Title 68, Health, Safety and Environmental Protection

All employees currently assigned duties for the Tennessee state fire college, working under the board of regents, are transferred to the department and are granted career employee status with no probationary period. This does not include the director of any of the schools where t…

Annual operating costs of the fire and code enforcement training facility shall be paid from the fire prevention fund.

All rules, regulations, orders and decisions previously issued or promulgated by the Tennessee board of regents with respect to the Tennessee state fire college shall remain in full force and effect and shall hereafter be administered and enforced by the department of commerce an…

The Tennessee fire service and code enforcement academy may accept, for any of its purposes and functions under this chapter, any and all donations of property, real, personal or mixed, and services or grants of money from any governmental unit or public agency, or from any insti…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Fire Department Recognition Act.”

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires, the term “fire department” means a department of a municipality, county, or political subdivision, or an organization, agency, or entity that offers its services, for or without pay, for the purpose of suppressing fires…

No municipality, county, or political subdivision shall operate a fire department, and no organization, agency, or entity shall operate as a fire department within the state, unless it has been duly recognized to do so pursuant to this part by the department of commerce and insur…

(1) To obtain recognition from the department of commerce and insurance, state fire marshal's office, a municipality, county, or political subdivision desiring to operate a fire department, or an organization, agency, or entity desiring to operate as a fire department shall file …

The municipality, county, political subdivision, organization, agency, or entity filing the application must be in compliance with § 68-102-108, by properly requesting designation as an assistant to the commissioner of commerce and insurance.

(a) No new fire department may be established or recognized within Tennessee without the approval of the local elected governing body. This approval shall include the geographical territory to be covered by the new fire department. (b) No governmental unit, person, organization, …

Any person violating this part shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine only.

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Employer” means public, private or volunteer fire agencies, as well as fire prevention and investigation bureaus of a local jurisdiction; however, “employer” shall not include the state fire marshal's office …

The governing board of each recognized volunteer fire department receiving appropriations from the federal government, the state, a county, or a municipality, either directly or indirectly, shall file an annual financial report with the comptroller of the treasury and with each l…

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires, “member” means a member of the Tennessee consolidated retirement system.

Whenever a commissioned instructor employed at the Tennessee law enforcement training academy is injured in the line of duty and the injury disables the member from performing the member's regular duties, whether the disability is temporary or permanent, it is lawful for the comm…

(a) (1) Any commissioned instructor employed at the Tennessee law enforcement training academy who retires after twenty-five (25) years of honorable service shall be issued by the department a retired commission card, which shall identify the member, the member's department and r…

This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Fire Safety Standard and Firefighter Protection Act.”

(1) As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Agent” means any person authorized by the commissioner of revenue to purchase and affix stamps on packages of cigarettes;(2) “Cigarette” means any roll for smoking, whether made wholly or in part of tobacco or a…

(a) (1) Except as provided in subsection (g), no cigarettes may be sold or offered for sale in this state or offered for sale or sold to persons located in this state unless the cigarettes have been tested in accordance with the test method and meet the performance standard speci…

(a) Each manufacturer shall submit to the state fire marshal a written certification attesting that:(1) Each cigarette listed in the certification has been tested in accordance with § 68-102-503; and(2) Each cigarette listed in the certification meets the performance standard set…

(a) Cigarettes that are certified by a manufacturer in accordance with § 68-102-504 shall be marked to indicate compliance with the requirements of § 68-102-503. The marking shall be in eight-point type or larger and consist of:(1) Modification of the product universal product co…

(a) A manufacturer, wholesale dealer, agent or any other person or entity that knowingly sells or offers to sell cigarettes, other than through retail sale in violation of § 68-102-503 shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) for each pack of s…

(a) The state fire marshal may promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, necessary to effectuate the purposes of this part. (b) The commissioner of revenue in the regular course of conducting inspectio…

To enforce this part, the attorney general and reporter and the state fire marshal are authorized to examine the books, papers, invoices and other records of any person in possession, control or occupancy of any premises where cigarettes are placed, stored, sold or offered for sa…

There is established in the state treasury a special fund to be known as the fire prevention and public safety fund. The fund shall consist of all moneys recovered as penalties under § 68-102-506. The moneys shall be deposited to the credit of the fund and shall, in addition to a…

Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit any person or entity from manufacturing or selling cigarettes that do not meet the requirements of § 68-102-503 if the cigarettes are or will be stamped for sale in another state or are packaged for sale outside the United State…

This part shall cease to be effective if a federal reduced cigarette ignition propensity standard that preempts this part is adopted and becomes effective.

Notwithstanding any other law, the local governmental units of this state may neither enact nor enforce any ordinance or other local law or regulation conflicting with, or preempted by, any provision or with any policy of this state expressed by this part, whether that policy is …

(1) As used in this part:(1) “Boat dock” means a man-made structure that protrudes into a body of water for the purpose of mooring a boat or for other water-related recreation, including boat liveries, and that is connected to an electrical power source in any manner; provided, t…

(a) All boat dock or marina operators shall comply with the following requirements to aid in preventing electrical shock, electrocution, or injury to the users of their facilities and the surrounding areas:(1) Any main overcurrent protective device, installed or replaced on or af…

The state fire marshal shall enforce this part and may promulgate rules for the efficient enforcement of its provisions. The rules shall be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.