Title 7, Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities

Any central business improvement district created by a municipality may embrace two (2) or more separate property areas. Each district shall be of such size and form as to include all properties that, in the judgment of the governing body, shall be benefited by the improvements a…

Upon the filing of an initiating petition purporting to contain the requisite number of signatures, or upon the adoption of an initiating resolution by the governing body, the governing body shall order a public hearing to determine whether such central business improvement distr…

Notice of the public hearing shall be given by publishing a notice once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. It shall not be necessary to set out in full in such notice the proposed establishment ordinance, but such …

(a) At the time and place thus appointed, the governing body shall meet, and at such meeting, or at the time and place to which the meeting may be adjourned from time to time, all persons whose property may be affected by such improvement or improvements may appear in person, by …

(a) In the event that the establishment of a central business improvement district shall have been initiated by resolution of the governing body, the establishment ordinance shall not be adopted if owners representing more than one-half (½) of the assessed value of all property t…

(1) The establishment ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality shall include:(1) The name of the district as set forth in the original or amended initiating petition or initiating resolution;(2) A description of the boundaries of the district as set out in the …

(a) The municipality has the authority and power to borrow money and issue bonds, notes or other obligations for the purpose of paying the costs of public improvements made pursuant to the establishment ordinance, or the refunding or refinancing of any such bonds, notes or obliga…

(a) The governing body of the municipality, in the establishment ordinance or any other ordinance of the municipality, may create an advisory board, or appoint an existing organization, to act as an advisory board for the purpose of making recommendations for the use of special a…

(1) In addition to all other powers of a municipality enumerated in this part or elsewhere, a municipality has the following powers, limited only by the establishment ordinance, all of which powers may be delegated to the district management corporation by the establishment ordin…

(a) The municipality is hereby authorized to levy special assessments against all properties located within the central business improvement district to cover all costs and expenses of making public improvements within the district and providing the services, projects and activit…

(a) The governing body of the municipality shall determine annually the total costs and expenses to be paid from the special assessments, and annually apportion such costs and expenses upon the various properties located within the district in accordance with the benefits conferr…

Notwithstanding §§ 7-84-521 and 7-84-522, no special assessment shall be levied on any government-owned property, including, but not limited to, any property owned by a county or by a public building authority, without the approval of the governing body of such governmental entit…

After all assessments have been determined, an assessment roll shall be prepared by the governing body, which shall show the location of the property, the owner of the property as shown in the records of the assessor, and the amount of the assessment.

(a) The governing body shall prepare a schedule of all property proposed to be taken by condemnation by the municipality and all property that shall in some manner be injured by the improvements to be constructed within the district, together with the valuations set on each such …

An assessment, any interest accruing on the assessment, and the costs of collection of the assessment shall constitute a lien on and against the property upon which the assessment is levied as of the effective date of the ordinance levying the assessment, which lien shall be supe…

In case any assessment shall become or has become delinquent and the property subject to the delinquency has been or shall be sold to the municipality for the delinquency, redemption of such property shall be permitted upon payment, not later than one (1) year after the date of s…

In case of failure to pay any assessment or installment provided for under this part on or before the date prescribed by the governing body for such payment, there shall be added to the assessment both interest of one percent (1%) per month and a penalty of one percent (1%) per m…

(a) The governing body shall be authorized to dissolve the district upon written petition filed by the owners of either seventy-five percent (75%) of the assessed value of the property in the district based on the most recent certified city property tax rolls, or fifty percent (5…

This part shall not apply in any county having a population of not less than forty-nine thousand two hundred seventy-five (49,275) nor more than forty-nine thousand three hundred seventy-five (49,375), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census.

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Inner-City Redevelopment Act of 2003.”

