Terms Used In Tennessee Code 13-20-503

  • City: means the city or town which is, or is about to be, included in the territorial boundaries of an authority when created hereunder. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Governing body: means the council of any city. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • housing authority: means a public body and a body corporate and politic organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions, hereinafter set forth. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Housing project: includes all real and personal property, buildings and improvements, stores, offices, lands for farming and gardening, and community facilities acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed pursuant to a single plan or undertaking, to:
    (i) Demolish, clear, remove, alter or repair unsanitary or unsafe housing. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Municipality: means any city, town, or village or other municipality in the state. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102

The area of operation or boundaries of a housing authority created for a county shall include all of the county for which it is created, and the area of operation or boundaries of a regional housing authority shall include, except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this chapter, all of the counties for which such regional housing authority is created and established; provided, that a county or regional housing authority shall not undertake any housing project or projects within the boundaries of any city or other municipality of more than two thousand (2,000) inhabitants, unless a resolution has been adopted by the governing body of such city or other municipality, and also by any housing authority which has been theretofore established and authorized to exercise its powers in such city or other municipality, declaring that there is a need for the county or regional housing authority to exercise its powers within such city or other municipality.

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