§ 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 […]
§ 6-58-115. Applicability to Pending Annexation Ordinances
This chapter shall not apply to any annexation ordinance that was pending, but not yet effective, on November 25, 1997.
§ 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 […]
§ 6-58-118. Urban Growth Boundaries — Expansion Without Reconvening Coordinating Committee or Approval From County
A municipality may expand its urban growth boundaries to annex a tract of land without reconvening the coordinating committee or approval from the county or any other municipality if: The tract is contiguous to a tract of land that has the same owner and has already been annexed by the municipality; The tract is being […]
§ 6-58-103. Applicability of Chapter to Counties With Metropolitan Governments
This chapter does not apply to any county having a metropolitan form of government; provided, that each such county shall receive full benefit of all incentives available pursuant to § 6-58-109, and each such county shall escape the sanctions imposed by § 6-58-110; and provided further, that any municipality that lies within a county having […]