TN Code § 7-57-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 57 - Metropolitan Hospital Authority Act|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-57-308. Powers of Creating or Participating Municipalities

 Any creating municipality and any participating municipality has all necessary powers in order to further the purposes of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the following, any or all of which powers may be exercised by ordinance or resolution of its governing body:   The governing body of any creating or participating municipality in which the authority is located may appropriate each year such sums from its general fund as the governing body deems to be necessary for the construction, improvement, maintenance, or operation of any public hospital or hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by an authority, and money so appropriated and paid to a hospital authority shall be deemed a necessary expense of such creating or participating municipality. The governing body of any such creating or participating municipality shall also be authorized to advance or lend money, or real or personal property, to the authority for use in carrying out its purposes as set forth in this chapter;   The governing body of any creating or participating municipality in which the authority is located may appropriate each year such sums from its capital funds as the governing body deems to be necessary for the purchase, construction, expansion, or improvement of any public hospital or hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by an authority, and money so appropriated and paid to a hospital authority shall be deemed a necessary expense of such creating or participating municipality. The governing body of any such creating or participating municipality shall also be authorized to advance or lend money, or real or personal property, to the authority for use in carrying out its purposes as set forth in this chapter;   The governing body of any creating or participating municipality may borrow money against its general credit on such terms and for such period as it shall deem appropriate and sell revenue or general obligation bonds and advance, lend, grant, donate or appropriate the funds to the authority for the construction or improvement of any hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by the authority;   The governing body of any creating or participating municipality may borrow money against its general credit on such terms and for such period as it shall deem appropriate and advance, lend, grant, donate or appropriate the funds to the authority for the maintenance and operation of any hospital project or other facility constructed, maintained or operated by the authority;   To provide that any funds on hand or made available to it for hospital purposes shall be paid directly to the authority;   To cause water, sewer, gas, electric or other utility services to be provided to the hospital authority;   To sell, lease, dedicate, donate or otherwise convey to the authority any of its interest in any existing hospital or other related property, either real or personal, or grant easements, licenses or other rights or privileges in the existing hospital or other related property to the authority;   To open and improve streets, roads and alleys to the hospitals;   To provide police and fire protection services to the hospitals; and   To enter into agreements with the authority with regard to the transfer of its hospital employees to the authority with the retention by such employees of any civil service status and accrued rights in pension, disability, hospitalization and death, and other fringe benefits.