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TN Code § 68-221-1113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 11 - Storm Water Management|§ 68-221-1113. Annual Report to State Legislative Delegation

  The chief administrative officer of the agency or entity responsible for implementing this part or such officer's designated representative shall report annually and personally to the legislative delegation of any municipality to which this section applies on the storm water management program for which such officer is responsible. Such report shall include, at a minimum, the following:  The status of the storm water management program in such municipality;   The fee structure imposed to fund the implementation of this part and the adequacy of such fees to implement this part;   Any long-range plans which have been developed to implement this part;   The status of any projects to control storm water runoff;   The status of any condemnation proceedings pursuant to this part; and   Any other information deemed relevant by such officer or requested by the delegation.     This section only applies to municipalities in counties having a population of not less than two hundred eighty-five thousand (285,000) nor more than two hundred eighty-six thousand (286,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census. This section also applies to the municipality having the largest population in any county with a population of not less than three hundred thirty-five thousand (335,000) nor more than three hundred thirty-six thousand (336,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census. This section shall also apply to the municipality having the largest population in any county with a population in excess of eight hundred thousand (800,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
TN Code § 68-221-1201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 12 - Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Act of 1997|§ 68-221-1201. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Act of 1997.”
TN Code § 68-221-1202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 12 - Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Act of 1997|§ 68-221-1202. Purpose and Intent

  The purpose of this part is to:  Facilitate statewide compliance with state and federal drinking water standards;   Provide Tennessee water systems with low-cost loans and other financial assistance for system improvements through the creation of a self-sustaining revolving loan program so as to improve drinking water systems; and   Enable the department to receive and use federal funds for the loan program and other purposes, including, but not limited to, technical assistance, authorized by the federal act.     It is intended that the drinking water revolving loan program be used in coordination with state and federal assistance programs.
TN Code § 68-221-1203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 12 - Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Act of 1997|§ 68-221-1203. Part Definitions

 Terms used in this part that are defined in §§ 68-221-703 and 68-221-1003 shall have the same meaning in this part. As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Federal act” means the Safe Drinking Water Act, or Title XIV of the Public Health Service Act, compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 300f et seq., as amended, and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;   “Fund” means the water system revolving loan fund;   “Loan” means loans, loan guarantees, or a source of reserve and security for leveraged loans;   “Security” means that which is determined by the authority to be acceptable to secure a loan to a water system under this part and includes, but is not limited to, dedicated or other revenues of the system, collateral, letters of credit, and surety bonds;   “State act” means the Tennessee Safe Drinking Water Act of 1983, compiled in part 7 of this chapter, as amended, and rules and regulations promulgated thereunder; and   “System” and “water system” mean the community public water systems of a county, incorporated town or city, metropolitan government, a privately owned for-profit community public water system, utility district formed pursuant to the Utility District Law, compiled in title 7, chapter 82, water/wastewater authority, energy authority, state agency, or an instrumentality of government created by any one (1) or more of these or by an act of the general assembly as well as such governmental entity.
TN Code § 68-221-1204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 12 - Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Act of 1997|§ 68-221-1204. Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund

   There is created in the state treasury a revolving loan fund to be known as the “drinking water revolving loan fund.”   The authority shall administer the fund and may adopt rules and regulations for such administration.   All interest and earnings of the fund shall remain a part of the fund.   No part of the fund shall revert to the general fund on any June 30, but shall remain a part of the revolving fund available for expenditure in accordance with this part.   The authority may charge and collect from systems and water systems administrative fees and expenses, including, but not limited to, reimbursement of all cost of financing by the authority that the authority determines to be reasonable and required. These fees and expenses shall not become part of the fund.      The authority shall deposit in the fund all receipts from the repayment of principal and interest on loans made pursuant to this part.   The fund shall be established, maintained and credited with repayments, and the fund balance shall be available in perpetuity for providing such loans, pursuant to this part.     The department shall deposit in the fund federal funds allocated to the state pursuant to the federal act which have been determined by the department to be for the purpose of making loans to water systems and for which state matching funds are available.    The department shall recommend annually to the general assembly the appropriate state funds necessary for the receipt of all available matching federal funds.   State money appropriated to the department or to the authority to carry out this part may be used, in addition to other purposes, to match federal funds allocated to the state pursuant to the Safe Drinking Water Act for the purpose of making loans to water systems.     The department shall deposit into the fund any federal funds allocated to the state to make loans and to subsidize loans made under the program authorized by this part.
TN Code § 68-221-1301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1301. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act.”
TN Code § 68-221-1302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1302. Authorities Created as Public and Governmental Bodies — Property and Revenue Exempt From Taxes

