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TN Code § 42-3-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 2 - Joint Operations|§ 42-3-202. Agreement as to Joint Operation

   Any two (2) or more public agencies may enter into agreements with each other for joint action pursuant to this part.   Each agreement shall specify its duration, the proportionate interest that each public agency shall have in the property, facilities and privileges involved in the joint undertaking, the proportion of costs of operation, etc., to be borne by each public agency, and such other terms as are deemed necessary or required by law.     The agreement may also provide for amendments and termination; disposal of all or any of the property, facilities and privileges jointly owned, prior to, or at such time as the property, facilities and privileges, or any part of the property, facilities and privileges, cease to be used for the purposes provided in this chapter, or upon termination of the agreement; the distribution of the proceeds received upon any disposal, and of any funds or other property jointly owned and undisposed of; the assumption or payment of any indebtedness arising from the joint undertaking that remains unpaid upon the disposal of all assets or upon a termination of the agreement; and such other provisions as may be necessary or convenient.
TN Code § 42-3-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 2 - Joint Operations|§ 42-3-203. Joint Board

  Public agencies acting jointly pursuant to this part shall create a joint board, which shall consist of members appointed by the governing body of each participating public agency.   The number to be appointed, their terms and compensation, if any, shall be provided for in the joint agreement.   Each joint board shall organize, select officers for such terms as are fixed by the agreement, and adopt and amend from time to time rules for its own procedure.   The joint board shall have powers, as agent of the participating public agencies, to plan, acquire, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect and police any airport or air navigation facility or avigation easement or airport hazard to be jointly acquired, controlled and operated, and the board may be authorized by the participating public agencies to exercise on behalf of its constituent public agencies all the powers of each with respect to the airport, air navigation facility, avigation easement or airport hazard, subject to the limitations of § 42-3-204.
TN Code § 42-3-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 2 - Joint Operations|§ 42-3-204. Limitations on Joint Board

  Exemptions.  The total expenditures to be made by the joint board for any purpose in any calendar year shall be as determined by a budget approved by the constituent public agencies on or before the preceding fiscal year, or as otherwise specifically authorized by the constituent public agencies.   Acquisitions Beyond Sums Allotted.  No airport, air navigation facility, avigation easement, airport hazard, or real or personal property, the cost of which is in excess of sums fixed therefor by the joint agreement or allotted in the annual budget, may be acquired, established or developed by the joint board without the approval of the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies.   Eminent Domain.  Eminent domain proceedings under this part may be instituted by the joint board only by authority of the governing bodies of the constituent public agencies of the joint board. If so authorized, such proceedings shall be instituted in the names of the constituent public agencies jointly, and the property so acquired shall be held by the public agencies as tenants in common.   Disposal of Real Property.  The joint board shall not dispose of any airport, air navigation facility, avigation easement or real property under its jurisdiction except with the consent of the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies; provided, that the joint board may, without such consent, enter into contracts, leases or other arrangements contemplated by § 42-3-112.   Regulations and Orders.  Any resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of the joint board dealing with subjects authorized by § 42-3-112 shall become effective only upon approval of the governing bodies of the constituent public agencies; provided, that upon approval, the resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of the joint board shall have the same force and effect in the territories or jurisdictions involved as the ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of each public agency would have in its own territory or jurisdiction.
TN Code § 42-3-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 3 - Airport Authorities|Part 2 - Joint Operations|§ 42-3-205. Joint Fund

 For the purpose of providing the joint board with moneys for the necessary expenditures in carrying out this part, a joint fund shall be created and maintained, into which shall be deposited the share of each of the constituent public agencies as provided by the joint agreement. Any federal, state or other grants, contributions or loans, and the revenues obtained from the joint ownership, control and operation of any airport or air navigation facility under the jurisdiction of the joint board shall be paid into the joint fund. Disbursements from the fund shall be made by order of the board, subject to the limitations prescribed in § 42-3-204.
TN Code § 42-5-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Municipal Airport Act.”
TN Code § 42-5-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Air navigation facility” means any facility, other than one owned and operated by the United States, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, markers, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities, or devices used or useful as an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience, to the safe taking off, navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or maintenance of an airport, and combination of any or all of such facilities;   “Airport” means any area of land or water that is used, or intended for use, for the landing and take-off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas that are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or avigation easements, or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located thereon;   “Airport hazard” means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of land that obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or is otherwise hazardous to such landing or taking off of aircraft;   “Avigation easement” means any easement that includes all or any part of the following: the right to unobstructed and unrestricted flight of aircraft, in, through, and across the airspace over and above certain described land, beginning at the altitude or height above the surface of the land as determined by the municipality; the right to enter upon certain described land for the purpose of removing and preventing any use of the land or the construction or erection of any buildings, structures, or facilities, and the growth of any trees or objects upon the real estate over, above and across the certain described land, other than those uses, buildings, structures, facilities, growths of trees or objects expressly excepted; and the right to prevent the use of the land by any assembly of persons or the use of the land in such a manner as might attract or bring together an assembly of persons thereon;   “Commissioner” means the commissioner of transportation;   “Department” means the department of transportation;   “Municipal” means pertaining to a municipality as defined in this section;   “Municipality” means any county, incorporated city, or incorporated town of this state; and   “Person” means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic; and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or other similar representative thereof.
TN Code § 42-5-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-103. Establishment of Airports and Air Navigation Facilities — Operation — Land Acquisition

