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Part 1 - Tennessee Solid Waste Disposal Act
§ 68-211-101. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 68-211-103. Part Definitions - As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
§ 68-211-104. Unlawful Methods of Disposal. [See Contingent Amendment to Subdivision (1) and the Compiler’s notes.] - It is unlawful to: [Current version. See second version for...
§ 68-211-106. Registration — Variances, Waivers, and Exemptions — Permits-by-Rule — Public Notice — Denial of Permit — Liability or Obligation for Cleanup or Remediation - Any official or management committee member of the state or...
§ 68-211-108. Delegation of Duties to Local Health Officers - The commissioner and board are authorized to delegate the duties...
§ 68-211-109. Federal Grants to Counties and Municipalities — Review and Approval - The department is authorized to review and approve grants and...
§ 68-211-110. Disposal on Own Land - This part does not apply to any private, natural person...
§ 68-211-112. Orders for Correction — Preliminary Conference With Alleged Violator - When the commissioner finds, upon investigation, that any provisions of...
§ 68-211-114. Criminal Penalties - Any person willfully violating any of this part, or failing,...
§ 68-211-115. Injunctions Restraining Violations - In addition to the penalties herein provided, the commissioner may...
§ 68-211-121. Landfills and Processing Facilities — Inspection of Waste - To ensure that landfills and processing facilities receive only lawfully...
§ 68-211-122. Approval for Establishment of Landfill Through Eminent Domain - Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a municipality may...
§ 68-211-123. No Permits by Rule for Certain Sites for Sewage Sludge Composting - The department of environment and conservation shall not issue a...
Part 2 - Mercury Product Disposal Control Act
§ 68-211-201. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 68-211-202. Purpose - The general assembly finds and declares that:
§ 68-211-203. Part Definitions - As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
§ 68-211-205. Development and Publication of Educational Materials - The department may develop and publish educational materials on the...
§ 68-211-206. Inspections of Structures — Printing of Forms - Are you aware that, if any of the following criteria...
§ 68-211-207. Establishment and Maintenance of Link on the Department of Revenue's Web Site - The department of revenue shall establish and maintain a link...
Part 3 - Tire Environmental Act
§ 68-211-301. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 68-211-302. Part Definitions - As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
Part 4 - Gasification and Pyrolysis -
Part 5 - Municipal Resource and Energy Recovery Facilities
§ 68-211-501. Part Definitions - As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
§ 68-211-502. Powers of Municipality - A municipality has the power to construct, purchase, improve, operate...
§ 68-211-503. Rates Charged by Municipality — Right to Enter Into Agreements - The municipality, for the production of any energy, shall charge...
§ 68-211-504. Action of Governing Body by Resolution - All action required or authorized to be taken under this...
§ 68-211-505. Provisions Supplemental - This part shall be in addition and supplemental to any...
Part 6 - Tennessee Solid Waste Planning and Recovery Act
§ 68-211-601. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 68-211-605. Development and Distribution of Guidelines - The commissioner, in consultation with the department of education and...
§ 68-211-607. Department of Transportation — Use of Recyclable Materials - The department of transportation shall seek alternative ways to use...
Part 7 - Local Approval of Solid Waste Facilities
§ 68-211-702. Meaning of Landfill or Landfilling - For purposes of this part, “landfill or landfilling” means any...
Part 8 - Solid Waste Management Act of 1991
§ 68-211-801. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 68-211-804. Applicability - Unless specifically otherwise provided, this part does not apply to:
§ 68-211-805. Liberal Construction - This part is remedial in nature and shall be liberally...
§ 68-211-817. Publicly Owned Landfills or Incinerators — Exclusion of Certain Solid Waste - A publicly owned landfill or incinerator for disposal of municipal...
§ 68-211-822. Annual Grants to Agencies by Department — Guidance for Regional Needs Assessments and Development of Plans - From available funds in the solid waste management fund established...
§ 68-211-823. Annual Plan Maintenance Grants — Planning Assistance Grants - From available funds in the solid waste management fund established...
