Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-40-101

  • district: means one (1) or more parcels of real property located within a municipality, some part of whose corporate limits borders a neighboring state, and which some boundary of a district is no more than one-half (1/2) mile from an existing federally-designated interstate exit, is no more than twelve (12) miles from a state border as measured by straight line, is no larger than a total area of nine hundred fifty (950) acres, and designated as a border region retail tourism development district by a municipal ordinance and certified by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 7-40-103

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Border Region Retail Tourism Development District Act.”