  Every municipality is authorized, out of any appropriations or other moneys made available for such purposes, to plan, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, protect and police airports and air navigation facilities, either within or without the territorial limits of such municipality and within or without the territorial boundaries of this state, including the construction, installation, equipment, maintenance and operation at such airports of 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 an incident to the operation of its airport properties. For such purposes, the municipality may use any available property that it may now or hereafter own or control and may, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, acquire property, real or personal, or any interest therein, including avigation easements and easements in airport hazards or land outside the boundaries of an airport or airport site, as are necessary to permit safe and efficient operation of the airport or to permit the removal, elimination, obstruction-marking or obstruction-lighting of airport hazards or to prevent the establishment of airport hazards.    If the land for a proposed or planned airport is located outside the corporate limits of a municipality, then the municipality shall also gain approval from the county commission of the county where the land is located before proceeding with the acquisition of such land by eminent domain.    Subdivision (b)(1) shall not apply to any airport that has scheduled air passenger service and a control tower in existence or under construction upon April 27, 1995.   Subdivision (b)(1) shall not be applicable to renovations, expansions or future renovations or expansions of airports in existence on January 1, 1995; provided, that the property to be used for the renovations or expansions is currently owned by the airport or is contiguous or adjacent to property currently owned by the airport.   Subdivision (b)(1) shall apply to any airport not actually under construction on or before January 1, 1995.
TN Code § 42-5-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-104. Acquisition of Existing Airports

 The municipality may by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, acquire existing airports and air navigation facilities; provided, that it shall not acquire or take over any airport or air navigation facility owned or controlled by another municipality or public agency of this or any other state without the consent of the municipality or public agency.
TN Code § 42-5-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-105. Establishment of Airports on Public Waters and Reclaimed Lands

 For the purposes of this chapter, a municipality may establish or acquire and maintain, within or bordering upon the territorial limits of the municipality, airports in, over and upon any public waters of this state, any submerged lands under such public waters, and any artificial or reclaimed lands that before the artificial making or reclamation thereof constituted a portion of the submerged lands under public waters; and may 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 any such airport.
TN Code § 42-5-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-106. Limitation on Design and Operation of Air Navigation Facilities

 All air navigation facilities established or operated by municipalities shall be supplementary to and coordinated in design and operation with those established and operated by the federal and state governments.
TN Code § 42-5-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-107. Public Purpose of Airports

 Any airport so acquired, owned, leased, controlled or occupied by municipalities shall be and is declared to be acquired, owned, leased, controlled or occupied for a public purpose.
TN Code § 42-5-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-108. Eminent Domain

  In the acquisition of property by eminent domain proceedings authorized by this chapter, the municipality shall proceed in the manner provided by title 29, chapter 16. For the purpose of making surveys and examinations relative to any eminent domain proceedings, it is lawful to enter upon any land, doing no unnecessary damage.   Notwithstanding any other statute or of any applicable municipal charter, the municipality may take possession of any property to be acquired by eminent domain proceedings at any time after the commencement of the proceedings.   The municipality shall not be precluded from abandoning eminent domain 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 by the proceedings and at any time prior to the entry of a final decree disposing of the entire eminent domain proceedings.
TN Code § 42-5-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-109. Disposal of Airport Property

 Except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement pursuant to § 42-5-119, every municipality 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, subject, however, to any contractual obligations with respect thereto. Disposal by sale, lease or otherwise shall be in accordance with the laws of this state, or provisions of the charter of the municipality, governing the disposition of other property of the municipality, except that in the case of disposal to another municipality or agency of the state or federal government for aeronautical purposes incident thereto, the sale, lease or other disposal may be effected in such manner and upon such terms as the governing body of the municipality may deem in the best interest of the municipality.
TN Code § 42-5-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-110. Operation and Use Privileges

