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TN Code § 7-52-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 4 - Telecommunications Services|§ 7-52-401. Authority in Relation to Telecommunications Equipment and Services

 Every municipality operating an electric plant, whether pursuant to this chapter, any other public or private act or the provisions of the charter of the municipality, county or metropolitan government, has the power and is authorized, on behalf of its municipality acting through the authorization of the board or supervisory body having responsibility for the municipal electric plant, to acquire, construct, own, improve, operate, lease, maintain, sell, mortgage, pledge or otherwise dispose of any system, plant or equipment for the provision of telephone, telegraph, telecommunications services, or any other like system, plant, or equipment within or without the corporate or county limits of such municipality, and, with the consent of such other municipality, within the corporate or county limits of any other municipality, in compliance with title 65, chapters 4 and 5, and all other applicable state and federal laws, rules and regulations. A municipality shall only be authorized to provide telephone, telegraph or telecommunications services through its board or supervisory body having responsibility for the municipality's electric plant. A municipality providing any of the services authorized by this section may not dispose of all or substantially all of the system, plant and equipment used to provide such services except upon compliance with the procedures set forth in § 7-52-132. Notwithstanding § 65-4-101(6)(B) or any other provision of this code or of any private act, to the extent that any municipality provides any of the services authorized by this section, such municipality shall be subject to regulation by the Tennessee public utility commission in the same manner and to the same extent as other certificated providers of telecommunications services, including, but not limited to, rules or orders governing anti-competitive practices, and shall be considered as and have the duties of a public utility, as defined in § 65-4-101, but only to the extent necessary to effect such regulation and only with respect to such municipality's provision of telephone, telegraph and communication services.
TN Code § 7-52-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 4 - Telecommunications Services|§ 7-52-402. Subsidies — Municipal Costs

 A municipality providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401 shall not provide subsidies for such services. Notwithstanding that limitation, a municipality providing such services shall be authorized to:   Dedicate a reasonable portion of the electric plant to the provision of such services, the costs of which shall be allocated to such services for regulatory purposes; and   Lend funds, at a rate of interest not less than the highest rate then earned by the municipality on invested electric plant funds, to acquire, construct, and provide working capital for the system, plant, and equipment necessary to provide any of the services authorized under § 7-52-401; provided, that such interest costs shall be allocated to the cost of such services for regulatory purposes. Any loan of funds made pursuant to this section shall be approved in advance by the comptroller of the treasury or the comptroller's designee and shall contain such provisions as are required by the comptroller of the treasury or the comptroller's designee.
TN Code § 7-52-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 4 - Telecommunications Services|§ 7-52-403. Applicability to Municipalities — Municipalities Subject to Regulatory Laws and Rules

  To the extent that it provides any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401, a municipality has all the powers, obligations and authority granted entities providing telecommunications services under applicable laws of the United States or the state of Tennessee. To the extent that such authority and powers do not conflict with title 65, chapter 4 or 5, and any rules, regulations, or orders issued under title 65, chapter 4 or 5, a municipality providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401 has all the authority and powers with respect to such services as are enumerated in this chapter.   Notwithstanding the authorization granted in subsection (a), a municipal electric system shall not provide any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401 unrelated to its electric services within the service area of an existing telephone cooperative with fewer than one hundred thousand (100,000) total lines organized and operating under title 65, chapter 29, and therefore shall adhere to those regulations of the 1995 Tennessee Telecommunications Act and rules of the Tennessee public utility commission that are applicable to the telephone cooperatives, and specifically §§ 65-4-101 and 65-29-130.
TN Code § 7-52-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 4 - Telecommunications Services|§ 7-52-404. Tax Equivalent Payments

 A municipality providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401 shall make tax equivalent payments with respect to such services in the manner established for electric systems under part 3 of this chapter. For purposes of the calculation of such tax equivalent payments only, the system, plant, and equipment used to provide such services, shall be considered an electric plant, and the revenues received from such services shall be considered operating revenues. For regulatory purposes, a municipality shall allocate to the costs of any services authorized by § 7-52-401 an amount equal to a reasonable determination of the state, local, and federal taxes that would be required to be paid for each fiscal year by a nongovernmental corporation that provides the identical services.
TN Code § 7-52-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 4 - Telecommunications Services|§ 7-52-405. Allocation of Costs by Municipalities

 For regulatory purposes, a municipality shall allocate to the costs of providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401:   An amount for attachments to poles owned by the municipality equal to the highest rate charged by the municipality to any other person or entity for comparable pole attachments; and   Any applicable rights-of-way fees, rentals, charges, or payments required by state or local law of a nongovernmental corporation that provides the identical services.
TN Code § 7-52-406 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 4 - Telecommunications Services|§ 7-52-406. Licensing Laws Not Superseded — Applicability to Cable Services

