Title 7, Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities

If the police or peace officer or employee of a metropolitan government authorized to enforce such ordinance, law or regulation is unable to serve the citation or civil warrant issued pursuant to § 7-3-501 at the time the ordinance, law or regulation is violated, the citation or …

Service by mail of a citation or civil warrant upon the violator may be made by any employee of a metropolitan government, by any additional plaintiff, or the violator's attorney, or by any person authorized by statute. The person serving the citation or civil warrant by mail sha…

When any police or peace officer of a metropolitan government or any employee of a metropolitan government authorized to enforce ordinances, laws or regulations of the metropolitan government or charged with the duty to serve civil or criminal process, asks the violator for ident…

Injunctions or restraining orders issued by any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce any ordinance, law or regulation of any metropolitan government or to restrain the violation of any ordinance, law or regulation of any metropolitan government shall not be stayed pending a…

(a) All metropolitan governments are empowered to set a penalty of up to five hundred dollars ($500) per day for each day during which the violation of ordinances, laws and regulations of such metropolitan government continues or occurs. No penalty in excess of one hundred fifty …

The powers conferred by this part are in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other laws, charter or home rule provision.

(a) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Consideration” means the consideration charged, whether or not received, for the occupancy in a hotel valued in money whether to be received in money, goods, labor or otherwise, including all receipts, cash, …

(a) (1) There is hereby authorized a privilege tax upon the privilege of occupancy in any hotel of each transient in an amount not to exceed three percent (3%) of the consideration charged by the operator, except as provided in subsection (b). The tax so imposed is a privilege ta…

(a) The tax shall be added by each and every operator to each invoice prepared by the operator for the occupancy of the operator's hotel, such invoice to be given directly or transmitted to the transient, and the tax shall be collected by the operator from the transient and remit…

(a) The tax levied by this chapter shall be remitted by all operators who lease, rent, or charge for any rooms to the metropolitan department of finance not later than the twentieth of each month next following collection from the transient. The operator is hereby required to col…

No operator of a hotel shall advertise or state in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, that the tax or any part of the tax will be assumed or absorbed by the operator, or that it will be added to the rent, or that, if added, any part will be refunded.

(a) Taxes collected by an operator that are not remitted to the tax collection official on or before the due dates are delinquent. (b) An operator shall be liable for interest on such delinquent taxes from the due date at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum, and in addition …

It is the duty of every operator liable for the collection and payment of any tax imposed by this chapter to keep and preserve for a period of three (3) years all records necessary to determine the amount of the tax, which records the tax collection official shall have the right …

(a) In administering and enforcing this chapter, the tax collection official shall have, as additional powers, those powers and duties with respect to collection of taxes provided in title 67 or otherwise provided by law; provided, that title 67, chapter 1, part 17, does not appl…

(a) (1) For the purpose of promoting tourist, convention, and recreational activity, authorization is granted to establish, and there shall be established, a tourist commission of either seven (7) members or nine (9) members as provided in this section. This commission shall be c…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (f), until the metropolitan council in a county having a metropolitan form of government which has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, appr…

The tax levied in this chapter shall be in addition to all other taxes levied or authorized to be levied whether in the form of excise, license, or privilege taxes, and shall be in addition to all other fees and taxes now levied or authorized to be levied.

This chapter shall only apply to those counties having a metropolitan form of government.

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Metropolitan council” means the council of a county having a metropolitan form of government that has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subseq…

(a) In addition to any other tax or fee imposed pursuant to this chapter on the occupancy of a hotel room, upon the adoption of an ordinance by the metropolitan council in a county having a metropolitan government, there is authorized an additional privilege tax of up to two doll…

(a) (1) There is authorized a privilege tax on the privilege of contracted vehicles exiting public airports located within the boundaries of a metropolitan government. The tax shall only be effective upon the adoption of an ordinance by the metropolitan council to impose this pri…

(a) Taxes due and payable that are not remitted to the tax collection official on or before the due dates are delinquent. (b) The person owing the taxes shall be liable for interest on any delinquent taxes from the due date at the rate of eight percent (8%) per annum, and, in add…

(a) During the construction of a new publicly owned convention center as provided in this part, any contractor entering into a contract with the metropolitan government for the performance of work on the convention center shall pay all workers performing work under those contract…

(a) A metropolitan government, in soliciting bids for the construction of a publicly owned convention center in excess of four hundred million dollars ($400,000,000) in costs located within the territory of that metropolitan government, shall actively solicit bids from minority-o…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Metropolitan Governments' Port Authority Act.”

