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TN Code § 12-9-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 9 - Interlocal Cooperation Act|§ 12-9-112. Annual Statement on Interlocal Agreements That Create Local Government Joint Venture Entity

  Any local government joint venture entity shall, during the term of the agreement, file an annual statement with the office of the comptroller of the treasury. The statement shall set forth the names of all parties to the agreement, the annual revenue and expenses of any entity created under the agreement and the other information required by the comptroller.   The comptroller of the treasury may develop guidelines in furtherance of the administration of this section.
TN Code § 12-10-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Public Building Authorities Act of 1971.”
TN Code § 12-10-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-104. Application to Governing Body for Approval of Incorporation

 Whenever any number of natural persons, not less than three (3), each of whom shall be a duly qualified elector of the county or of the incorporated city or town or each of whom shall be a current customer of the utility district, shall file with the governing body thereof an application in writing seeking permission to apply for the incorporation of a public building authority of the municipality, the governing body shall proceed to consider the application. If the governing body shall, by appropriate resolution duly adopted, find and determine that it is wise, expedient, necessary or advisable that the authority be formed, and shall authorize the persons making such application to proceed to form such authority and shall approve the form of certificates of incorporation proposed to be used in organizing the authority, then the persons making such application shall execute, acknowledge and file a certificate of incorporation for the authority as hereinafter provided. No authority may be formed unless such application shall have first been filed with the governing body of the municipality and the governing body shall have adopted a resolution as provided in this section.
TN Code § 12-10-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-105. Certificate of Incorporation — Contents

  The certificate of incorporation shall set forth:  The names and residences of the applicants together with a recital that each of them is an elector of the county or of the incorporated city or town or is a customer of the utility district.   The name of the authority which shall be public building authority of the  of  (the blanks to be filled in with the name of the municipality);   A recital that permission to organize the authority has been granted by resolution duly adopted by the governing body of the municipality and the date of the adoption of such resolution;   The location of the principal office of the authority;   The purposes for which the authority is proposed to be organized;   The number of directors of the authority;   The period, which may be perpetual, for the duration of the authority; and   Any other matter which the applicants may choose to insert therein which shall not be inconsistent with this chapter or with the laws of this state.     The certificate of incorporation shall be subscribed and acknowledged by each of the applicants before an officer authorized by the laws of Tennessee to take acknowledgments to deeds.
TN Code § 12-10-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-106. Filing and Approval of Certificate of Incorporation

  When executed and acknowledged in conformity with § 12-10-105, the certificate of incorporation shall be filed with the secretary of state.   The secretary of state shall thereupon examine the certificate of incorporation and, if the secretary of state finds that the recitals contained therein are correct, that the requirements of § 12-10-104 have been complied with, and that the name is not identical with or so nearly similar to that of another public building authority already in existence in this state as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, the secretary of state shall approve the certificate of incorporation and record it in an appropriate book or record in the secretary of state's office.   When such certificate has been so made, filed and approved, the authority shall constitute a public corporation under the name set out in the certificate of incorporation.
TN Code § 12-10-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-107. Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation

 The certificate of incorporation may at any time and from time to time be amended so as to make any changes therein and add any provisions thereto which might have been included in the certificate of incorporation in the first instance. Any such amendment shall be effected in the following manner: the members of the board of directors of the authority shall file with the governing body of the municipality with which the application for the creation of the authority was filed, an application in writing seeking permission to amend the certificate of incorporation, specifying in such application the amendment proposed to be made. Such governing body shall consider such application and, if it by appropriate resolution duly finds and determines that it is wise, expedient, necessary or advisable that the proposed amendment be made, and authorizes the same to be made, and approves the form of the proposed amendment, then the persons making such application shall execute an instrument embodying the amendment specified in such application, and shall file the same with the secretary of state. The proposed amendment shall be subscribed and acknowledged by each member of the board of directors before an officer authorized by the laws of Tennessee to take acknowledgments to deeds. The secretary of state shall thereupon examine the proposed amendment and, if the secretary of state finds compliance with the requirements of this section, and the proposed amendment is within the scope of what might be included in an original certificate of incorporation, the secretary of state shall approve the amendment and record it in an appropriate book in the secretary of state's office. When such amendment has been so made, filed and approved, it shall thereupon become effective and the certificate of incorporation shall thereupon be amended to the extent provided in the amendment. No certificate of incorporation shall be amended except in the manner provided in this section.
TN Code § 12-10-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-110. Acceptance of Donations

