Any official or employee of the local government, or of any institution or agency thereof, who fails or refuses to perform the duties required of such official or employee by this part, or who fails or refuses otherwise to conform to this part, commits a Class C misdemeanor and is subject to fine and to removal from office or position in accordance with title 8, chapter 47.
TN Code § 9-13-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 13 - Loans to Local Subdivisions in Emergencies|Part 2 - Emergency Financial Aid to Local Governments|§ 9-13-212. Issuance of Notes — Guidelines — Use for Operational Expenses

 Notes issued pursuant to this part shall be issued in the manner provided by chapter 21, parts 1, 4, 6, and 8 of this title. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, any notes issued pursuant to this part may be used for operational expenses and extend past the current fiscal year.
TN Code § 9-13-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 13 - Loans to Local Subdivisions in Emergencies|Part 3 - Financially Distressed Municipalities, Counties, Utility Districts and Education Agencies|§ 9-13-301. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Financially Distressed Municipalities, Counties, Utility Districts and Education Agencies Act of 1993.”
TN Code § 9-13-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 13 - Loans to Local Subdivisions in Emergencies|Part 3 - Financially Distressed Municipalities, Counties, Utility Districts and Education Agencies|§ 9-13-302. Duties of the Comptroller of the Treasury

 The comptroller of the treasury shall develop and recommend statutory changes, policies, and procedures for the purpose of:   Promptly identifying financially distressed municipalities, counties, utility districts and education agencies;   Providing for the timely restructuring of the debt of such municipalities, counties, utility districts and education agencies;   Considering the need for temporary loans or other fiscal adjustments to prevent fiscal crisis; and   Providing for consolidation or merger of contiguous municipalities, counties, utility districts or education agencies, or for the merger of functions of such entities in order to relieve financial distress.
TN Code § 9-21-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986.”
TN Code § 9-21-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-102. Intent

 It is the intent and purpose of this chapter to provide a uniform and comprehensive statutory framework authorizing any local government to issue general obligation bonds and revenue bonds for public works projects, general obligation bonds for certain unfunded pension obligations, general obligation refunding bonds, revenue refunding bonds, bond anticipation notes, capital outlay notes, grant anticipation notes, tax anticipation notes, and health care revenue anticipation notes, and to authorize the destruction of bonds, notes and coupons.
TN Code § 9-21-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-103. No Indebtedness Limit

 Bonds or notes may be issued under this chapter, notwithstanding and without regard to any limit on indebtedness provided by law.
TN Code § 9-21-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-104. Negotiability

 Any bonds or notes issued by a local government pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable for all purposes in the absence of an express recital on the face of the bond or note that it is nonnegotiable.
TN Code § 9-21-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-106. Rate Discrimination Prohibited

 When a public works project supplies its services to consumers who use solar or wind powered equipment as a source of energy, that public works project shall not discriminate against those consumers by its rates, fees or charges or by altering the availability or quality of energy. Any consumer who uses solar, 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 § 9-21-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-108. Governing Body Authorized to Act by Resolution — Procedure for Adoption of Resolutions

 All actions required or authorized to be taken under this chapter by the governing body of a local government may be by resolution. The resolution may be adopted at the meeting, regular or special, of the governing body at which the resolution is introduced, and shall take effect immediately upon adoption. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no resolution under this chapter need be published or posted, nor shall any such resolution be subject to veto by the chief executive officer or presiding officer of the governing body, nor shall any such resolution require for its passage more than a majority vote of all the members of the governing body then in office. The resolution may delegate authority to the chief executive officer of the local government to sell notes or bonds under this chapter.
TN Code § 9-21-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-109. Determination of Costs of Public Works Projects

 In determining the costs of any public works project for which bonds or notes are to be issued, the following items may also be included as a part of the cost of the public works project to be financed by the issuance of bonds or notes:   Engineering, architectural, art design services, inspection, legal and accounting expenses, and relocation expenses in connection with construction of a public works project;   The cost of issuance of the bonds or notes, including engraving, printing, advertising, credit enhancement, legal, fiscal and other similar expenses;   Any interest costs during the period of construction of a public works project and for six (6) months thereafter on any money borrowed or estimated to be borrowed;   Any moneys already spent by the local government from any of its funds for any of the foregoing expenses enumerated in subdivisions (1), (2) and (3), and upon the actual construction of a public works project in order to permit the construction of public works projects by the use of the funds of the local government if desired, and the later replacement of those funds by the sale of bonds or notes authorized by this chapter; and   The establishing of a reasonably required reserved fund for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds or notes.
TN Code § 9-21-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-110. Appointment of a Fiscal Agent

