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TN Code § 7-82-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-112. Utility Service to Customer in Adjoining Utility District

   Notwithstanding § 7-82-301(a), a utility district shall be allowed to provide utility service to a customer located within the boundaries of an adjoining utility district if the customer or adjoining utility district files a request with the utility management review board for the customer to obtain utility service from the adjoining utility district and if the utility management review board finds that:  Either the utility district within which the customer is located has refused to provide utility service to the customer or is not able or willing to provide service within a reasonable period of time at a reasonable cost as determined by the utility management review board; and   The adjoining utility district is willing to provide utility service to the customer.     If the utility management review board finds that the customer should be served by the adjoining utility district, then the utility management review board shall enter an order setting forth its findings and granting the service request.     This section shall only apply to the request of a single customer of a utility district for utility service from an adjoining utility district.   Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the exclusive or prior right of a utility district to provide utility service within its boundaries to any other customer located within its boundaries under state law or to affect the exclusive or prior right to a utility district to provide utility service within its boundaries under federal law.
TN Code § 7-82-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 7-82-113. Expenditures for Lawful District Purpose

 All expenditures of money made by a utility district must be made for a lawful district purpose.
TN Code § 7-82-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 2 - Creation|§ 7-82-203. Cost of Establishment Proceedings

 All costs incident to the publication and posting of notices, and to the public hearing and determination, and all costs of the proceedings, including the costs of filing and entering the order, shall be borne by the parties filing the petition, and the county mayor may, in such county mayor's discretion, require the execution by the parties filing the petition of a cost bond in an amount and with good securities to guarantee the payment of such costs.
TN Code § 7-82-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 2 - Creation|§ 7-82-204. Appeal to Circuit Court

 Any party having an interest in the subject matter and aggrieved or prejudiced by the finding and adjudication of the county mayor may pray and obtain an appeal from the finding and adjudication to the circuit court of the county in the manner provided by law for appeals from the court of general sessions, upon the execution of appeal bond as provided by law.
TN Code § 7-82-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-303. Subscribers' Consent to New Services

 No utility district created prior to March 4, 1947, under the terms and provisions of this chapter, shall undertake to render or obligate itself to render services other than those for the furnishing of water, sewer, sewage disposal, fire protection, natural gas or artificial gas, unless and until it shall first have obtained the consent in writing of subscribers representing seventy-five percent (75%) in number of the total subscribers to the existing services furnished by the utility district at the time such written consents are obtained. The determination by the board of commissioners of any such district as to the percentage represented by the written consent of such subscribers shall be conclusive, that no such district may furnish natural gas service to any area now actually served by a private company.
TN Code § 7-82-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-305. Eminent Domain

 Any district has the power to condemn either the fee, or such right, title interest, or easement in the property, as the board may deem necessary for any of the purposes mentioned in this chapter, and such property or interest in such property may be so acquired, whether or not the property or interest is owned or held for public use by corporations, associations or persons having the power of eminent domain, or otherwise held or used for public purposes; provided, that such prior public use shall not be interfered with by this use. Such power of condemnation may be exercised in the mode or method of procedure prescribed by title 29, chapter 16, or in the mode or method of procedure prescribed by any other applicable statutory provisions now in force or hereafter enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain; provided, that where title to any property sought to be condemned is defective, it shall be passed by decree of court. Where condemnation proceedings become necessary, the court in which such proceedings are filed shall, upon application by the district and upon the 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 the right 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 § 7-82-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-306. General Implementing Powers

 Any district created pursuant to this chapter shall be vested with all the powers necessary and requisite for the accomplishment of the purpose for which such district is created, capable of being delegated by the general assembly. No enumeration of particular powers created in this chapter shall be construed to impair or limit any general grant of power contained in this chapter, nor to limit any such grant to a power or powers of the same class or classes as those enumerated. The district is empowered to do all acts necessary, proper or convenient in the exercise of the powers granted in this chapter.
TN Code § 7-82-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-310. Personnel Not to Benefit From Water Service Agreements

 All personnel employed by the board of commissioners of any utility district incorporated under this chapter, including, but not limited to, the commissioners themselves, are hereby prohibited from receiving any money or other goods or services of value of any sort as a result of any agreement, contractual or otherwise, for the installation of water service within the bounds of the district; and further, such persons are also prohibited from receiving any moneys or other goods or services of value of any sort as a result of any agreement, contractual or otherwise, for the sale of any materials to be installed within the bounds of the district as water service.
TN Code § 7-82-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-311. Customer Installation of Water Service

 The recipient of water service to be provided by a utility shall be entitled to procure the material and install the water service for property personally owned by such proposed customer of the utility district; provided, that such material and installation shall fully comply with the standard specifications established for the district in which the service is to be placed. It shall be the sole responsibility of the utility to procure and install the meter for such service.
TN Code § 7-82-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-312. Payment of Fees or Assessments — Actions — Liens — Notice