  Municipal Operation.  In operating an airport or air navigation facility owned, leased or controlled by a municipality, the municipality may, except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement pursuant to § 42-5-119, enter into contracts, leases, agreements, grants or other arrangements for a term not exceeding fifty (50) years, with any person or persons, either exclusively or in common with others; provided, that the public is not deprived of its rightful use of the airport or facility:  Granting the privilege of using or improving the airport or air navigation facility, including buildings or structures or any portion or facility thereof, relating thereto, or real property acquired or set aside for such purposes, or space therein for commercial purposes, establishing the charges, rentals or fees at a fixed or variable rate binding upon the parties thereto for the full term of the contracts, leases, agreements, grants or other arrangements;   Conferring the privilege of supplying goods, commodities, things, services or facilities at the airport or air navigation facility;   Making available services to be furnished by the municipality or its agents at the airport or air navigation facility; and   Determining the charges, rentals or fees for the use of any properties under its control, and the charges for any services or accommodations, and the terms and conditions under which the properties may be used, except that any such charges, rentals and fees as may be fixed or determined by any contract, lease, agreement, grant or other arrangement or privileges, uses, services, accommodations or concessions to which the municipality is a party or is the grantor, shall, if expressly provided therein, be binding upon all parties thereto for the full term prescribed therein unless the term is sooner modified or terminated by mutual consent of the parties to such agreement.     In each case, the municipality may establish the terms and conditions and fix the charges, rentals or fees for the privileges, uses or services, use of buildings or structures that are reasonable and uniform for the same class of privilege or service and are established with due regard to the property and improvements used and the expenses of operation to the municipality.     Other Operation.  Except as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement pursuant to § 42-5-119, a municipality may by contract, lease or other arrangement, upon a consideration fixed by it, grant to any qualified person for a term not to exceed fifty (50) years, the privilege of operating, as agent of the municipality or otherwise, any airport owned or controlled by the municipality; provided, that the airport shall be operated as a public airport and that the person shall not enter into any contracts, leases or other arrangements in connection with the operation of the airport that the municipality might not have undertaken under subsection (a).
TN Code § 42-5-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-111. Liens

 To enforce the payment of any charges for repairs or improvements to, or storage or care of, any personal property made or furnished by the municipality or its agents in connection with the operation of an airport or air navigation facility owned or operated by the municipality, the municipality shall have liens on the property that are enforceable by the municipality as provided by § 66-21-101.
TN Code § 42-5-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-112. Delegation of Authority to Airport Officer or Board

 Any authority vested by this chapter in a municipality or in the governing body thereof, for the planning, establishment, development, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment, operation, regulation, protection and policing of airports or other air navigation facilities established, owned or controlled, or to be established, owned or controlled by the municipality, may be vested by resolution of the governing body of the municipality in an officer or board or other municipal agency whose powers and duties shall be prescribed in the resolution; provided, that the expense of planning, establishment, development, construction, enlargement, improvement, maintenance, equipment, operation, regulation, protection and policing shall be a responsibility of the municipality. Any officer or board or other municipal agency that, pursuant to §§ 42-5-101 — 42-5-110, formerly §§ 42-301 — 42-310, inclusive, as enacted by Acts 1955, ch. 6, prior to the repeal of those sections by Acts 1957, ch. 375, has, by municipal resolution or ordinance, been delegated such authority as in this section provided, has all power and authority as is authorized by this chapter for such officer or board or municipal agency.
TN Code § 42-5-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-114. Appropriations and Taxation

  The governing body of any municipality having power to appropriate and raise money is authorized to appropriate and to raise by taxation or otherwise sufficient moneys to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter.   Regardless of any limitation by general or special law or charter as to the amount or total of taxes that may be levied, taxes may be levied by the governing body of a municipality for the purposes of this chapter in excess of any such limitation; provided, that such amount in excess of the limitation is authorized by an ordinance or resolution referred to and approved by a majority of the voters of the municipality voting in an election to approve or disapprove the ordinance or resolution.   Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require or to have required an election to authorize the levy of ad valorem taxes, without limitation of rate or amount, for the payment of the principal of and interest on bonds or other obligations of a municipality issued for any of the purposes listed in § 42-5-115 when the provisions of any other section or chapter of this code, or any other general or special law or charter, under the authority of which such bonds or other obligations are or were issued, and the proceedings authorizing the issuance of such bonds taken pursuant thereto, provide for the levy of taxes, without limitation of rate or amount, for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds or other obligations.
TN Code § 42-5-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 42 - Aeronautics|Chapter 5 - County and Municipal Airports|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 42-5-115. Bond Issues — Notes — Financing Acquisition Costs and Improvements

 The cost of planning, acquiring, establishing, developing, constructing, enlarging, improving, maintaining or equipping an airport or air navigation facility, or the site therefor, including buildings, structures and other facilities incidental to the operation thereof or relating thereto, the acquisition of avigation easements, and the acquisition or elimination of airport hazards, may be paid for wholly or partly from the proceeds of the sale of bonds or other obligations of the municipality, as the governing body of the municipality shall determine. The bonds or other obligations may be issued by a county in accordance with title 5, chapter 11 [repealed] and by an incorporated city or incorporated town in accordance with title 7, chapter 36 [repealed]; provided, that any landing fees, concession fees, rents, charges, or any other revenues derived from the operation of an airport, pledged as security for the bonds, that are fixed and established by the provisions of a lease or contract, shall not be subject to revision or change during the term of such lease or contract except in the manner provided in the lease or contract.