Feb. 28, 2026 |
| FRANKLIN FEDERAL INTERMEDIATE-TERM TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk Table - FRANKLIN FEDERAL INTERMEDIATE-TERM TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks You
could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or
guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You
could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or
guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.
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| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
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| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
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| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
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| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
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| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt
Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer to comply with applicable tax requirements
may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline in the security’s value. In addition,
there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments that reduce or eliminate the current
federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise adversely affect the current federal
or state tax status of municipal securities.
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| Market |
Market: The market values of
securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably.
The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results
of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When
there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers,
prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may go up or down due to
general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular issuer, such as:
real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and defaults in one
or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural and man-made
world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions, including terrorism
and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional
tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any
of these conditions can adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations,
regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened
armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions
and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant
impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
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| States |
States:
The Fund’s portfolio is generally widely diversified among issuers of municipal securities. However,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure from time to time to the municipal securities of a particular
state, events in that state may affect the Fund’s investments and performance. These events may
include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities,
constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes
in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of the state. The same is true of events in U.S.
territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any particular territory at any given time.
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| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or
a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby increasing market
risk.
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| Income |
Income:
The Fund's distributions to shareholders may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund
experiences defaults on debt securities it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a
debt security.
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| Prepayment |
Prepayment: Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security
can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds
it receives, during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest.
Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event
of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
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| Inflation |
Inflation:
The
market price of debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of
the future income and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities
that pay a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because
variable-rate debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates
which have historically corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
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| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
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| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
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| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
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| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
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| FRANKLIN FEDERAL LIMITED-TERM TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk Table - FRANKLIN FEDERAL LIMITED-TERM TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by
investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by
investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
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| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
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| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption
on municipal securities or otherwise adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal
securities.
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| Market |
Market: The market values of securities or other
investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably. The market value
of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results of supply and demand
unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When there are more sellers
than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise.
In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may go up or down due to general market or other
conditions that are not specifically related to a particular issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse
economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and defaults in one or more industries; changes
in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural and man-made world events, such as diseases
or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions, including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers
and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can
adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in
general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout
the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The
hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain
investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| States |
States:
The Fund’s portfolio is generally widely diversified among issuers of municipal securities. However,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure from time to time to the municipal securities of a particular
state, events in that state may affect the Fund’s investments and performance. These events may
include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities,
constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes
in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of the state. The same is true of events in U.S.
territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any particular territory at any given time.
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| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
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| Income |
Income:
The Fund's distributions to shareholders may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund
experiences defaults on debt securities it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a
debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment: Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security
can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds
it receives, during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest.
Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event
of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
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| Inflation |
Inflation:
The
market price of debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of
the future income and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities
that pay a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because
variable-rate debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates
which have historically corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
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| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
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| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund,
the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, Fund accountants,
custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data
corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors from purchasing, redeeming
or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has limited ability to prevent
or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service
providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the investment manager. Cybersecurity
incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may
be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities
in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities
could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is frequently changing,
new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a chance that some risks
have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations
on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds and business enterprises,
the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents
occurring from time to time.
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| FRANKLIN HIGH YIELD TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk Table - FRANKLIN HIGH YIELD TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the
Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank,
and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other
agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the
Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank,
and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other
agency of the U.S. government.
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| Interest Rate |
Interest Rate: When interest rates rise, debt security
prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true: debt security prices rise when interest rates
fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number of factors, including government policy, monetary
policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk, and supply of and demand for bonds. In general,
securities with longer maturities or durations are more sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit:
An issuer of debt securities may fail to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole
or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial strength or in a security's or government's credit rating
may affect a security's value. A change in the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures
securities in the Fund’s portfolio may affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s
share price and Fund performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer
to meet its insurance obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity: The trading market
for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund invests may become
less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the Fund’s ability
to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s liquidity needs,
which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the investment manager
wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity would be advantageous.
Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other investments. Market
prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax Legislative
and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected by adverse political
and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of municipal bonds is
closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions of federal income
tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal bonds, or
even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause municipal
bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative advantages
of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In addition,
the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect of reducing
demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt
Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer to comply with applicable tax requirements
may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline in the security’s value. In addition,
there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments that reduce or eliminate the current
federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise adversely affect the current federal
or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market: The market values of
securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably.
The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results
of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When
there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers,
prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may go up or down due to
general market or other
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| conditions that are not specifically related to a particular issuer, such as |
conditions
that are not specifically related to a particular issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic
changes, including widespread liquidity issues and defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest,
inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters;
financial, political or social disruptions, including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other
disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment
restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely affect the
economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general, in ways that
cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could
continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting
from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as
the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
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| High-Yield Debt Instruments |
High-Yield Debt Instruments:
Issuers of lower-rated or “high-yield” debt instruments (also known as “junk bonds”)
are not as strong financially as those issuing higher credit quality debt instruments. High-yield debt
instruments are generally considered predominantly speculative by the applicable rating agencies as their
issuers are more likely to encounter financial difficulties because they may be more highly leveraged,
or because of other considerations. In addition, high yield debt instruments generally are more vulnerable
to changes in the relevant economy, such as a recession or a sustained period of rising interest rates,
that could affect their ability to make interest and principal payments when due. The prices of high-yield
debt instruments generally fluctuate more than those of higher credit quality. High-yield debt instruments
are generally more illiquid (harder to sell) and harder to value.
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| States |
States:
The Fund’s portfolio is generally widely diversified among issuers of municipal securities. However,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure from time to time to the municipal securities of a particular
state, events in that state may affect the Fund’s investments and performance. These events may
include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities,
constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes
in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of the state. The same is true of events in U.S.
territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any particular territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income:
The Fund's distributions to shareholders may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund
experiences defaults on debt securities it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a
debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment: Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security
can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds
it receives, during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest.
Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event
of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation:
The
market price of debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of
the future income and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities
that pay a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because
variable-rate debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates
which have historically corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund,
the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, Fund accountants,
custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data
corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors from purchasing, redeeming
or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has limited ability to prevent
or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service
providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the investment manager. Cybersecurity
incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may
be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities
in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities
could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is frequently changing,
new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a chance that some risks
have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected, which puts limitations
on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds and business enterprises,
the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to the risk of cyber incidents
occurring from time to time.
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| FRANKLIN MASSACHUSETTS TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk Table - FRANKLIN MASSACHUSETTS TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by
investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by
investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could
result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in
those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies,
sectors, nations, regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing
or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant
market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could
have a significant impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance
and liquidity.
|
| Massachusetts |
Massachusetts: The Fund invests predominantly in Massachusetts
municipal securities. Therefore, events in Massachusetts are likely to affect the Fund’s investments
and its performance. These events may include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion,
unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, state constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits
and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of
Massachusetts. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories, to the extent that the
Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives,
during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if
a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment.
Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of
debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income
and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay
a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate
debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically
corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN NEW JERSEY TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN NEW JERSEY TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| New Jersey |
New Jersey:
The Fund invests predominantly in New Jersey municipal securities. Therefore, events in New Jersey are
likely to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic
or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional
limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit
ratings assigned to municipal issuers of New Jersey. The same is true of events in other states or U.S.
territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN ALABAMA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN ALABAMA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You
could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or
guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You
could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or
guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could
result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in
those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies,
sectors, nations, regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing
or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant
market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could
have a significant impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance
and liquidity.
|
| Alabama |
Alabama: The Fund invests predominantly in Alabama
municipal securities. Therefore, events in Alabama are likely to affect the Fund’s investments
and its performance. These events may include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion,
unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits
and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of
Alabama. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories, to the extent that the Fund
has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives,
during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if
a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment.
Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of
debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income
and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay
a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate
debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically
corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN GEORGIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN GEORGIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by
investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by
investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could
result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in
those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies,
sectors, nations, regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing
or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant
market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could
have a significant impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance
and liquidity.
|
| Georgia |
Georgia: The Fund invests predominantly in Georgia
municipal securities. Therefore, events in Georgia are likely to affect the Fund’s investments
and its performance. These events may include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion,
unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits
and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of
Georgia. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories, to the extent that the Fund
has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives,
during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if
a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment.
Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of
debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income
and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay
a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate
debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically
corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN LOUISIANA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN LOUISIANA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by
investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by
investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could
result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in
those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies,
sectors, nations, regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing
or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant
market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could
have a significant impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance
and liquidity.
|
| Louisiana |
Louisiana: The Fund invests predominantly in Louisiana
municipal securities. Therefore, events in Louisiana are likely to affect the Fund’s investments
and its performance. These events may include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion,
unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits
and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of
Louisiana. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories, to the extent that the Fund
has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives,
during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if
a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment.
Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of
debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income
and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay
a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate
debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically
corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN MARYLAND TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN MARYLAND TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by
investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by
investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed
by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board,
or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could
result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in
those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies,
sectors, nations, regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing
or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant
market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could
have a significant impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance
and liquidity.
|
| Maryland |
Maryland: The Fund invests predominantly in Maryland
municipal securities. Therefore, events in Maryland are likely to affect the Fund’s investments
and its performance. These events may include economic or political policy changes, tax base erosion,
unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits on tax increases, budget deficits
and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings assigned to municipal issuers of
Maryland. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories, to the extent that the Fund
has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives,
during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if
a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment.
Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of
debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income
and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay
a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate
debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically
corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for
the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN MISSOURI TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN MISSOURI TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| Missouri |
Missouri:
The Fund invests predominantly in Missouri municipal securities. Therefore, events in Missouri are likely
to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic or political
policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits
on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings
assigned to municipal issuers of Missouri. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN NORTH CAROLINA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN NORTH CAROLINA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| North Carolina |
North Carolina:
The Fund invests predominantly in North Carolina municipal securities. Therefore, events in North Carolina
are likely to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic
or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional
limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit
ratings assigned to municipal issuers of North Carolina. The same is true of events in other states or
U.S. territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given
time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN VIRGINIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN VIRGINIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| Virginia |
Virginia:
The Fund invests predominantly in Virginia municipal securities. Therefore, events in Virginia are likely
to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic or political
policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits
on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings
assigned to municipal issuers of Virginia. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN ARIZONA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN ARIZONA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the
Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank,
and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other
agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the
Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank,
and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other
agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest Rate: When interest rates rise, debt security
prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true: debt security prices rise when interest rates
fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number of factors, including government policy, monetary
policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk, and supply of and demand for bonds. In general,
securities with longer maturities or durations are more sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit:
An issuer of debt securities may fail to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole
or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial strength or in a security's or government's credit rating
may affect a security's value. A change in the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures
securities in the Fund’s portfolio may affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s
share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| Arizona |
Arizona:
The Fund invests predominantly in Arizona municipal securities. Therefore, events in Arizona are likely
to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic or political
policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits
on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings
assigned to municipal issuers of Arizona. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN COLORADO TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN COLORADO TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| Colorado |
Colorado:
The Fund invests predominantly in Colorado municipal securities. Therefore, events in Colorado are likely
to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic or political
policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits
on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings
assigned to municipal issuers of Colorado. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN CONNECTICUT TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN CONNECTICUT TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal
Risks You
could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or
guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You
could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or
guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,
the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S. government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund performance. The
Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt
Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer to comply with applicable tax requirements
may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline in the security’s value. In addition,
there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments that reduce or eliminate the current
federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise adversely affect the current federal
or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market: The market values of
securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly or unpredictably.
