Tennessee Code Title 12. Public Property, Printing and Contracts § 12-10-121

(a) Any municipal corporation may acquire a project site by gift, purchase or lease, or exercise of the power of eminent domain, and may transfer any project site to an authority by sale, lease or gift. Such transfer may be authorized by a resolution of the governing body of the municipal corporation without submission of the question to the voters, and without regard to the requirements, restrictions, limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law. Such project site may be within or without the municipal corporation, or partially within and partially without the municipal corporation.

(b) The state of Tennessee may make such contribution, grant, loan, gift, transfer, sale or lease of money or property, both real and personal, to an authority, and may enter into such contracts and agreements with respect thereto, as may from time to time be deemed necessary and desirable by the state, and subject to the requirements, restrictions, limitations or other provisions contained in any other general, special or local law.