Title 7, Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities

Any member of the board may be removed from office for cause upon a vote of three-fourths (¾) of the members of the governing body of the municipality, but only after preferment of formal charges by resolution of a majority of the members of such governing body at a public hearin…

(a) The board shall keep a complete and accurate record of all meetings and actions taken, and of all receipts and disbursements, and shall make reports of the same to the governing body of the municipality at stated intervals, not to exceed one (1) year. (b) Such reports shall b…

(a) (1) The general supervision and control of the acquisition, improvement, operation and maintenance of the electric plant shall be in charge of the following agency, referred to as the “supervisory body” in this part:(A) The board; or if there be no board, then(B) The governin…

(a) Subject to applicable bonds or contracts, the supervisory body shall determine programs and make all plans for the acquisition of the electric plant, shall make all determinations as to improvements, rates and financial practices, may establish such rules and regulations as i…

The supervisory body shall charge the municipality and all departments and works of the municipality for any electric service furnished to the municipality, at the rates applicable to other customers taking service under similar conditions. Revenues derived from such service shal…

(a) The superintendent shall have charge of all actual construction, the immediate management and operation of the electric plant and the enforcement and execution of all rules, regulations, programs, plans and decisions made or adopted by the supervisory body. (b) The superinten…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, when a municipal utility provides electric service in multiple counties and one (1) of the counties outside of the county in which the principal office of the utility is located has in excess of sixty percent (60%) of the cus…

(1) The governing body of the municipality may dispose of all or substantially all of the electric plant acquired by means of bonds issued under this part, but only with the approval of the supervisory body and a majority of those voting in an election held as follows:(1) The gov…

The powers conferred by this part shall be in addition and supplemental to the powers conferred by any other law. Bonds may be issued under this part for the acquisition or improvement of an electric plant, notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds …

(a) This part is for the public purpose of promoting the increased use of electricity in the urban and rural areas of this state, and to enable all counties, as well as cities and towns, to secure the benefit of the surplus power generated or to be generated by the Tennessee vall…

(a) If a request is made for a copy of a public record that has commercial value, and such request requires the reproduction of all or a portion of a computer generated map that was developed by an electric system, the board of directors of any such system may establish and impos…

Any municipal corporation, county, city or town, called “municipality” in this part, owning or operating or authorized to acquire or operate any electric generation, transmission or distribution system, is authorized, in any contract or arrangement with the Tennessee valley autho…

Nothing contained in this part shall be construed as a restriction or limitation upon any authority, power or right that any municipality may have in the absence of this part. These sections shall be construed as cumulative and shall be in addition and supplemental to any power, …

This part is remedial in nature and any power, authority or right hereby conferred shall be liberally construed, and, to this end, every municipality shall have the power, authority and right, in addition to those expressly conferred by this part, to do all things necessary or co…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Municipal Electric System Tax Equivalent Law of 1987.”

(a) The purpose of this part is to provide the complete law of this state with respect to payments in lieu of taxes on the property and operations of all electric systems owned and operated by incorporated cities or towns, by counties, and by metropolitan governments, and to repe…

(a) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Assessment ratio in effect” means that assessment ratio being applied by the comptroller of the treasury in assessing electric system property of electric cooperatives and electric membership corporations for ad…

(1) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary appearing in § 7-34-115 or in the provisions of any private act, home rule or metropolitan government charter, every municipality may pay or cause to be paid from its electric system revenues for each fiscal year an amount for pay…

If the Tennessee valley authority tenders to a municipality, as described in this part, a contract to amend an existing power contract consistent with this part, the governing body of the municipality and the supervisory body shall promptly execute such amendatory contract on beh…

Any municipality acting in its capacity as a taxing jurisdiction and any other taxing jurisdiction within the boundaries of which any part of such municipality's electric system is located are hereby authorized to, on and after July 1, 1987, from time to time, make and perform co…

(1) The municipality's governing body, in the resolution provided for in § 7-52-304(4), except to the extent otherwise provided in any contract, established arrangement authorized or validated under § 7-52-306, or distribution provisions of any private act, home rule or metropoli…

In the event a municipality conducts electric system operations outside the state, the maximum tax equivalent specified in this part shall not preclude the municipality's collecting from the electric system the additional amounts necessary to make appropriate tax or tax equivalen…

(1) Notwithstanding § 7-52-307, in the event any tax equivalent distribution provisions of any private act, home rule or metropolitan government charter direct that the tax equivalent amount to be distributed to each taxing district is to be an amount arrived at by applying the c…

Except as otherwise expressly provided in this part, all acts or parts of acts, including parts of any private act, or home rule, or metropolitan government charter, in conflict with this part are, to the extent of such conflict with this part, repealed.