The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity or other results
of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all investments. When
there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more buyers than sellers,
prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may go up or down due to
general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular issuer, such as:
real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and defaults in one
or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural and man-made
world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions, including terrorism
and war; and U.S. trade disputes or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional
tariffs, trade barriers and/or investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any
of these conditions can adversely affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations,
regions and the market in general, in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened
armed conflicts throughout the world have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions
and volatility. The hostilities and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant
impact on certain investments of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| Connecticut |
Connecticut:
The Fund invests predominantly in Connecticut municipal securities. Therefore, events in Connecticut
are likely to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic
or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional
limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit
ratings assigned to municipal issuers of Connecticut. The same is true of events in other states or U.S.
territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income:
The Fund's distributions to shareholders may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund
experiences defaults on debt securities it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a
debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment: Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security
can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds
it receives, during periods of declining interest rates, in securities that pay a lower rate of interest.
Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium, the value of the premium would be lost in the event
of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation:
The
market price of debt securities generally falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of
the future income and repaid principal is expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities
that pay a fixed rather than variable interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because
variable-rate debt securities may be able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates
which have historically corresponded with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond Insurers:
Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the ratings of municipal bond
insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond insurers have substantially
limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby reducing the supply of
insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal bond insurers
the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated among
fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have a significant
adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal markets as a
whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated
Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt securities determined by the investment manager to be of
comparable credit quality to rated securities which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate
than such rated debt securities and be subject to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less
public information and independent credit analysis are typically available about unrated securities or
issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater risk of default.
|
| Non-Diversification |
Non-Diversification:
Because the Fund is non-diversified, it may be more sensitive to economic, business, political or other
changes affecting individual issuers or investments than a diversified fund, which may negatively impact
the Fund's performance and result in greater fluctuation in the value of the Fund’s shares.
|
| Management |
Management:
The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's
investment manager applies investment techniques
and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee that these
decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity: Cybersecurity incidents,
both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain access to Fund assets, Fund
or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary information, cause the Fund,
the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not limited to, Fund accountants,
custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries) to suffer data breaches, data
corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors from purchasing, redeeming
or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has limited ability to prevent
or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers, and such third party service
providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the investment manager. Cybersecurity
incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders, and substantial costs may
be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents. Issuers of securities
in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value of these securities
could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN MICHIGAN TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN MICHIGAN TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| Michigan |
Michigan:
The Fund invests predominantly in Michigan municipal securities. Therefore, events in Michigan are likely
to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic or political
policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits
on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings
assigned to municipal issuers of Michigan. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
|
|
| FRANKLIN MINNESOTA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN MINNESOTA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
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| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
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| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
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| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
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| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
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| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
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| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
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| Minnesota |
Minnesota:
The Fund invests predominantly in Minnesota municipal securities. Therefore, events in Minnesota are
likely to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic
or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional
limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit
ratings assigned to municipal issuers of Minnesota. The same is true of events in other states or U.S.
territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
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| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
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| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
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| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
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| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
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| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
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| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
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| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
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| FRANKLIN OHIO TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk Table - FRANKLIN OHIO TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
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| Ohio |
Ohio:
The Fund invests predominantly in Ohio municipal securities. Therefore, events in Ohio are likely to
affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic or political
policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits
on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings
assigned to municipal issuers of Ohio. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
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| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
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| FRANKLIN OREGON TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk Table - FRANKLIN OREGON TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
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Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
|
| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
|
| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
|
| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
|
| Oregon |
Oregon:
The Fund invests predominantly in Oregon municipal securities. Therefore, events in Oregon are likely
to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic or political
policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional limits
on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit ratings
assigned to municipal issuers of Oregon. The same is true of events in other states or U.S. territories,
to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given time.
|
| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
|
| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
|
| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
|
| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
|
| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
|
| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
|
| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
|
| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
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| FRANKLIN PENNSYLVANIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk Table - FRANKLIN PENNSYLVANIA TAX-FREE INCOME FUND
|
Risk [Text Block] |
| Principal Risks |
Principal Risks You could lose money by investing in the Fund. Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Risk Lose Money [Member] |
You could lose money by investing in the Fund.
