Annexation

Plain English Breakdown

It is unclear what happens to existing laws that conflict with this new legislation.

Changes to Annexation Rules in Tennessee

This bill allows cities to annex land outside their urban growth boundaries without needing approval from a growth plan.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the requirement that proposed annexed territory must be within a city's urban growth boundary.
• Allows municipalities to annex areas in planned growth or rural zones of a county without changing their existing growth plans.

Who It Names or Affects

• Municipalities that want to expand by annexing land outside their urban growth boundaries.
• Counties and local government planning committees involved in approving growth plans.

Terms To Know

Urban Growth Boundary

A line划定城市扩张边界的术语和含义。

Growth Plan

一个县或市为了指导未来的发展而制定的规划，包括土地使用决策等。

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the annexation process will be regulated outside of urban growth boundaries.

Official Summary Text

Present law
authorizes a municipality to, by resolution, propose annexation of territory that does not adjoin the boundary of the main part of the municipality, without extending the corporate limits of that territory, if the territory proposed for annexation is enti
rely contained with the municipality's urban growth boundary and is either (i) to be used for industrial or commercial purposes or future residential development; or (ii) owned by one or more governmental entities. This bill eliminates the requirement th
at
the proposed territory be entirely contained with the municipality's urban growth boundary.

Present law requires a growth plan for each county to be submitted to and approved by the local government planning advisory committee. After such a plan is approved, all land use decisions made by the legislative body and the municipality's or county's
planning commission must be consistent with the growth plan. Further, prior to annexing territory outside of an existing urban growth boundary, a municipality must first amend its growth plan. This bill, instead, authorizes a municipality to annex terr
it
ory in the county's planned growth area or rural area without amending a growth plan.

Current Bill Text

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SENATE BILL 2600
By Southerland
SB2600
010673
- 1 -

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 6,
Chapter 51 and Title 6, Chapter 58, relative to
annexation.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 6-51-104(d)(1), is amended by
deleting the language "is entirely contained within the municipality's urban growth boundary
and".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 6-51-120(1), is amended by deleting
the subdivision.
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 6-58-111(c), is amended by deleting
the subsection and substituting instead:
(c) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a municipality may annex
territory in the county's planned growth area or rural area without amending a growth
plan.
SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 6-58-118, is amended by deleting the
section.
SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.