Title 68, Health, Safety and Environmental Protection

(a) The department may promulgate rules and regulations concerning the manufacture, transportation, sale, storage, or use of explosives and the maintenance of such explosives, and any other rules and regulations necessary to effectuate this chapter. (b) In order to carry out the …

Construction and administration of examinations, forms, applications, etc., necessary for the administration of this chapter is the responsibility of the department.

(a) The department may refuse to issue or renew, and revoke or suspend any registration or application if any registrant or applicant:(1) Has violated any provision of this chapter or any other state or federal law relating to explosives, or has violated any regulation duly promu…

(a) There is created in the department an advisory council on the commercial explosives industry. The advisory council shall consist of twelve (12) members. The term of each member shall be three (3) years. Membership shall include manufacturers, distributors and users of commerc…

(1) Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to:(1) Personnel of the military or naval forces of the United States, or to the duly organized military force within the state, so long as these persons are acting within their respective official capacities and in the performanc…

As a prerequisite to renewal, the registrant must provide proof of having completed the continuing education requirements established by the department. The department may prescribe continuing education requirements by rule.

(1) For purposes of this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Child” means any person under eighteen (18) years of age;(2) “Highway” means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way when any part thereto is open to the use of the public for the purpos…

(a) A county may by resolution, and a municipality may by ordinance, prohibit or restrict a child from being present in the roadway of a highway or an intersection for the purpose of the child's participation in soliciting or collecting money. (b) This section shall not apply to …

This act is known and may be cited as the “Riley Gaines Women's Safety and Protection Act.”

(1) The purpose of this chapter is:(1) To clarify and reconcile the meaning of sex, male, female, and related terms in state law; and(2) To provide protections for women and girls against sexual assault, harassment, and violence in correctional facilities, juvenile detention faci…

(1) The legislature finds and declares that:(1) “Physical differences between men and women, however, are enduring: ‘[T]he two sexes are not fungible; a community made up exclusively of one [sex] is different from a community composed of both.'” United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S…

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Boy” means a human male who is a minor;(2) “Changing room” means a room or area in which a person may be in a state of undress in the presence of others, including a locker room or shower room;(3) “Correctional facility” means a correctional facil…

Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, any law enacted by the legislature, or any rule adopted by a state agency or other entity subject to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, when applicable to an individual's sex must be interpreted …

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, a governmental agency, excluding state residential training facilities, shall not prohibit distinctions between the sexes with respect to athletics, correctional facilities, juvenile detention facilities, domestic violence shelters…

(a) A domestic violence shelter shall designate each multi-occupancy restroom, changing room, and sleeping quarters for the exclusive use of any one (1) of the following:(1) Females;(2) Males; or(3) Members of the same family. (1) Females; (2) Males; or (3) Members of the same fa…

(a) A public institution of higher education shall designate each multi-occupancy restroom or changing room for the exclusive use of either females, males, or members of the same family. (b) (1) A restroom or changing room within a public institution of higher education that is d…

(a) A correctional facility or juvenile detention facility shall designate each multi-occupancy restroom, changing room, and sleeping quarters for the exclusive use of either females, males, or members of the same family. (b) (1) A restroom, changing room, or sleeping quarters wi…

A law that distinguishes between the sexes in furtherance of this chapter is subject to intermediate scrutiny, which forbids discrimination against similarly situated individuals, but allows the law to distinguish between the sexes when there is an important governmental interest…

(a) An individual who, while accessing a restroom or changing room designated for use by that individual's sex, encounters a person of the opposite sex in that restroom or changing room in violation of this chapter has a private cause of action for declaratory and injunctive reli…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health or the commissioner's authorized representative;(2) “Department” means the department of health;(3) (A) “Organized camp” means any area, place, parcel, or tract …

It is the duty of the commissioner to adopt rules and regulations deemed necessary for the protection of the health and safety of persons using camps or living adjacent to camps.

