The several counties are empowered to do all things necessary to provide such county-wide or special district garbage and rubbish collection service or garbage and rubbish disposal service, or both, including, but not limited to:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 5-19-107

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Garbage and rubbish collection service: means and includes all operations of all manpower and equipment, whether employed or owned by the county or by some other entity, public or private, with which the county may choose to contract, for the gathering, removal and transporting of refuse produced by the area to be served. See Tennessee Code 5-19-102
  • Garbage and rubbish disposal service: means and includes all composting or other processing plants, incinerators, sanitary landfills and all other sites or facilities for the receiving, processing and getting rid of collected refuse, whether publicly or privately owned or operated, or both. See Tennessee Code 5-19-102
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) Take or acquire real or personal property of every kind, or any interest therein within the county, by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, and hold, manage, occupy, dispose of, convey, and encumber the same and create a leasehold interest in the same for the benefit of the county;
(3) Exercise the right of eminent domain;
(4) Establish, equip, operate and maintain the services, or any of them, authorized by this chapter and establish and enforce regulations including, but not limited to, those for the administration, operation and maintenance thereof;
(5) Appoint and employ necessary employees and define their qualifications, duties and responsibilities, and provide for payment in reasonable sums for such duties;
(6) Employ counsel;
(7) Enter into and perform all necessary contracts, including, but not limited to, contracts with incorporated towns and cities, or with utility districts, within or without the county, or with private contractors, to provide such services within or without their corporate limits, contracts to provide or to be provided training and maintenance, contracts with one (1) or more other counties or with one (1) or more municipalities in other counties for joint provision of such services, contracts for purchasing or leasing necessary equipment, contracts for the performance of any or all operations involved in the provision of such services either on a district, or on a county-wide basis, or on an intergovernmental basis;
(8) Provide and maintain all special service functions necessary to the implementation of this chapter, such as, but not limited to, the services of the county sanitarian in the inspection of all refuse processing or disposing operations within the county;
(9) Make regulations that shall have the force of law governing all collection and disposal operations and practices entered into under the terms of this chapter;
(10) Set the boundaries of special refuse disposal districts established under the terms of this chapter;
(11) Establish schedules of, and collect reasonable charges for, any services rendered in any district or area that are not covered by the special tax levy authorized in § 5-19-108 or § 5-19-109 for garbage and rubbish collection or disposal, or both, in that district or area; and
(12) Make written agreements for the allocation and conveyance to any annexing municipality of any or all public functions, rights, duties, property, assets and liabilities of a county-wide or district system within or without the area annexed, or to be annexed, that justice and reason may require in the circumstances.
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