Terms Used In Tennessee Code 7-88-105

  • Municipality: means any incorporated city or county located in the state of Tennessee, including a county with a metropolitan form of government. See Tennessee Code 7-88-103
  • Qualified public use facility: includes :
    (i) Any building, complex, center, facility or any two (2) or more adjacent buildings, complexes, centers or facilities containing at least two hundred fifty thousand square feet (250,000 sq. See Tennessee Code 7-88-103
  • Tourism development zone: means an area in a municipality designated by ordinance or resolution of such municipality in which a qualified public use facility is located or planned, that is determined by the department of finance and administration to be a beneficially impacted area in accordance with the requirements of this chapter and that is certified as a tourism development zone by the department. See Tennessee Code 7-88-103

A tourism development zone shall not extend farther than one (1) mile from the outer perimeter of a qualified public use facility; provided, however, that if the department of finance and administration determines that the geographical configuration of a municipality requires an unusually shaped tourism development zone, such zone may extend farther than one (1) mile from the outer perimeter of a qualified public use facility, except that the size of the tourism development zone shall not exceed three square miles (3 sq. mi.).