Title 7, Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the municipality and the industrial development corporation are authorized to exercise all power and rights, express or implied, granted by this chapter. Any developer of a project within a district who has entered into an agreement with a…

This chapter shall only apply to border region retail tourism development districts for which a certified copy of the ordinance required by § 7-40-104(a)(2), along with the request for certification required by § 7-40-104(a)(3), has been filed with the commissioner before January…

(1) The benefits of this chapter shall apply to any cost incurred in connection with developing a project as a whole, even if:(1) The cost includes development of portions of the district or business in the district, or both, that do not, by themselves, generate state sales and u…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Regional Retail Tourism Development District Act.”

The purpose of this chapter is to increase tourism and the competitiveness of this state with bordering states by empowering local governments to encourage the development of extraordinary retail or tourism facilities, including shopping, recreational, and other activities.

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Base tax revenues” means the revenues generated from the collection of state sales and use taxes from all businesses within the applicable regional retail tourism development district as of the end of the fis…

(a) To receive the apportionment of state sales and use taxes as provided in this chapter, the following requirements must be met:(1) A municipal legislative body must adopt an ordinance designating the boundaries of the regional retail tourism development district. A municipalit…

The department of revenue shall make annual adjustments to the sales and use tax revenues collected in the district within ninety (90) days of the end of each fiscal year. The annual adjustments are effective immediately upon notification of the adjustment from the department of …

(a) Notwithstanding the allocations provided for in § 67-6-103(a), if a municipality or industrial development corporation finances, constructs, leases, equips, renovates, assists, incents, or acquires an extraordinary retail or tourism facility or a project in a certified distri…

An eligible municipality in which a district is located is authorized to delegate to any industrial development corporation within the county or counties where the municipality is located the authority to carry out all or part of the project, to issue revenue bonds to finance a p…

Any bonds, notes, refunding bonds, or other indebtedness relative to the cost of an economic development project must not be issued for a term longer than thirty (30) years, and the municipality or industrial development corporation may pledge all proceeds or taxes it receives pu…

Prior to the issuance of any bonds to finance the cost of an economic development project that will be repaid in whole or part from apportionments under this chapter, the municipality or industrial development corporation issuing the bonds shall submit a proposed debt amortizatio…

A municipality may, including through an industrial development corporation, limit, condition, or provide incentives or financial support in the district as it deems appropriate, including the requirement that the benefited property owners participate in the repayment of indebted…

Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the municipality and the industrial development corporation may exercise all power and rights, express or implied, granted by this chapter.

This part shall be known and cited as the “Tennessee Passenger Transportation Services Act.”

As used in this part, “governmental entity” means any political subdivision of the state of Tennessee and any municipality, metropolitan government, county or airport authority.

(a) Every municipality, or other governmental entity, is hereby expressly authorized and empowered to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by licensing, controlling, and regulating by ordinance or resolution each private passenger-for-hire vehicle providing transportati…

(a) Any municipality or other governmental entity is authorized to carry out this part as acts of government on behalf of the state as sovereign, to the extent the governmental entity deems necessary or appropriate, even if it is anticompetitive in effect. (b) All immunity of the…

(a) Except as provided in § 7-51-1007(c), this part shall not apply to any motor vehicles operating passenger services that are subject to the authority of the department of safety pursuant to title 65, chapter 15. (b) Except as provided in § 7-51-1007(c), nothing in this part sh…

This part shall not apply to any governmental entity of a county having a population of not less than two hundred eighty-seven thousand seven hundred (287,700) nor more than two hundred eighty-seven thousand eight hundred (287,800), according to the 1980 federal census or any sub…

(a) A governmental entity may regulate entry into the business of providing passenger transportation service, including, but not limited to, limousine, sedan, shuttle, entertainment transportation, and taxicab service. (b) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise req…

(a) Notwithstanding this part to the contrary, a governmental entity that regulates entertainment transportation pursuant to this part shall not:(1) Refuse to renew a permit to a business that provides entertainment transportation if the governmental entity issued the permit to t…

(a) As used in this section, a “passenger-for-hire vehicle”:(1) Means a motor vehicle that:(A) Is designed or constructed to accommodate and transport not more than fourteen (14) passengers for hire, exclusive of the driver;(B) Principally operates within the corporate limits of …

Whenever, due to an emergency resulting from the effects of enemy attack, or the anticipated effects of a threatened enemy attack, it becomes imprudent, inexpedient or impossible to conduct the affairs of local government at the regular or usual place or places of the conduct of …

During the period when the public business is being conducted at the emergency temporary location or locations, the governing body and other officers of a political subdivision of this state shall have and possess and shall exercise, at such location or locations, all of the exec…

This part shall control and be supreme in the event it shall be employed, notwithstanding any statutory, charter or ordinance provision to the contrary or in conflict herewith.

