4-47-102 - Purpose.
4-47-102. Purpose.
It is the purpose and the duty of the Tennessee passenger railroad commission to promote and develop proposals to encourage the availability and use of passenger rail service in Tennessee. In particular, the commission shall encourage the development of passenger rail service from Memphis, Tennessee east to Bristol, Tennessee; and from Bristol, Tennessee, south to Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is the intent of the general assembly that the commission shall strive to develop connections with passenger rail service operations in states contiguous to Tennessee in order to facilitate passenger rail service throughout the southern United States.
[Acts 1995, ch. 433, § 3.]