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TN Code § 7-60-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-209. Liability for Bonds or Notes

  All bonds and notes issued under this chapter shall be limited obligations of the county issuing the bonds or notes payable solely out of the revenues and receipts derived from the home mortgages or from any notes or other obligations of lending institutions with respect to which such bonds or notes are issued.   No holder of any bonds or notes issued under this chapter shall have the right to compel any exercise of taxing power of a county to pay the bonds or notes, the interest or redemption premium, if any, on the bonds or notes, and the bonds or notes shall not constitute an indebtedness of any county or a loan of credit of the county within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provisions, nor shall the bonds or notes be construed to create any moral obligation on the part of any county, the state, or any political subdivision of the county or state, with respect to the payment of such bonds or notes.   It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond or note that it has been issued under this chapter and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the county issuing the bonds or notes or a loan of credit of the county within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision.
TN Code § 7-60-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-210. Bonds and Notes Made Securities

  The bonds and notes of counties are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of this state and all counties, municipalities and municipal subdivisions, all insurance companies and associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and loan associations, building and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all administrators, guardians, executors, trustees and other fiduciaries, and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or in other obligations of the state, may properly and legally invest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to them.   The bonds and notes are also hereby made securities, which may be deposited with and may be received by all public officers and bodies of the state and all counties and municipalities for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or other obligations of the state is now or may hereafter be authorized.
TN Code § 7-60-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-211. Exemption From Taxation

 It is hereby determined that the powers conferred upon counties by this chapter are in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state and for the improvement of their health, safety, welfare, comfort and security, and that the purposes of this chapter are public purposes and that counties are performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon them by this chapter. The state covenants with the purchasers and all subsequent holders and transferees of bonds and notes issued by a county pursuant to this chapter, in consideration of the acceptance of and payment for the bonds and notes, that any such bonds and notes of the county and the income from the bonds and notes shall at all times be free from taxation, except for inheritance, transfer and estate taxes. Counties are authorized to include this covenant of the state in any agreement with the holder of such bonds or notes.
TN Code § 7-60-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-212. Agreement With Bond and Noteholders

 The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the holders of any bonds or notes issued pursuant to this chapter that the state will not limit or alter the rights vested by this chapter in a county to fulfill the terms of any agreements made with the holders of the bonds or notes, or in any way impair the rights and remedies of such holders until such bonds and notes, together with the interest on the bonds and notes, with interest on any unpaid installments of interest, and all costs and expenses in connection with any action or proceeding by or on behalf of such holders, are fully met and discharged. A county is authorized to include this pledge and agreement of the state in any agreement with the holders of bonds or notes.
TN Code § 7-60-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-213. Filings With State Funding Board

 Any county issuing bonds under authority of this chapter shall file with the state funding board such information concerning any issue as the funding board may request.
TN Code § 7-60-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-214. Exemption From Bidding or Restrictive Requirements, and From Antitrust Laws

  Any requirement of competitive bidding or restriction imposed on the procedure for award of contracts for the sale or other disposition of public property is not applicable to any action taken under authority of this chapter.   The transactions undertaken pursuant to this chapter shall not be subject to any antitrust law now or hereafter in effect in this state.
TN Code § 7-60-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-215. Tax Exemption for Participating County

 All home mortgages and notes or other obligations of lending institutions executed pursuant to this chapter and held by or on behalf of the county and the revenues and receipts derived by such county from the mortgages, notes and other obligations shall be exempt from all taxation in this state. The exemption contained in this section shall not be construed as an exemption from the payment of any mortgage recording or registration fees otherwise required by law.
TN Code § 7-60-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-216. Energy Conservation

  When loans are made for the purchase of new houses, such preference in making loans as may be determined by the governing body of the county shall go to those houses incorporating energy-conserving design, construction or other energy-saving features, including solar heating or solar water heating. With houses incorporating such design, construction, or features, the amount of permissible loan may be increased to cover any extra cost such elements represent over the cost of a similar house without such elements.   When loans are made for the purchase of older houses, such preference in making loans as may be determined by the governing body of the county shall go to those houses incorporating energy-conserving design, construction, or other energy-saving features, including solar heating or solar water heating. With houses incorporating such design, construction, or features, the amount of permissible loan may be increased to cover any extra costs such elements represent over the cost of a similar house without such elements.   A reasonable percentage of new houses financed through this chapter shall be equipped with solar water heating units to supply all or substantially all of the heated water requirement of that household, the determination of the governing body of the county with respect to the reasonableness of such percentage to be conclusive. The applicable amount of mortgage money available to a person through this chapter shall be increased by an amount necessary to cover any added costs of such heater. Each county acting under this chapter shall determine the percentage of houses to be so equipped.
TN Code § 7-60-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 60 - Tennessee Home Mortgage Act|Part 2 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-60-217. Interlocal Cooperation

