(a) The commissioner of environment and conservation has the authority to enter into agreements with any not-for-profit corporation chartered under the laws of this state, such agreements being for the purpose of planning, providing, maintaining, and/or administering recreational and natural areas and facilities for the use by the general public.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 11-1-114

  • 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
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Such authority includes the power to provide duly commissioned park rangers for the enforcement of state laws and regulations on publicly and privately owned lands or waters used as recreational areas by the general public.
(c) Furthermore, the commissioner has the authority to acquire by gift, purchase, exchange, assumption of tax payments, or other method specifically excluding condemnation, lands or easements adjacent to or near such recreational or natural areas for the purpose of facilitating the public use of these areas.
(d) In exercising the authority granted in this section, the commissioner shall abide by all law relating to contracts, property management, and leasing, including such regulations as may be promulgated by appropriate state officials, subject to specific appropriation of funds by the general assembly.
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