64-1-501 - Creation Purpose. - Tennessee Statutes

64-1-501. Creation Purpose.

(a)  There is hereby created and established the Sequatchie Valley planning and development agency, being a public body corporate and politic and referred to as the “agency” in this part.

(b)  The agency is created and established for the purpose of planning and developing the resources of the region covered by Bledsoe, Marion, Rhea, Grundy and Sequatchie counties, referred to as the “region” in this part, including the coordination of the agency's planning and development work with related activities and programs of other federal, state and local planning and development agencies.

(c)  The scope of the agency's interests, work and activities shall include programs in the fields of education, public health, industrial development, highways, water resources and recreation, and in such other fields as the agency's board of directors finds that it can provide planning and development services for the four-county region efficiently and economically.

[Acts 1968, ch. 460, § 1; T.C.A., § 66-1-501; Acts 1985, ch. 136, § 1; 1992, ch. 717, § 3.]