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Aircraft and Airports - As enacted, specifies that a joint board established by two municipalities and two counties pursuant to an interlocal agreement for the purpose of operating an airport is vested with all the power, the official text

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                          PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 911

                                                  HOUSE BILL NO. 1691

                                         By Representatives Sherrell, Todd

                                       Substituted for: Senate Bill No. 1611

                                                     By Senator Bailey

         AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 42, Chapter 5, relative to airports.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 42-5-202, is amended by adding the
following as a new subsection:

                    (d) Notwithstanding another law or a private act to the contrary, a joint board
          established by two (2) municipalities and two (2) counties pursuant to an interlocal
          agreement entered into pursuant to title 12, chapter 9, for the purpose of operating an
          airport, is vested with all the powers, rights, duties, and privileges conferred upon a joint
          board under this chapter and all the powers, rights, duties, and privileges of a regional
          airport authority under chapter 3 of this title. Such board is a public instrumentality of the
          creating municipalities and counties and a public body corporate and politic under the
          laws of. this state. Such. joint board may file a charter with the secretary of state
          containing such information as is required for a public nonprofit corporation to evidence
          the existence of such joint board as a corporate entity and such other information as
          may be deemed relevant by the joint board. Notwithstanding this part, the governance of
          the joint board, including the terms of office of the members of the board and the
          composition of the board, must be set forth in the interlocal agreement creating the joint
          board and not by any other provision of this title.

          SECTION 2. This act takes effeci upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
         HOUSE BILL NO. 1691

PASSED:  April 13, 2026

                         CAMERON S'l!XTON, SPEAKER
                         HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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