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TN Code § 7-2-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 2 - Metropolitan Government—adoption and Provisions of Charter|§ 7-2-103. Organization of Charter Commission — Officers and Personnel — Compensation — Vacancies

  The members of the charter commission shall hold an organizational meeting at the courthouse at ten o'clock a.m. (10:00 a.m.) on the fifth day following their appointment or election, or at such subsequent date and place as a majority of the members may assemble.   The metropolitan government charter commission shall be authorized to elect a chair, a secretary, and such other officers as it may deem necessary.   The charter commission shall be authorized to employ such staff as may be required to assist it in drafting a charter for a single metropolitan government, which shall consolidate county and city functions as provided in this chapter and which shall be proposed for adoption.   Members of the charter commission shall not receive per diem or other compensation for their services, except reimbursement of actual expenses by members.   The staff employed by the commission shall be paid compensation as determined by the charter commission within the limits of funds available to it under this chapter.   Vacancies in the office of charter commission shall be filled by the remaining members.
TN Code § 7-2-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 2 - Metropolitan Government—adoption and Provisions of Charter|§ 7-2-104. Appropriation for Charter Commission — Disbursement — Cooperation From Public Officials

  Whenever any charter commission is established as provided in this chapter, it shall be the duty of the governing body of the county to appropriate sufficient funds to defray the expenses of the commission, which appropriation shall be not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) nor more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). Such funds shall be disbursed by the county mayor or other fiscal officer of the county upon vouchers or warrants signed by the chair and the secretary of the commission.   All public officials shall, upon request, furnish the commission with all information and assistance necessary or appropriate for its work.
TN Code § 7-2-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 2 - Metropolitan Government—adoption and Provisions of Charter|§ 7-2-105. Preparation and Filing of Proposed Charter — Publication

 Any charter commission established under this chapter shall prepare and file the charter proposed by it not later than nine (9) months after the date of its initial meeting, or within such extended limit of time as may be authorized by resolution of the governing bodies of the county and principal city. Copies of the proposed charter shall be filed with the county clerk, with the city clerk of each incorporated municipality in the county and with the county election commission. The copies shall be public records, available for inspection or examination by any interested person. The charter commission shall also furnish or make available to every daily or weekly newspaper published in the county a complete copy of the charter. The charter commission shall take such other steps within the limitation of its available funds as it deems reasonable and appropriate to inform the public throughout the county of the contents of the proposed charter, and the proposed charter may be published or summarized in pamphlets and booklets to be made available for general distribution.
TN Code § 7-2-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 2 - Metropolitan Government—adoption and Provisions of Charter|§ 7-2-107. Smaller Cities — Inclusion in Proposed Consolidation — Referendum

  After a charter commission has been created, any smaller city within the county may by action of its legislative body appoint a representative to consult with the charter commission concerning the terms upon which the functions of such smaller city may be included in the proposed consolidation. Any terms proposed by the charter commission with respect to the smaller city shall be filed and published separately as an appendix to the metropolitan charter proposed with respect to the principal city, and shall be submitted independently in a special referendum election for ratification or rejection by the voters of the smaller city and by the voters of the county outside the smaller city in a manner similar to that provided in §§ 7-2-105 and 7-2-106 with respect to the proposed metropolitan charter for the principal city.   The appendix shall be deemed ratified and adopted if it is approved by a majority of those voting within the smaller city and also by a majority of those voting in the county outside of such smaller city, but shall not become effective unless the proposed metropolitan charter with respect to the principal city and the county is ratified and adopted.   The appendix shall be deemed rejected and shall not become effective if it is disapproved by a majority of those voting in the smaller city. It shall also be deemed rejected and shall not become effective if it is disapproved by a majority of those voting in the county outside of such smaller city.   The returns of the referendum election on the proposed appendix shall be certified and proclaimed in a manner similar to that provided in § 7-2-106 with respect to the proposed metropolitan charter for the principal city.   Where a proposed charter of metropolitan government is ratified by a majority of those voting in a principal city and of those voting in the county outside of the principal city, but a smaller city continues, either because a proposed appendix has been rejected or no such appendix has been proposed, the smaller city shall become a part of the general services district, but the smaller city may not thereafter be included within the urban services district by action of the metropolitan council.
TN Code § 7-5-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act.”
TN Code § 7-5-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-102. Declaration of Purpose and Necessity — Exemption From Taxation

