| 1 | 1 | | |
|---|
| 2 | 2 | | HOUSE BILL 543 |
|---|
| 3 | 3 | | By Vaughan |
|---|
| 4 | 4 | | |
|---|
| 5 | 5 | | SENATE BILL 1138 |
|---|
| 6 | 6 | | By Taylor |
|---|
| 7 | 7 | | |
|---|
| 8 | 8 | | |
|---|
| 9 | 9 | | SB1138 |
|---|
| 10 | 10 | | 000581 |
|---|
| 11 | 11 | | - 1 - |
|---|
| 12 | 12 | | |
|---|
| 13 | 13 | | AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, |
|---|
| 14 | 14 | | Chapter 35; Title 7, Chapter 82 and Title 68, |
|---|
| 15 | 15 | | Chapter 221, relative to sewer systems. |
|---|
| 16 | 16 | | |
|---|
| 17 | 17 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE: |
|---|
| 18 | 18 | | SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 35, Part 4, is amended by |
|---|
| 19 | 19 | | adding the following as a new section: |
|---|
| 20 | 20 | | A city or town that has operated a sewerage system outside of the corporate |
|---|
| 21 | 21 | | boundaries of the city or town for twenty-five (25) years or more shall not cease |
|---|
| 22 | 22 | | operating the sewerage system outside the corporate boundaries so long as the |
|---|
| 23 | 23 | | sewerage system maintains sufficient capacity, as determined by a study conducted by |
|---|
| 24 | 24 | | the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR). |
|---|
| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 82, Part 3, is amended by |
|---|
| 26 | 26 | | adding the following as a new section: |
|---|
| 27 | 27 | | A utility district that has operated a sewerage system in the unincorporated |
|---|
| 28 | 28 | | territory of a county for twenty-five (25) years or more shall not cease operating the |
|---|
| 29 | 29 | | sewerage system in the unincorporated territory so long as the sewerage system |
|---|
| 30 | 30 | | maintains sufficient capacity, as determined by a study conducted by the Tennessee |
|---|
| 31 | 31 | | advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR). |
|---|
| 32 | 32 | | SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 2, is amended by |
|---|
| 33 | 33 | | adding the following as a new section: |
|---|
| 34 | 34 | | A municipality that has operated a sewage treatment works outside of the |
|---|
| 35 | 35 | | corporate boundaries of the city or town for twenty-five (25) years or more shall not |
|---|
| 36 | 36 | | cease operating the sewage treatment works outside the corporate boundaries so long |
|---|
| 37 | 37 | | |
|---|
| 38 | 38 | | |
|---|
| 39 | 39 | | - 2 - 000581 |
|---|
| 40 | 40 | | |
|---|
| 41 | 41 | | as the sewage treatment works maintains sufficient capacity, as determined by a study |
|---|
| 42 | 42 | | conducted by the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations |
|---|
| 43 | 43 | | (TACIR). |
|---|
| 44 | 44 | | SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it. |
|---|