4-10-101 - Legislative findings. - Tennessee Statutes

4-10-101. Legislative findings.

The general assembly finds and declares that there is a need for a permanent intergovernmental body to study and report on:

     (1)  The current pattern of local governmental structure and its viability;

     (2)  The powers and functions of local governments, including their fiscal powers;

     (3)  The existing, necessary and desirable relationships between and among local governments and the state;

     (4)  The existing, necessary and desirable allocation of state and local fiscal resources;

     (5)  The existing, necessary and desirable roles of the state as the creator of the local governmental systems;

     (6)  The special problems in interstate areas facing their general local governments, intrastate regional units, and areawide bodies, such studies where possible to be conducted in conjunction with those of a pertinent sister state commission; and

     (7)  Any constitutional amendments and statutory enactments required to implement appropriate commission recommendations.

[Acts 1978, ch. 939, § 1; T.C.A., § 4-1001.]