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TENNESSEE STATUTES AND CODES
6-54-110 - Oil and natural gas Powers and duties.
6-54-110. Oil and natural gas Powers and duties.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, a municipality, its agencies or divisions thereof, may within or without the state of Tennessee engage in investigating, exploring, prospecting, drilling, and mining for and producing natural gas and oil and mineral by-products thereof, and construct the appropriate facilities to produce, save, take care of, maintain, treat and transport natural gas and oil and mineral by-products thereof, or to contract for same with any person, federal agency, municipality or public or private corporation.
(b) No municipality, its agencies, or division thereof, is granted any additional power of eminent domain to carry out the provisions of this section.
[Acts 1974, ch. 627, § 1; T.C.A., § 6-661.]