(a) No place or site within any political subdivision of the state of Tennessee shall be established or maintained by any person as an organized camp, unless the person holds a valid permit issued by the commissioner or public health officer in the name of the person for the spec…

(a) The commissioner or public health officer is authorized and directed to make inspections to determine the conditions of organized camps, in order that the commissioner or officer may perform such person's duty of safeguarding the health and safety of occupants of organized ca…

(a) It is the duty of the local public health officers or the commissioner, when the commissioner determines that this chapter is not being adequately enforced, to enforce this chapter. (b) All ordinances, rules, regulations, and other requirements adopted by the boards of health…

Any person who violates this chapter or the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, or fails to perform the reasonable requirements of the department or public health officer after receipt of ten (10) days' written notice of such requirements, shall be fined not l…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Campground” means any parcel or tract of land, other than state-owned lands, including buildings and other structures, where five (5) or more campsites are made available for use as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel, or s…

It is the purpose of the general assembly to regulate the assemblage of large numbers of people, in excess of those normally needing the health, sanitary, fire, police, transportation and utility services regularly provided in this state, in order that the health, safety and welf…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Assembly” means a gathering of five thousand (5,000) or more people that is conducted or can reasonably be expected to be conducted for eighteen (18) or more hours continuously, whether on public or private p…

No person shall permit, maintain, promote, conduct, advertise, act as an entrepreneur, undertake, organize, manage, or sell or give tickets to an actual or reasonably anticipated assembly, unless a license to hold the assembly has first been obtained from the department.

(1) Before an applicant may be issued a license, the applicant shall first:(1) Determine the maximum number of people who will be assembled or admitted to the location of the assembly; provided, that the maximum number shall not exceed the maximum number that can reasonably assem…

(a) An application for a license to hold an actual or anticipated assembly of five thousand (5,000) or more persons shall be made in writing to the department at least sixty (60) days in advance of the assembly. (b) The application shall contain a statement made upon oath or affi…

(a) An application for a license to hold an actual or anticipated assembly shall be accompanied by a license fee of one hundred dollars ($100), and, if the license is granted, the fee is paid to the state treasury and becomes a part of the general funds of the state. (b) A separa…

The application for a license shall be processed within twenty (20) days of receipt and shall be issued if there is compliance with all of the conditions. If for some reason the license is not granted, the department shall return the license fee to the applicant and a written sta…

The license may be revoked by the department at any time, if there is not compliance with any of the conditions necessary for the issuing of or contained in the license, or if there ceases to be compliance with any condition previously met.

A license shall permit the assembly of only the maximum number of people stated in the license. The licensee shall not sell tickets to, nor permit to assemble at the licensed location, more than the maximum permissible number of people. The license shall not permit the sound of t…

This chapter does not apply to any regularly established permanent place of worship, stadium, athletic field, arena, auditorium, coliseum, or other similar permanently established place of assembly for assemblies that do not exceed by more than two hundred fifty (250) persons the…

The commissioner of health is empowered to adopt, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to implement this chapter.

The holding of an assembly in violation of any provision or condition contained in this chapter is deemed a public nuisance and may be abated by injunction in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Any person who violates a provision of this chapter, or who violates any condition upon which such person is granted a license, commits a Class E felony, and shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Ski Area Safety and Liability Act.”

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Industry” means generally the activities of all ski area operators;(2) “Passenger” means any person, while being transported or conveyed by a passenger tramway, or while waiting in the immediate vicinity for …

It is recognized that Alpine or downhill skiing as a recreational sport and the use of passenger tramways associated with Alpine or downhill skiing may be hazardous to skiers or passengers, regardless of all feasible safety measures that can be taken. Therefore, each skier and ea…

(1) No passenger or skier shall:(1) Board or embark upon or disembark from a passenger tramway except at an area designated for that purpose;(2) Throw or expel any object from a passenger tramway;(3) Do any act that interferes with the running or operation of a passenger tramway;…

The ski area operator shall have the primary responsibility for the design, construction, maintenance, and inspection of any passenger tramway. All passenger tramways shall be designed, constructed, and maintained in accordance with standards of the American National Standards In…

(1) Base Stations. It is the duty of the ski area operator to maintain the following signs and designations:(1) Base Stations. (A) A color code is established in accordance with the following:(i) Green circle — To designate the ski area's least difficult trails and slopes;(ii) Bl…

(a) Unless a ski area operator is in violation of this chapter or other state acts pertaining to ski areas, which violation is causal of the injury complained of, no action shall lie against any such operator by any skier or passenger or representative of a skier or passenger; th…