 Any local government has the power in connection with the issuance of bonds or notes to appoint a fiscal agent, to provide for the powers, duties, functions and compensation of such fiscal agent, to limit the liabilities of the fiscal agent, to prescribe a method for the resignation, removal, merger or consolidation of the fiscal agent, the appointment of a successor fiscal agent, and the transfer of rights and properties to the successor fiscal agent.
TN Code § 9-21-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-111. Execution of Bonds and Notes

  Bonds and notes issued under this chapter in registered form shall be executed in the manner provided for in the Tennessee Public Obligations Registration Act, compiled in chapter 19 of this title.   Bonds, notes, and any interest coupons attached thereto issued under this chapter which are not in registered form may, if so authorized by the governing body of the local government, bear or be executed with the facsimile signature of the chief executive officer of the local government; provided, that each bond, or note, shall be manually signed by the county clerk, by the city recorder or other similar local government official so authorized by resolution of the governing body of the local government.   When an official or corporate seal of the local government, its governing body or of any local government official is required or permitted in the execution of any bond, note or coupon, the seal may be printed, engraved, stamped, or otherwise placed in facsimile thereon. The facsimile seal has the same legal effect as the impression of the seal.   In case any official whose signature or facsimile signature appears on the bonds, notes or coupons shall cease to be such official before the delivery of the bonds, notes, or coupons to the purchaser, that signature shall be valid and sufficient for all purposes, as if that official had remained in office until the delivery of the bonds, notes or coupons.
TN Code § 9-21-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-112. Interim Certificates

 Pending the preparation or delivery of definitive bonds or notes under this chapter, interim certificates or other temporary obligations may be issued by the local government to the purchaser of the bonds or notes. The interim certificates or other temporary obligations shall be in such form and contain such terms, conditions and provisions as the governing body of the local government may determine.
TN Code § 9-21-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-113. Deposit and Custody of Proceeds

  The proceeds received from the sale of bonds or notes issued under this chapter by a local government shall be deposited with, in the case of counties, the county trustee or, in the case of municipalities or metropolitan governments, with the official designated by law as custodian of the funds, or be deposited as provided in the resolution authorizing the bonds or notes.   The official designated as custodian of the funds shall not receive extra compensation for handling the funds.
TN Code § 9-21-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-114. Fees for Reselling Bonds or Notes Forbidden

  It is unlawful and deemed a misappropriation of public funds for any official to pay a fee other than underwriting discount to any person, group of persons, firm, company or corporation for selling bonds or notes issued by such official's local government after such bonds or notes have been sold. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the payment of fees for legal and fiscal services in connection with the issuance of bonds or notes. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the payment of a remarketing fee to a remarketing agent for remarketing services in connection with the resale of bonds or notes subject to repurchase on demand of the owner or subject to repurchase on demand of the local government.   Any local government official who unlawfully misappropriates public funds, in the manner set forth in subsection (a), shall be personally liable to the local government for the total amount of such unlawful misappropriation and reasonable attorney fees incident to the collection of such amount. A suit to recover the total amount for which a local government official is personally liable may be filed by any person who is a resident and taxpayer of the local government for general obligation bonds or notes, or by any person who is a user of the service provided in the case of revenue bonds or notes of the local government.
TN Code § 9-21-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-115. State Control of Public Works Projects

 This chapter shall not otherwise operate to dispense with the approval by a state department, board, officer or commission of a public works project where such approval under existing law must be obtained before a local government may construct a public works project.
TN Code § 9-21-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-116. Hotel and Motel Projects Subject to Tax

 In local governments of this state where a tax is imposed on hotel and motel accommodations, any hotel or motel built as a public works project under this chapter shall be subject to the collection of such a tax.
TN Code § 9-21-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-117. Tax Exemption

 Any bonds or notes issued by a local government pursuant to this chapter and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation except for inheritance, transfer and estate taxes, and except as otherwise provided in this code.
TN Code § 9-21-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-118. Recital of Issuance Pursuant to This Chapter

 A resolution authorizing bonds or notes under this chapter may provide that such bonds or notes shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this chapter, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and the regularity of their issuance.
TN Code § 9-21-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-119. Validity of Bonds and Notes Unaffected by Certain Irregularities

 The validity of the authorization and issuance of the bonds or notes authorized under this chapter shall not be dependent on or affected in any way by proceedings taken for the construction of any public works project or enterprise or contracts made in connection with the construction of any public works project or enterprise or by a failure to obtain the approval referred to in § 9-21-115.
TN Code § 9-21-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-120. Bond and Note Issues Validated

