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TN Code § 7-52-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-114. General Control of Plant — Supervisory Body — Superintendent

   The general supervision and control of the acquisition, improvement, operation and maintenance of the electric plant shall be in charge of the following agency, referred to as the “supervisory body” in this part:  The board; or if there be no board, then   The governing body of the municipality.     If the governing body of the municipality has charge of the supervision and control of the electric plant, such governing body may by resolution delegate all or any of its powers or duties as supervisory body to the city-manager, if any.     The supervisory body shall appoint an electric plant superintendent, referred to as “superintendent” in this part, who shall be qualified by training and experience for the general superintendence of the acquisition, improvement and operation of the electric plant. The superintendent need not be a resident of the state at the time of appointment. The superintendent's salary shall be fixed by the person or agency appointing such superintendent. The superintendent shall serve at the pleasure of the supervisory body and may be removed by such body at any time.   Subject only to an employment contract entered into pursuant to § 7-52-103(g), within the limits of the funds available, all powers to acquire, improve, operate and maintain, and to furnish electric service, and all powers necessary or convenient to furnishing electric service, conferred by this part shall be exercised on behalf of the municipality by the supervisory body and the superintendent, respectively.
TN Code § 7-52-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-115. Powers of Supervisory Body — Users of Auxiliary Energy Sources

  Subject to applicable bonds or contracts, the supervisory body shall determine programs and make all plans for the acquisition of the electric plant, shall make all determinations as to improvements, rates and financial practices, may establish such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary or appropriate to govern the furnishing of electric service, and may disburse all moneys available in the electric plant fund established for the acquisition, improvement, operation and maintenance of the electric plant and the furnishing of electric service. A copy of the schedule of the current rates and charges in effect from time to time and a copy of all rules and regulations of the supervisory body relating to electric service shall be kept on public file at the main and all branch offices of the electric plant and also in the office of the municipal clerk or recorder.   When such municipal electric plant supplies its services to consumers who use solar or wind-powered equipment as a source of energy, such electric plant shall not discriminate against such consumers by its rates, fees or charges or by altering the availability or quality of energy.   Any consumer who uses solar, wind power, or other auxiliary source of energy shall install and operate the equipment, property, or appliance for such energy source in compliance with any state or local code or regulation applicable to the safe operation of such equipment, property, or appliance.
TN Code § 7-52-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-116. Charges to Municipality

 The supervisory body shall charge the municipality and all departments and works of the municipality for any electric service furnished to the municipality, at the rates applicable to other customers taking service under similar conditions. Revenues derived from such service shall be treated as all other revenues.
TN Code § 7-52-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-117. Powers of Superintendent

  The superintendent shall have charge of all actual construction, the immediate management and operation of the electric plant and the enforcement and execution of all rules, regulations, programs, plans and decisions made or adopted by the supervisory body.   The superintendent shall appoint all employees and fix their duties and compensation, excepting that the appointment of all technical consultants and advisers and legal assistants shall be subject to the approval of the supervisory body.   Subject to § 7-52-132, the superintendent, with the approval of the supervisory body, may acquire and dispose of all property, real and personal, necessary to effectuate the purposes of this part. The title of such property shall be taken in the name of the municipality.   The superintendent shall let all contracts, subject to the approval of the supervisory body, but may, without such approval, obligate the electric plant on purchase orders up to an amount to be fixed by the supervisory body, but not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). Any work or construction exceeding in cost the amount specified in this subsection (d) shall, before any contract is let or work done, be advertised by the superintendent for bids, but the supervisory body shall have power to reject any and all bids.   The superintendent shall make and keep full and proper books and records, subject to the supervision and direction of the supervisory body.
TN Code § 7-52-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-118. Additional Board Members for Certain Municipal Utilities Providing Electric Service in Multiple Counties

   Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, when a municipal utility provides electric service in multiple counties and one (1) of the counties outside of the county in which the principal office of the utility is located has in excess of sixty percent (60%) of the customers residing in it, then such municipal utility shall create and install two (2) additional board members from the county that has in excess of sixty percent (60%) of the utility customers. The county mayor of the county that has in excess of sixty percent (60%) of the customers shall recommend persons to fill the new board member positions. The city council or chief legislative body of the city that owns the municipal utility shall accept or reject the recommendation or recommendations at a public meeting by a simple majority vote. If the recommended person or persons are not accepted or rejected within thirty (30) days following the date of the recommendation, the person or persons shall be deemed accepted. If rejected, the county mayor shall recommend another person or persons until the city council or chief legislative body of the city accepts the recommendation or recommendations. Such board members shall not be considered city council persons or employees of the municipality, nor shall they receive any insurance benefits. The terms of such board members shall be four (4) years and each shall serve until their successor is selected and assumes office. In the event a vacancy occurs, the county mayor shall initiate the procedure described in this section to appoint a successor to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term.   For implementation purposes, one (1) board member shall assume office on July 1, 2005, and the other shall assume office on July 1, 2006.   Such appointees shall be customers of the municipal utility for not less than one (1) year and shall not be an employee or board member of any other utility.   This section shall in no way affect or change the in lieu of tax payment procedure or recipient in effect prior to May 17, 2005, and further ratifies such procedure.     This section shall only apply to municipal utilities that are wholly located within the state and otherwise subject to this section.
TN Code § 7-52-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-133. Supplemental Nature of Law

