(a) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with an authority, the municipality authorizing the authority may assign or loan any of its employees, including its engineering staff, and facilities, or those of its agencies and instrumentalities; may provide necessary office space, equipment, and other facilities for the use of the authority and may provide or cause its agencies and instrumentalities to provide such services, all as the governing body of the municipality shall approve by resolution.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-89-111

  • Governing body: means the body in which the general legislative powers of a municipality are vested. See Tennessee Code 7-89-103
  • 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
  • Municipality: means any county, metropolitan government or incorporated city or town in this state with respect to which an authority may be organized. See Tennessee Code 7-89-103
  • Project: means any land, improvement, structure, building or part of a building comprised of facilities for conventions, public assemblies, conferences, trade exhibitions or other business, social, cultural, scientific and public interest events, along with any associated hotel accommodations. See Tennessee Code 7-89-103
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • revenue bonds: means bonds, notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority issued pursuant to this chapter, or pursuant to any other law, as supplemented by, or in conjunction with, this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-89-103
(b) The governing body of the municipality may enter into a lease of any project or part of a project, and may make donations of property, real or personal, or cash grants to the authority, in such amount or amounts as it may deem proper and appropriate in aiding the authority to accomplish its purpose, all as the governing body of the municipality shall approve by resolution.
(c) Any municipality authorizing an authority that enters into a lease with an authority may convey real property or personal property to the authority and may include a provision in the conveyance for the reversion of the property to the transferor at such time as all revenue bonds or other obligations of the authority incident to the real property so conveyed have been paid in full, all as the governing body of the municipality shall approve by resolution, and any authority created pursuant to this chapter is authorized to accept such a conveyance.
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