(a) Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to the contrary, any profit realized from the resale of surplus property transferred to vocational programs operated under title 49, chapter 11, or state technical institutes operated by the state board of regents when such entity or corporation has repaired the item through its vocational program for the purpose of resale shall not revert to the state but may be retained by such entity or corporation. Notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary, such surplus property may be resold at any time after it has been repaired without prior approval of the procurement commission.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 12-2-419

  • Commission: means the procurement commission. See Tennessee Code 12-2-402
  • 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.
  • property: means every species of state property which is not either:
    (A) Real property, the disposal of which is subject to this title, governing the disposal of state real property. See Tennessee Code 12-2-402
  • 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
  • surplus property: means that personal property which has been determined to be obsolete, outmoded, or no longer usable by the state and declared as such, by the commissioner or head of the releasing department or agency, in accordance with this part. See Tennessee Code 12-2-402
(b) The resale of such surplus property shall be made only after public advertisement of the sale in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or municipality in which the sale will take place at least twice in a two-week period preceding the sale.