Tennessee Code 13-3-105 – Public works in planning regions – Approval by department of economic and community development
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 13-3-105
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Regional planning commission: means any regional planning commission established by the department of economic and community development as provided by law, and includes any municipal planning commission designated by the department as the regional planning commission of a planning region composed of the territory of a single municipality, together with the territory adjoining but outside of such municipality, no part of which is outside the municipality's urban growth boundary or, if no such boundary exists, more than five (5) miles beyond the limits of such municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-3-401
- Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
From and after the time of the creation and defining by the department of economic and community development of a planning region, and the appointment by the department of a regional planning commission of such region, thenceforth the department of transportation or any other state department shall not agree to supply or appropriate money for the construction of any road, bridge, or other public structure within the region, nor shall any state department construct or contribute to the construction of any street, road or other public structure within any municipality in the region, nor shall any county lying wholly or partly within the region participate in the expenditure of the funds of any state department or be aided in the construction of any road, bridge, or other public structure within the region, nor shall state liability be incurred incident to the acquisition of rights-of-way or other property for any highway or other public improvement within the region, nor any other state aid be given for any road, bridge, building or other public structure within the region, until and unless such supply, appropriation, construction, contribution, participation, liability or aid has been submitted to the department of economic and community development and until the department has given and reported its judgment, opinion and recommendations thereon to the court, board, official or department having charge of such acquisition, supply, appropriation, contribution, participation, liability, aid, construction, or authorization; provided, that in the event that the department fails to make such report within thirty (30) days from and after the date of the submission to it, this requirement shall be deemed to have been waived; and in passing upon the question of its approval, the department may take into account the quality of the work of the regional planning commission; the object of this requirement being to promote the application of planning methods and principles in the location, character and extent of public works financed with the help of state aid.