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TN Code § 13-20-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 13-20-118. Immunity of Officials

 The individual commissioners, directors, supervisory employees, and supervisory agents of a housing authority, whether such housing authority is formed under this chapter or by private act, while acting in the scope of their authority, including those entities that a housing authority or entity affiliated with an authority may form, incorporate, or join as a partner or member to develop or manage a mixed-finance project, and the directors, supervisory employees, and supervisory agents of such entities, while acting in the scope of their authority for the development or management of the mixed-finance project, enjoy the same protections and immunities that are presently provided for housing authority corporations under the law of this state, and any protections and immunities that may be provided to housing authorities in the future under the law of this state.
TN Code § 13-20-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-201. Blighted Areas and Dilapidation Defined

  “Blighted areas” are areas, including slum areas, with buildings or improvements that, by reason of dilapidation, obsolescence, overcrowding, lack of ventilation, light and sanitary facilities, deleterious land use, or any combination of these or other factors, are detrimental to the safety, health, morals, or welfare of the community. “Welfare of the community” does not include solely a loss of property value to surrounding properties, nor does it include the need for increased tax revenues. Under no circumstance shall land used predominantly in the production of agriculture, as defined by § 1-3-105, be considered a blighted area.   As used in this chapter, “dilapidation” means extreme deterioration and decay due to lack of repairs to and care of the area.
TN Code § 13-20-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-206. Authority Authorized to Obtain Financial Aid From Federal Government for Redevelopment Project

 An authority may borrow money or accept contributions from the federal government to assist in its undertaking redevelopment projects. An authority may do any and all things necessary or desirable to secure such financial aid (including obligating itself in any contract with the federal government for annual contributions to convey to the federal government the project to which the contract relates upon the occurrence of a substantial default thereunder), in the same manner as it may do to secure such aid in connection with slum clearance and housing projects under this chapter.
TN Code § 13-20-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-207. Bonds for Redevelopment Projects — Security for Public Deposits and Legal Investments

 Bonds or other obligations issued by a housing authority in connection with a redevelopment project pursuant to §§ 13-20-201 — 13-20-208 shall be security for public deposits and legal investments to the same extent and for the same persons, institutions, associations, corporations, and other bodies and officers as bonds or other obligations issued pursuant to this chapter, in connection with the development of slum clearance or housing projects.
TN Code § 13-20-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-208. Advisory Board — Personnel

 For the purpose of coordinating its activities and undertakings under §§ 13-20-201 — 13-20-208 with the needs and undertakings of other local organizations and groups, a housing authority may establish an advisory board consisting of the chair of the authority, who shall be chair of the advisory board, and of sufficient members to represent, so far as practicable, the general public and users of housing, general business interests, real estate, building and home financing interest, labor, any official planning body in the locality, and church and welfare groups. The members of the advisory board shall be appointed by the chair of the authority.
TN Code § 13-20-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-209. Conservation and Rehabilitation by Private Enterprise — Findings

  It is hereby found and declared that:  There exist in municipalities of the state slum, blighted, and deteriorated areas which constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious to the public health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of the state, and the findings and declarations made in § 13-20-201 with respect to slum and blighted areas are hereby affirmed and restated;   Certain slum, blighted, or deteriorated areas, or portions thereof, may require acquisitions and clearance, as provided in this part, since the prevailing condition of decay may make impracticable the reclamation of the area by conservation or rehabilitation, but other areas or portions thereof may, through the means provided in this part, be susceptible of conservation or rehabilitation in such a manner that the conditions and evils hereinbefore enumerated may be eliminated, remedied or prevented, and, to the extent feasible, salvable slum and blighted areas should be conserved and rehabilitated through voluntary action and the regulatory process; and   All powers conferred by this part are for public uses and purposes for which public money may be expended and such other powers exercised, and the necessity in the public interest for this part is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination.     A municipality, to the greatest extent it determines to be feasible in carrying out this part, shall afford maximum opportunity, consistent with the sound needs of the municipality as a whole, to the rehabilitation or redevelopment of areas by private enterprise.
TN Code § 13-20-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-210. Urban Renewal Projects — Extent of Rehabilitation

