{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-9-4-5306","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 9-4-5306","heading":"Locality does not meet municipality requirements","body":"(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, IF, after July 1, 1998, a locality is deemed by the state to be a municipality for purposes of distributing grants or state-shared taxes; AND IF, thereafter the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purposes, receives and expends or obligates grants or state-shared taxes; AND IF, thereafter it is judicially determined that the locality was not incorporated in accordance with the requirements of law and, therefore, is not a municipality; THEN Neither the locality nor any person who acted on behalf of the locality is required to return or repay such grants or state-shared taxes; however, subject to § 67-5-104(c) , any portion of such grants or state-shared taxes, that remains unexpended and unobligated, shall become assets of the county. (b) As used in subsection (a), \"the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purposes, ... expends\" includes, but is not limited to, reimbursement paid from grants or state-shared taxes for documented, reasonable expenses of municipal incorporation that were paid out-of-pocket by one (1) or more residents acting on behalf of the locality and its incorporation. Acts 2000, ch. 898, § 1.\n(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, IF, after July 1, 1998, a locality is deemed by the state to be a municipality for purposes of distributing grants or state-shared taxes; AND IF, thereafter the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purposes, receives and expends or obligates grants or state-shared taxes; AND IF, thereafter it is judicially determined that the locality was not incorporated in accordance with the requirements of law and, therefore, is not a municipality; THEN Neither the locality nor any person who acted on behalf of the locality is required to return or repay such grants or state-shared taxes; however, subject to § 67-5-104(c) , any portion of such grants or state-shared taxes, that remains unexpended and unobligated, shall become assets of the county.\nIF, after July 1, 1998, a locality is deemed by the state to be a municipality for purposes of distributing grants or state-shared taxes; AND\nIF, thereafter the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purposes, receives and expends or obligates grants or state-shared taxes; AND\nIF, thereafter it is judicially determined that the locality was not incorporated in accordance with the requirements of law and, therefore, is not a municipality; THEN\nNeither the locality nor any person who acted on behalf of the locality is required to return or repay such grants or state-shared taxes; however, subject to § 67-5-104(c) , any portion of such grants or state-shared taxes, that remains unexpended and unobligated, shall become assets of the county.\n(b) As used in subsection (a), \"the locality, acting in good faith and under color of law and for municipal purposes, ... expends\" includes, but is not limited to, reimbursement paid from grants or state-shared taxes for documented, reasonable expenses of municipal incorporation that were paid out-of-pocket by one (1) or more residents acting on behalf of the locality and its incorporation.","path":["TN Code","Title 9","Chapter 4"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"3d1c3199ae3ea51b8933893bc71e87149dacce433b3511d770e00c1f91f0b4c7","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-9-4-5305","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-9-4-5401","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}