(a) Any municipality or other governmental entity is authorized to carry out this part as acts of government on behalf of the state as sovereign, to the extent the governmental entity deems necessary or appropriate, even if it is anticompetitive in effect.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-51-1004

  • governmental entity: means any political subdivision of the state of Tennessee and any municipality, metropolitan government, county or airport authority. See Tennessee Code 7-51-1002
  • 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
(b) All immunity of the state of Tennessee from liability under state and federal antitrust law is hereby extended to any municipality or other governmental entity within the scope of authority contained in this part, and, when so doing, a municipality or other governmental entity shall be presumed to be acting in furtherance of state policy.
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