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TN Code § 7-53-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 53 - Industrial Development Corporations|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-53-311. Lease or Lease-Purchase Agreement With Municipality Authorized — Tax Levy

 Any city, county or metropolitan government is authorized to enter into any lease or lease-purchase agreement of a project from a corporation, for such term or terms and upon such conditions as may be determined by the governing body of such city, county or metropolitan government, notwithstanding and without regard to the restrictions, prohibitions or requirements of any other law, whether public or private, and to levy and collect a direct annual tax sufficient with any other moneys available and pledged to pay the rental payable under such lease or lease-purchase agreement as and when it becomes due and payable, such tax to be in addition to all other taxes of such city, county or metropolitan government and shall be in addition to all other taxes now or hereafter authorized to be levied, and such tax shall not be included within any statutory or other limitation in rate or amount, but shall be excluded and be in addition thereto, notwithstanding the prohibitions, restrictions or requirements of any other law, whether public or private, and the obligations assumed and undertaken pursuant to such lease or lease-purchase agreement, including any unconditional or other obligation to levy such tax and to pay rentals for the project for a fixed term or terms, shall not be deemed or construed as constituting a debt of the city, county or metropolitan government within the terms, provisions or limitations of any constitutional, statutory, charter or other limitation.
TN Code § 7-53-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 53 - Industrial Development Corporations|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-53-313. Purpose

  Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, this chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out the following purposes and objectives:  The policies and practices of industrial development corporations shall ensure that minority-owned and other disadvantaged businesses share more fully in the American economic system of private enterprise through free and vigorous competition;   Such competition shall be fostered through encouragement and support of minority-owned and other disadvantaged businesses; and   Industrial development corporations aid, counsel and assist in every practical manner minority-owned and other disadvantaged businesses in order to preserve free competition on equal terms with those businesses constituting the major portion of the state's business community.     To assist industrial development corporations in achieving such purposes and objectives, the department of economic and community development and the office of business enterprise, established by § 4-26-101, shall be available to provide technical assistance and consultation.
TN Code § 7-53-315 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 53 - Industrial Development Corporations|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-53-315. Authority for Municipality to Aid or Provide Assistance for Certain Projects

 Notwithstanding §§ 7-53-306 and 7-53-307, in any municipality in which there has been created a central business improvement district pursuant to chapter 84 of this title, the municipality is authorized to aid or otherwise provide assistance, including without limitation, granting, contributing or pledging to, or for the benefit of the corporation, revenues derived from any source except revenues derived from ad valorem property taxes, for those projects, or portions thereof, that consist of public infrastructure, public improvements or other public facilities, including without limitation, one (1) or more parking or sports facilities, located within an area designated by appropriate resolution or ordinance by the municipality as the center city area, for such term or terms and upon such conditions as may be determined by the governing body of the municipality.
TN Code § 7-53-317 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 53 - Industrial Development Corporations|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-53-317. Parcels of Property Located on Remediation Site

  As used in this section:  “Local government” means any home rule municipality; and   “Remediation site” means a site containing at least one thousand three hundred (1,300) acres that have been held by the United States department of energy due to an extended period of environmental remediation and conveyed by the United States department of energy to a nonprofit entity that is recognized as tax exempt by the internal revenue service and engaged in economic development.     Upon receiving all authorizations required by this chapter, on or after July 1, 2017, any and all parcels of property located on a remediation site in a local government may be transferred to the industrial development board of the local government consistent with the terms of the conveyance. The industrial development board is authorized to sell, lease, dispose of, or contract for the operation of the property in furtherance of the public purpose of promoting economic development in that area.   Upon transfer of the parcels to the industrial development board as provided in subsection (b), a lawful management or lease agreement shall be executed between the industrial development board and the nonprofit entity described in subdivision (a)(2), in which the United States department of energy's intent is clearly memorialized, including a provision that the nonprofit entity shall manage the remediation site and shall market the parcels to potential buyers in order to provide substantial sources of tax revenue or economic activity to the local government and to induce private enterprises to locate or remain in the area.
TN Code § 7-56-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-101. Authority of Municipality or County — Establishment of Management Entity — Transit Authorities

