§ 7-53-106 — Powers supplementary - Provisions severable

(a) The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition and supplementary to, and the limitations by this chapter shall not affect the powers conferred by any other general, special or local law. Projects may be acquired, purchased, constructed, reconstructed, improved, bettered and extended and bonds may be issued under this chapter for such purposes, notwithstanding that any other general, special or local law may provide for the acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment and extension of a like project, or the issuance of bonds for like purposes, and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law. (b) If any one (1) or more sections or provisions of this chapter, including, without limitation, the provisions of § 7-53-310 authorizing the transfer of a project site by a municipality to a corporation, the provisions of § 7-53-305 exempting the corporation and its properties from taxation, and the provisions of § 7-53-306 authorizing the pledge of municipal credit, or the application of the sections or provisions to any person or circumstance, are ever held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions of this chapter and the application of this chapter to persons or circumstances other than those to which it is held to be invalid, shall not be affected thereby, it being the intention of this general assembly to enact the remaining provisions of this chapter, notwithstanding such invalidity.

Legislative History

Acts 1959, ch. 222, § 6; T.C.A., § 6-2820.