  Nothing in this part or in § 7-52-102(10) or § 7-52-117(d), as amended by chapter 531 of the Public Acts of 1997, shall be construed to allow a municipality to provide any service for which a license, certification, or registration is required under title 62, chapter 32, part 3.   Nothing in this part and § 7-52-102(10) or § 7-52-117(d), as amended by chapter 531 of the Public Acts of 1997, or any private act, charter, metropolitan charter, or amendments to any private act, charter or metropolitan charter, shall allow a municipality, county, metropolitan government, department, board or other entity of local government to provide any service for which a license, certification, or registration is required under title 62, chapter 32, part 3 or to provide pager service.
TN Code § 7-52-407 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 4 - Telecommunications Services|§ 7-52-407. Supersession of Conflicting Laws

 This part and § 7-52-102(10) or § 7-52-117(d), as amended by chapter 531 of the Public Acts of 1997, supersede any conflicting provisions of general law, private act, charter or metropolitan charter provisions.
TN Code § 7-52-501 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 5 - Separate Retirement Systems|§ 7-52-501. Municipal Electric Plants Authorized to Maintain Prior Retirement System

 Every municipality operating a utility system that includes an electric plant, whether pursuant to this part or any other public or private act or the provisions of the charter of the municipality, county or metropolitan government, that acquires an existing utility system from a municipality, electric cooperative or utility district, has the power and is authorized, but is not obligated, by action of the board or supervisory body having responsibility for such municipality's utility system, to retain and continue to operate as a separate retirement system any retirement system that was in effect on the date of such acquisition for the employees and retirees of the acquired utility system. Any such municipality shall also have the power and authority to modify, consolidate, amend, open, close and terminate the plans constituting such separate retirement system, and to establish such associated trusts as are necessary and prudent for the proper administration, operation and maintenance of such separate retirement system. Upon the effective date of the acquisition of a utility system in which an election is made to continue the operation of a separate retirement system, as provided for in this section, the assets and liabilities of the separate retirement system shall be transferred to the acquiring municipal utility system and, from and after such date, such assets and liabilities shall be the sole obligation and responsibility of the acquiring municipal utility system and the separate retirement system, but shall not be the obligation of any general retirement system that was in effect for the acquiring municipal utility system prior to the acquisition date. All such assets shall be segregated from the assets of the retirement system of the acquiring utility system and shall be accounted for separately. Such funds may be managed in the same manner as the assets of the retirement system of such acquiring utility system. Nothing in this section shall be construed to impair or diminish the vested rights of any participant in the separate retirement system of the acquired utility system.
TN Code § 7-52-502 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 5 - Separate Retirement Systems|§ 7-52-502. Preemption of Conflicting Laws

 This part supersedes any conflicting provisions of general law, private act, charter or metropolitan charter.
TN Code § 7-52-603 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-603. Separate Division to Provide Services — Costs and Charges

    A municipal electric system shall establish a separate division to deliver any of the services authorized by this part. The division shall maintain its own accounting and record-keeping system. A municipal electric system may not subsidize the operation of the division with revenues from its power or other utility operations.   A municipal electric system may lend funds, at a rate of interest not less than the highest rate then earned by the municipal electric system on invested electric plant funds, to acquire, construct, and provide working capital for the system, plant, and equipment necessary to provide any of the services authorized by this part; provided, that such interest costs shall be allocated to the cost of such services.     The division shall be subject to the terms and conditions of those types of provisions generally provided in existing or future pole attachment agreements, including without limitation, allocation of costs for rates, insurance, and other related costs, and the responsibility for make-ready provisions, that are applicable to private providers of services provided by the division under this part.   In response to facility installation, maintenance, or relocation requests made under a pole attachment agreement by a private provider of services provided by the division under this part, the municipal electric system shall provide the same response times and service quality as the municipal electric system provides for requests of the division for such services and shall provide nondiscriminatory access to these facilities. Nothing in this subsection (a) shall impair the rights of a municipal electric system under its pole attachment agreement with the private provider of services.     A municipal electric system providing any of the services authorized by this part shall fully allocate any costs associated with the services provided under this part to the rates for those services.   A municipal electric system providing any of the services authorized by this part shall establish and charge rates that cover all costs related to the provision of such services.   A municipal electric system shall charge or allocate as costs to the division the same pole rate attachment fee as it charges any other franchise holder providing the same service.   Any fee imposed by the municipality on a private provider of cable services, shall also be allocated to the division.
TN Code § 7-52-604 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-604. Guidelines for Accounting — Audits — Financial Reports

  The comptroller of the treasury shall adopt, after consideration of written comments submitted by any interested party, guidelines or procedures to establish appropriate accounting principles applicable to the division's affiliated transactions and cost allocation. The development of such guidelines or procedures shall not be deemed a rule-making proceeding under the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.   A municipal division providing the services authorized by this part is subject to a finance and compliance audit under § 6-56-105, which audit shall be conducted in accordance with enterprise fund accounting principles under generally accepted accounting principles.   On or before June 30, 2005, the office of the comptroller of the treasury shall prepare a report to the general assembly evaluating the operations of municipal electric systems offering services permitted by this part, which shall include a recommendation as to whether the authority to provide such services should be expanded, restricted or terminated.   Except for two (2) municipal electric systems located in the middle grand division of the state, no additional municipal electric system shall apply or be granted authorization to provide the services described in § 7-52-601 until February 1, 2006, at which time the general assembly shall receive and consider the comptroller's report described in subsection (c); provided, however, that municipal electric systems presently operating pursuant to § 7-52-601 on June 7, 2005, or having received approval pursuant to § 7-52-602 as of June 7, 2005, shall not be subject to the requirements of this subsection (d).
TN Code § 7-52-605 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-605. Powers and Obligations of Service Providers