|
| Risk Not Insured [Member] |
Mutual fund
shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed or endorsed by, any bank, and are not insured
by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, or any other agency of the U.S.
government.
|
| Interest Rate |
Interest
Rate:
When interest rates rise, debt security prices generally fall. The opposite is also generally true:
debt security prices rise when interest rates fall. Interest rate changes are influenced by a number
of factors, including government policy, monetary policy, inflation expectations, perceptions of risk,
and supply of and demand for bonds. In general, securities with longer maturities or durations are more
sensitive to interest rate changes.
|
| Credit |
Credit: An issuer of debt securities may fail
to make interest payments or repay principal when due, in whole or in part. Changes in an issuer's financial
strength or in a security's or government's credit rating may affect a security's value. A change in
the credit rating of a municipal bond insurer that insures securities in the Fund’s portfolio may
affect the value of the securities it insures, the Fund’s share price and Fund
performance. The Fund might also be adversely impacted by the inability of an insurer to meet its insurance
obligations.
|
| Liquidity |
Liquidity:
The trading market for a particular security or type of security or other investments in which the Fund
invests may become less liquid or even illiquid. Reduced liquidity will have an adverse impact on the
Fund’s ability to sell such securities or other investments when necessary to meet the Fund’s
liquidity needs, which may arise or increase in response to a specific economic event or because the
investment manager wishes to purchase particular investments or believes that a higher level of liquidity
would be advantageous. Reduced liquidity will also generally lower the value of such securities or other
investments. Market prices for such securities or other investments may be relatively volatile.
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| Tax Legislative and Political Changes |
Tax
Legislative and Political Changes: The municipal securities market could be significantly affected
by adverse political and legislative changes or litigation at the federal or state level. The value of
municipal bonds is closely tied to the benefits of tax-exempt income to investors. Significant revisions
of federal income tax laws or regulations revising income tax rates or the tax-exempt character of municipal
bonds, or even proposed changes and deliberations on this topic by the federal government, could cause
municipal bond prices to fall. For example, lower federal income tax rates would reduce certain relative
advantages of owning municipal bonds, and lower state income tax rates could have similar effects. In
addition, the application of corporate minimum tax rates to financial statement income may have the effect
of reducing demand for municipal bonds among corporate investors, which may in turn impact municipal
bond prices.
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| Tax-Exempt Securities |
Tax-Exempt Securities: Failure of a municipal security issuer
to comply with applicable tax requirements may make income paid thereon taxable, resulting in a decline
in the security’s value. In addition, there could be changes in applicable tax laws or tax treatments
that reduce or eliminate the current federal income tax exemption on municipal securities or otherwise
adversely affect the current federal or state tax status of municipal securities.
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| Market |
Market:
The
market values of securities or other investments owned by the Fund will go up or down, sometimes rapidly
or unpredictably. The market value of a security or other investment may be reduced by market activity
or other results of supply and demand unrelated to the issuer. This is a basic risk associated with all
investments. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices tend to fall. Likewise, when there are more
buyers than sellers, prices tend to rise. In addition, the value of the Fund’s investments may
go up or down due to general market or other conditions that are not specifically related to a particular
issuer, such as: real or perceived adverse economic changes, including widespread liquidity issues and
defaults in one or more industries; changes in interest, inflation or exchange rates; unexpected natural
and man-made world events, such as diseases or disasters; financial, political or social disruptions,
including terrorism and war; and U.S. trade
disputes
or other disputes with specific countries that could result in additional tariffs, trade barriers and/or
investment restrictions in certain securities in those countries. Any of these conditions can adversely
affect the economic prospects of many companies, sectors, nations, regions and the market in general,
in ways that cannot necessarily be foreseen. Ongoing or threatened armed conflicts throughout the world
have caused and could continue to cause significant market disruptions and volatility. The hostilities
and sanctions resulting from those hostilities could have a significant impact on certain investments
of the Fund as well as the Fund’s performance and liquidity.
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| Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania:
The Fund invests predominantly in Pennsylvania municipal securities. Therefore, events in Pennsylvania
are likely to affect the Fund’s investments and its performance. These events may include economic
or political policy changes, tax base erosion, unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities, constitutional
limits on tax increases, budget deficits and other financial difficulties, and changes in the credit
ratings assigned to municipal issuers of Pennsylvania. The same is true of events in other states or
U.S. territories, to the extent that the Fund has exposure to any other state or territory at any given
time.
