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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-57-309

  • Governing body: means the chief legislative body of any creating or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Participating municipality: means any city, town or county, which city, town or county, pursuant to a resolution of its governing body and an agreement with the creating municipality, shall have sold, leased, dedicated, donated or otherwise conveyed its hospitals to the authority for operation by the authority in order to make such hospital an operational part of its health care system. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

Any property, real or personal, conveyed or leased to an authority by a creating or participating municipality shall be operated by the authority to which the property is conveyed, together with other facilities of the authority, in accordance with and under this chapter and the contracts entered into between the authority and the governing body or bodies of the creating or participating municipality or municipalities.