(a) The associated municipality is authorized to transfer to an authority created pursuant to this chapter all of the associated municipality‘s right, title, and interest in and all the assets of the municipal electric, water, wastewater, and telecommunications systems, or any one (1) or more of such systems, including all real and personal property, tangible or intangible, and any right or interest in any such property, whether or not subject to mortgages, liens, charges, or other encumbrances, and all appurtenances, contracts, leases, franchises, and other intangibles must be transferred to the authority. The transfer must be authorized by resolution of the governing body of the associated municipality adopted on one (1) reading and must be accomplished through documents and instruments authorized by the resolution and executed by the officers of the associated municipality as designated by the resolution. A transfer of an associated municipality’s electric or telecommunications system to an authority in accordance with this subsection (a) is not a disposition of assets for purposes of § 7-52-132.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-36-132
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Associated municipality: means a municipality that is located in a county having a population of three hundred thirty-five thousand (335,000) or less, according to the 2010 federal census or any subsequent federal census, and that, as of the date an authority is formed under this chapter, operates an electric system under the authority of chapter 52 of this title. See Tennessee Code 7-36-102
Bonds: means bonds, interim certificates, notes, debentures, lease-purchase agreements, and all other evidences of indebtedness either issued by or the payment of which has been assumed by the authority. See Tennessee Code 7-36-102
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
Governing body: means the legislative body of the associated municipality creating an authority pursuant to this chapter or, as applicable in §. See Tennessee Code 7-36-102
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Municipality: means any county or incorporated city or town within or outside this state. See Tennessee Code 7-36-102
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
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
Supervisory board: means the board of public utilities or other similar body of the associated municipality, as such board is constituted as of the date an authority is formed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-36-102
System: means any plant, works, facility, property, or parts thereof, together with all appurtenances thereto, used or useful in connection with the furnishing of any of the services and commodities authorized to be provided in this chapter, including generation or production facilities, transmission facilities, storage facilities, and distribution facilities, and all real and personal property of every nature comprising part of or used or useful in connection with a "system" and all appurtenances, contracts, leases, franchises, and other intangibles relating to a "system". See Tennessee Code 7-36-102
(b) Upon formation of an authority pursuant to this chapter, a franchise is granted to the authority to provide within the corporate limits of the associated municipality any and all of the services that it is authorized to provide under applicable law and as set forth in its certificate of incorporation, subject to payment in lieu of taxes pursuant to § 7-36-122. Consistent with § 7-36-107(a)(6), the associated municipality may require such franchise or franchises for the provision of telecommunications services as are permitted under state or federal law.(c) Upon transfer of an electric, water, or wastewater system from an associated municipality to an authority and the assumption or satisfaction of all obligations of the supervisory board, the jurisdiction and control of the associated municipality and the supervisory board over such system must be transferred to the authority, and the supervisory board having oversight over such system shall cease to exist.(d) It is a condition of the transfer of a system from the associated municipality to the authority that upon the transfer the authority must either retire the associated municipality’s bonds associated with such system by the payment of the bonds in full upon transfer, defease such associated municipality’s bonds by depositing funds in irrevocable escrow for the payment of these bonds, or assume and agree to pay in full principal of and interest on such bonds of the associated municipality. Upon the assumption by the authority of the associated municipality bonds and its agreement to pay those bonds when due, the authority shall be fully obligated to pay when due, principal, premium, and interest with respect to those bonds with the same force and effect as if those bonds were issued by the authority. Bonds issued pursuant to this section must be secured by, and payable from, the revenues of the respective system in the same way as other bonds of the authority issued pursuant to this chapter. The transfer of each of the systems must be accomplished in such a manner as not to impair the obligations of contract with reference to the associated municipality’s bonds and other legal obligations of the associated municipality and to preserve and protect the contract rights vested in the owners of such bonds and other obligations.