 The powers conferred by this part shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law. Bonds may be issued under this part for the acquisition or improvement of an electric plant, notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds for like purposes and without regard to the requirements, restrictions or procedural provisions contained in any other law.
TN Code § 7-52-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-134. Purpose of Part — Liberal Construction

  This part is for the public purpose of promoting the increased use of electricity in the urban and rural areas of this state, and to enable all counties, as well as cities and towns, to secure the benefit of the surplus power generated or to be generated by the Tennessee Valley authority at Wilson Dam in the state of Alabama and Norris Dam in the state of Tennessee, or the power generated at any other works or dams.   This part is remedial in nature and the powers hereby granted shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purpose of this part, and, to this end, every municipality shall have power to do all things necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this part in addition to the powers expressly conferred in this part.
TN Code § 7-52-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 1 - Municipal Electric Plant Law of 1935|§ 7-52-135. Public Records Having Commercial Value — Fees for Copies

  If a request is made for a copy of a public record that has commercial value, and such request requires the reproduction of all or a portion of a computer generated map that was developed by an electric system, the board of directors of any such system may establish and impose reasonable fees for the reproduction of such map, in addition to any fees or charges that may lawfully be imposed pursuant to § 10-7-506. The additional fees authorized by this subsection (a) may not be assessed against individuals who request copies of such maps for themselves or when the map requested does not have commercial value.   The additional fees authorized by subsection (a) shall relate to the actual development costs of such maps and may include:  Labor costs;   Costs incurred in design, development, testing, implementation and training; and   Costs necessary to ensure that the map is accurate, complete and current, including the cost of adding to, updating, modifying and deleting information.     The total collections for the additional fees authorized by subsection (a) shall not exceed the total development costs of the system producing the maps. Once such additional fees have paid the total development costs of the system, such fees shall be adjusted to generate only the amount necessary to maintain the data and ensure that it is accurate, complete and current for the life of the particular system.   As used in subsection (a), “commercial value” means a record that may be used for commercial real estate development or related activities and for which a monetary profit may be realized.
TN Code § 7-52-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 2 - Agreements With Governmental Agencies|§ 7-52-201. Agreements With Governmental Agencies

 Any municipal corporation, county, city or town, called “municipality” in this part, owning or operating or authorized to acquire or operate any electric generation, transmission or distribution system, is authorized, in any contract or arrangement with the Tennessee Valley authority or any similar governmental agency for the acquisition of any such system or part of a system or the purchase of electric power and energy, to stipulate and agree to such covenants, terms and conditions as the governing body of the municipality may deem appropriate, including, but not limited to, covenants, terms and conditions in respect to the resale rates, financial and accounting methods, services, operation and maintenance practices and the manner of disposing of the revenues, of any such system, and to comply therewith, and any such covenants, terms or conditions heretofore stipulated or agreed to are hereby expressly validated.
TN Code § 7-52-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 2 - Agreements With Governmental Agencies|§ 7-52-202. Agreement Power as Supplemental

 Nothing contained in this part shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any authority, power or right that any municipality may have in the absence of this part. These sections shall be construed as cumulative and shall be in addition and supplemental to any power, authority or right conferred by any other law.
TN Code § 7-52-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 2 - Agreements With Governmental Agencies|§ 7-52-203. Law as Remedial

 This part is remedial in nature and any power, authority or right hereby conferred shall be liberally construed, and, to this end, every municipality shall have the power, authority and right, in addition to those expressly conferred by this part, to do all things necessary or convenient in carrying out the purposes of this part.
TN Code § 7-52-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-301. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987.”
TN Code § 7-52-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-302. Purpose — Construction

  The purpose of this part is to provide the complete law of this state with respect to payments in lieu of taxes on the property and operations of all electric systems owned and operated by incorporated cities or towns, by counties, and by metropolitan governments, and to repeal the specific provisions of any private act, home rule charter or metropolitan government charter, or any part thereof, relating to payments in lieu of taxes, including certain provisions relating to the distribution of any such payments, but not to repeal any other provisions of such private acts or charters or parts of private acts or charters.   This part is remedial in nature and this part shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purpose of this part.
TN Code § 7-52-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-305. Execution of Amendatory Contracts

 If the Tennessee Valley authority tenders to a municipality, as described in this part, a contract to amend an existing power contract consistent with this part, the governing body of the municipality and the supervisory body shall promptly execute such amendatory contract on behalf of the municipality.
TN Code § 7-52-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-306. Contracts for Distribution of Tax Equivalent Amounts

