Legislative Findings

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. State Government
  4. Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
  5. Legislative Findings

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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.


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