Title 13, Public Planning And Housing

All housing projects of an authority shall be subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary and building laws, ordinances and regulations applicable to the locality in which the housing project is situated.

(a) In the operation or management of housing projects, an authority shall at all times observe the following duties with respect to rentals and tenant selection:(1) It may rent or lease the dwelling accommodations therein only to persons of low income;(2) It may rent or lease th…

(a) In the operation and management of housing projects, an authority may assist in the establishment and development of a continuing program of counseling and education for its tenants on household management, self-help, budgeting and money management, consumer education and rel…

Local housing authorities shall furnish an evicted tenant with the reasons for such tenant's eviction from a housing project upon the request of the evicted tenant.

Any agency of the state or any county, city, metropolitan government or other political subdivision of the state, including, but not limited to, any public housing authority or housing development agency, which operates any program providing housing or domiciliary care for aged p…

(a) In any city or county with a metropolitan form of government, the membership of the housing authority shall be increased by two (2) additional members, which additional members shall be residents of low-rent public housing or housing projects. (b) One (1) of the commissioners…

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 auth…

(1) As used in this part, “blighted property”:(1) Means an improvement to real property that was inspected by the appropriate local governmental authority and cited for one (1) or more enforceable housing, maintenance, or building code violations that:(A) Affect the safety of the…

(a) Any housing authority now or hereafter established under and pursuant to this chapter, including any municipal housing authority whether created under and pursuant to such law or of any special statute, may carry out any undertaking hereinafter called a “redevelopment project…

(a) (1) This subsection (a) shall apply to counties with a metropolitan form of government and with populations greater than seven hundred seventy thousand (770,000), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census.(2) An authority shall not initiate any red…

(a) The authority may make land in a redevelopment project available for use by private enterprise or public agencies in accordance with the redevelopment plan. Such land may be made available at its use value, which represents the value, whether expressed in terms of rental or c…

(a) Any authority may, and is authorized to, adopt a redevelopment plan or urban renewal plan so that it contains a tax increment financing provision providing that taxes, if any, levied upon property within the boundaries of the redevelopment plan or urban renewal plan each year…

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 …

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, corporatio…

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…

(a) It is hereby found and declared that:(1) 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…

(1) 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 preventio…

(a) 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 …

(a) An authority has all the powers necessary or convenient to undertake and carry out urban renewal plans and urban renewal projects, including the authority to acquire property by eminent domain or purchase, and to dispose of property, to issue bonds and other obligations, to b…

(a) Any municipality or other public body is hereby authorized, without limiting any provision in § 13-20-212, to do any and all things necessary to aid and cooperate in the planning and undertaking of an urban renewal project in the area in which such municipality or public body…

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 sl…

The powers conferred by §§ 13-20-209 — 13-20-215 shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law.

(a) Whenever the acquisition of any real property in a designated blighted property 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…

(a) 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 metropolita…

(a) The findings and declarations made in § 13-20-209, with respect to slum, blighted, and deteriorated areas, are hereby affirmed and restated. (b) Redevelopment and urban renewal project areas include streets, alleys, easements, and other public ways in, under, and over which u…

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “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 facil…

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 p…

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.

(a) 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. (b) Upon the …

(a) 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. (b) (1) After such a hearing, the council shal…

(a) 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:(1) That a notice has been given and public hearing has been held as aforementioned, that the council made the aforeme…

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 incorporati…

(a) 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. (b)…

(a) If the council, after hearing as aforementioned, shall determine that neither of the conditions enumerated in § 13-20-402 exist, it shall adopt a resolution denying the petition. (b) After three (3) months have expired from the date of the denial of any such petitions, subseq…

In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity or enforcement of, or relating to, any contract of the authority, the authority shall be conclusively deemed to have been established in accordance with this chapter. Upon proof of the issuance of the aforementioned certifi…

(a) (1) An authority shall consist of five (5) commissioners appointed by the mayor, and the mayor shall designate the first chair. The commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated by the mayor to serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4) or five (5) y…

The authority and its commissioners shall be under a statutory duty to comply or to cause compliance strictly with all provisions of this chapter, and the laws of the state and in addition thereto with each and every term, provision and covenant in any contract of the authority o…

All commissioners, officers and employees of housing authorities are subject to the conflict of interest provisions contained in §§ 12-4-101 and 12-4-102.

(a) The mayor may remove a commissioner for inefficiency or neglect of duty or misconduct in office, but only after the commissioner shall have been given a copy of the charges against such commissioner, which may be made by the mayor, at least ten (10) days prior to the hearing …

The authority shall at least once a year, file with the mayor of the city a report of its activities for the preceding year, and shall make any recommendations with reference to any additional legislation or other action that may be necessary in order to carry out the purposes of…

(1) It is declared to be the policy of this state that each housing authority shall manage and operate its housing projects in an efficient manner so as to enable it to fix the rentals for dwelling accommodations at the lowest possible rates consistent with its providing decent, …

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all action authorized to be taken under such law by the council or other governing body of any city or of any municipality may be by resolution adopted by a majority of all the members of its council or other governing body, which res…

(a) In addition to its other powers, a housing authority created for a city may exercise any or all of its powers within the territorial boundaries of any other municipality not included in the area of operation of such housing authority, for the purpose of planning, undertaking,…

(a) No governing body of a city or other municipality shall adopt a resolution as provided in § 13-20-415 or § 13-20-503 declaring that there is a need for a housing authority, other than a housing authority established by such municipality, to exercise its powers within such mun…

When any housing authority which is created for any city becomes authorized to transact business and exercise its powers therein, the governing body of the city shall immediately make an estimate of the amount of money necessary for the administrative expenses and overhead of suc…

(a) (1) If the governing body of each of two (2) or more municipalities by resolution declares that there is a need for one (1) housing authority for all of such municipalities to exercise in such municipalities the powers and other functions prescribed for a housing authority, a…