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TN Code § 7-39-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-308. Validity of Bonds

  Bonds bearing the signature of officers in office on the date of the signing of the bonds shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before the delivery of the bonds and payment for the bonds any or all the persons whose signatures appear on the bonds shall have ceased to be officers of the energy acquisition corporation issuing the bonds.   The validity of the bonds shall not be dependent on nor affected by the validity or regularity of any proceedings relating to the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, or extension of any properties for which the bonds are issued.   The resolution authorizing the bonds may provide that the bonds shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this chapter, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their issuance.
TN Code § 7-39-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-309. Lien of Bonds

  All bonds of the same issue shall, subject to the prior and superior rights of outstanding bonds, claims or obligation, have a prior and paramount lien on the revenue of the properties for which the bonds have been issued, over and ahead of all bonds of any issue payable from the revenue that may be subsequently issued, and over and ahead of any claims or obligations of any nature against the revenue subsequently arising or subsequently incurred; provided, that the proceedings authorizing any issue of bonds may provide for the issuance of additional bonds on a parity with the bonds.   All bonds of the same issue shall be equally and ratably secured without priority by reason of number, date of bonds, of sale, or execution, or of delivery, by a lien on the revenue in accordance with this chapter and the resolution or resolutions authorizing the bonds.   Any pledge of, or lien on, revenues and receipts of the corporation to secure the payment of any bonds, notes or obligations of the corporation issued pursuant to this chapter shall be valid and binding from the time the pledge or lien is created or granted and shall inure to the benefit of the holder or holders of such bonds or notes or the obligee under any such obligation until the payment or satisfaction in full of the pledge or lien. The priority of any pledge or lien with respect to competing pledges or liens shall be determined by the date such pledge or lien is created or granted. Neither the resolution, the indenture, nor any other instrument granting, creating or giving notice of the pledge or lien need be filed or recorded to preserve or protect the validity or priority of such pledge or lien.
TN Code § 7-39-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-310. Nonprofit Corporation — Net Earnings

 The corporation shall be a nonprofit corporation and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit of any individual, firm or corporation, except that in the event the board of directors of the corporation shall determine that sufficient provision has been made for the full payment of the expenses, bonds or other obligations of the corporation, then any net earnings of the corporation thereafter accruing from gas properties or rights shall be paid to the municipal gas distribution system or systems for the benefit of which the corporation was organized, and any net earnings of the corporation thereafter accruing from electrical power properties or rights shall be paid to the municipal electrical power distribution system or systems for the benefit of which the corporation was organized.
TN Code § 7-39-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-311. Exemption From Tennessee Public Utility Commission Jurisdiction

 The exemption heretofore granted to municipalities from the jurisdiction of the Tennessee public utility commission is hereby granted to any energy acquisition corporation.
TN Code § 7-39-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-313. Deposit and Investment of Funds

  All funds of a corporation shall be deposited in accordance with title 9, chapter 4, parts 1, 4 and 5; provided, that any bank, savings and loan institution or savings bank located outside the state of Tennessee that is under the supervision of the United States comptroller of the currency or the office of thrift supervision, may act as a depository, trustee, registration agent or paying agent in connection with any bonds or notes issued by a corporation, notwithstanding title 9, chapter 4, parts 1, 4 and 5.   Funds of a corporation are authorized to be invested in the following:  Direct obligations of the United States government or any of its agencies;   Obligations guaranteed as to principal and interest by the United States government or any of its agencies;   Certificates of deposit and other evidences of deposit at state and federally chartered banks, savings and loan institutions or savings banks deposited and collateralized as described in subsection (a);   Repurchase agreements entered into with the United States or its agencies or with any bank, broker-dealer or other such entity, so long as the obligation of the obligated party is secured by a perfected pledge of full faith and credit obligations of the United States or its agencies;   Guaranteed investment contracts or similar agreements providing for a specified rate of return over a specified time period with entities rated in one (1) of the three (3) highest rating categories of a nationally recognized rating agency;   The local government investment pool created by title 9, chapter 4, part 7;   Direct general obligations of a state of the United States, or a political subdivision or instrumentality of a state, having general taxing powers and rated in either of the three (3) highest rating categories by a nationally recognized rating agency of such obligations; or   Obligations of any state of the United States or a political subdivision or instrumentality of any state, secured solely by revenues received by or on behalf of the state or political subdivision or instrumentality of the state irrevocably pledged to the payment of the principal of and interest on such obligations, rated in the three (3) highest rating categories by a nationally recognized rating agency of such obligations.
TN Code § 7-39-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-314. Audits

