(a) Any county or municipality with respect to which the authority was organized has all necessary powers in order to further the purposes of this part, including, without limitation, the power to:

Attorney's Note

Under the Tennessee Code, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
class A misdemeanorup to 11 monthsup to $2,500
For details, see Tenn. Code § 40-35-111

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-211-918

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Governing body: means the body in which the general legislative powers of a municipal corporation are vested and, in the case of counties, means the legislative body of the respective counties. See Tennessee Code 68-211-902
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Person: means person as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 68-211-902
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Resource recovery facility: means land, rights in land, buildings, facilities and equipment suitable or necessary for the recovery or production of energy or energy producing materials in any form resulting from the controlled processing or disposal of solid waste or the systematic separation, extraction and recovery of recyclable materials from the solid waste stream, including facilities or systems for the storage, conversion or transportation thereof. See Tennessee Code 68-211-902
  • Solid waste: means solid waste as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 68-211-902
(1) Provide that any funds available to it for solid waste or resource recovery purposes shall be paid directly to the authority; and
(2) Sell, lease, dedicate, donate or otherwise convey to the authority any of its interest in any existing solid waste disposal or resource recovery facility or other related property, or grant easements, licenses or other rights or privileges therein to the authority.
(b) The governing body of each county or municipality participating in the organization of the authority may appropriate general funds or unappropriated moneys from any other fund, to pay expenses of the authority or provide for the operation of any of the projects, facilities and systems authorized by this part, and each such governing body may levy a tax, in addition to all other taxes, upon all taxable property within the respective county or municipality, sufficient to pay such appropriation to the authority. Any such tax on property shall be collected in the same manner as other property taxes of the county or municipality are collected and, similarly, all laws for the enforcement of county and municipal tax liens shall apply.
(c) Any person who willfully violates any of the ordinances or resolutions passed by any of the municipalities or any county or counties with respect to which the authority was organized or willfully fails, neglects or refuses to comply with such ordinances or resolutions commits a Class A misdemeanor. Each day of continued violation constitutes a separate offense.
(d) In addition to the penalties provided herein, the municipalities and any county or counties with respect to which the authority was organized may enforce any ordinances, resolutions or contracts issued or entered into to carry out this section by instituting legal proceedings to enjoin the violation of this section, in any court of competent jurisdiction, and such court may grant a temporary or permanent injunction restraining the violation of this section.
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