Tennessee § 6-58-101 - Chapter definitions.

§ 6-58-101. Chapter definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Calendar quarter” means any one (1) of the following time periods during a given year: January 1 through March 31, April 1 through June 30, July 1 through September 30, or October 1 through December 31; “Committee” means the local government planning advisory committee established by § 4-3-727; “Council” means the joint economic and community development council established by § 6-58-114; “Growth plan” means the plan each county must file with the committee by July 1, 2001, as required by § 6-58-107; “National flood insurance program (NFIP)” means the insurance program administered by the federal emergency management agency, as authorized by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act (42 U.S.C. § 4001 et seq); “Planned growth area” means an area established in conformance with § 6-58-106(b) and approved in accordance with the requirements of § 6-58-104; “Rural area” means an area established in conformance with § 6-58-106(c) and approved in accordance with the requirements of § 6-58-104; “Special flood hazard area” means the land area covered by the floodwaters of the base flood on NFIP maps; and “Urban growth boundary” means a line encompassing territory established in conformance with § 6-58-106(a) and approved in accordance with the requirements of § 6-58-104. Acts 1998, ch. 1101, § 1; 2005, ch. 245, § 1; 2010, ch. 1091, § 2. Compiler's Notes. For the Preamble to the act concerning state government efforts to provide secure and efficient processing of information through call centers, please refer to Acts 2010, ch. 1091. Law Reviews. Growth and Its Implications: An Evaluation of Tennessee's Growth Management Plan, 67 Tenn. L. Rev. 983 (2000). Property Rights vs. Public Use: Analyzing Tennessee's Response to Kelo Eminent Domain Ruling (Scott Griswold), 43 Tenn B.J. 14 (2007). Revitalizing Urban Cities: Linking the Past to the Present, 46 U. Mem. L. Rev. 973 (2016). Saving Our Cities: Land Banking in Tennessee, 46 U. Mem. L. Rev. 927 (2016). Attorney General Opinions. Extraterritorial zoning by cities under county growth plan, OAG 99-218, 1999 Tenn. AG LEXIS 180 (11/4/99). Right of municipality to separate planning region designation; right of municipality to provide zoning and subdivision regulations outside corporate limits but within urban growth boundaries, OAG 99-227, 1999 Tenn. AG LEXIS 229 (12/6/99). Applicability of county growth plan to federally owned property, OAG 00-018, 2000 Tenn. AG LEXIS 18 (2/10/00). Effect and enforcement of growth plan, OAG 00-022, 2000 Tenn. AG LEXIS 22 (2/15/00). 1998 Tenn. Pub. Acts Ch. 1101 does not require the local government planning advisory committee to automatically expand the planning region of a municipal planning commission to encompass the entire area of that city's urban growth boundary; however, if the committee determines that such an expansion, as a policy matter, is appropriate in all cases, the committee may approve it, subject to the requirements in T.C.A. § 13-3-102 , including the city's acceptance of the expansion, OAG 01-092, 2001 Tenn. AG LEXIS 83 (6/4/01). An ordinance annexing parcels of land connected to the city limits only by a strip of land such as a highway is not per se invalid under the annexation statutes; however, such an ordinance may be invalid under T.C.A. § 6-51-102 [former language] because the annexed territory does not adjoin the existing city limits, or is unreasonable under the same statute or T.C.A. § 6-51-103 because it does not further orderly city development, OAG 03-158, 2003 Tenn. AG LEXIS 191 (12/08/03).