 Any municipality acting in its capacity as a taxing jurisdiction and any other taxing jurisdiction within the boundaries of which any part of such municipality's electric system is located are hereby authorized to, on and after July 1, 1987, from time to time, make and perform contracts for distribution among them of the tax equivalent amounts provided for in this part. Any such contract may provide for such distribution on any basis that is satisfactory to the contracting parties; provided, that the contract shall be consistent in all respects with this section and § 7-52-304. Nothing in this part shall have the effect of impairing in any way the obligations of the parties under any existing contract for such distribution in effect on July 1, 1987, or invalidating any established arrangement for such distribution in effect on July 1, 1987, and all such contracts and established arrangements are hereby expressly validated. For purposes of this part, an established arrangement is one under which the municipality has made a distribution payment to another taxing jurisdiction by general understanding, and the payment has been accepted by the taxing jurisdiction for the fiscal year or calendar year immediately preceding the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1987.
TN Code § 7-52-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-307. Payments to Taxing Jurisdictions

 The municipality's governing body, in the resolution provided for in § 7-52-304(4), except to the extent otherwise provided in any contract, established arrangement authorized or validated under § 7-52-306, or distribution provisions of any private act, home rule or metropolitan government charter, shall direct payment of the tax equivalent amounts to the taxing jurisdictions in which its electric plant in service is located on the following basis and subject to the following terms and conditions:   For each fiscal year, the municipality shall allocate twenty-two and one-half percent (22.5%) of the total tax equivalent paid for that fiscal year as provided in § 7-52-304(1), or § 7-52-304(5) where applicable, to payments in lieu of all taxes or other charges for the benefit of county taxing jurisdictions. The municipality shall divide the amount so allocated among such county taxing jurisdictions in proportion to the ratios of the net plant values of the electric plant and the book values of materials and supplies within the boundaries of the respective county taxing jurisdictions to the total net plant value and the total book value of materials and supplies, and make such reductions as may be required under § 7-52-304(3) and (4). If the municipality is, itself, a county taxing jurisdiction, it shall be entitled to retain for itself, in addition to any other tax equivalents, its respective proportionate share of the twenty-two and one-half percent (22.5%) amount;   For each fiscal year, the municipality shall allocate to each city taxing jurisdiction, other than itself, in lieu of all taxes or other charges for the benefit of that city taxing jurisdiction, an amount equal to the equalized property tax rate of such other city taxing jurisdiction multiplied by the net plant value of the electric plant, plus the book value of materials and supplies located within the boundaries of such other city taxing jurisdiction multiplied by the assessment ratio, and make such reductions as may be required under § 7-52-304(3) and (4);   The maximum to be paid into the municipality's general fund shall be the balance of the total tax equivalent, after deducting the amounts determined under subdivisions (1) and (2); and   Notwithstanding subdivisions (1)-(3), until the first fiscal year in which the maximum amount for tax equivalents, calculated as provided in § 7-52-304(1), exceeds the tax equivalent amount for the twelve (12) months ended June 30, 1987, any distribution payment to a taxing jurisdiction for any fiscal year shall not be greater than the amount paid to such taxing jurisdiction for the twelve (12) months ended June 30, 1987.
TN Code § 7-52-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-308. Operations in Adjacent States

 In the event a municipality conducts electric system operations outside the state, the maximum tax equivalent specified in this part shall not preclude the municipality's collecting from the electric system the additional amounts necessary to make appropriate tax or tax equivalent payments to taxing jurisdictions in the adjacent state or states in which the electric system operations are conducted in accordance with the applicable statutory requirements of such adjacent state or states.
TN Code § 7-52-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-309. Distribution by Private Act or Home Rule or Metropolitan Government Charter

 Notwithstanding § 7-52-307, in the event any tax equivalent distribution provisions of any private act, home rule or metropolitan government charter direct that the tax equivalent amount to be distributed to each taxing district is to be an amount arrived at by applying the current ad valorem tax rate in that district to the depreciated original cost of the electric system's tangible property, including materials and supplies, used or usable in electric operations in that district, such distribution provisions, which are subject to § 7-52-304(5), shall continue in effect until such time as § 7-52-304(5) ceases to be applicable, and shall then be repealed. Thereafter, in the absence of any contract as provided in § 7-52-306, the municipality shall allocate the total tax equivalent paid for each fiscal year, to each taxing jurisdiction, in proportion to the ratio of:   The value arrived at by adding the net plant value of the electric plant and the book value of materials and supplies within the boundaries of such taxing jurisdiction and multiplying that sum by the equalized property tax rate of such taxing jurisdiction; to   The total of such values calculated for all taxing jurisdictions, and make such reductions as may be required under § 7-52-304(3) and (4).
TN Code § 7-52-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 3 - Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-52-310. Repeal of Conflicting Provisions

 Except as otherwise expressly provided in this part, all acts or parts of acts, including parts of any private act, or home rule, or metropolitan government charter, in conflict with this part are, to the extent of such conflict with this part, repealed.