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TN Code § 13-20-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-406. Resolution Denying Petition

  If the council, after hearing as aforementioned, shall determine that neither of the conditions enumerated in § 13-20-402 exist, it shall adopt a resolution denying the petition.   After three (3) months have expired from the date of the denial of any such petitions, subsequent petitions may be filed as aforementioned and new hearings and determinations made thereon.
TN Code § 13-20-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-407. Contracts of Authority — Validity

 In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of the authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have been established in accordance with this chapter. Upon proof of the issuance of the aforementioned certificate by the secretary of state, a copy of such certificate, duly certified by the secretary of state, shall be admissible in evidence in any such suit, action or proceedings, and shall be conclusive proof of the filing and the contents thereof.
TN Code § 13-20-409 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-409. Duty of the Authority and Commissioners

 The authority and its commissioners shall be under a statutory duty to comply or to cause compliance strictly with all provisions of this chapter, and the laws of the state and in addition thereto with each and every term, provision and covenant in any contract of the authority on its part to be kept or performed.
TN Code § 13-20-410 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-410. Interest of Commissioners or Employees in Contracts

 All commissioners, officers and employees of housing authorities are subject to the conflict of interest provisions contained in §§ 12-4-101 and 12-4-102.
TN Code § 13-20-411 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-411. Removal of Commissioners — Hearing

  The mayor may remove a commissioner for inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, but only after the commissioner shall have been given a copy of the charges against such commissioner, which may be made by the mayor, at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing thereon and had an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel.   Any obligee of the authority may file with the mayor written charges that the authority is violating willfully any law of the state or any term, provision or covenant in any contract to which the authority is a party. The mayor shall give each of the commissioners a copy of such charges at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing thereon and an opportunity to be heard in person or by counsel, and shall within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such charges remove any commissioner of the authority who is found to have acquiesced in any such willful violation.   A commissioner shall be deemed to have acquiesced in a willful violation by the authority of a law of this state or of any term, provision or covenant contained in a contract to which the authority is a party, if, before a hearing is held on the charges against the commissioner, the commissioner has not filed with the authority a written statement of the commissioner's objections to or lack of participation in such violation.   In the event of the removal of any commissioner, the mayor shall file in the office of the city clerk a record of the proceedings, together with the charges made against the commissioner and the findings thereon.
TN Code § 13-20-412 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-412. Reports and Recommendations

 The authority shall at least once a year, file with the mayor of the city a report of its activities for the preceding year, and shall make any recommendations with reference to any additional legislation or other action that may be necessary in order to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
TN Code § 13-20-413 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-413. Housing Projects — Operation Not for Profit

 It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations, and that no housing authority shall construct or operate any such project for profit, or as a source of revenue to the city. To this end, an authority shall fix the rentals for dwellings in its projects at no higher rates than it shall find to be necessary in order to produce revenues which, together with all other available moneys, revenues, income and receipts of the authority from whatever sources derived, will be sufficient to:   Pay, as the same become due, the principal of and interest on the bonds of the authority;   Meet the cost of, and to provide for, maintaining and operating the projects, including the cost of any insurance on its property or bonds, and the administrative expenses of the authority; and   Create, during not less than the six (6) years immediately succeeding its issuance of any bonds, a reserve sufficient to meet the largest principal and interest payments which will be due on such bonds in any one (1) year thereafter and to maintain such reserve.
TN Code § 13-20-414 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-414. Action of City or Municipality by Resolution

 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all action authorized to be taken under such law by the council or other governing body of any city or of any municipality may be by resolution adopted by a majority of all the members of its council or other governing body, which resolution may be adopted at the meeting of the council or other governing body at which such resolution is introduced and shall take effect immediately upon such adoption, and no such resolution need be published or posted.
TN Code § 13-20-416 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-416. Findings Required for Authority to Operate in Municipality

  No governing body of a city or other municipality shall adopt a resolution as provided in § 13-20-415 or § 13-20-503 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority, other than a housing authority established by such municipality, to exercise its powers within such municipality, unless a public hearing has first been held by the governing body and unless the governing body has found in substantially the following terms:  Unsanitary or unsafe inhabitated dwelling accommodations exist in such municipality or there is a shortage of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in such municipality available to persons of low income at rentals they can afford; and   These conditions can be best remedied through the exercise of the aforementioned housing authority's powers within the territorial boundaries of such municipality;  provided, that such findings shall not have the effect of thereafter preventing such municipality from establishing a housing authority or joining in the creation of a consolidated housing authority or the increase of the area of operation of a consolidated housing authority. The clerk, or the officer with similar duties, of the city or other municipality shall give notice of the public hearing, and such hearing shall be held in the manner provided in § 13-20-402 for a public hearing by a council to determine the need for a housing authority in the city.      During the time that, pursuant to these findings, a housing authority has outstanding, or is under contract to issue, any evidence of indebtedness for a project within the city or other municipality, no other housing authority may undertake a project within such municipality without the consent of the housing authority which has such outstanding indebtedness or obligation.
TN Code § 13-20-417 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-417. Advances to Housing Authority

