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Technical Bulletins: State Tax Rate On Utility Sales To Manufacturers (2012), Al Major

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

State law limits both state and local sales taxes on water, gas, electricity, and other energy sources used by manufacturers. Your city needs to ensure that your utility billing system reflects these different rates. The streamlined sales tax act is scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2013.

Technical Bulletins: The Relocation Of Utilities For State Highway Construction (2012), Ron Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

State statutes allow cities a maximum of 120 days to mark the drawings and develop a time schedule for relocation of utilities.

Technical Bulletins: The Relocation Of Utilities For State Highway Construction (2011), Don Darden

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

State statutes allow cities a maximum of 120 days to mark the drawings and develop a time schedule for relocation of utilities.

Technical Bulletins: Primer On Performance Measurements For Municipal Public Works Departments, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This publication defines performance measurement and related terms as they apply to public works tasks.

Technical Bulletins: Tva Set To Increase Wholesale Power Rates To Distributors, Bill Young

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

TVA will decide at its August 2003 board meeting on changes to the wholesale power rate (the rate charged to power distributors) and could increase rates that affect residential and some commercial and industrial customers by approximately eight percent.

Technical Bulletins: Public Chapter 509 Slaps Cuffs On Utility Revenues, Al Major

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about Public Chapter 509, which phased out the practice of transferring surplus revenues from utility sales to a city's general fund. The comprehensive law, which went into effect July 1, 1993, amended Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.) § 9-21-308 and T.C.A. § 7-34-105, also known as the Revenue Bond Law.

Technical Bulletins: Report On Permitting Requirements For Municipal And Industrial Stormwater Discharges, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information on the background and current status (as of February 1988) of the Clean Water Act of 1987. The bulletin also discusses Chattanooga's efforts to abate water pollution.

Technical Bulletins: Hydrant Rental Fees - Use And Justification, Joe Muscatello

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses a revenue-producing area commonly referred to as the "Hydrant Rental Fee" and explains how and why municipal utility systems should use it to increase revenue and reduce expenditures.

Technical Bulletins: Transient Voltage/Power Surge Suppressors, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

According to professional electrical engineering organizations, tests by engineering schools and actions by some state attorneys general, there is no merit to the claim that transient voltage and power surge suppressors will reduce electricity costs. This report summarizes the data obtained by the Council of Better Business Bureaus on these devices.

(The report was reprinted in its entirety from a Report by the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. , 1150 17th Street, N. W. , Washington, DC 20036, dated May 1977.)

Technical Bulletins: Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Chapter 692 of the Public Acts of 1978, an act relating to the prevention of negligent or .unsafe excavation or demolition operations resulting in damage to underground utilities, is reprinted in its entirety in this Technical Bulletin.

Technical Bulletins: Effects Of New State Sales Tax Law On Tennessee Cities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the effects of the act increasing the state sales tax rate from 3.5% to 4.5%, effective April 1, 1976.