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Adult-Oriented Establishment Registration Act of 1998.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Adult bookstore” means a business that offers, as its principal or predominate stock or trade, sexually oriented material, devices, or paraphernalia, whether determined by the total number of sexually oriented m…

(a) There is created in any county in which this part is adopted as provided in § 7-51-1120, an adult-oriented establishment board. (b) The board shall consist of five (5) members appointed by the county mayor of such counties. If there exists a massage registration board appoint…

(a) Except as provided in subsection (e), from and after July 1, 1998, no adult-oriented establishment shall be operated or maintained in any applicable county without first obtaining a license to operate issued by the county adult-oriented establishment board. (b) A license may …

(a) Any person, partnership, or corporation desiring to secure a license shall make application to the adult-oriented establishment board. A copy of the application shall be distributed promptly to the county sheriff's department. (b) The application for a license shall be upon a…

(1) To receive a license to operate an adult-oriented establishment, an applicant must meet the following standards:(1) (A) If the applicant is an individual:(i) The applicant shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age;(ii) The applicant shall not have had a license revoked wit…

(a) In order to effectuate this part, the board, its authorized representative or sheriff is empowered to conduct investigations of persons engaged in the operation of any adult-oriented establishment and inspect the license of the operators and establishment for compliance. Refu…

(a) The board has the power and authority to enter into any court of the state of Tennessee having proper jurisdiction to seek an injunction against any person or adult-oriented establishment not in compliance with this part, and is further empowered to enter into any such court …

(a) The board shall revoke, suspend or annul a license or permit for any of the following reasons:(1) Discovery that false or misleading information or data was given on any application or material facts were omitted from any application;(2) The operator, entertainer, employee, o…

(a) As used in this section, “application” means:(1) An application for a license;(2) An application for a permit;(3) An application for a license renewal; and(4) An application for a permit renewal. (1) An application for a license; (2) An application for a permit; (3) An applic…

(a) Every license issued under this part will terminate at the expiration of one (1) year from the date of issuance, unless sooner revoked, and must be renewed before operation is allowed in the following year. Any operator desiring to renew a license shall make application to th…

The public portion of all adult-oriented establishments shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times by the applicable sheriff's department or such other persons as the board may designate.

(a) The operator shall maintain a register of all employees, entertainers, or escorts, showing for each person the name, permit number issued under this part, any aliases used, home address, age, birth date, sex, height, weight, color of hair and eyes, telephone number, social se…

(a) No operator, entertainer or employee of an adult-oriented establishment, either on the premises or in relation to the person's role as an operator, entertainer, or employee of an adult-oriented establishment, shall permit to be performed, offer to perform, perform, or allow p…

No person shall be an entertainer, employee, or escort in an adult-oriented establishment without a valid permit issued by the board.

(a) Any person desiring to secure a permit as an entertainer, employee, or escort shall make application to the board. The application shall be filed in triplicate with and dated by the board. A copy of the application shall be distributed promptly by the board to the sheriff's d…

(a) To receive a permit as an entertainer, employee or escort, an applicant must meet the following standards:(1) (A) The applicant shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age;(B) The applicant shall not have had a permit revoked within two (2) years immediately preceding the da…

(a) A license fee of five hundred dollars ($500) shall be submitted with the application for a license. (b) A permit fee of one hundred dollars ($100) shall be submitted with the application for a permit.

(a) (1) A violation of this part shall, for a first offense, be a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by a fine only of five hundred dollars ($500), and shall result in the suspension or revocation of any license.(2) A second or subsequent violation of this part is a Class A misdemea…

This part shall be local in effect and shall become effective in a particular county upon the contingency of a two-thirds (⅔) vote of the county legislative body adopting this part.