(a) The municipality shall not in any event be liable for the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds of the authority or for the performance of any pledge, mortgage, obligation or agreement of any kind whatsoever which may be undertaken by the authority, and none of the bonds of the authority or any of its agreements or obligations shall be construed to constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory provision whatsoever.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 12-10-114

  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipality: means any county, incorporated city or town or utility district in this state with respect to which an authority may be organized. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Project: includes an undertaking whereby a municipal corporation contracts with an authority respecting construction of improvements upon and/or for the operation and maintenance of property owned by or leased by other than the authority to the municipal corporation. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a municipality may, by a written indemnity agreement, agree to indemnify an authority and its directors, officers and employees against losses, claims, expenses, costs, obligations, debts, suits, demands, actions and liabilities, including those arising from the authority’s negligence, which are asserted against the authority, or its directors, officers or employees in connection with any project undertaken by the authority, and such indemnity agreement shall be enforceable against the municipality in accordance with its terms, including any such indemnity agreement in effect on May 7, 1998.
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