Every municipality operating an electric plant, whether pursuant to this chapter, any other public or private act or the charter of the municipality, county or metropolitan government, has the power and is authorized, on behalf of its municipality acting through the authorization…

(1) A municipality providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401 shall not provide subsidies for such services. Notwithstanding that limitation, a municipality providing such services shall be authorized to:(1) Dedicate a reasonable portion of the electric plant to the p…

(a) To the extent that it provides any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401, a municipality has all the powers, obligations and authority granted entities providing telecommunications services under applicable laws of the United States or the state of Tennessee. To the extent…

A municipality providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401 shall make tax equivalent payments with respect to such services in the manner established for electric systems under part 3 of this chapter. For purposes of the calculation of such tax equivalent payments only…

(1) For regulatory purposes, a municipality shall allocate to the costs of providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401:(1) An amount for attachments to poles owned by the municipality equal to the highest rate charged by the municipality to any other person or entity f…

(a) Nothing in this part or in § 7-52-102(10) or § 7-52-117(d), as amended by chapter 531 of the Public Acts of 1997, shall be construed to allow a municipality to provide any service for which a license, certification, or registration is required under the Alarm Contractors Lice…

This part and § 7-52-102(10) or § 7-52-117(d), as amended by chapter 531 of the Public Acts of 1997, supersede any conflicting provisions of general law, private act, charter or metropolitan charter provisions.

Every municipality operating a utility system that includes an electric plant, whether pursuant to this part or any other public or private act or the charter of the municipality, county or metropolitan government, that acquires an existing utility system from a municipality, ele…

This part supersedes any conflicting provisions of general law, private act, charter or metropolitan charter.

(a) Each municipality operating an electric plant described in § 7-52-401 has the power and is authorized within its service area, under this part and on behalf of its municipality acting through the authorization of the board or supervisory body having responsibility for the mun…

(1) To provide the services authorized under this part, the governing board of the municipal electric system shall comply with the following procedure:(1) Upon the approval and at the direction of the governing board, the municipal electric system shall file a detailed business p…

(a) (1) (A) A municipal electric system shall establish a separate division to deliver any of the services authorized by this part. The division shall maintain its own accounting and record-keeping system. A municipal electric system may not subsidize the operation of the divisio…

(a) The comptroller of the treasury shall adopt, after consideration of written comments submitted by any interested party, guidelines or procedures to establish appropriate accounting principles applicable to the division's affiliated transactions and cost allocation. The develo…

To the extent that it provides any of the services authorized by this part, a municipal electric system shall have all the powers, obligations, and authority granted entities providing similar services under applicable laws of the United States, the state of Tennessee or applicab…

(a) A municipal electric system providing any of the services authorized by this part shall make tax equivalent payments with respect to such services in the manner established for electric systems under part 3 of this chapter; provided, that such payments shall not include amoun…

Any municipality authorized by this part to provide any of the services described in this part shall have the power and is hereby authorized to borrow money, contract debts and issue its bonds or notes to finance in whole or in part the cost of the acquisition, purchase, construc…

This part supersedes any conflicting provisions of general law, private act, charter or metropolitan charter provisions.

A franchisee under chapter 59 of this title operating in the service area of the municipal electric division providing services under this part may bring a civil action for injunctive or declaratory relief for a violation under this part, and may recover actual damages upon a sho…

A division established by a municipal electric system to deliver any of the services authorized by this part shall not be considered a governmental entity for the purposes of the Tennessee Governmental Tort Liability Act, compiled in title 29, chapter 20.

A customer of a municipal electric system shall have a right of action to recover damages against such system pursuant to this part.

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Applicable ad valorem taxes” means any ad valorem taxes that, but for ownership of a project by a corporation, would have been due and payable pursuant to §§ 67-5-102 and 67-5-103;(2) “Bonds” means bonds, not…

(a) It is the intent of the general assembly by the passage of this chapter to authorize the incorporation in the several municipalities in this state of public corporations to finance, acquire, own, lease, or dispose of properties, to the end that such corporations may be able t…