  The governing bodies of any two (2) or more counties, whether or not contiguous, are empowered to enter into such agreements, contractual arrangements or compacts as they may deem necessary and desirable in order to provide for the joint conducting or financing of any of the functions or the services authorized by this chapter, including the joint issuance of bonds or notes by any two (2) or more such counties, and including the issuance of bonds or notes by any one (1) or more such counties and the allocation of the proceeds of the bonds or notes to one (1) or more other counties, and in conjunction with the joint issuance of bonds or notes, to exercise all the powers granted by § 5-1-114.   In the event of the issuance of bonds or notes by any county and the allocation of a portion of the proceeds of the bonds or notes to any other county, the issuance of such bonds or notes shall be approved in general terms by the governing body of such other county, including the approval of the maximum interest rate and the maximum term of such bonds or notes.   In the event of the joint issuance of bonds or notes, the proceeds of the bonds or notes, after the payment of all expenses in connection with the issuance of the bonds or notes, including particularly those costs and expenses enumerated in § 7-60-201(a)(3), may be allocated to each of the counties jointly issuing such bonds or notes in the manner that such counties may agree upon, but in no event shall the share of such bond or note proceeds allocated to any county, together with the proceeds of any other bonds or notes issued under this chapter and allocated to such county, exceed in any year that proportion, including such proportion as may have resulted from the agreement of counties, of the state ceiling for such year to which that county is entitled pursuant to § 7-60-102(f).
TN Code § 7-62-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 1 - Licensing|§ 7-62-101. Types of Buildings Defined

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Assembly building” means a building where a number of persons congregate for amusement, civic, educational, recreational, religious or social purposes;   “Commercial building” means a building used for the conduct of a business, having financial profit as the primary aim; and   “Residential building” means a house or building used or designed to be used as the abode or home of a person, family or household exclusively as a residence.
TN Code § 7-62-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 1 - Licensing|§ 7-62-102. Residential Builders or Contractors Construed

 “Residential builder” or “residential maintenance and alteration contractor” shall be construed to mean any person, firm or corporation who, for a fixed sum, price, percentage, consideration or other compensation other than wages, contracts with another for the erection, construction, repair, replacement, alteration or addition to, subtraction from or demolition of a residential or residential-commercial combination building.
TN Code § 7-62-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 1 - Licensing|§ 7-62-103. Authorization to Require Licensing

 The several cities, towns and counties of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to enact laws or ordinances to safeguard and protect the home owner or prospective home owner, commercial property owner or assembly building property owner, by requiring the licensing of the residential, commercial or assembly builders and residential, commercial and assembly maintenance and alteration contractors as defined in § 7-62-102 in accordance with the provisions set forth in such law or ordinance.
TN Code § 7-62-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 1 - Licensing|§ 7-62-104. Exceptions From Licensing Requirements

 This chapter shall not apply to:   An authorized representative of the United States government, the state of Tennessee or any county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state;   Owners of property with reference to structures on the property for their own use and occupancy;   Officers of courts acting within the terms of their office;   Any person who shall engage or be engaged solely in the business of performing work and services under contract with a builder under this chapter;   The sale of any products or materials or the sale or the installation of articles of merchandise that are not actually fabricated into and do not become a permanently fixed part of the structure;   Any work or operation on one (1) undertaking or project or one (1) or more contracts, the aggregate contract price for which labor, materials and all other items is less than one hundred dollars ($100), such work or operations being considered as a casual, minor or inconsequential nature. This exemption does not apply in any case wherein the work or construction is only part of a larger or major operation, whether undertaken by the same or a different residential, commercial or assembly builder or residential, commercial or assembly maintenance and alteration contractor, or in which a division of the operation is made in contracts of amounts of less than one hundred dollars ($100) for the purpose of evasion of this chapter; or   Any contractor licensed and qualified under the state contractors' laws.
TN Code § 7-62-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 1 - Licensing|§ 7-62-105. Licensing by Building Department — Performance Bond — Revocation or Suspension — Hearing — Appeal

 Provision shall be made for licensing the residential, commercial and assembly builders and residential, commercial and assembly maintenance and alteration contractors with the building department of the town, city or county by law or ordinance, providing for the identification of the party, for a license fee and renewal of same, for a performance bond in such amount as the city or county may determine, for the revocation or suspension of licenses after proper hearing before an appeal board of private citizens, and for further appeal to the governing body of the town, city or county.
TN Code § 7-62-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 1 - Licensing|§ 7-62-106. Administration of Licensing Provisions

 The law or ordinance may provide for the administration of same under a board that may be established or under a proper officer of the governing body.
TN Code § 7-62-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 1 - Licensing|§ 7-62-107. Unlicensed Acts — Misdemeanors — Nuisance

  Provision may be made that no person, firm, partnership or corporation shall attempt to do any of the matters set forth in § 7-62-102, unless duly licensed and, if not licensed, such person or entity shall be punished for violation of the law or ordinance as a Class C misdemeanor.   Continuing or aggravating violations may constitute a nuisance and be punishable as such.
TN Code § 7-62-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 2 - General Home Repairs and Improvements Contractors|§ 7-62-201. Building Permits

