HOUSE BILL 543
By Vaughan
SENATE BILL 1138
By Taylor
SB1138
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7,
Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68,
Chapter 221, relative to sewer systems.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 35, Part 4, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
A city or town that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate
boundaries of the city or town for twenty-five (25) years or more shall not cease
operating the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the
sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity, as determined by a study conducted by
the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR).
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 82, Part 3, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
A utility district that has operated a sewerage system in the unincorporated
territory of a county for twenty-five (25) years or more shall not cease operating the
sewerage system in the unincorporated territory so long as the sewerage system
maintains sufficient capacity, as determined by a study conducted by the Tennessee
advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR).
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 2, is amended by
adding the following as a new section:
A municipality that has operated a sewage treatment works outside of the
corporate boundaries of the city or town for twenty-five (25) years or more shall not
cease operating the sewage treatment works outside the corporate boundaries so long
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as the sewage treatment works maintains sufficient capacity, as determined by a study
conducted by the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations
(TACIR).
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.