(a) An authority has all the powers necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter (excluding the power to levy and collect taxes or special assessments) including, but not limited to, the power to:
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 42-3-108
Air navigation facility: means any facility, other than a facility owned and operated by the United States, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, markers, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities, or devices used or useful as an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience, to the safe taking off, navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or maintenance of an airport, and any combination of any or all of such facilities. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
Airport: means any area of land or water that is used, or intended for use, for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas that are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or avigation easements or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located on those areas. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
authority: means any regional airport authority or municipal airport authority created pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
Devise: To gift property by will.
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
Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
Municipality: means any county, or any incorporated city or incorporated town of this state. See Tennessee Code 42-3-102
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
Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
(1)(A) Sue and be sued;(B) Have a seal;(C) Have perpetual succession; and(D) Have such immunity in tort cases as do municipalities under the Municipal Airport Act, compiled in chapter 5 of this title;(2) Execute such contracts and other instruments and take such other action as may be necessary or convenient to carry out the purposes of this chapter;(3) Plan, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate, and protect airports and air navigation facilities, within this state and within any adjoining state, including the acquisition, construction, installation, equipment, maintenance, and operation of such airports or buildings and other facilities for the servicing of aircraft or for the comfort and accommodation of air travelers, and the purchase and sale of supplies, goods, and commodities as are incident to the operation of its airport properties. For such purposes, an authority may, by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, acquire property, real or personal, or any interest in property, including avigation easements and easements in airport hazards or land outside the boundaries of an airport or airport site, as are necessary to permit the removal, elimination, obstruction-marking, or obstruction-lighting of airport hazards or to prevent the establishment of airport hazards;(4) Acquire by purchase, gift, devise, lease, eminent domain proceedings or otherwise, existing airports and air navigation facilities; provided, that an authority shall not acquire or take over any airport or air navigation facility owned or controlled by another authority, a municipality, or public agency of this or any other state without the consent of that authority, municipality, or public agency; and(5) Establish or acquire and maintain airports in, over, and upon any public waters of this state or any submerged lands under public waters; and construct and maintain terminal buildings, landing floats, causeways, roadways, and bridges for approaches to or connecting with any such airport, and landing floats and breakwaters for the protection of such structures.(b) Any authority that is operated by a board of commissioners whose membership is appointed by the legislative bodies of five (5) or more local governments has the power to promulgate, adopt, and enforce such motor vehicle traffic regulations for airport authority property as may be necessary to provide for the public safety.
