2021 Tennessee Code
Part 1 - Water Quality Control Act
§ 69-3-117. Proceedings Against Violators — Injunctions

The commissioner may initiate proceedings in the chancery court of Davidson County or the county in which the activities occurred against any person who is alleged to have violated or is about to violate this part, conditions of permits issued under this part, the rules and regulations of the board or orders of the board or commissioner. In such action the commissioner may seek, and the court may grant, injunctive relief and any other relief available in law or equity. Specifically, the commissioner may seek injunctive relief against industrial users of publicly owned treatment works who fail to pay user or cost recovery charges or who violate pretreatment standards or toxic effluent limitations established as a condition to the permit of the treatment works.

Structure 2021 Tennessee Code

2021 Tennessee Code

Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees

Chapter 3 - Water Pollution Control

Part 1 - Water Quality Control Act

§ 69-3-101. Short Title

§ 69-3-103. Part Definitions. [See Contingent Amendment to Subdivisions (4) and (19) and the Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-104. Board of Water Quality, Oil, and Gas. [See Contingent Amendment to Subdivisions (A)(1), (4) and (13) and See the Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-105. Duties and Authority of the Board. [See Contingent Amendment to Subdivision (E)(1)(c) and the Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-106. [reserved.]

§ 69-3-111. Appeals

§ 69-3-112. Assistance in Prosecuting Violations

§ 69-3-117. Proceedings Against Violators — Injunctions

§ 69-3-119. Disposition of Fees, Penalties and Damages

§ 69-3-127. Pretreatment Enforcement — Judicial Proceedings and Relief

§ 69-3-128. Pretreatment Enforcement

§ 69-3-129. Disposition of Damage Payments and Penalties — Special Fund

§ 69-3-130. Ditch Construction

§ 69-3-131. Rules and Regulations

§ 69-3-132. Advisory Committee to Assist Removal of Debris From Streams and Stabilization of Stream Banks

§ 69-3-133. Stop Work Order

§ 69-3-134. Written Notice of Conduct Violation

§ 69-3-135. Request for Hearing. [Current Version. See Second Version of Section and Its Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-135. Request for Hearing. [Contingent Amendment. See First Version of Section and Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-136. Failure to Give Notice — Failure to Comply With Stop Work Order

§ 69-3-138. Timber Harvesting. [See Contingent Amendment to Subdivision (A)(2) and the Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-139. Stop Work Orders for Coal Surface Mining Operations. [See Contingent Amendment to Subsection (C) and the Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-143. Rock Harvesting Operations

§ 69-3-144. Definitions for §§ 69-3-143 — 69-3-147

§ 69-3-146. Stop-Work Orders. [See Contingent Amendment to Subsection (C) and the Compiler’s notes.]

§ 69-3-147. Rock Harvesting Governance