Any municipality, county, or any other form of local government may acquire any interest in land within the boundaries of the local government by gift, purchase, lease, condemnation or any other means, and may transfer that interest to any authority by sale, lease or gift. The transfer may be authorized by resolution or by ordinance of the governing body of the local government without submission of the question to the voters and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, limitations, or other provisions contained in any other general, special, or local law.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-87-108
Acquisition of land
Known as the Port Authority Act
The act spans §§ 7–7 (14 sections).
Acts 1995, ch. 432, § 8; 2007, ch. 389, § 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.