  For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with an authority, the municipality, with respect to which such authority is created, may assign or loan any of its employees, including its engineering staff and facilities, and may provide necessary office space, equipment, or other facilities for the use of such authority.   The governing body of such municipality and the governing body of any municipal corporation entering into a lease of any project or part or parts thereof may make donations of property, real or personal, or cash grants to the authority in such amount or amounts as it may deem proper and appropriate in aiding the authority to effectuate the purpose for its creation.   Any municipality with respect to which an authority is created and any municipal corporation entering into a lease with an authority, which owns a fee simple title to real property located within the area of any project, may convey such real property, or any part thereof, to the authority and may include a provision in such conveyance for the reverter of such real property to the transferor at such time as all revenue bonds or other obligations of the authority incident to the real property so conveyed shall have been paid in full, and any authority created pursuant to this chapter is hereby authorized to accept such a conveyance.
TN Code § 12-10-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-112. Security for Bonds — Enforcement — Revision of Lease, Loan Agreement or Sales Contract Charges

  The principal of and interest on any bonds issued by the authority shall be secured by a pledge of the revenues and receipts out of which the same shall be made payable and may be secured by a mortgage or deed of trust covering all or any part of the projects from which the revenues or receipts so pledged may be derived, including any enlargements of and additions to any such projects thereafter made, and by an assignment and pledge of all or any part of the authority's interest in and rights under the leases, sales contracts, or loan agreements relating to such projects, or any part thereof. The proceedings under which the bonds are authorized to be issued and any such mortgage or deed of trust may contain any agreements and provisions respecting the maintenance of the projects covered thereby, the fixing and collection of rents for any portions thereof leased by the authority to others, the creation and maintenance of special funds from such revenues and the rights and remedies available in the event of default, all as the board of directors shall deem advisable and not in conflict with this chapter. Each pledge, agreement, mortgage and deed of trust made for the benefit or security of any of the bonds of the authority shall continue effective until the principal of and interest on the bonds for the benefit of which the same were made shall have been fully paid. In the event of default in such payment or in any agreement of the authority made as a part of the contract under which the bonds were issued, whether contained in the proceedings authorizing the bonds or in any mortgage and deed of trust executed as security therefor, such payment or agreement may be enforced by suit, mandamus, the appointment of a receiver in equity or by foreclosure of any such mortgage and deed of trust, or any one (1) or more of such remedies.   The board of directors of any authority issuing bonds under provisions of this chapter shall charge, collect and revise from time to time, whenever necessary, rents and charges for the rental of projects or parts thereof or installment payments under any loan agreement or sales contract with respect thereto, the revenues from which are pledged to the payment of such bonds, sufficient to pay for the operation and maintenance of such projects and such portion of the administrative costs of the authority as may be provided in the lease or leases of such projects or the loan agreement or agreements or the sales contract or contracts with respect thereto, and to pay such bonds and the interest thereon as the same become due, including such reserves as may be determined to be necessary by the board of directors.
TN Code § 12-10-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-113. Tax Exemption — Status Under Securities Law

  The authority is hereby declared to be performing a public function in behalf of the municipality with respect to which it is organized, and to be a public instrumentality of such municipality. Accordingly, the authority and all properties at any time owned by it, and the income therefrom, and all bonds issued by it, and the income therefrom, shall be exempt from all taxation in this state.   Also, for purposes of the Securities Law of 1955, formerly compiled in §§ 48-1601 — 48-1653 [repealed], and any amendment thereto or substitution therefor, bonds issued by the authority shall be deemed to be securities issued by a public instrumentality or a political subdivision of this state.
TN Code § 12-10-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-114. Nonliability of Municipality

  The municipality shall not in any event be liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the authority or for the performance of any pledge, mortgage, obligation or agreement of any kind whatsoever which may be undertaken by the authority, and none of the bonds of the authority or any of its agreements or obligations shall be construed to constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision whatsoever.   Notwithstanding subsection (a), a municipality may, by a written indemnity agreement, agree to indemnify an authority and its directors, officers and employees against losses, claims, expenses, costs, obligations, debts, suits, demands, actions and liabilities, including those arising from the authority's negligence, which are asserted against the authority, or its directors, officers or employees in connection with any project undertaken by the authority, and such indemnity agreement shall be enforceable against the municipality in accordance with its terms, including any such indemnity agreement in effect on May 7, 1998.
TN Code § 12-10-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-117. Execution of Leases, Contracts and Deeds

 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all leases, contracts, deeds of conveyance, or instruments in writing executed by the authority shall be executed in the name of the authority by the chair and secretary of the authority, or by such other officers as the board of directors, by resolution, may direct, and the seal of the authority shall be affixed thereto.
TN Code § 12-10-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-118. Status as Nonprofit Corporation — Disposition of Earnings

 The authority shall be a public nonprofit corporation and no part of its net earnings remaining after payment of its expenses shall inure to the benefit of any individual, firm or corporation, except that in the event the board shall determine that sufficient provision has been made for the full payment of the expenses, bonds and other obligations of the authority, including reserves therefor, then any net earnings of the authority thereafter accruing may be used to provide a reserve for depreciation of any project or projects undertaken by such authority in an amount determined by the board to be necessary and reasonable, and net earnings available thereafter shall be paid to the municipality with respect to which the authority was organized; provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the board from transferring all or any part of its properties in accordance with the terms of any lease entered into by the authority.
TN Code § 12-10-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-119. Dissolution of Authority

