The emergency communications district so created shall be a “municipality” or public corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name, and the district shall in that name be a body politic and corporate with power of perpetual succession, but without any power to levy or collect taxes. Charges for services authorized in this chapter shall not be construed as taxes and shall be payable as bona fide service charges by all service users, whether private or public, profit making, or not-for-profit, including governmental entities. The powers of each district shall be vested in and exercised by a majority of the members of the board of directors of the district.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-86-106
Status — Corporate powers — Charges not taxes
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Hamilton County Emergency Communications District v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC (2012)
Most recently applied in Hamilton County Emergency Communications District v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, LLC (August 2012)
Acts 1984, ch. 867, § 6; 1987, ch. 94, § 1.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.