 Any corporation formed pursuant to this chapter shall be audited in the manner provided in title 6, chapter 56.
TN Code § 7-39-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-315. Board of Directors Is a Governing Body

 The board of directors of a corporation formed pursuant to this chapter shall be considered a governing body for purposes of title 8, chapter 44.
TN Code § 7-39-316 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-316. Power to Purchase Natural Gas or Electrical Power

 Any municipality has the power, together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary for the performance thereof, exercisable alone or jointly with any other public agency, acting by resolution of its governing body, to purchase, by contract or other agreement, natural gas or electrical power, or both, from an energy acquisition corporation. Any municipality has the power to enter into any contract or arrangement with a corporation for the acquisition of natural gas or natural gas substitutes or electrical power, containing such terms, covenants, representations, warranties and provisions and for such period or duration as the governing body of the municipality shall determine, including contracts containing the agreement of the municipality to take or pay for any gas, gas substitutes or electrical power provided by the corporation to the municipality.
TN Code § 7-39-317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-317. Competitive Bidding Requirements Waived

 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a corporation may enter into any contract authorized by this chapter without complying with competitive bidding requirements.
TN Code § 7-39-318 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-39-318. Restrictions or Limitations on Corporate Powers

 Neither this chapter nor anything contained in this chapter shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers that a corporation might otherwise have under any laws of this state, but shall be construed as cumulative of any such powers; however, to the extent this chapter conflicts with any other law or is inconsistent with any other law, this chapter shall prevail. The authority and powers granted pursuant to this chapter may be exercised in accordance with the terms of this chapter, notwithstanding any other requirements, restrictions or procedural provisions contained in any general law, private act or home rule charter, and notwithstanding any other provisions to the contrary contained in any general law, private act or home rule charter.
TN Code § 7-39-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 4 - Municipal Gas System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-39-401. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Municipal Gas System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987.”
TN Code § 7-39-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 4 - Municipal Gas System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-39-402. Legislative Intent — 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 gas 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 of any private act, home rule charter or metropolitan government charter, relating to payments in lieu of taxes, except for 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 the 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 § 7-39-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 39 - Energy Acquisition Corporations Act|Part 4 - Municipal Gas System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987|§ 7-39-405. Payment of Tax Equivalents

  The municipality's governing body, in the resolution provided for in § 7-39-404(4), shall direct payment of the amounts to be paid as tax equivalents to the taxing jurisdictions in which its gas plant in service is located in accordance with and subject to any terms, conditions, contracts or agreements now in effect.   Notwithstanding any private act or home rule charter, or any part thereof, relating to the distribution of payments in lieu of taxes, unless a written agreement was executed prior to April 2012, or becomes effective on the first day of any fiscal year thereafter, by another taxing jurisdiction and a municipality, located in any county having a charter form of government, that owns and operates a gas system, and such written agreement provides for a different payment, then each taxing jurisdiction shall receive a payment that is equal to that portion of the total tax equivalent payment that is calculated using each such taxing jurisdiction’s tax rate pursuant to § 7-39-404(1)(A).
TN Code § 7-51-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 51 - Miscellaneous Governmental and Proprietary Functions|Part 1 - Emergency Government Relocation|§ 7-51-101. Emergency Location of Local Government

 Whenever, due to an emergency resulting from the effects of enemy attack, or the anticipated effects of a threatened enemy attack, it becomes imprudent, inexpedient or impossible to conduct the affairs of local government at the regular or usual place or places of the conduct of the affairs of government, the governing body of each political subdivision of this state may meet at any place within or without the territorial limits of such political subdivisions on the call of the presiding officer or any two (2) members of such governing body, and shall proceed to establish and designate by ordinance, resolution or other manner, alternate or substitute sites or places as the emergency temporary location or locations of government where all or any part of the public business may be transacted and conducted during the emergency situation. Such sites or places may be within or without the territorial limits of such political subdivision and may be within or without this state.
TN Code § 7-51-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 51 - Miscellaneous Governmental and Proprietary Functions|Part 1 - Emergency Government Relocation|§ 7-51-102. Power to Act at Emergency Location