 When any housing authority which is created for any city becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers therein, the governing body of the city shall immediately make an estimate of the amount of money necessary for the administrative expenses and overhead of such housing authority during the first year thereafter, and shall appropriate such amount to the authority out of any moneys in such city not appropriated to some other purposes. The moneys so appropriated shall be paid to the authority as a donation. Any municipality located in whole or in part within the area of operation of a housing authority shall have the power from time to time to lend or donate money to the authority or to agree to take such action. The housing authority, when it has money available therefor, shall make reimbursement for all such loans made to it.
TN Code § 13-20-419 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-419. Security Force

  In cities with a population of over one hundred thousand (100,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, each housing authority, managing and operating housing projects for persons of low income under this chapter may, if funds can be provided for this purpose, provide a security force for such project to assure the safety of the tenants and their property and the safety and the protection of the premises.   While acting in such capacity, an officer of such force has the same authority as a law enforcement officer as defined in § 39-11-106(a), and may receive a written directive to carry a handgun under § 39-17-1315 if such officer meets the qualifications in § 38-8-106 and the training requirements of § 38-8-107(a). While acting in such capacity, such officer has the authority to make arrests for offenses committed on the property of such public housing project.
TN Code § 13-20-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-501. Creation and Powers of Authority for a County

  Except as otherwise provided herein, a housing authority may be created for any county, and the commissioners of such authority may be appointed, in the same manner as provided in this chapter, for the creation of a housing authority for a city and the appointment of the commissioners of such authority. Each housing authority created for a county and the commissioners thereof shall have the same functions, rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities and limitations provided for housing authorities created for cities and the commissioners of such housing authorities, and all law applicable to housing authorities created for cities and the commissioners of such authorities shall be applicable to housing authorities created for counties and the commissioners of such authorities.   For all such purposes, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:  “City” or “city and the area within ten (10) miles from the territorial boundaries thereof” means county;   “City clerk” means county clerk; and   “Mayor” or “council” as used in this chapter and any amendment thereto are construed as meaning county legislative body.     A housing authority created for a county shall not be subject to the limitations provided in § 13-20-113(a)(4) with respect to housing projects for farmers of low income.
TN Code § 13-20-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-503. Area of Operation of County and Regional Housing Authorities

 The area of operation or boundaries of a housing authority created for a county shall include all of the county for which it is created, and the area of operation or boundaries of a regional housing authority shall include, except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this chapter, all of the counties for which such regional housing authority is created and established; provided, that a county or regional housing authority shall not undertake any housing project or projects within the boundaries of any city or other municipality of more than two thousand (2,000) inhabitants, unless a resolution has been adopted by the governing body of such city or other municipality, and also by any housing authority which has been theretofore established and authorized to exercise its powers in such city or other municipality, declaring that there is a need for the county or regional housing authority to exercise its powers within such city or other municipality.
TN Code § 13-20-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-505. Decreasing Area of Operation of Regional Housing Authority

  The area of operation or boundaries of a regional housing authority may be decreased from time to time to exclude one (1) or more counties from such area if the legislative body of each of the counties in such area and the commissioners of the regional housing authority each adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for excluding such county or counties from such area; provided, that no action may be taken pursuant to this section if the regional housing authority has outstanding any bonds or notes, unless, first, all holders of such bonds and notes consent in writing to such action. If such action decreases the area of operation of the regional housing authority to only one (1) county, such authority shall thereupon constitute and become a housing authority for such county, in the same manner as though such authority were created and constituted a public and corporate body for such county pursuant to other provisions of this chapter, and the commissioners of such authority shall be thereupon appointed as provided for the appointment of commissioners of a housing authority created for a county.    The legislative body of each of the counties in the area of operation of the regional housing authority and the commissioners of the regional housing authority shall adopt a resolution declaring that there is a need for excluding a county or counties from such area if:  Each such legislative body of the counties to remain in the area of operation of the regional housing authority and the commissioners of the regional housing authority find that, because of facts arising or determined subsequent to the time when such area first included the county or counties to be excluded, the regional housing authority would be a more efficient or economical administrative unit if such county or counties were excluded from such area; and   The legislative body of each such county or counties to be excluded and the commissioners of the regional housing authority each also find that, because of the aforementioned changed facts, another housing authority for such county or counties would be a more efficient or economical administrative unit to function in such county or counties.     Nothing contained in this subsection (b) shall be construed as preventing a county or counties excluded from the area of operation of a regional housing authority, as provided above, from thereafter being included within the area of operation of any housing authority in accordance with this chapter.     Any property held by a regional housing authority within a county or counties excluded from the area of operation of such authority, as herein provided, shall, as soon as practicable after the exclusion of the county or counties respectively, be disposed of by such authority in the public interest.
TN Code § 13-20-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-506. Requirements of Public Hearings — Application to Secretary of State for Creation of Authorities