It is hereby declared that a clear need exists in metropolitan areas of Tennessee for improved transportation and navigation for the movement and transportation of people, goods and merchandise, and for the creation of expanded employment opportunities through the promotion of co…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Authority” means a metropolitan port authority created pursuant to this chapter;(2) “Board” means the board of commissioners of an authority;(3) “Bonds” includes notes, interim certificates or other obligatio…

(a) Any metropolitan government having a population of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000) may create a metropolitan port authority in the manner provided in this chapter. (b) The governing body of the creating municipality, if it shall determine the public convenience a…

(a) The governing power of the authority shall be vested in a board of commissioners of nine (9) persons, each of whom shall have no financial interest in the authority or its concessions, appointed by the executive officer of the creating municipality and confirmed by resolution…

The board shall appoint a port authority manager who shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the authority, and shall enter into a contract with the manager establishing such port authority manager's salary and term of office. The manager shall appoint, subject…

(1) An authority has all powers necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, excluding the power to levy and collect taxes and special assessments, including but not limited to, the power to:(1) Have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, and adopt a corporate seal;(2) A…

Any creating municipality, upon the written recommendation of the board, may acquire any interest in land within the boundaries of the creating municipality by gift, purchase, lease, or condemnation and may transfer such interest to an authority by sale, lease or gift. Such trans…

(a) The authority has the power to issue negotiable bonds from time to time in order to accomplish any of the purposes authorized by this chapter, and it also has the power to issue refunding bonds for the purposes, and in the amounts and manner provided in title 9, chapter 21. A…

Employees other than independent contractors of the authority shall be considered employees of the creating municipality, and shall enjoy all rights and responsibilities as do other employees of the creating municipality, and shall be considered in classified or unclassified serv…

(1) Any creating municipality has all of the necessary powers in order to further the purposes of this chapter, including, without limitation, the following, any or all of which powers may be exercised by resolution of its governing body:(1) Advance, donate or lend money, raised …

Whenever the governing body of the creating municipality by resolution determines that the purposes for which the authority was created have been substantially accomplished, that all of the bonds and other obligations of the authority have been fully paid, then the executive offi…

(a) The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law, and are not in substitution for such powers, and the limitations imposed by this chapter shall not affect such powers. (b) The powers granted in this chapter m…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act.”

(a) It is hereby declared that metropolitan celebration authorities created pursuant to this chapter shall be public and governmental bodies acting as agencies and instrumentalities of the creating municipality, and that the acquisition, construction, operation and financing of i…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Authority” means a metropolitan celebration authority created pursuant to the authority of this chapter;(2) “Board” means the board of commissioners of an authority;(3) “Bonds” includes notes, interim certifi…

(a) Any county having a metropolitan form of government may create a metropolitan celebration authority in the manner provided in this section. (b) The governing body of the creating municipality shall adopt, and its executive officer shall approve, a resolution calling for a pub…

(a) (1) The authority shall be governed by a board of commissioners composed of eleven (11) members. Three (3) members shall be officers of the state, who shall be appointed by the executive officer of the creating municipality after consultation with the governor, the speaker of…

(a) The board shall appoint an executive director who shall be the chief executive and administrative officer of the authority, and shall enter into a contract with the executive director establishing the executive director's salary and term of office. (b) The executive director …

(1) An authority has all of the powers necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, excluding the exercise of the power of eminent domain and the power to levy and collect taxes and special assessments, including, but not limited to, the power to:(1) Have perpetual succe…

(a) The authority has the power to issue negotiable bonds from time to time in order to accomplish any of the purposes authorized by this chapter, and it also has the power to issue refunding bonds for the purposes, and in the amounts and manner provided in title 9, chapter 21. A…

(a) The creating municipality has all of the necessary power in order to further the purposes of this chapter, including, without limitation, any and all of which powers may be exercised by resolution of its governing body, the power to:(1) Advance, donate or lend money or real o…