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§ 6-58-110. Certain Grants Unavailable to Counties and Municipalities Without Approved Growth Plan as of July 1, 2001

Effective July 1, 2001, the following loan and grant programs shall be unavailable in those counties and municipalities that do not have growth plans approved by the local government planning advisory committee, and shall remain unavailable until growth plans have been approved: Tennessee housing development agency grant programs; Community development block grants; Tennessee industrial infrastructure […]

§ 6-58-111. Annexation Procedure — Quo Warranto Action to Challenge Annexation

A municipality possesses exclusive authority to annex territory located within its approved urban growth boundaries; therefore, no municipality may annex by ordinance or by referendum any territory located within another municipality’s approved urban growth boundaries. Within a municipality’s approved urban growth boundaries, a municipality may use any of the methods in chapter 51 of this […]

§ 6-58-112. New Municipalities — Property Tax — Incorporation Election

After January 1, 1999, a new municipality may only be created in territory approved as a planned growth area in conformity with  § 6-58-104; A county may provide or contract for the provision of services within a planned growth area and set a separate tax rate specifically for the services provided within a planned growth […]

§ 6-58-113. Monitoring and Reporting by Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

The Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) shall monitor implementation of this chapter and shall periodically report its findings and recommendations to the general assembly. Each agency of the executive branch, each municipal and county official, each local government organization, including any planning commission and development district, shall cooperate with the commission and provide […]

§ 6-58-114. Joint Economic and Community Development Board

It is the intent of the general assembly that local governments engage in long-term planning, and that such planning be accomplished through regular communication and cooperation among local governments, the agencies attached to them, and the agencies that serve them. It is also the intent of the general assembly that the growth plans required result […]

§ 6-58-116. Airport — Annexation-Free Zone

Notwithstanding  §§ 6-58-106, former 6-58-108 [repealed] and 6-58-111, the property of an airport with regularly scheduled commercial passenger service that is located in a county other than the county where the creating municipality is located, except upon approval by resolution of the legislative body of the creating municipality, shall be and remain in an annexation-free […]

§ 6-58-117. Flood Insurance Rate Map or Flood Hazard Boundary Map — Requirements for Participation in the National Flood Insurance Program

In cooperation with the department of economic and community development, all counties and municipalities in this state that have an effective flood insurance rate map or flood hazard boundary map published by the federal emergency management agency that identifies a special flood hazard area within the political boundaries of the county or municipality shall meet […]

§ 6-58-106. Urban Growth Boundaries — Proposal — Hearing — Rural Areas

The urban growth boundaries of a municipality shall: Identify territory that is reasonably compact yet sufficiently large to accommodate residential and nonresidential growth projected to occur during the next twenty (20) years; Identify territory that is contiguous to the existing boundaries of the municipality; Identify territory that a reasonable and prudent person would project as […]