(a)Expenditures. The total expenditures to be made by the joint board for any purpose in any fiscal year shall be determined by a budget approved by the governing bodies of its constituent public agencies on or before thirty (30) days preceding the first day of the fiscal year.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 42-5-204

  • Air navigation facility: means any facility, other than one 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 combination of any or all of such facilities. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
  • Airport: means any area of land or water that is used, or intended for use, for the landing and take-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 thereon. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
  • 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 42-5-102
  • Avigation easement: means any easement that includes all or any part of the following: the right to unobstructed and unrestricted flight of aircraft, in, through, and across the airspace over and above certain described land, beginning at the altitude or height above the surface of the land as determined by the municipality. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Public agency: includes a municipality, as defined in this chapter, any agency of the state government and of the United States, and any municipality, political subdivision and agency of another state. See Tennessee Code 42-5-201
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b)Acquisitions Beyond Sums Allotted. No airport, air navigation facility, airport hazard, avigation easement, or real or personal property, the cost of which is in excess of sums therefor fixed by the joint agreement or allotted in the annual budget, may be acquired 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 only by authority of the governing bodies of the constituent public agencies, which authority may be by resolution or ordinance; provided, that the joint board may, without such consent, enter into the contract, lease or other arrangements contemplated by § 42-5-110.
(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 the contract, lease or other arrangements contemplated by § 42-5-110.
(e)Police Regulations. Any resolutions, rules, regulations or orders of the joint board regarding the subjects authorized by § 42-5-113 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, regulations, rules or orders of each public agency would have in its own territory or jurisdiction.
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