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| Focus |
Focus:
The Fund may invest more than 25% of its assets in municipal securities that finance similar types of
projects, such as utilities, hospitals, higher education and transportation. A change that affects one
project, such as proposed legislation on the financing of the project, a shortage of the materials needed
for the project, or a declining need for the project, would likely affect all similar projects, thereby
increasing market risk.
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| Income |
Income: The Fund's distributions to shareholders
may decline when prevailing interest rates fall, when the Fund experiences defaults on debt securities
it holds or when the Fund realizes a loss upon the sale of a debt security.
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| Prepayment |
Prepayment:
Prepayment risk occurs when a debt security can be repaid in whole or in part prior to the security's
maturity and the Fund must reinvest the proceeds it receives, during periods of declining interest rates,
in securities that pay a lower rate of interest. Also, if a security has been purchased at a premium,
the value of the premium would be lost in the event of prepayment. Prepayments generally increase when
interest rates fall.
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| Inflation |
Inflation: The market price of debt securities generally
falls as inflation increases because the purchasing power of the future income and repaid principal is
expected to be worth less when received by the Fund. Debt securities that pay a fixed rather than variable
interest rate are especially vulnerable to inflation risk because variable-rate debt securities may be
able to participate, over the long term, in rising interest rates which have historically corresponded
with long-term inflationary trends.
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| Bond Insurers |
Bond
Insurers: Market conditions or changes to ratings criteria could adversely impact the
ratings of municipal bond insurance companies. Downgrades and withdrawal of ratings from municipal bond
insurers have substantially limited the availability of insurance sought by municipal bond issuers thereby
reducing the supply of insured municipal securities. Because of the consolidation among municipal
bond insurers the Fund is subject to additional risks including the risk that credit risk may be concentrated
among fewer insurers and the risk that events involving one or more municipal bond insurers could have
a significant adverse effect on the value of the securities insured by an insurer and on the municipal
markets as a whole.
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| Unrated Debt Securities |
Unrated Debt Securities: Certain unrated debt
securities determined by the investment manager to be of comparable credit quality to rated securities
which the Fund may purchase may pay a higher interest rate than such rated debt securities and be subject
to a greater risk of illiquidity or price changes. Less public information and independent credit analysis
are typically available about unrated securities or issuers, and therefore they may be subject to greater
risk of default.
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| Management |
Management: The Fund is subject to management risk
because it is an actively managed investment portfolio. The Fund's investment manager applies investment
techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there can be no guarantee
that these decisions will produce the desired results.
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| Cybersecurity |
Cybersecurity:
Cybersecurity incidents, both intentional and unintentional, may allow an unauthorized party to gain
access to Fund assets, Fund or customer data (including private shareholder information), or proprietary
information, cause the Fund, the investment manager, and/or their service providers (including, but not
limited to, Fund accountants, custodians, sub-custodians, transfer agents and financial intermediaries)
to suffer data breaches, data corruption or loss of operational functionality or prevent Fund investors
from purchasing, redeeming or exchanging shares or receiving distributions. The investment manager has
limited ability to prevent or mitigate cybersecurity incidents affecting third party service providers,
and such third party service providers may have limited indemnification obligations to the Fund or the
investment manager. Cybersecurity incidents may result in financial losses to the Fund and its shareholders,
and substantial costs may be incurred in an effort to prevent or mitigate future cybersecurity incidents.
Issuers of securities in which the Fund invests are also subject to cybersecurity risks, and the value
of these securities could decline if the issuers experience cybersecurity incidents. Because technology is
frequently changing, new ways to carry out cyber attacks are always developing. Therefore, there is a
chance that some risks have not been identified or prepared for, or that an attack may not be detected,
which puts limitations on the Fund's ability to plan for or respond to a cyber attack. Like other funds
and business enterprises, the Fund, the investment manager, and their service providers are subject to
the risk of cyber incidents occurring from time to time.
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