 Subject to the local approval provisions of § 7-62-205, building permits for general home repairs and improvements shall be issued only in accordance with §§ 7-62-202 and 7-62-203.
TN Code § 7-62-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 2 - General Home Repairs and Improvements Contractors|§ 7-62-202. Number of Building Permits

  An unlimited number of building permits for general home repairs and improvements may be issued to contractors licensed by the state of Tennessee.   Not more than ten (10) active building permits for general home repairs and improvements may be issued to an unlicensed contractor who on April 8, 1986, is in the business of general home repairs and maintenance.
TN Code § 7-62-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 2 - General Home Repairs and Improvements Contractors|§ 7-62-203. Bonding of Unlicensed Contractors

 Any person who enters into a contracting business of general home repairs and maintenance after April 8, 1986, if such person is an unlicensed contractor by the state of Tennessee, shall, for a period of not less than two (2) years, be required to post a cash bond in an amount sufficient to cover the cost of all services, labor, and materials used by such contractor or any immediate or remote subcontractor under such person for all such permits. The bond so given shall be filed with the appropriate governmental office issuing such permit and shall remain filed with such office until a copy is submitted to such office on the form required by § 66-11-205, notifying the owner that no claims have been made to the contractor by, nor is any suit pending on behalf of, any contractors, subcontractors, laborers or materialmen, and that no chattel mortgages or conditional bills of sale have been given or are now outstanding as to any materials, appliances, fixtures or furnishings placed upon or installed in the premises for which such permit was issued. The governing body may extend this period based on the number of outstanding complaints or judgments obtained against such contractor for breach of contract or failing to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
TN Code § 7-62-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 2 - General Home Repairs and Improvements Contractors|§ 7-62-204. Notice of Building Permit Applicants

 If an individual makes application for a building permit for general home repairs and maintenance, the issuing authority shall advise the individual of this part, especially as it relates to the protection provided to the general public in requiring a cash bond for unlicensed contractors under § 7-62-203.
TN Code § 7-62-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 62 - Residential Building and Maintenance Contractors|Part 2 - General Home Repairs and Improvements Contractors|§ 7-62-205. Local Approval

 This part shall apply in any county that by resolution of its county legislative body, or in any incorporated municipality that, by ordinance of its governing body, elects to come under this part. Such governing body shall also provide the mechanism to ensure that no more than ten (10) active permits are in force at any one (1) time under § 7-62-202(b), for the filing and releasing of bonds under § 7-62-203, and for the notification provisions of § 7-62-204.
TN Code § 7-63-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 63 - Actions in Lieu of Arrest|Part 1 - Traffic Citations in Lieu of Arrest|§ 7-63-101. Municipal Violations — Citation or Complaint in Lieu of Arrest

 When any person violates any traffic, or other ordinance, law or regulation of any municipal, metropolitan or city government in the presence of a:   Law enforcement officer of such government;   Member of the fire department or building department who is designated as a special police officer of the municipality; or   Transit inspector employed by a public transportation system or transit authority organized pursuant to chapter 56, part 1 of this title;  such officer or inspector may issue, in lieu of arresting the offender and having a warrant issued for the offense, a citation or complaint for such offense. A copy of such citation, which shall contain the offense charged and the time and place when such offender is to appear in court, shall be given to the offender.
TN Code § 7-63-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 63 - Actions in Lieu of Arrest|Part 1 - Traffic Citations in Lieu of Arrest|§ 7-63-102. Agreement by Offender to Appear

 In order to prevent the offender's arrest and the issuance of the warrant against the offender, the offender must sign an agreement to appear at the time and place indicated, and to waive the issuance and service of a warrant upon the offender.
TN Code § 7-63-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 63 - Actions in Lieu of Arrest|Part 1 - Traffic Citations in Lieu of Arrest|§ 7-63-103. Duty of Court — Treatment of Citation or Warrant

 When the offender has signed the agreement and waiver provided for in § 7-63-102, it is the duty of the court having jurisdiction to try the case, to try the same upon the citation or complaint, without the issuance or service of a warrant upon the defendant, and the citation or complaint shall in all respects be deemed and treated as though it were a warrant properly served upon the defendant.
TN Code § 7-63-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 63 - Actions in Lieu of Arrest|Part 1 - Traffic Citations in Lieu of Arrest|§ 7-63-104. Arrest When Offender Refuses to Sign Agreement to Appear

 In the event the offender refuses to sign the agreement to appear in court and to waive the issuance and service upon the offender of a warrant, then it shall be the duty of the officer, in whose presence the offense is committed, forthwith to place the offender under arrest and take the offender before the proper authority, procure a warrant, serve the warrant upon the offender and book the offender as in other cases of violations. The authority issuing the warrant shall take bail from the accused for appearance in court for trial, or in lieu of bail, commit the offender to jail.