 In addition to its authority under any other section of this part, an authority is hereby authorized to plan and undertake urban renewal projects. As used in this part, an urban renewal project may include undertakings and activities for the elimination, and for the prevention of the development or spread, of slums or blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas, and may involve any work or undertaking for such purpose constituting a redevelopment project of any rehabilitation or conservation work, or any combination of such undertaking or work. For this purpose, “rehabilitation or conservation work” may include:   Carrying out plans for a program of voluntary or compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements;   Acquisition of real property and demolition, removal, or rehabilitation of buildings and improvements thereon where necessary to eliminate unhealthy, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, lessen density, reduce traffic hazards, eliminate obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare, or to otherwise remove or prevent the spread of blight or deterioration, or to provide land for needed public facilities;   Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets, utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements necessary for carrying out the objectives of the urban renewal project; and   The disposition, for uses in accordance with the objectives of the urban renewal project, of any property or part thereof acquired in the area of such project; provided, that such disposition shall be in the manner prescribed in this part for the disposition of property in a redevelopment project area.
TN Code § 13-20-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-211. Urban Renewal Plan

  Any urban renewal project undertaken pursuant to § 13-20-210 shall be undertaken in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the area of the project. As used in this part, “urban renewal plan” means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for an urban renewal project, which plan:  Shall conform to the general plan for the municipality as a whole; and   Shall be sufficiently complete to indicate such land acquisition, demolition and removal of structures, redevelopment, improvements, and rehabilitation as may be proposed to be carried out in the area of the urban renewal project, zoning and planning changes, if any, land uses, maximum densities, building requirements, and the plan's relationship to definite local objectives respecting appropriate land uses, improved traffic, public transportation, public utilities, recreational and community facilities, and other public improvements.     An urban renewal plan shall be prepared and approved pursuant to the same procedure as provided in this part with respect to a redevelopment plan.
TN Code § 13-20-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-214. Development of Program by Municipality — Authorization

 The governing body of the municipality, or such public officer or public body as it may designate, is hereby authorized to prepare a workable program, which may include an official plan of action, as it exists from time to time for effectively dealing with the problem of urban slums and blighted, deteriorated, or deteriorating areas within the community and for the establishment and preservation of a well-planned community with well-organized residential neighborhoods of decent homes and suitable living environment for adequate family life, for utilizing appropriate private and public resources to eliminate, and prevent the development or spread of, slums and urban blight and deterioration, to encourage needed urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of blighted, deteriorated, or slum areas, or to undertake such of the aforementioned activities or other feasible activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objectives of such a program.
TN Code § 13-20-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-215. Powers Are Supplemental

 The powers conferred by §§ 13-20-209 — 13-20-215 shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.
TN Code § 13-20-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-216. Notice to Property Owner of Proposed Acquisition

  Whenever the acquisition of any real property in a designated blighted area is proposed and is predicated solely upon the findings that the structure or structures involved are dilapidated and are in violation of the applicable building and housing codes, the owner of the property shall be notified of the planned acquisition by certified mail to the owner's latest address of record, and the owner shall be accorded a reasonable time, in no case less than ninety (90) days from the date of the notice, to bring the substandard structure into compliance with such codes.   This section shall not apply in any county having a metropolitan form of government or in any county with a population of:  not less than  nor more than   6,125  6,225   14,925 14,940   15,675   15,775   56,000  56,100   85,725  85,825   287,700 287,800   700,001   according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
TN Code § 13-20-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 2 - Redevelopment|§ 13-20-217. Airport Noise Mitigation Programs

  Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in addition to those powers specified in this chapter, any municipal housing authority exercising any of the powers specified in this chapter is hereby authorized to enter into cooperative agreements, with any county with a metropolitan form of government which adopts an airport noise mitigation program pursuant to § 7-3-313, to implement or administer the airport noise mitigation program or any portion thereof.   No state funds shall be obligated or expended to implement this section.
TN Code § 13-20-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 3 - Relocation of Utility Facilities|§ 13-20-301. Findings and Declarations

  The findings and declarations made in § 13-20-209, with respect to slum, blighted, and deteriorated areas, are hereby affirmed and restated.   Redevelopment and urban renewal project areas include streets, alleys, easements, and other public ways in, under, and over which utility facilities are installed. Public streets and alleys are intended for public travel and transportation; but they are also intended for proper utility uses in serving the public, as authorized by applicable laws of this state, and such utility usage is for the benefit of the public served. Without making use of public ways, utility lines could not reach or economically service the adjacent public, particularly in urban areas; and further:  The business and activities of utilities involve the rendition of essential public services vital to the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of this state;   The development and existence of utilities directly and vitally affects the development, growth, and expansion of the general welfare, business and industry of this state; and   All persons in this state are actual or potential customers of one (1) or more utility services, and all consumers will be affected by the cost of relocation of their facilities as necessary to accommodate redevelopment and urban renewal projects.     The obligation of such utility relocation is a burden on the public of this state and it is, therefore, in the public interest that such burden be minimized consistent with the purpose of such redevelopment and urban renewal project; therefore, it is the intent of the general assembly to ensure that the police power of the state in requiring relocation of utilities be exercised in a responsible manner.   The cost of utility relocation necessitated by redevelopment and urban renewal projects undertaken in accordance with §§ 13-20-101 — 13-20-215, and any amendments thereto, are properly a part of the cost of such projects, and it is in the public interest to provide for the equitable reimbursement of such cost of relocation; therefore, such relocation cost shall be included as part of the project costs of such redevelopment and urban renewal projects.   The statements in this section are legislative determinations and declarations of public policy, and this part should be liberally construed in conformity with its declaration and provisions to promote the public interest.
TN Code § 13-20-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 3 - Relocation of Utility Facilities|§ 13-20-302. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Cost of relocation” means the entire amount paid properly attributable to such relocation, after deducting therefrom any increase in the value of the new facility and any salvage value derived from the old facility;   “Public service facility” means any sewer, pipe, main, conduit, manhole, cable, wire, pole, tower, building, or utility appliance owned or operated by a utility;   “Relocation” means any horizontal or vertical movement of utility facilities intact and any protective measures taken or the construction of new or additional facilities, with or without contemporaneous removal and salvage of old facilities, including removal, readjustment, rerouting, or changing the grade of or alternating the construction of any public service facility, either temporarily or permanently, whether or not such relocation is made necessary by the closing of any highway, street, public alley or public right-of-way or the taking of easements whether publicly or privately owned; and   “Utility” includes all utilities either public, private, or cooperatively owned which furnish utility service including, but not limited to, water, electric power, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, steam power, gas, and telephone or telegraph service, through a system of pipes, conduits, cables, or wires devoted to public utility service.
TN Code § 13-20-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 3 - Relocation of Utility Facilities|§ 13-20-303. Reimbursement of Cost of Moving Utility Facilities

 Whenever a municipality, housing authority, or other public body of this state determines that the relocation of public service facilities of a utility within a redevelopment or urban renewal project area is necessary to the carrying out of a redevelopment or urban renewal plan pursuant to this chapter, the municipality, housing authority, or other public body shall reimburse the utility for the cost of relocation of such facilities.
TN Code § 13-20-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 3 - Relocation of Utility Facilities|§ 13-20-304. Exceptions

 This part shall not apply to any taking or damaging of property for which the utility is entitled compensation pursuant to the constitution of Tennessee or the United States, or pursuant to any binding agreement inuring to the utility's benefit.
TN Code § 13-20-401 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-401. Petition for Creation of Authority — Notice