 To the extent that it provides any of the services authorized by this part, a municipal electric system shall have all the powers, obligations, and authority granted entities providing similar services under applicable laws of the United States, the state of Tennessee or applicable municipal ordinances.
TN Code § 7-52-606 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-606. Tax Payments — Payments in Lieu of Taxes

  A municipal electric system providing any of the services authorized by this part shall make tax equivalent payments with respect to such services in the manner established for electric systems under part 3 of this chapter; provided, that such payments shall not include amounts based on net system revenues as provided in § 7-52-304(1)(B). For purposes of the calculation of such tax equivalent payments only, the system, plant, and equipment used to provide such services shall be considered an electric plant, and the revenues received from such services shall be considered operating revenues. The amount payable pursuant to this subsection (a) shall not exceed the amount that would otherwise be due from a municipality were it a private provider of such services paying ad valorem taxes.   In addition to the requirement of subsection (a), and notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a division of the municipal electric system providing the cable services, Internet services, two-way video transmission or video programming services authorized by this part, is subject to payment to the appropriate units of government of an amount in lieu of the following taxes on that part of its revenues, plant and facilities dedicated or allocated to those services described in § 7-52-601(a), to the same extent as if it were a private provider of such services:  Excise and franchise tax law under title 67, chapter 4, parts 20 and 21;   Sales tax law under title 67, chapter 6; and   Local privilege tax law under title 67, chapter 4, part 7.
TN Code § 7-52-607 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-607. Financing Powers of Service Providers

 Any municipality authorized by this part to provide any of the services described in this part shall have the power and is hereby authorized to borrow money, contract debts and issue its bonds or notes to finance in whole or in part the cost of the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of a system or systems, or any part of the system or systems, to provide any of such services, including the acquisition of land or rights in land and the acquisition and installation of all equipment necessarily incident to the provision of such services. Any bonds or notes authorized to be issued pursuant to this section shall be issued only in accordance with the procedures, requirements and limitations set forth in chapter 34 of this title, or the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986, compiled in title 9, chapter 21, as elected by the municipality issuing the bonds or notes. All provisions of chapter 34 of this title, or the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986, relating to the authorization, issuance and sale of bonds or notes, the use and application of revenues of the system or systems being financed, powers to secure such bonds and notes, covenants and remedies for the benefit of bond or note holders with respect to such bonds or notes, validity and tax exemption with respect to such bonds or notes, and powers to refund and refinance such bonds or notes shall apply to any bonds or notes authorized hereunder and the system or systems financed thereby with the same effect as if such system or systems were a “public works” if proceeding under chapter 34 of this title, or a “public works project” if proceeding under the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986.
TN Code § 7-52-608 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-608. Conflicting Law or Provisions

 This part supersedes any conflicting provisions of general law, private act, charter or metropolitan charter provisions.
TN Code § 7-52-609 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-609. Civil Actions

 A franchisee under chapter 59 of this title operating in the service area of the municipal electric division providing services under this part may bring a civil action for injunctive or declaratory relief for a violation under this part, and may recover actual damages upon a showing of a willful violation under this part. Jurisdiction and venue for such action shall be in the chancery court in the county where the alleged violation is occurring or will occur. Such actions shall be scheduled for hearing as a priority by the court.
TN Code § 7-52-610 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-610. Liability of Service Providers

 A division established by a municipal electric system to deliver any of the services authorized by this part shall not be considered a governmental entity for the purposes of the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act, compiled in title 29, chapter 20.
TN Code § 7-52-611 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 52 - Municipal Electric Plants|Part 6 - Cable Television, Internet and Related Services|§ 7-52-611. Customer Right to Action for Damages

 A customer of a municipal electric system shall have a right of action to recover damages against such system pursuant to this part.
TN Code § 7-53-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 53 - Industrial Development Corporations|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-53-103. Dissolution — Disposition of Property

 Whenever the board of directors of the corporation shall by resolution determine that there has been substantial compliance with the purposes for which the corporation was formed and all bonds issued and all obligations theretofore incurred by the corporation have been fully paid, the then members of the board of directors of the corporation shall then execute and file for record in the office of the secretary of state a certificate of dissolution reciting such facts and declaring the corporation to be dissolved. Such certificate of dissolution shall be executed under the corporate seal of the corporation. Upon the filing of such certificate of dissolution, the corporation shall stand dissolved, the title to all funds and properties owned by it at the time of such dissolution shall vest in the municipality, and possession of such funds and properties shall forthwith be delivered to such municipality.