  All bonds and notes issued prior to July 1, 1986, and all proceedings theretofore taken to authorize the issuance of bonds or notes by any local government of this state for any purpose which is designated a public works project by this chapter, are hereby ratified, validated and confirmed, and such bonds and notes are hereby declared to be valid and legally binding obligations payable in accordance with their terms, notwithstanding any lack of power of the governing body of the local government to authorize and issue such bonds or notes and to provide for the payment thereof in the manner stated in such bonds or notes and in the proceedings authorizing their issuance, and further notwithstanding any defects or irregularities in any such proceedings, or the failure of any such proceedings, authorizing any such bonds or notes, to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter or with any of the provisions of any other applicable section or chapter or any applicable general or special law or charter.   The disposition of proceeds of all capital outlay notes issued prior to January 15, 1998, for school purposes, by a county or metropolitan government which contains within its boundaries a special school district and/or incorporated town or city maintaining a public school system separate from the county or metropolitan government public school system, is hereby declared to be valid and legally binding unless proceedings which challenge the disposition of such proceeds have been instituted in any court in this state before January 15, 1998.
TN Code § 9-21-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-121. Impairment of Contract

 Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed in any way to alter the terms of any agreements made with the holders of any outstanding bonds or notes of the local government or to authorize the local government to alter the terms of any such agreements, or to impair, or to authorize the local government to impair, the rights and remedies of any creditors of the local government.
TN Code § 9-21-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-122. Authorization to Cancel Bonds, Notes and Coupons

 Whenever any bonds, notes, or interest coupons shall be paid and discharged, they shall be cancelled by stamping and punching, immediately upon their redemption. The cancelled bonds, notes, and coupons shall be retained and be available for examination in annual audits subject to § 9-21-123.
TN Code § 9-21-123 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-123. Authorization to Destroy Bonds, Notes and Coupons

  Subject to subsection (b), any local government may, by resolution duly adopted by its governing body, authorize and direct the paying agent for its bonds, notes and coupons, or other person in possession of its bonds, notes and coupons, to destroy all bonds, notes and coupons duly paid and cancelled.   Such bonds, notes and coupons duly paid and cancelled during any fiscal year may be destroyed only after the fiscal audit of the local government covering the fiscal year has been completed and the appropriate local government official shall have properly posted all bonds, notes and coupons duly paid and cancelled to the local government bond, note and coupon records on a current basis. If the audit reflects that all bonds, notes and coupons duly paid and cancelled have been properly accounted for, then the paying agents or other persons who have the local government's bonds, notes and coupons in their possession shall, at the direction of the local government, destroy the same and furnish a certified list of bonds, notes and coupons duly paid and cancelled by issue showing the bond, note and coupon number, the amount of each, the date paid and such additional information as the governing body may require. The governing body shall cause the certified list of bonds, notes and coupons duly paid and cancelled to be recorded in the official minutes of the governing body.
TN Code § 9-21-124 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 9 - Public Finances|Chapter 21 - Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986|Part 1 - General Provisions Applicable to All Bonds and Notes Issued by Local Governments|§ 9-21-124. Supplementary Nature — Transitional Provisions — Interest Rate Agreements

  The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law and not in substitution for the powers conferred by any other law; however, to the extent this law conflicts with any other law or is inconsistent with any other law, this chapter shall prevail with respect to all bonds and notes issued under this chapter. Bonds or notes may be issued hereunder for any public works project, notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds or notes for like purposes and without regard to the requirements, restrictions or procedural provisions contained in any other law or any home rule charter, and notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary contained in any other law or laws. Any proceedings heretofore taken by any local government relating to the subject matters hereof, whether or not commenced under any other law, may be continued hereunder, or at the option of the governing body, may be discontinued and new proceedings instituted under this chapter.   Prior to the adoption or promulgation by the state funding board of guidelines, rules or regulations with respect to the contracts and agreements authorized in §§ 9-21-213(d), 9-21-302(b), 9-21-305(c), 9-21-602(c), 9-21-907(c), 9-21-910(d), 9-21-1006(c) and 9-21-1008(c), a local government may enter into such contracts or agreements to the extent otherwise authorized in this chapter or in any other law notwithstanding §§ 9-21-213(d), 9-21-302(b), 9-21-305(c), 9-21-602(c), 9-21-907(c), 9-21-910(d), 9-21-1006(c) and 9-21-1008(c). Nothing in §§ 9-21-213(d), 9-21-302(b), 9-21-602(c), 9-21-907(c), 9-21-910(d), 9-21-1006(c) and 9-21-1008(c) is intended to alter any existing authority in this chapter or in any other law otherwise providing authority for a local government to enter into the contracts or agreements described in §§ 9-21-213(d), 9-21-302(b), 9-21-305(c), 9-21-602(c), 9-21-907(c), 9-21-910(d), 9-21-1006(c) and 9-21-1008(c) heretofore entered into or entered into prior to the adoption or promulgation by the state funding board of guidelines, rules or regulations.