Tennessee Code 7-57-201 – Creation of hospital authorities
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-57-201
- Board: means the board of trustees of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Creating municipality: means any city or metropolitan government having a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, or any county in which any such city shall be situated, that shall create an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Executive officer: means the mayor, county mayor, or other chief executive officer of any creating or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
- Governing body: means the chief legislative body of any creating or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
- hospital authority: means a public body and a body corporate and public organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions set forth in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
- Participating municipality: means any city, town or county, which city, town or county, pursuant to a resolution of its governing body and an agreement with the creating municipality, shall have sold, leased, dedicated, donated or otherwise conveyed its hospitals to the authority for operation by the authority in order to make such hospital an operational part of its health care system. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
- Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Resolution: means any resolution adopted by governing bodies pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
- State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103