Tennessee § 49-8-401 - General provisions.
Full text of Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated § 49-8-401 — General provisions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 49-8-401. General provisions.
Chattanooga State Community College is authorized to provide comprehensive one- and two-year occupational, college parallel, continuing education and community service programs. The school shall continue to provide high quality technical and scientific occupational programs and serve as a regional technical school to train engineering technicians for industry and prepare students to earn a living as technicians or technical workers in the fields of production, distribution or service. It is the further intent of the general assembly that in the geographical area served by Chattanooga State Community College, there shall be a coordinated program of postsecondary educational offerings provided without unnecessary duplication among the state colleges of applied technology, community colleges and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Acts 1973, ch. 80, § 4; 1973, ch. 200, § 1; T.C.A., § 49-3250; Acts 1994, ch. 685, § 3; 2009, ch. 352, § 2; 2013, ch. 473, § 22. Compiler's Notes. Acts 2009, ch. 352, § 7 provided that any one-time expenditure of funds required by the name conversion of the Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Northeast State Technical Community College, Nashville State Technical Community College and Southwest Tennessee Community College by that act shall be from existing institutional funds.
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