49-50-306 - Procurement of funds and facilities. - Tennessee Statutes

49-50-306. Procurement of funds and facilities.

(a)  The state board of education, through its executive officer, with the approval of the governor, is authorized to:

     (1)  Accept grants of funds from any county, municipality or public or private body to be used for the purposes of this part; and

     (2)  Accept, purchase or lease from any county, city or special school district, or from any public or private body, agency or foundation, any educational television and radio facilities or other property, including the land on which the educational television and radio facilities or other property stand, that the state board of education, through its executive officer, may deem necessary in carrying out the provisions and purposes of this part.

(b)  Any county, city or special school district, upon a majority vote of its governing body, is authorized to donate, sell or lease to the state board of education land, facilities or other property to be used for an educational television and radio network in this state; provided, that the state shall be vested with full, complete and clear title to property that may be donated or sold to the state.

(c)  Any county or municipality, upon a majority vote of its governing body, is authorized to make an outright grant of funds to the state to be used by the state board of education for the purposes authorized in this part.

[Acts 1963, ch. 168, § 6; 1969, ch. 6, § 1; T.C.A., § 49-3806.]