  Any utility district, whether created pursuant to general law or uncodified public chapter, may enforce the payment of fees or assessments charged for sewer or wastewater disposal utility services by filing an action in the same manner and with the same penalties and interest attached as provided for the enforcement of unpaid taxes pursuant to title 67, including the sale on execution of such property as provided in title 26, chapter 5, and the redemption provisions of title 66, chapter 8. Such action may be taken only once every calendar year by the utility district for unpaid sewer or wastewater utility fees or assessments. The utility district shall be required to give notice to the property owner, if different from the utility user, not less than ninety (90) days prior to the filing of any action that would include levying on the real property. Such notice shall be mailed to the last known address of the property owner as contained on the tax records of the county where the property is located and shall include the amount of the unpaid fee or assessment for sewer or wastewater disposal utility services, together with penalties and interest. The notice shall also contain a statement to the effect that, unless the payments are brought up to date, a lien shall attach to the property and an action shall be filed pursuant to title 67.   The utility district shall bear the reasonable costs incurred by a property owner in defending such an action due to an error in the records or fees of the utility district for the provision of such sewer or wastewater disposal utility services.   For purposes of this section, “utility district” includes the Reelfoot Lake utility and planning district created by chapter 222 of the Public Acts of 1983.
TN Code § 7-82-313 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-313. Fire Protection — Fees for Services Rendered to Nonsubscribers

  A utility district that dispatches fire trucks and offers other such fire protection services may charge for the services rendered to a nonsubscriber when a fire or other dangerous situation is reported by any citizen or emergency communications district. To impose such charges, the utility district's board of commissioners shall establish and publish a schedule of the costs for such services.   This section shall only apply in counties having a population of not less than eighty-five thousand eight hundred (85,800) nor more than eighty-six thousand one hundred (86,100), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
TN Code § 7-82-314 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 3 - Operation and Powers|§ 7-82-314. Annual Report

 Each utility district under the jurisdiction of the utility management review board pursuant to § 7-82-701(a) shall submit to the board by the first day of the utility district's fiscal year an annual report on a form approved by the board. If a utility district fails to submit the annual report in accordance with this section, then the utility management review board may order reasonable sanctions against the utility district.
TN Code § 7-82-403 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 4 - Audit and Rates|§ 7-82-403. Rates Sufficient to Pay Costs and Retire Bonds

 The board of commissioners of any district shall prescribe and collect reasonable rates, fees, tolls, or charges for the services, facilities and commodities of its system or systems, shall prescribe penalties for the nonpayment of the rates, fees, tolls, or charges, and shall revise such rates, fees, tolls or charges from time to time whenever necessary to ensure that such system or systems shall be and always remain self-supporting. The rates, fees, tolls or charges prescribed shall be such as will always produce revenue at least sufficient to:   Provide for all expenses of operation and maintenance of the system or systems, including reserves for the expenses; and   Pay when due all bonds and interest on the bonds, for the payment of which such revenues are or shall have been pledged, charged or otherwise encumbered, including reserves for the bonds and interest.
TN Code § 7-82-503 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 5 - Bonds and Notes|§ 7-82-503. Covenants

 Any resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds under this chapter may contain covenants, including, but not limited to:   The purpose or purposes to which the proceeds of the sale of the bonds may be applied and the deposit, use and disposition of the bonds;   The use, deposit, securing of deposits, and disposition of the revenues of the district, including the creation and maintenance of reserves;   The issuance of other additional bonds payable from the revenues of the district;   The operation and maintenance of the system or systems;   The insurance to be carried thereon and the use, deposit and disposition of insurance moneys;   Books of account and the inspection and audit of the books, and the accounting methods of the district;   The nonrendering of any free service by the district; and   The preservation of the system or systems, so long as any of the bonds remain outstanding, from any mortgage, sale, lease or other encumbrance not specifically permitted by the terms of the resolution.
TN Code § 7-82-504 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 5 - Bonds and Notes|§ 7-82-504. Validity of Bonds

 Such bonds bearing the signatures of officers in office on the date of the signing of the bonds shall be valid and binding obligations, notwithstanding that before the delivery of the bonds and payment for the bonds any or all the persons whose signatures appear on the bonds shall have ceased to be officers of the district issuing the bonds. The validity of the bonds shall not be dependent on nor affected by the validity or regularity of any proceedings relating to the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment, or extension of the utility for which the bonds are issued. The resolution authorizing the bonds may provide that the bonds shall contain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this chapter, which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their validity and of the regularity of their issuance.
TN Code § 7-82-505 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 5 - Bonds and Notes|§ 7-82-505. Lien — Default — Pledges or Security Interests — Construction