  Any twenty-five (25) residents of a city, and of the area within ten (10) miles from the territorial boundaries thereof, may file a petition with the city clerk setting forth that there is a need for an authority to function in the city and the surrounding area.   Upon the filing of such a petition, the city clerk shall give notice of the time, place, and purposes of a public hearing at which the council will determine the need for an authority in the city and the surrounding area.   Such notice shall be given at the city's expense by publishing a notice, at least ten (10) days preceding the day on which the hearing is to be held, in a newspaper having a general circulation in the city and the surrounding area, or, if there is no such newspaper, by posting such notice in at least three (3) public places within the city, at least ten (10) days preceding the day on which the hearing is to be held.
TN Code § 13-20-402 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-402. Hearing — Determination

  Upon the date fixed for the hearing held upon notice as provided in § 13-20-401, an opportunity to be heard shall be granted to all residents and taxpayers of the city and the surrounding area and to all other interested persons.    After such a hearing, the council shall determine:  Whether unsanitary or unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the city and the surrounding area; and/or   Whether there is a lack of safe or sanitary dwelling accommodations in the city and the surrounding area available for all the inhabitants of such city or area. In determining whether dwelling accommodations are unsafe or unsanitary, the council shall take into consideration the following:   The physical condition and age of the building;   The degree of overcrowding;   The percentage of land coverage;   The light and air available to the inhabitants of such dwelling accommodations;   The size and arrangement of the rooms;   The sanitary facilities; and   The extent to which conditions exist in such buildings which endanger life or property by fire or other causes.       If it shall determine that either or both of the above enumerated conditions exist, the council shall adopt a resolution so finding, which need not go into any detail other than the mere finding, and shall cause notice of such determination to be given to the mayor who shall thereupon appoint, as hereinafter provided, five (5) commissioners to act as an authority.
TN Code § 13-20-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-403. Verified Application of Commissioners — Contents

  The commissioners shall present to the secretary of state an application signed by them, which shall set forth without any detail other than the mere recital:  That a notice has been given and public hearing has been held as aforementioned, that the council made the aforementioned determination after such hearing, and that the mayor has appointed them as commissioners;   The name and official residence of each of the commissioners, together with a certified copy of the appointment evidencing their right to office, the date and place of induction into and taking oath of office, and that they desire the housing authority to become a public body and a body corporate and politic under this chapter;   The term of office of each of the commissioners;   The name which is proposed for the corporation; and   The location of the principal office of the proposed corporation.     The application shall be subscribed and sworn to by each of the commissioners before an officer authorized by the laws of the state to take and certify oaths, who shall certify upon the application that such officer personally knows the commissioners and knows them to be the officers as asserted in the application, and that each subscribed and swore thereto in the officer's presence. The secretary of state shall examine the application and, if the secretary of state finds that the name proposed for the corporation is not identical with that of a person or of any other corporation of this state or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, the secretary of state shall receive and file it, and shall record it in an appropriate book of record in the secretary of state's office.
TN Code § 13-20-404 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-404. Authority a Public Body Corporate

 When the application has been made, filed and recorded, as herein provided, the authority shall constitute a public body corporate and politic under the name proposed in the application. The secretary of state shall make and issue to the commissioners a certificate of incorporation pursuant to this chapter, under the seal of the state, and shall record the same with the application.
TN Code § 13-20-405 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 20 - Housing Authorities Law|Part 4 - City Housing Authorities|§ 13-20-405. Boundaries of Authority

  The boundaries of such authority shall include the city and the area within ten (10) miles from the territorial boundaries of the city, but in no event shall it include the whole or a part of any other city nor any area included within the boundaries of another authority.   In case an area lies within ten (10) miles of the boundaries of more than one (1) city, such area shall be deemed to be within the boundaries of the authority embracing such area which was first established, all priorities to be determined on the basis of the time of the issuance of the aforementioned certificates by the secretary of state.   After the creation of an authority, the subsequent existence within its territorial boundaries of more than one (1) city shall in no way affect the territorial boundaries of such authority.