 Whenever the board of directors of an authority shall by resolution determine that there has been substantial compliance with the purposes for which the authority was formed and all bonds theretofore issued and all obligations theretofore incurred by the authority have been fully paid, the members of the board shall thereupon execute and file for record in the office of the secretary of state a certificate of dissolution reciting such facts and declaring the authority to be dissolved. Such certificate of dissolution shall be executed under the seal of the authority. Upon the filing of such certificate of dissolution, the authority shall stand dissolved, the title to all funds and properties owned by it at the time of such dissolution shall vest in the municipality with respect to which the authority was organized, and possession of such funds and properties shall forthwith be delivered to such municipality.
TN Code § 12-10-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-120. Joint Operation of Authorities

 The powers herein conferred upon authorities created under this chapter may be exercised by two (2) or more such authorities acting jointly. Two (2) or more municipalities may by acting jointly incorporate a public building authority to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. When two (2) or more municipalities incorporate such an authority, each and every requisite pertaining to the application for incorporation, qualification of applicants, certificate of incorporation and amendment of certificate shall, as nearly as may be practicable, be incumbent in like manner upon each municipality joining in the creation of such public building authority.
TN Code § 12-10-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-121. Project Sites — State May Transfer Property to and Contract With Authorities

  Any municipal corporation may acquire a project site by gift, purchase or lease, or exercise of the power of eminent domain, and may transfer any project site to an authority by sale, lease or gift. Such transfer may be authorized by a resolution of the governing body of the municipal corporation without submission of the question to the voters, and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law. Such project site may be within or without the municipal corporation, or partially within and partially without the municipal corporation.   The state of Tennessee may make such contribution, grant, loan, gift, transfer, sale or lease of money or property, both real and personal, to an authority, and may enter into such contracts and agreements with respect thereto, as may from time to time be deemed necessary and desirable by the state, and subject to the requirements, restrictions, limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law.
TN Code § 12-10-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 10 - Public Building Authorities Act of 1971|§ 12-10-122. Application of Other Laws to Authority — Compliance With Contract Requirements — Agreements Concerning Interest Rates

  Neither this chapter nor anything herein contained shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any powers which an authority, as a public corporation, might otherwise have under any laws of this state, but shall be construed as cumulative of any such powers. No proceedings, notice or approval shall be required for the organization of the authority or the issuance of any bonds or any instrument as security therefor, except as herein provided, any other law to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, that nothing herein shall be construed to deprive the state and its governmental subdivisions of their respective police powers over properties of the authority, or to impair any power thereover of any official or agency of the state and its governmental subdivisions which may be otherwise provided by law. Projects may be acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, improved, bettered and extended and bonds may be issued under this chapter for such purposes, notwithstanding that any other general, special or local law may provide for the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment and extension of a like project, or the issuance of bonds for like purposes, and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law.   Prior to the adoption or promulgation by the state funding board of guidelines, rules or regulations with respect to the contracts and agreements authorized in § 12-10-111(j) and (k) and § 12-10-116(c), a municipal corporation or authority may enter into such contracts or agreements to the extent otherwise authorized in this chapter or in any other law notwithstanding § 12-10-111(j) and (k) and § 12-10-116(c). Nothing in § 12-10-111(j) and (k) and § 12-10-116(c) is intended to alter any existing authority in this chapter or in any other law otherwise providing authority for a municipal corporation or authority to enter into the contracts or agreements described in § 12-10-111(j) and (k) and § 12-10-116(c), previously entered into or entered into prior to the adoption or promulgation by the state funding board of guidelines, rules or regulations.
TN Code § 12-11-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 11 - Interstate Contracting for Federal Programs Act|§ 12-11-101. Short Title — Purpose

  This chapter may be cited as the “Interstate Contracting for Federal Programs Act.”   The purpose of this chapter is to allow the state to join with other states in contracting to provide necessary materials and services for federal-state programs, in order to provide effective use of combined resources to prevent duplication and unnecessary expense to the citizens of this state.
TN Code § 12-11-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 12 - Public Property, Printing and Contracts|Chapter 11 - Interstate Contracting for Federal Programs Act|§ 12-11-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Contractor” means a governmental entity, corporation, partnership, natural person, or joint venture which is qualified to provide materials and services for use in federal-state programs;   “Federal government authorization” means approval in writing, whether in the form of statute, regulation, bulletin, manual, or letter signed by an authorized person, approving certain activities under a federal-state program;   “Joint federal-state program” means any program authorized by the statutes and/or regulations of the United States and the state of Tennessee where both governments supervise, authorize, and/or fund a program to provide money, goods, or assistance to residents of the state of Tennessee. A program may be a joint federal-state program even if one (1) government is solely responsible for funding or operating the program;   “State” means a state of the United States;   “State of Tennessee” includes all agencies of the state of Tennessee listed in title 4, chapter 3; and   “United States” means the federal government of the United States or any federal agency as defined under federal law.