 It is hereby declared that a clear need exists in metropolitan areas of Tennessee for improved transportation and navigation for the movement and transportation of people, goods and merchandise, and for the creation of expanded employment opportunities through the promotion of commerce and industry, with minimal pollution, which requires that such metropolitan areas have the option of placing the central operation and financing of such metropolitan port and development agencies within metropolitan instrumentalities, and that such instrumentalities have the authority to acquire from the state, or other owners, real and personal property, and to develop, manage and operate the same for economic and industrial development. It is hereby declared that port authorities created pursuant to this chapter are public and governmental bodies acting as agencies and instrumentalities of the creating and participating municipalities; and that the acquisition, operation, financing and disposal of ports, lands, industrial and other related facilities are hereby declared to be for a public and governmental purpose and a matter of public necessity. The property and revenues of the authority or any interest in the property and revenues shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation.
TN Code § 7-5-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-104. Creation of Metropolitan Port Authority

  Any metropolitan government having a population of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000) may create a metropolitan port authority in the manner provided in this chapter.   The governing body of the creating municipality, if it shall determine the public convenience and necessity requires the creation of a metropolitan port authority, shall adopt, and the executive officer of the creating municipality shall approve, a resolution so declaring and creating an authority, which resolution shall designate the name and principal office address of the authority. A certified copy of the resolution shall be filed with the secretary of state and with the commissioner of transportation, and upon adoption and filing, the authority shall constitute a body politic and corporate, with all the powers provided in this chapter. A copy of the resolution shall also be filed with the department of community and economic development, or its functional successor.
TN Code § 7-5-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-106. Officers and Other Employees

 The board shall appoint a port authority manager who shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the authority, and shall enter into a contract with the manager establishing such port authority manager's salary and term of office. The manager shall appoint, subject to the approval of the board, all other officers and other employees subject to any civil service plan adopted by the board. The port authority manager shall prepare an annual operating budget of the authority and submit the budget to the board for approval at least sixty (60) days prior to the beginning of the fiscal year. If the budget shall not have been acted upon by the board on the first day of the fiscal year, it shall then automatically go into effect. The manager shall also submit periodic reports to the board as the board may direct. The manager shall attend all meetings of the board.
TN Code § 7-5-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-108. Real Property Interests

 Any creating municipality, upon the written recommendation of the board, may acquire any interest in land within the boundaries of the creating municipality by gift, purchase, lease, or condemnation and may transfer such interest to an authority by sale, lease or gift. Such transfer may be authorized by ordinance of the governing body of the creating municipality without submission of the question to the voters and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, or other provisions contained in any other general, special, or local law, with the exception of title 29, Chapters 1 6 and 17, or as the same may be hereafter enacted. None of the foregoing interest in land transferred to an authority by any creating municipality shall have been acquired by eminent domain after March 29, 1979, while the land was in use as residential dwellings.
TN Code § 7-5-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-110. Employees

 Employees other than independent contractors of the authority shall be considered employees of the creating municipality, and shall enjoy all rights and responsibilities as do other employees of the creating municipality, and shall be considered in classified or unclassified service as are all other employees of the creating municipality.
TN Code § 7-5-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-111. Powers of Creating Municipalities

 Any creating municipality has all of the necessary powers in order to further the purposes of this chapter, including, without limitation, the following, any or all of which powers may be exercised by resolution of its governing body:   Advance, donate or lend money, raised from any source and by any means, or real or personal property to the authority;   Provide that any funds on hand or to become available to it for port purposes shall be paid directly to the authority;   Cause water, sewer, gas, electric or other utility services to be provided to the authority;   Open and improve streets, roads and alleys to the port;   Provide police and fire protection services to the port; and   Pledge the full faith and credit and unlimited taxing power of the municipality as surety for the payment of the authority's bonds in accordance with the procedure for industrial development corporations as set out in §§ 7-53-306 and 7-53-307. None of the foregoing powers may be exercised either directly or indirectly by the municipality to provide real estate that had been condemned by eminent domain subsequent to March 29, 1979, while such real estate was in use as residential dwellings, it being the intent of this chapter that none of the power or authority created in this chapter and vested in either the creating municipality or the authority to be created shall be exercised in such a way that real estate utilized in creating or carrying out the purposes or functions of the authority provided in § 7-5-104 shall have been condemned or acquired by eminent domain after March 29, 1979, while it was in use as residential dwellings.
TN Code § 7-5-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-112. Dissolution — Disposition of Property

 Whenever the governing body of the creating municipality by resolution determines that the purposes for which the authority was created have been substantially accomplished, that all of the bonds and other obligations of the authority have been fully paid, then the executive officer of the creating municipality shall execute and file for record with the secretary of state a certificate of dissolution reciting such facts and declaring the authority to be dissolved. Upon such filing, the authority shall be dissolved, and title to all funds and other properties of the authority at the time of the dissolution shall vest in and be delivered to the creating municipality.
TN Code § 7-5-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 5 - Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act|§ 7-5-113. Supplemental Nature of Chapter