  The legislative body of a county shall not adopt any resolution authorized by § 13-20-502, § 13-20-504 or § 13-20-505 unless a public hearing has first been held which shall conform, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, to the requirements of § 13-20-402 for hearings to determine the need for a housing authority of a city; provided, that such hearings may be held by the legislative body without a petition therefor. No housing authority shall constitute a body corporate and politic until the commissioners of such authority have filed and recorded an application with the secretary of state, which shall conform, insofar as possible, to §§ 13-20-403 and 13-20-404 for the making, filing and recording of an application to the secretary of state by the commissioners of a housing authority created for a city; provided, that any such application filed and recorded hereunder shall set forth that the public hearing or hearings, as required by this chapter, have been held.   In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of other obligations, a regional housing authority may covenant as to limitations on its right to adopt resolutions relating to the increase or decrease of its area of operation.
TN Code § 13-20-508 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-508. Powers of Regional Housing Authority

   Except as otherwise provided herein, a regional housing authority and the commissioners thereof shall, within the area of operation of such regional housing authority, have the same functions, rights, powers, duties, privileges, immunities and limitations provided for housing authorities created for cities or counties and the commissioners of such housing authorities, and all law applicable to housing authorities created for cities or counties and the commissioners of such authorities shall be applicable to regional housing authorities and the commissioners thereof.   For such purposes, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:  “City” means county;   “City clerk” means county clerk; and   “Mayor” or “council” as used in this chapter, and any amendments thereto, means county legislative body.       A regional housing authority shall not be subject to the limitations provided in § 13-20-113(a)(4) with respect to housing projects for farmers of low income.
TN Code § 13-20-509 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-509. Rural Housing Projects

 Housing authorities created for counties and regional housing authorities are specifically empowered and authorized to borrow money, accept grants and exercise their other powers to provide housing for farmers of low income. In connection with such projects, such housing authorities may enter into such leases or purchase agreements, accept such conveyances and rent or sell dwellings forming part of such projects to or for farmers of low income, as such housing authority deems necessary in order to assure the achievement of the objectives of this chapter. Such leases, agreements or conveyances may include such covenants as the housing authority deems appropriate regarding such dwellings and the tracts of land described in any such instrument, which covenants shall be deemed to run with the land where the housing authority deems it necessary and the parties to such instrument so stipulate. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as limiting any other powers of any housing authority.
TN Code § 13-20-510 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-510. Housing Applications by Farmers

 The owner of any farm operated, or worked upon, by farmers of low income in need of safe and sanitary housing may file an application with a housing authority of a county or regional housing authority requesting that it provide for a safe and sanitary dwelling or dwellings for occupancy of such farmers of low income. Such applications shall be received and examined by housing authorities in connection with the formulation of projects or programs to provide housing for farmers of low income.
TN Code § 13-20-511 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 5 - County and Regional Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-511. Housing in Rural Areas — Tax Exemption

  A regional or county housing authority has the power to sell or rent dwellings outside of cities and to make or accept such conveyances or leases as it deems necessary to carry out the rural housing purposes of this chapter. With respect to such housing, a county and regional housing authority shall not be subject to the tenant selection limitations provided in § 13-20-113(a)(4).   No dwelling shall be provided on a farm by a county or regional authority unless it has determined that, by reason of the character of the farm with respect to which the dwelling is to be constructed and the manner of its operation, the owner is likely successfully to carry out the undertakings required of such owner under the owner's purchase agreement or lease.   Until a purchaser makes full payment for a dwelling which is constructed by a county or regional authority on such purchaser's farm, such dwelling shall continue to be the property of such authority regardless of the title to the land on which it is constructed, and such dwelling shall be exempt from taxation in the same manner as other property of such authority. Any document making land available for use by such authority shall be admitted to record, and accordingly constitute notice, in the same manner as a deed or other instrument relating to real estate.   When a county or regional authority provides a dwelling on a farm hereunder, the owner of the farm living in the dwelling under a lease or purchase agreement shall be entitled to receive the same homestead exemption as if such owner had title to the dwelling.