Respondents, by signing the Assurance, are indicating its agreement to the terms of this Agreed Order. This Agreed Order hereby incorporates and adopts the Implementation Date, as defined by the Assurance. Tenn. Code Ann. Tenn. Code Ann. Tenn. Code Ann.
Respondents represent it is their intent to comply with all applicable state laws.
If the Attorney General determines that Respondents have knowingly failed to comply with the terms of this Assurance and if in the Attorney General s sole discretion the knowing failure to comply does not threaten the health or safety of the citizens of the State of Tennessee, the Attorney General shall notify Respondents of such failure to comply before filing any motion or pleading to enforce the Assurance. Nothing herein shall be construed to exonerate any contempt of or failure to comply with any provision of the Assurance after the date of its entry, to compromise the authority of the Attorney General to initiate a proceeding for any contempt, or to compromise the authority of the court to punish as a contempt any violation of the Assurance. Further, except as otherwise stated in this paragraph, nothing in this subsection shall be construed to limit the authority of the Attorney General to protect the interests of the State of the people of the State of Tennessee. D. 4. of the Assurance. In the event that an action to enforce the Assurance and this Agreed Order is brought by the State, the Respondents reserve the right to contest the validity of Tenn. Code Ann.