  The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and are not in substitution for such powers, and the limitations imposed by this chapter shall not affect such powers.   The powers granted in this chapter may be exercised without regard to requirements, restrictions or procedural provisions contained in any other law or charter, except as expressly provided in this chapter.   Any metropolitan government authorized under this chapter to create a metropolitan port authority may do so without the necessity of a charter amendment, notwithstanding anything in its charter to the contrary.
TN Code § 7-6-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act|§ 7-6-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act.”
TN Code § 7-6-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act|§ 7-6-102. Legislative Declaration and Purpose — Exemption From Taxation

  It is hereby declared that metropolitan celebration authorities created pursuant to this chapter shall be public and governmental bodies acting as agencies and instrumentalities of the creating municipality, and that the acquisition, construction, operation and financing of improvements by such authorities are hereby declared to be a public and governmental purpose and a matter of public necessity.   The property and revenues of the authority or any interests in property and revenues shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation.   The authorities shall be created for the purpose of implementing projects to commemorate and celebrate the bicentennial anniversary of the principal city of any county adopting a metropolitan form of government.
TN Code § 7-6-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act|§ 7-6-103. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Authority” means a metropolitan celebration authority created pursuant to the authority of this chapter;   “Board” means the board of commissioners of an authority;   “Bonds” includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority;   “Creating municipality” means any county having adopted a metropolitan form of government that creates an authority pursuant to this chapter;   “Executive officer” means the mayor, county mayor or other chief executive officer of any creating municipality; and   “State” means the state of Tennessee.
TN Code § 7-6-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act|§ 7-6-104. Creation of a Metropolitan Celebration Authority

  Any county having a metropolitan form of government may create a metropolitan celebration authority in the manner provided in this section.   The governing body of the creating municipality shall adopt, and its executive officer shall approve, a resolution calling for a public hearing on the question of creating a metropolitan celebration authority. Notice of the date, hour, place and purpose of the hearing shall be published at least once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the creating municipality, the last publication to be at least one (1) week prior to the date set for the hearing.   The hearing shall be had before the governing body and all interested persons shall have an opportunity to be heard.   After the hearing, if the governing body determines that the public convenience and necessity require the creation of an authority, it shall adopt, and its executive officer shall approve, a resolution so declaring and creating an authority, which resolution shall designate the name and principal office address of the authority. A certified copy of the resolution shall be filed with the secretary of state and with the Tennessee historical commission, along with the resolution approving the appointment of the board as provided for in § 7-6-105, and, upon the adoption and filing, the authority shall constitute a body politic and corporate, with all the powers provided in this chapter.
TN Code § 7-6-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act|§ 7-6-105. Board of Commissioners

   The authority shall be governed by a board of commissioners composed of eleven (11) members. Three (3) members shall be officers of the state, who shall be appointed by the executive officer of the creating municipality after consultation with the governor, the speaker of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. The executive officer of the creating municipality or the executive officer's designee shall be a member. Seven (7) members shall be appointed by the executive officer of the creating municipality subject to confirmation by the governing body of the municipality. The executive officer or the executive officer's designee shall serve during the term of the executive officer. The three (3) members who shall be officers of the state shall serve while holding their respective offices. The seven (7) members appointed by the executive officer subject to confirmation by the governing body shall serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6) and seven (7) years, respectively.   Nothwithstanding subdivision (a)(1), any member may be removed at the pleasure of the executive officer.     The board shall elect from its members a chair and vice chair, each of whom shall be voting members, and shall adopt bylaws and rules of procedure.   A majority of the commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.   Except as expressly otherwise specified, all powers granted in this chapter to the authority shall be exercised by the board.   Commissioners shall receive no salary, but shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
TN Code § 7-6-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act|§ 7-6-106. Officers and Employees

  The board shall appoint an executive director who shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the authority, and shall enter into a contract with the executive director establishing the executive director's salary and term of office.   The executive director shall appoint, subject to confirmation by the board, the following additional officers: a secretary, an auditor, a legal counsel and a treasurer.   All other officers and employees of the authority shall be appointed by the executive director.   The executive director shall attend all meetings of the board.
TN Code § 7-6-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 6 - Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act|§ 7-6-107. General Powers

 An authority has all of the powers necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, excluding the exercise of the power of eminent domain and the power to levy and collect taxes and special assessments, including, but not limited to, the power to:   Have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and adopt a corporate seal;   Acquire real or personal property or any interest in real or personal property by gift, lease, or purchase, for any of the purposes provided in this chapter and sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any such property;   Enter into contracts and agreements with any person or entity for any of the purposes provided for in this chapter; and   Make application directly to the proper federal, state, county and municipal officials and agencies, or to any other source, public or private, for loans, grants, guarantees or other financial assistance in aid of the purposes provided for in this chapter.