(a) It is hereby determined and declared that the deterioration of inner-city areas within certain municipalities of the state is a threat to the property tax and other revenue sources of such municipalities and is detrimental to the safety, health, morals and general economic we…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Assessed value” means value as assessed for municipal property tax purposes;(2) “District” or “inner-city redevelopment district” means the inner-city redevelopment district created by the establishment ordinanc…

This part does not affect any proceedings under title 13, chapter 20, parts 1-3, and all or any part of the area within the boundaries of an inner-city redevelopment district created pursuant to this part may be part of any urban renewal area created pursuant to such provisions o…

(a) This part is intended to afford an alternative method for the making of improvements by a municipality, the creation of special improvement districts for inner-city redevelopment districts of the various municipalities, the levy of assessments and the issuance of bonds by mun…

This part shall constitute independent authority, separate and apart from parts 1-5 of this chapter, for the establishment and governance of an inner-city redevelopment district, and shall constitute an alternative method of establishing and governing such a district. None of thi…

Nothing in this part shall affect or impair the control and jurisdiction that a municipality has over all property within its boundaries. The powers and authority granted by this part shall be in addition to any and all other powers and authority now residing with, or later grant…

This part, being necessary to secure and preserve the public health, safety, convenience and welfare, shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.

In the event of conflict between this part and any other laws or parts of laws governing Tennessee, this part shall govern.

The governing body of any municipality of the state is authorized to create, by ordinance, one (1) or more inner-city redevelopment districts in the manner provided in this part.

(a) The establishment of a district shall be initiated in either of two (2) ways, as follows:(1) By a petition filed in the office of the clerk of the governing body of the municipality, signed by not less than a majority of the owners of real property in the district having an a…

Any inner-city redevelopment district created by a municipality may embrace two (2) or more separate property areas. Each district shall be of such size and form as to include all properties that, in the judgment of the governing body, shall be benefited by the improvements and s…

Upon the filing of an initiating petition purporting to contain the requisite number of signatures, or upon the adoption of an initiating resolution by the governing body, the governing body shall order a public hearing to determine whether such inner-city redevelopment district …

Notice of the public hearing shall be given by publishing a notice once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the municipality. It shall not be necessary to set out in full in such notice the proposed establishment ordinance, but such …

(a) At the time and place thus appointed, the governing body shall meet, and at such meeting, or at the time and place to which the meeting may be adjourned from time to time, all persons whose property may be affected by such improvement or improvements may appear in person, by …

(a) In the event that the establishment of an inner-city redevelopment district shall have been initiated by resolution of the governing body, the establishment ordinance shall not be adopted if owners representing more than one-half (½) of the assessed value of all property to b…

(1) The establishment ordinance adopted by the governing body of the municipality shall include:(1) The name of the district as set forth in the original or amended initiating petition or initiating resolution;(2) A description of the boundaries of the district as set out in the …

(a) The municipality has the authority and power to borrow money and issue bonds, notes or other obligations for the purpose of paying the costs of public improvements made pursuant to the establishment ordinance, or the refunding or refinancing of any such bonds, notes or obliga…

(a) The governing body of the municipality, in the establishment ordinance or any other ordinance of the municipality, may create an advisory board or appoint an existing organization to act as an advisory board for the purpose of making recommendations for the use of special ass…

(1) In addition to all other powers of a municipality enumerated in this part or elsewhere, a municipality has the following powers, limited only by the establishment ordinance, all of which powers may be delegated to the district management corporation by the establishment ordin…

(a) The municipality is hereby authorized to levy special assessments against all properties located within the inner-city redevelopment district to cover all costs and expenses of making public improvements within the district and providing the services, projects and activities …

(a) The governing body of the municipality shall annually determine the total costs and expenses to be paid from the special assessments and shall annually apportion such costs and expenses upon the various properties located within the district in accordance with the benefits co…

Notwithstanding §§ 7-84-621 and 7-84-622, no special assessment shall be levied on any government-owned property, including, but not limited to, any property owned by a county or by a public building authority, without the approval of the governing body of such governmental entit…

After all assessments have been determined, an assessment roll shall be prepared by the governing body which shall show the location of the property, the owner of the property as shown in the records of the assessor and the amount of the assessment.

(a) The governing body shall prepare a schedule of all property proposed to be taken by condemnation by the municipality and all property that shall in some manner be injured by the improvements to be constructed within the district, together with the valuations set on each such …

An assessment, any interest accruing on the assessment, and the costs of collection of the assessment shall constitute a lien on and against the property upon which the assessment is levied as of the effective date of the ordinance levying the assessment, which lien shall be supe…

In case any assessment is or becomes delinquent and the property subject to the delinquency has been or is to be sold to the municipality for the delinquency, redemption of such property shall be permitted upon payment, not later than one (1) year after the date of sale, of the f…