Uniform Relocation Assistance Act
Tennessee · Public Planning And Housing · §§ 13-11-101 to 13-11-119 · 19 sections
Overview
The Uniform Relocation Assistance Act governs the treatment of people, businesses, and farms displaced when government or publicly funded projects acquire real property, aligning state practice with the parallel federal relocation and property-acquisition standards. It requires paying displaced persons for moving expenses, dislocation allowances, and certain replacement-housing and incidental costs such as fees, penalty charges, and taxes, with fixed-payment alternatives available in place of itemized claims and specific obligations imposed on landlords in some situations. The act also establishes a relocation assistance advisory program, conditions the availability of comparable replacement housing before displacement may occur, directs agencies to adopt implementing regulations and procedures, treats relocation payments as neither income nor resources for benefit-eligibility purposes, provides an administrative appeal route, and ties state grants-in-aid to an approved relocation plan.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 1 court decision.
Most-cited authority: 186 CALAPP3D 897 - Beaty v. Imperial Irrigation District
Sections covered
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-101Short title
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-102Purpose
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-103Chapter definitions1 cite
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-104Effect upon property acquisition
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-105Moving and related expenses
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-106Replacement housing for homeowners
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-107Replacement housing for tenants and certain others
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-108Relocation assistance advisory services
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-109Housing replacement by state agency as last resort
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-110Requirements for relocation payments and assistance of state assisted programs — Assurances of availability of housing
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-111Permissive authority given local agency
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-112State share of costs
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-113Authority of the governor
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-114Administration — Relocation assistance programs
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-115Payments not to be considered as income or resources
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-116Replacement by building code enforcement or voluntary rehabilitation
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-117Reduction in payments
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-118Uneconomic remnant — Donation of property
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 13-11-119State as federal agent
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