  It is declared that water and wastewater treatment authorities created pursuant to this part shall be public and governmental bodies acting as agencies and instrumentalities of the creating and participating governmental entities; and that the acquisition, operation and finance of water and wastewater treatment works by the authorities is 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 or revenues, are exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation.
TN Code § 68-221-1303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1303. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Authority” means a water and wastewater treatment authority created pursuant to this part;   “Board” means the board of commissioners of an authority;   “Bonds” includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority;   “Creating governmental entity” means any city, metropolitan government, county or utility district that creates an authority pursuant to this part;   “Executive officer” means the mayor, county mayor or other chief executive officer of any creating or participating governmental entity;   “Governing body” means the chief legislative body of any creating or participating governmental entity;   “Participating governmental entity” means any utility district, metropolitan government, city, town or county, which utility district, city, town or county, pursuant to a resolution of its governing body, has sold, leased, dedicated, donated or otherwise conveyed its water or wastewater treatment works, or both, or a portion of its water or wastewater treatment works, to the authority for operation by the authority in order to make the treatment works an operational part of its treatment works;   “State” means the state of Tennessee; and   “Treatment works” means any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the state's waters, or any devices and systems used in the treatment and distribution of water, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, water storage facilities, water transmission lines, pumping, power and other equipment, and their appurtenances, extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof; elements essential to provide a reliable recycled supply, such as standby treatment units and clear well facilities, and any works.
TN Code § 68-221-1306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1306. Executive Director — Budget

  The board shall appoint an executive director, who shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the authority. The board shall enter into a contract with the executive director establishing the director's salary and term of office.   The executive director is responsible for all personnel matters related to the authority, including, but not limited to, recruitment, discipline and compensation.    The executive director shall annually prepare the 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 board has not acted on the budget by the first day of the fiscal year, the budget shall then automatically go into effect.     The executive director shall also submit periodic reports to the board that it may direct.   The executive director shall attend all meetings of the board.
TN Code § 68-221-1308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1308. Charges for Services — Classification of Customers — Contracts for Collection of Sewer Charges

  The authority may fix the price or charges for its water and waste treatment services rendered to users within and without the service area of the authority; provided, that the rates charged shall be uniform for the same class of customers or service and may represent the equitable or proportionate share of treatment costs of that class of customers or service.   In classifying customers served or service furnished by the system of sewerage or water, the authority may, in its discretion, consider any or all of the following factors:  The difference in cost of service to the various customers;   The location of the various customers within and without the service area of the authority;   The difference in cost of maintenance, operation, repair and replacement of the various parts of the system;   The different character of the service furnished various customers;   The quantity and quality of the sewage delivered and the time of its delivery;   Capital contributions made to the system, including, but not limited to, assessments; and   Any other matters that present a reasonable difference as a ground for distinction.      As used in this subsection (c), “sewer” means waste water collection or treatment, or both.    The board may enter into contracts with any utility district or municipality providing sewer services within the jurisdiction, or with any municipal utilities board or commission operating a water system within the jurisdiction of the authority, for the collection of sewer charges. The authority, or any public corporation, utility district or municipal utilities board or commission so contracting with the authority or contracting directly with any public or private corporation providing sewer services within the jurisdiction, is authorized and empowered:   To meter, bill and collect sewer service charges as an added designated item on its water service bills, or otherwise;   To discontinue water service to sewer users who fail or refuse to pay sewer service charges;   Not to accept payment of water service charges from any customer without receiving at the same time payment of any sewer service charges owed by that customer; and   Not to reestablish water service for any customer until such time as all past due sewer service charges owed by that customer have been paid.     The utility district or municipal utilities board or commission is authorized to perform all acts and discharge all obligations required by the provisions of any such contract or contracts.
TN Code § 68-221-1309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1309. Collection From Industrial Users for Construction Costs — Assumption of Commitment to Repay Recovery Costs — Allocation of Right to Discharge Industrial Wastes Into System

   In providing a treatment works to treat industrial wastes, either independently or in conjunction with other wastes, the authority has the authority to collect from those industrial users all or any part of the construction costs of the treatment works reasonably attributed to treatment of the industrial wastes.   The apportionment of the costs shall be equitable as among industrial users, and the costs may be collected by assessment, connection fee, periodic charges, or by other method or combinations of methods as in the judgment of the authority is equitable and will assure industrial cost recovery.      The commitment of an industrial user of waste treatment service to repay its share of industrial recovery costs may be assumed by another industry replacing the former as a user of waste treatment services; provided, that the assumption shall not release the original or former user without the written consent of the agency, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.   The authority shall have the right to allocate and reallocate among industrial users the right to discharge industrial wastes into the treatment system.   In the event of reallocation, the share of industrial cost recovery of each participating industry shall be reallocated proportionately among all industrial users; provided, that the share of an industrial user may not be increased except in proportion to the industrial user's increased use of the system.
TN Code § 68-221-1310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1310. Power to Condemn Property

