Tennessee Code Title 41. Correctional Institutions and Inmates § 41-12-105

(b)(1) Each governing body of a governmental entity proposing to create an authority shall adopt, and its executive officer shall approve, a resolution calling a joint public hearing involving all interested local governmental entities in the enterprise to create a regional jail authority on the question of creating an authority.

(2) Notice of the date, hour, place and purpose of the hearing shall be published at least once each week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdictional bounds of the governmental entity proposing to create an authority, the last publication to be at least one (1) week prior to the date set for the hearing.

(d)(1) After the hearing, if at least two (2) governing bodies determine that the public convenience and necessity require the creation of an authority, the governing bodies shall individually adopt, and their executive officers shall approve, a resolution or an ordinance, in the case of a municipality, so declaring and creating an authority, which resolution or ordinance shall reference this chapter as the governing statute to create the authority and include the names of the creating governmental entities, the name of the authority and also designate the name and principal office address of the authority.

(2) A certified copy of the resolution or ordinance shall be filed with the secretary of state, along with the resolution approving the appointment of the board of commissioners as provided for in § 41-12-106, and upon that adoption and filing, the authority shall constitute a body politic and corporate, with all the powers provided in this chapter.