(a)Exemptions. The total expenditures to be made by the joint board for any purpose in any calendar year shall be as determined by a budget approved by the constituent public agencies on or before the preceding fiscal year, or as otherwise specifically authorized by the constituent public agencies.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 42-3-204

  • Air navigation facility: means any facility, other than a facility owned and operated by the United States, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, markers, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities, or devices used or useful as an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience, to the safe taking off, navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or maintenance of an airport, and any combination of any or all of such facilities. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
  • Airport: means any area of land or water that is used, or intended for use, for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas that are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or avigation easements or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located on those areas. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
  • Airport hazard: means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of land that obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or is otherwise hazardous to such landing or taking off of aircraft. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
  • authority: means any regional airport authority or municipal airport authority created pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
  • Avigation easement: means any easement that shall include all or any part of the following:
    (A) The right to unobstructed and unrestricted flight of aircraft, in, through and across the airspace over and above certain land, beginning at the altitude or height above the surface of the land as determined by the airport authority. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b)Acquisitions Beyond Sums Allotted. No airport, air navigation facility, avigation easement, airport hazard, or real or personal property, the cost of which is in excess of sums fixed therefor by the joint agreement or allotted in the annual budget, may be acquired, established or developed by the joint board without the approval of the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies.
(c)Eminent Domain. Eminent domain proceedings under this part may be instituted by the joint board only by authority of the governing bodies of the constituent public agencies of the joint board. If so authorized, such proceedings shall be instituted in the names of the constituent public agencies jointly, and the property so acquired shall be held by the public agencies as tenants in common.
(d)Disposal of Real Property. The joint board shall not dispose of any airport, air navigation facility, avigation easement or real property under its jurisdiction except with the consent of the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies; provided, that the joint board may, without such consent, enter into contracts, leases or other arrangements contemplated by § 42-3-112.
(e)Regulations and Orders. Any resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of the joint board dealing with subjects authorized by § 42-3-112 shall become effective only upon approval of the governing bodies of the constituent public agencies; provided, that upon approval, the resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of the joint board shall have the same force and effect in the territories or jurisdictions involved as the ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of each public agency would have in its own territory or jurisdiction.
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