  Any municipality or county incorporated or existing under the laws of Tennessee, or any combination of any municipality or county incorporated or existing under the laws of Tennessee, intrastate or interstate, has authority to establish, acquire, purchase, construct, extend, improve, maintain, operate or franchise a public transportation system, including the acquisition of any type of vehicles necessary, car barns, terminals, garages, repair shops, buildings, lands, accessory apparatus, rights-of-way and easements, and all other appurtenances necessary, usual or proper to such a public transportation system for hire of passengers in the municipalities, counties, and the metropolitan area of the municipalities and counties, including the right to extend such service beyond county lines in the state, and upon compliance with the laws of other states, into foreign states. Such a system for the transportation of passengers may be under the direct jurisdiction, control and management of such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or any such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, is hereby authorized to create a transit authority or other operating or management entity by ordinance or resolution, for the purpose of managing such a public transportation system, and to prescribe the qualifications and eligibility of members of such a transit authority, their terms of office, powers and duties.   Regardless of any private acts to the contrary, the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, may dissolve any existing transit authority under such private act, and establish by ordinance a transit authority as authorized in this part with the right of the legislative body of the municipality or county to approve the budget and set the rates of fare. The municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, shall have the right pursuant to the approval of the governing body of the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, to contract with a private management firm to operate the transit authority, or to employ its own personnel for the purpose of operating the transit authority.
TN Code § 7-56-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-103. Federal and State Aid — Contracts to Operate — Employment of Personnel

 Any such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or a transit authority created by it, has the right to make any and all agreements with or applications to any person, firm, federal or state agency, municipality, or public or private corporation, relating to the acquisition, construction, maintenance and operation of all or any part of a public transportation system, and contracts for loans, grants or other financial assistance from any state or federal agency. Such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or a transit authority created by it, is expressly granted the right to contract with any person, partnership or corporation, to manage and operate the transit system and to employ the necessary personnel under the direction and supervision of the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or a transit authority created by it. Any such contracts made by the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or a transit authority created by it, shall be entered into and executed in such manner as may be prescribed by the charter of the municipality, or the general laws of the state.
TN Code § 7-56-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-104. Bonds or Notes

 Any municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or a transit authority created by it, has the authority to issue general obligation or revenue bonds or municipal notes, or a combination of revenue bonds and municipal notes, for the creation, purchase or establishment of a public transportation system, to such extent and in such manner as may now or hereafter be authorized by any applicable private or public act or general law of the state, including, but not limited to, the Local Government Public Obligations Act of 1986, compiled in title 9, chapter 21.
TN Code § 7-56-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-105. Interlocal and Intergovernmental Cooperation — Joint Agreements

 Any municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or a transit authority created by it, has the power to enter into such agreements with other municipalities and counties within the state for the joint establishment, purchase and operation of public transportation systems in a metropolitan area. Such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or a transit authority created by it, or a combination of municipalities, counties, or other political subdivisions, likewise has the authority to enter into agreements with other states and the counties and municipalities of other states, by interstate compact, or by agreement under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, compiled in title 12, chapter 9.
TN Code § 7-56-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-106. Eminent Domain — Injunction

 Any municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, pursuant to this part, is hereby authorized and empowered to condemn, in the name of such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, any or all of the existing transportation systems, franchises and properties of any local public carrier, and any lands, easements or rights-of-way, either on, under or above the ground, for any and all purposes in connection with the acquisition, construction, operation, improvement or maintenance of such transportation system. Title to any such property so condemned shall be taken in the name of the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, and such entity is empowered, immediately upon the filing of a petition for condemnation, to enter upon and take possession of the property described in the petition; provided, that a resolution of the governing body of the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, shall provide that reasonable compensation for the property taken will be a proper charge against, and paid out of the general fund of the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, or the funds derived from the sale of general obligation or revenue bonds, or any combination of general obligation and revenue bonds, issued for the purpose of financing the acquisition or creation of a transportation system. No bond shall be required to be given in any such condemnation suit. Writs of injunction may be sought and obtained without the necessity of posting a bond, against any and all persons interfering in any way with the municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, its officers, agents or servants, in taking possession of, operating and using such property for the purposes for which it is condemned. Any such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, has all the powers granted in title 29, chapter 16, including the right to condemn personal or intangible property devoted to public transportation use.
TN Code § 7-56-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-107. Subsidy of Public or Private Transportation Companies

 Any municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, incorporated or existing under the laws of Tennessee, additionally has the power and authority to pay unto public or private transportation companies for the local carriage of passengers a reasonable subsidy of their operation, the amount of the subsidy to be wholly in the discretion of the governing body of any such municipality, county, or combination of municipality and county, to ensure continued operation of a public transportation system in any such municipality, county or intrastate or interstate metropolitan area.
TN Code § 7-56-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-108. Part Deemed Part of Municipal Charter

 This part shall form a part of the charters of all incorporated municipalities in the state and shall be authority for any of the counties of Tennessee to provide public transportation or to join with any municipality or combination of municipalities, either in this state or in other states, for the purpose of providing such public transportation.
TN Code § 7-56-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-56-109. “Strike” Defined — Prohibited Practice