 During the period when the public business is being conducted at the emergency temporary location or locations, the governing body and other officers of a political subdivision of this state shall have and possess and shall exercise, at such location or locations, all of the executive, legislative and judicial powers and functions conferred upon such body and officers by or under the laws of this state. Such powers and functions may be exercised in the light of the exigencies of the emergency situation without regard to or compliance with time consuming procedures and formalities prescribed by law and pertaining thereto, and all acts of such body and officers shall be as valid and binding as if performed within the territorial limits of their political subdivision.
TN Code § 7-51-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 51 - Miscellaneous Governmental and Proprietary Functions|Part 1 - Emergency Government Relocation|§ 7-51-103. Provisions Control Other Laws

 This part shall control and be supreme in the event it shall be employed, notwithstanding any statutory, charter or ordinance provision to the contrary or in conflict herewith.
TN Code § 7-51-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 51 - Miscellaneous Governmental and Proprietary Functions|Part 2 - Employee Compensation and Indemnification|§ 7-51-202. Compensation for Death of Correctional Employee or Community Services Employee Killed in the Line of Duty

  For the purposes of this section, “in the line of duty” means in the course of employment and in the actual discharge of the duties of the position.   The estate of any correctional employee or community services employee of the state who is killed in the line of duty shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000). Payment shall be made from the general fund after receipt by the department of finance and administration of a certified death certificate and an affidavit from the decedent's employer that the decedent was killed in the line of duty.
TN Code § 7-51-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 51 - Miscellaneous Governmental and Proprietary Functions|Part 2 - Employee Compensation and Indemnification|§ 7-51-203. Liability Insurance for Employee Protection

 All municipal corporations or other political subdivisions of the state of Tennessee are hereby authorized to contract at governmental expense for policies of liability insurance to protect employees in the course of their employment.
TN Code § 7-51-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 51 - Miscellaneous Governmental and Proprietary Functions|Part 2 - Employee Compensation and Indemnification|§ 7-51-204. Fire Department Employee Association Dues

   Any municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state that maintains a regular fire department with regular full-time employees shall, upon the written request of any such employee, make monthly deductions of membership dues for an employee association if the chief administrative officer of the employee association has previously certified to the chief executive officer of the municipality or political subdivision that the association's current membership is not less than forty percent (40%) of all the employees of the municipality or political subdivision who qualify for membership.   Such deductions shall be made by the municipality or other political subdivision from each regular paycheck and shall be remitted to the employee association within thirty (30) days after the deduction is made.   Authorization for such payroll deduction shall continue in effect until the next regular pay period following the thirtieth day after receipt by the municipality or other political subdivision of a written revocation signed by the employee.     If any provision of this section or the application of this section to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the section that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the provisions of this section are declared to be severable.
TN Code § 7-51-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 51 - Miscellaneous Governmental and Proprietary Functions|Part 2 - Employee Compensation and Indemnification|§ 7-51-205. Firefighters — Disease, Cancer or Death — Presumptions

  For the purposes of this section, “firefighter” means any regular and full-time employee of a county with a metropolitan government with a population of four hundred thousand (400,000) or more, according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, who is required to extinguish and control fires or fire-related incidents and other employees of fire departments who are required to perform their duties under and in a toxic environment.   Any county with a metropolitan form of government with a population of four hundred thousand (400,000) or more, according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, that maintains a regular fire department manned by regular and full-time employees, and has established or hereafter establishes any form of compensation, other than workers' compensation, to be paid to such firefighters for any condition or impairment of health that results in loss to life or personal injury in the line of duty or course of employment, may establish by ordinance a presumption that any impairment of health of such firefighter caused by disease or cancer resulting in hospitalization, medical treatment or any disability, shall be presumed, unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence, to have occurred or to be due to accidental injury suffered in the course of employment. Any such condition or impairment of health that results in death shall be presumed, unless the contrary is shown by competent medical evidence, to be a loss of life in the line of duty, and to have been in the line and course of employment, and in the actual discharge of the duties of such firefighter's position, or the sustaining of personal injuries by external and violent means or by accident in the course of employment and in the line of duty; provided, that such firefighter shall have successfully passed a physical examination prior to such claimed disability, or upon entering upon such firefighter's metropolitan government employment, and such examination fails to reveal any evidence of the condition of cancer.