65-1-104 - Quorum Chair.
65-1-104. Quorum Chair.
(a) A majority of the Tennessee regulatory authority shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The authority shall elect one (1) of its directors to be chair of the authority for a one-year term.
(b) The Tennessee regulatory authority shall establish policies for the efficient and economical internal management of the authority, to be administered by the chair. The chair shall be responsible for ensuring that policies established by the authority are fully executed by the staff of the authority.
(c) The chair shall have the power and duty to conduct ordinary and necessary business in the name of the authority, such duties to include, but not be limited to the following:
(1) Serve as chief operating officer of the authority responsible for supervision and hiring of all joint staff members within the limits of available funds authorized by Acts 1955, ch. 105, and administer, monitor, and review the operating procedures of each division of the authority, ensuring that each employee and division of the authority fully executes in an efficient and economical manner, the separate duties assigned to each;
(2) Recommend to the authority such rules and policies as are necessary and appropriate to efficiently and economically provide for internal management of the authority;
(3) Coordinate the preparation of the report to the general assembly as required by § 65-1-111;
(4) Prepare and call the docket of items to be heard during each scheduled meeting of the authority;
(5) Keep the official full and correct record of all proceedings and transactions of the authority;
(6) Supervise the expenditure of funds and be responsible for complying with all applicable provisions of state and federal law in the receipt and disbursement of funds;
(7) Serve as the designated contact for all media inquiries to the authority; and
(8) Perform such other duties as the authority may require or as may be required by statute.
(d) The chair shall assign each matter before the authority to a panel of three (3) voting members, from among the directors. The fourth voting member of the authority, who is not assigned to a particular panel, shall not vote or deliberate regarding such matters. The authority shall establish reasonable procedures for rotating the directors for assignment to panels in an efficient manner. Such procedures shall ensure that all voting members of the authority serve on an equal number of panels in a random fashion, to the extent practicable.
[Acts 1995, ch. 305, § 5; 2002, ch. 826, § 4; T.C.A. § 65-1-204.]