  There shall be and there is created a statutory lien in the nature of a mortgage lien upon any system or systems acquired or constructed in accordance with this chapter, including all extensions and improvements to the system or systems, or combinations of extensions and improvements subsequently made, which lien shall be in favor of the holder or holders of any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter, and all such property shall remain subject to such statutory lien until the payment in full of the principal of and interest on the bonds. Any holder of such bonds or any of the coupons representing interest on the bonds may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceeding, in any court of competent jurisdiction, protect and enforce such statutory lien and compel performance of all duties required by this chapter, including the making and collection of sufficient rates for the service or services, the proper accounting for the collections, and the performance of any duties required by covenants with the holders of any bond issued in accordance with this chapter.   If any default be made in the payment of the principal of or interest on such bonds, any court having jurisdiction of the action may appoint a receiver to administer the district, and the system or systems, with power to charge and collect rates sufficient to provide for the payment of all bonds and obligations outstanding against the system or systems and for the payment of operating expenses, and to apply the income and revenues of the bonds, in conformity with this chapter, and any covenants with bondholders.    Any pledge of, or security interest in, the revenues, fees, rents, tolls or other charges received or receivable by any utility district to secure the payment of any bonds of such utility district, and the interest on the bonds, shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge or security interest is made or granted; the revenues, fees, rents, tolls or other charges so pledged and thereafter received by the utility district or on behalf of any bondholders, together with any tangible property subjected to a security interest by the utility district, shall be subject to such lien as the resolution or other document creating such pledge in favor of the holder or holders of such bonds shall provide. Neither the resolution nor any other instrument by which any such pledge or security interest or any lien on any of the property of the utility district is created need be recorded.   This subsection (c) shall be in addition to and supplemental to all other provisions of other laws of Tennessee; provided, that wherever the application of this subsection (c) conflicts with the application of such other provisions, this subsection (c) shall prevail.
TN Code § 7-82-506 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 5 - Bonds and Notes|§ 7-82-506. Bonds Payable From Revenue

 No holder or holders of any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall ever have the right to compel the levy of any tax to pay the bonds or the interest on the bonds. Each bond shall recite in substance that the bond and interest on the bonds are payable solely from the revenue pledged to the payment of the bond and that the bond does not constitute a debt of the district within the meaning of any statutory limitation.
TN Code § 7-82-507 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 5 - Bonds and Notes|§ 7-82-507. Reamortization and Refinancing

 When any bonds authorized to be issued pursuant to this chapter are held by any federal or state governmental authority or agency, such bonds, to the extent of the principal and interest on the bond outstanding at any time, may be recalled with the consent of such authority or agency and reamortized or refinanced upon such terms as are agreed upon by such authority or agency and as are incorporated in the resolution of the board of commissioners authorizing such reamortization or refinancing. The lien in favor of any holders of such reamortized or refinanced bonds shall continue in favor of such holders with the same priority as existed in favor of such holders prior to such reamortization or refinancing.
TN Code § 7-82-601 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 6 - Multi-County Districts|§ 7-82-601. Creation — Petition

  Utility districts embracing territory in two (2) or more counties may be created in the manner provided in this chapter.   The petition for the incorporation of such utility district may be submitted to the county mayor of any one (1) of the counties situated in whole or in part in such proposed district.
TN Code § 7-82-603 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 6 - Multi-County Districts|§ 7-82-603. Hearing on Incorporation — Notice — Address of District Office

  The notice of public hearing on the convenience and necessity of the incorporation of the district shall be published, as provided in § 7-82-202, in each of the counties situated in whole or in part in such proposed district in a newspaper published and having a general circulation in the counties. If there is no such newspaper in any of such counties, notice shall be given in such county or counties by posting, as provided in § 7-82-202. Such notice shall also be given by registered mail at least ten (10) days before the hearing to the county mayor of each county situated in whole or in part within such proposed district, and to the mayor or chief executive officer of each city, town and utility district, as provided in § 7-82-202.   The petition for the incorporation of such utility district, the notice of public hearing on the petition, and the order creating such district, in addition to other requirements of this chapter, shall state the address of the principal office of such utility district.   The public hearing shall be held before the county mayors of such counties sitting as a panel, at a time and place designated by the county mayor to whom the petition for the proposed district was addressed. All such county mayors shall be notified of the date, time and place of such hearing at least five (5) days prior to the date, and it shall be the responsibility of such county mayors to attend and participate if they elect to do so in such hearing. In the event a majority of such county mayors so notified fail to appear and participate in the hearing, the county mayor to whom the petition was addressed may proceed with the hearing and enter appropriate orders as provided in this chapter. In the event three (3) or more counties are involved and in the event two (2) or more of such county mayors elect to attend and participate in the hearing, a majority vote shall be required for the creation of the district.
TN Code § 7-82-604 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 7 - Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities|Chapter 82 - Utility District Law of 1937|Part 6 - Multi-County Districts|§ 7-82-604. Terms of Commissioners

 In cases where more than three (3) commissioners are nominated under this chapter, such commissioners shall be appointed for terms of two (2), three (3) and four (4) years, the number of commissioners appointed for each such term to be as nearly equal as possible.