Tennessee § 7-89-102 Legislative findings - Purpose - Liberal construction

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§ 7-89-102 — Legislative findings - Purpose - Liberal construction

Tennessee § 7-89-102

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Tenn. Code Ann. § 7-89-102 (2026).

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(a)It is found and determined that there is an immediate need to promote and further develop tourism, convention, and employment opportunities in this state, by facilitating the acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of convention center facilities along with associated hotel accommodations; transportation, safety, and cleanliness operations and infrastructure; tourism, theatre, retail business, and commercial office space facilities; parking facilities; parks; greenways; and open space and any and all facilities related to any of these.

(b)It is the purpose of this chapter to address these findings by providing for the establishment of convention center authorities to plan, promote, finance, construct, acquire, renovate, equip, and enlarge convention center facilities along with

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(a) It is found and determined that there is an immediate need to promote and further develop tourism, convention, and employment opportunities in this state, by facilitating the acquisition, construction, and rehabilitation of convention center facilities along with associated hotel accommodations; transportation, safety, and cleanliness operations and infrastructure; tourism, theatre, retail business, and commercial office space facilities; parking facilities; parks; greenways; and open space and any and all facilities related to any of these. (b) It is the purpose of this chapter to address these findings by providing for the establishment of convention center authorities to plan, promote, finance, construct, acquire, renovate, equip, and enlarge convention center facilities along with associated hotel accommodations; transportation, safety, and cleanliness operations and infrastructure; tourism, theatre, retail business, and commercial office space facilities; parking facilities; parks; greenways; and open space and any and all facilities related to any of these. The primary purpose of these facilities is the conduct and service of conventions, public assemblies, conferences, trade exhibitions, or other business, social, cultural, scientific, and public interest events and related activities; provided, that use of these facilities is not limited to those events. (c) This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with its purpose.