Title 64, Regional Authorities

The board may solicit, accept and expend grants, appropriations, contributions or other funds from any source, public or private, and maintain an accounting of such receipts and expenditures, subject to audit by the comptroller of the treasury.

Any department or agency of the state or any county, municipality or metropolitan government included in the authority may, upon request of the board, provide any services or assistance to the board in preparing a plan or in organizing its operations.

The express purposes of the regional transportation authority are to improve mobility and expand multimodal transportation options for residents and visitors in Tennessee's large urban areas. The intent of the legislation is to respond to the growing need for regional approaches …

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Authority” means a regional transportation authority created pursuant to this part or reconstituted pursuant to § 64-8-203(b);(2) “Board” means the board of directors of an authority;(3) “Creating municipality” …

(a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (b), any metropolitan government of a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the most recent federal census, or any combination of local governments, including metropolitan governments, adjacent counties o…

(a) (1) An authority shall be governed by a board consisting of the following representation:(A) The county mayor, county executive or metropolitan mayor or executive of each county included within the authority;(B) The mayor of each incorporated town or city included in the auth…

The board may employ such personnel or contract for professional planning, engineering, management, operating, and support services as it may deem necessary from funds available to it. The board may also utilize services or assistance including the loan of personnel from any memb…

(a) The board shall develop a plan for the operation and expansion of mass transit services in the authority's region. The plan shall be consistent with the multi-modal regional transportation plan adopted by the region's metropolitan planning organization or similar regional tra…

(1) In order to finance the construction, operation, maintenance, and management of the mass transit and transportation plans and plans for transit adjacent or transit oriented development established by the authority, the authority shall have the following powers:(1) To fix, alt…

It is declared that the sections, clauses and sentences of this part are severable, are not matters of mutual essential inducement and any of them shall be excised if the provisions would otherwise be unconstitutional or ineffective. If any one or more sections, clauses or senten…

Each metropolitan planning organization's policy board shall ensure that one (1) voting member who resides within the metropolitan planning organization's boundaries is chosen in consultation with the Tennessee County Highway Officials Association to represent county highway depa…

(1) For purposes of this part:(1) “Local government official” means the elected officials representing any county, municipal, or metropolitan government located within the boundaries of a metropolitan planning organization; and(2) “Metropolitan planning organization” means an age…

This part is intended to supplement 23 U.S.C. § 134. In the event any provision of this part is deemed inconsistent with the requirements of 23 U.S.C. § 134, the federal law shall control.