§ 68-211-824. Matching Grant Assistance to Establish or Upgrade Convenience Centers - From funds available in the solid waste management fund established...
§ 68-211-829. Household Hazardous Wastes — Mobile Collection Units - From funds available from the solid waste management fund established...
§ 68-211-830. Matching Grants for Promoting New Technologies - From funds available from the solid waste management fund established...
§ 68-211-831. Investigation and Clean-Up of Unpermitted Waste Tire Disposal Sites and Other Unpermitted Solid Waste Disposal Sites - From funds available from the solid waste management fund, the...
§ 68-211-833. Disposal of Hazardous Waste in Public Schools - Funds available in the solid waste management fund may be...
§ 68-211-843. Information Clearinghouse — Regional Workshops and Conferences - The commissioner shall establish an information clearinghouse to acquire, review,...
§ 68-211-844. Educational and Training Programs - The commissioner shall collect, prepare and disseminate information and conduct...
§ 68-211-845. Promotion of Education Concerning Solid Waste Management - In order to promote education of children in grades kindergarten...
§ 68-211-846. Education Programs — Awards - The commissioner shall establish an awards program for outstanding school-based...
§ 68-211-847. Matching Grants to Implement Education Program - After a region's plan is approved, the department of environment...
§ 68-211-848. Recognition of University and College Programs — Awards Program - The commissioner shall develop an awards program for recognition of...
§ 68-211-854. Contracting With Private Entities - No provision of this part shall prohibit a county, municipality...
§ 68-211-863. Sites for Collection of Recyclable Materials — Annual Reports - Effective January 1, 1996, each county shall provide directly, by...
§ 68-211-864. Technical Assistance - The institute for public service of the University of Tennessee...
Part 9 - Solid Waste Authority Act of 1991
§ 68-211-901. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 68-211-902. Part Definitions - As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
§ 68-211-907. Exclusion or Regulation of Waste - To the extent that a region's plan permits, an authority...
§ 68-211-908. Power of Condemnation - The authority is authorized and empowered to condemn in its...
§ 68-211-909. Counties and Municipalities — Assignment or Loan of Employees and Provision of Facilities to Authority - For the purpose of aiding and cooperating with an authority,...
§ 68-211-912. Counties and Municipalities — Liability - No county or municipality shall be liable for the payment...
§ 68-211-913. Revenues and Income of Authority — Directors and Employees - No part of the revenues or income of the authority...
§ 68-211-915. Annual Audit — Cost — Copies of Audit Available to Public - Except as otherwise approved by the comptroller of the treasury,...
§ 68-211-917. Powers of Authorities Cumulative — Powers of Governmental Entities - Neither this part nor anything herein contained shall be construed...
§ 68-211-919. Acquisition of Project Sites — Method — Authorization - Any county or municipality with respect to which the authority...
§ 68-211-921. Execution of Written Instruments by Authorities - Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all leases, contracts,...
§ 68-211-922. Joint Exercise of Power by Authorities - The powers herein conferred upon authorities created under this part...
§ 68-211-924. Dissolution of Authority — Procedure — Allocation of Assets - An authority may be dissolved by a resolution approved by...
§ 68-211-925. Liberal Construction - This part is remedial in nature and shall be liberally...
Part 10 - Used Oil Collection Act of 1993
§ 68-211-1001. Short Title - This part shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 68-211-1002. Part Definitions - As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
§ 68-211-1005. Toll-Free Telephone Number of Used Oil and Other Automotive Fluids — Use of Moneys in Fund — Personnel - The fund may be used as follows:
§ 68-211-1008. Registration of Automotive Oil Distributors - Each distributor shall register for each place of business with...
§ 68-211-1010. Deduction Granted to Distributors Paying Fees - For the purposes of compensating the distributor in accounting for...
§ 68-211-1016. Prohibited Acts — Penalty - commits a Class C misdemeanor. Each day such violation continues...
§ 68-211-1018. Release — Cleanup - Upon detection of a release of used oil or any...