  It is a prohibited practice and evidence of bad faith to engage in a strike.   As used in this section, “strike” means the failure with others to report for duty, the willful absence from one's position, the stoppage of work, or the abstinence in whole or in part from the full, faithful, and proper performance of the duties of employment, and without the lawful approval of one's superior, or in any manner interfering with the operation of any public agency or public employer, for the purpose of inducing, influencing, or coercing the recognition of any employee organization or a change in the conditions or compensation or the rights, privileges, or obligations of employment.
TN Code § 7-56-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 2 - Rail Service|§ 7-56-201. Establishment of Authority — General Powers

  Any municipality or any county or any combination of municipalities and counties may establish an authority to provide for the continuation of rail service within the area of the governments establishing the authority.   An authority shall come into existence under the terms of this part when any government or combination of governments specified in subsection (a) vote by majority vote of its governing body to establish an authority. Evidence of such authorization shall be proclaimed and countersigned by the presiding officer of each participating county or city and certified by such officer to the secretary of state. The governing bodies of all governments voting to become members of an authority shall indicate their willingness to appropriate sufficient funds to provide for the initial administration of the authority as a part of the authorization process.   Within the region of the authority, it may acquire, construct, operate, maintain, and dispose of railroad facilities, properties, and equipment, and may, in addition to continuing railroad service, provide any other rail service in the region as it is needed and feasible.
TN Code § 7-56-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 2 - Rail Service|§ 7-56-202. Nature of Powers

 The acquisition, construction, operation and maintenance of such properties and facilities are hereby declared to be public and governmental functions with the authorities acting as agencies and instrumentalities of the creating and participating counties and municipalities. The powers granted in this part, in connection with this part, are declared to be public and corporate purposes and matters of public necessity.
TN Code § 7-56-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 2 - Rail Service|§ 7-56-204. Employment of Assistance and Advisors

 The directors shall be authorized to employ and fix the compensation of architects, attorneys, engineers, superintendents, consultants, professional advisors, and other subordinate officers and employees, as may be necessary for the efficient management and operation of the authority and its facilities. Such persons shall continue in the employment of the authority at the will and pleasure of the board of directors. Such employment or contracts shall conform to the statutes, regulations and procedures to which counties must generally adhere in making such transactions.
TN Code § 7-56-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 2 - Rail Service|§ 7-56-206. Administration of Properties and Facilities

 Except as otherwise expressly provided in this part, the directors shall have full and exclusive control of and responsibility for the administration of properties and facilities constructed or acquired pursuant to this part; provided, that the authority may lease or license lands or facilities under its jurisdiction for operation by private persons or corporations. This section shall not be construed to authorize the directors to exercise such authority in a manner inconsistent with the statutes, regulations and procedures governing such matters in county government.
TN Code § 7-56-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 2 - Rail Service|§ 7-56-207. Condemnation

 The authority is hereby authorized and empowered to condemn, in the name of the authority, any land, easements, or rights-of-way in the boundaries of the authority that, in the opinion of the board of directors, are necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this part; provided, that condemnation of any land, easements, or rights-of-way in which railroad lines are located shall be limited to such lines that are abandoned or proposed for abandonment by operating railroads in Tennessee as were contained in the previous provisions in Category I, 49 CFR 1121.20, as of 1983. Title to property so condemned shall be taken by and in the name of the authority, and the property shall thereafter be entrusted to the authority for the purposes of this chapter. Such condemnation proceedings shall be in accordance with title 29, Chapters 1 6 and 17. Where title to any property sought to be condemned is defective, it shall be passed by the judgment or decree of the court. Where condemnation proceedings become necessary, the court in which any such proceedings are filed shall, upon application by the authority, and upon posting of a bond with the clerk of the court in such amount as the court may deem commensurate with the value of the property, order that a writ of possession shall issue immediately, or as soon and upon such terms as the court, in its discretion, may deem proper and just.
TN Code § 7-56-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 56 - Transportation Systems|Part 2 - Rail Service|§ 7-56-209. Annual Report and Audit

  The board of directors of the authority shall report annually to the governing bodies of the various counties and cities within the boundaries of the authority. Such reports shall include statements of financial receipts and expenditures and a summary of activities and accomplishments for the period and proposed plans for the next year and for subsequent years.   The board of directors annually shall require an audit to be performed of the authority's operations. Such audits shall meet the requirements placed on county offices by § 4-3-304(4). When applicable, the cost of such audits shall be borne in the same manner and paid at the same rates established for county government in § 9-3-210.