Terms Used In Tennessee Code 13-20-303

  • Cost of relocation: means the entire amount paid properly attributable to such relocation, after deducting therefrom any increase in the value of the new facility and any salvage value derived from the old facility. See Tennessee Code 13-20-302
  • housing authority: means a public body and a body corporate and politic organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions, hereinafter set forth. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Municipality: means any city, town, or village or other municipality in the state. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Relocation: means any horizontal or vertical movement of utility facilities intact and any protective measures taken or the construction of new or additional facilities, with or without contemporaneous removal and salvage of old facilities, including removal, readjustment, rerouting, or changing the grade of or alternating the construction of any public service facility, either temporarily or permanently, whether or not such relocation is made necessary by the closing of any highway, street, public alley or public right-of-way or the taking of easements whether publicly or privately owned. See Tennessee Code 13-20-302
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
  • Utility: includes all utilities either public, private, or cooperatively owned which furnish utility service including, but not limited to, water, electric power, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, steam power, gas, and telephone or telegraph service, through a system of pipes, conduits, cables, or wires devoted to public utility service. See Tennessee Code 13-20-302

Whenever a municipality, housing authority, or other public body of this state determines that the relocation of public service facilities of a utility within a redevelopment or urban renewal project area is necessary to the carrying out of a redevelopment or urban renewal plan pursuant to this chapter, the municipality, housing authority, or other public body shall reimburse the utility for the cost of relocation of such facilities.