  An authority has the power to condemn either the fee or any right, title, interest or easement in the property that the board may deem necessary for any of the purposes mentioned in this part, and the property or interest in that property may be so acquired whether or not the property or the interest in the property is owned or held for public use by corporations, associations or persons having the power of eminent domain, or otherwise held or used for public purposes; provided, that that prior public use shall not be interfered with by this use.   The power of condemnation may be exercised in the mode or method of procedure prescribed by title 29, chapter 17, or in the mode or method of procedure prescribed by any other applicable statutory provisions now in force or hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
TN Code § 68-221-1312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1312. Powers to Incur Debt in Anticipation of Federal or State Aid — Sale of Bonds to Federal Agency — Issuance of Temporary Obligations

   Notwithstanding any other laws of this state or any of this state's political subdivisions, any authority that has contracted for and accepted an offer or a grant of federal or state aid, or both, for a particular project for which the authority may raise or expend money, may, upon resolution of its board, incur indebtedness in anticipation of the receipt of the aid for the particular project by issuing the authority's general obligation notes payable in not more than one (1) year, which notes may be renewed from time to time by the issue of other notes; provided, that no notes shall be issued or renewed in an amount that at the time of issuance or renewal exceeds the unpaid amount of the federal or state aid, or both, in anticipation of which the notes are issued or renewed.   To any extent that the federal or state aid in anticipation of which the notes were issued when received exceeds the amount of aid remaining to be paid under contract or accepted offer, plus the amount of any outstanding notes issued in anticipation of the state or federal aid, the excess shall be kept in a separate account and used solely for the payment of the outstanding notes.     Every authority has the power and is authorized to:  Sell bonds at private sale to any federal agency without any public advertisement;   Issue interim receipts, certificates or other temporary obligations, in such form and containing such terms, conditions and provisions as the authority issuing the interim receipts, certificates or other temporary obligations may determine, pending the preparation or execution of definite bonds for the purpose of financing the construction of a public works project; and    Issue bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the sale of bonds that have been duly authorized, but all those bond anticipation notes, including any renewals of the bond anticipation notes, shall finally mature not later than three (3) years from the date of the original notes.   All such bond anticipation notes shall have the same security as the bonds in anticipation of which the notes are issued.
TN Code § 68-221-1313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1313. Powers of Creating and Participating Governmental Entities

 Any creating governmental entity and any participating governmental entity has all necessary powers in order to further the purposes of this part, including, but not limited to, the following, any or all of which powers may be exercised by resolution of the governmental entity's governing body, to:   Advance, donate or lend money on real or personal property to the authority;   Provide that any funds on hand or to become available to the governmental entity for treatment works purposes shall be paid directly to the authority;   Sell, lease, dedicate, donate or otherwise convey to the authority any of the governmental entity's interest in any existing treatment works or other related property, or grant easements, licenses or other rights or privileges therein to the authority;   Enter into agreements with the authority with regard to the transfer of the governmental entity's treatment works' employees to the authority with the retention by the employees of any accrued rights in pension, disability, hospitalization and death benefits; and   Permit the governmental entity's rights, duties and powers under the governmental entity's charter or the laws of the state to be performed or exercised by the authority.
TN Code § 68-221-1314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1314. Dissolution of Authority

  Whenever the governing bodies of the creating governmental entity and the participating governmental entities each, by resolution, determine 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, and that such governmental entities have agreed on the distribution of the funds and other properties of the authority, then the executive officers of the governmental entities shall execute and file for record with the secretary of state a joint certificate of dissolution reciting those facts and declaring the authority to be dissolved.   Upon this filing, the authority shall be dissolved, and title to all funds and other properties of the authority at the time of dissolution shall vest in and be delivered to the governmental entities in accordance with the terms of their agreement relating to the dissolution.
TN Code § 68-221-1315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1315. Powers Conferred by Part Additional and Supplemental

  The powers conferred by this part shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and are not in substitution for those powers, and the limitations imposed by this part shall not affect those powers.   The powers granted in this part may be exercised without regard to requirements, restrictions or procedural provisions contained in any other law or charter, except as expressly provided in this part.   Any metropolitan government or any home rule municipality authorized under this part to create a water and wastewater treatment authority may do so without the necessity of a charter amendment, notwithstanding anything in its charter to the contrary.
TN Code § 68-221-1316 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1316. Liberal Construction

 This part shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes of this part, and insofar as this part may be inconsistent with any other law, this part shall be controlling.
TN Code § 68-221-1317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 221 - Water and Sewerage|Part 13 - Regional Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority Act|§ 68-221-1317. Compensation of Board Members

 The members of the board of commissioners may receive compensation for their services and shall receive per diem or reimbursement for necessary expenses.