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TN Code § 13-7-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-104. Method of Procedure After Certification of Plan From Commission

 After the certification of a zone plan from the regional planning commission and before the enactment of any such zoning ordinance, the county legislative body shall hold a public hearing thereon, the time and place of which at least thirty (30) days' notice shall be given by one (1) publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. Such notice shall state the place at which the text and maps as certified by the planning commission may be examined. No change in or departure from the text or maps as certified by the regional planning commission shall be made, unless such change or departure be first submitted to the certifying regional planning commission for its approval, disapproval or suggestions, and, if disapproved, shall receive the favorable vote of a majority of the entire membership of the county legislative body. Such planning commission shall have thirty (30) days from and after such submission within which to send its report to the county legislative body. The entire text of a zoning ordinance need not be published in a newspaper. It is sufficient notice if the caption and a complete summary are published at least once in the official newspaper of the county or in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. The summary shall include a statement that a complete copy of the zoning ordinance is available and where such copy may be obtained. The ordinance shall not be in force until the required publication is made. If the zoning ordinance rezones property, a description of the property that is rezoned shall be included in the summary.
TN Code § 13-7-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-105. Amendments of Zoning Ordinance Provisions — Procedure

  The county legislative body may, from time to time, amend the number, shape, boundary, area or any regulation of or within any district or districts or any other provision of any zoning ordinance; but any such amendment shall not be made or become effective unless the same be first submitted for approval, disapproval or suggestions to the regional planning commission of the region in which the territory covered by the ordinance is located, and, if such regional planning commission disapproves within thirty (30) days after such submission, such amendment shall require the favorable vote of a majority of the entire membership of the county legislative body.   Prior to adopting an amendment as authorized under subsection (a), the county legislative body shall hold a public hearing on the amendment, with at least fifteen (15) days' notice of the time and place to be given by at least one (1) publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. A complete summary of the amendment shall be published at least once in the official newspaper of the county or in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. The summary shall include a statement that a complete copy of the amendment is available and where the copy may be obtained. If the zoning ordinance rezones property, a description of the property that is rezoned shall be included in the summary.   Notwithstanding this part or any other law to the contrary, any county having a charter form of government, adopted pursuant to title 5, chapter 1, part 2, may amend its zoning ordinance by means of resolution; and all zoning amendments passed by resolution prior to July 1, 1996, shall be deemed to be valid and shall not be attacked on the grounds that the amendments were accomplished by means of resolution rather than by ordinance.
TN Code § 13-7-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-107. Rules of Procedure and Jurisdiction of Board of Appeals

   The county legislative body may provide and specify, in its zoning or other ordinance, general rules to govern the organization, procedure and jurisdiction of the board of appeals, which rules shall not be inconsistent with this part, and the board may adopt supplemental rules of procedure, not inconsistent with such sections or such general rules.   The supplemental rules of procedure may address, but shall not be limited to, the following:  Maintenance of a record of the board's resolutions, transactions, motions and actions, which shall be a public record;   Election from its membership of a chair and other officers as the board deems necessary; and   The inclusion of statements of reasons for the board's actions as part of each motion or action, including such findings of fact and statements of material evidence as the board may deem pertinent.       The zoning ordinance may provide that the board of appeals may, in appropriate cases and subject to appropriate principles, standards, rules, conditions and safeguards set forth in the ordinance, make special exceptions to the terms of the zoning regulations in harmony with their general purpose and intent. The county legislative body may also authorize the board of appeals to interpret the zoning maps and pass upon disputed questions of lot lines or district boundary lines or similar questions as they arise in the administration of the zoning regulations.
TN Code § 13-7-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-108. Persons Taking Appeals

 Appeals to the board of appeals may be taken by any person aggrieved, or by any officer, department or board of the county affected, by any grant or withholding of a building permit or by any other decision of a building commissioner or other administrative official, based in whole or in part upon any ordinance under this part.
TN Code § 13-7-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-109. Powers of Board of Appeals

 The board of appeals has the power to:   Hear and decide appeals where it is alleged by the appellant that there is error in any order, requirement, decision or refusal made by the county building commissioner or any other administrative official in the carrying out or enforcement of any ordinance enacted pursuant to this part;   Hear and decide, in accordance with the provisions of any such ordinance, requests for special exceptions or for interpretation of the map or for decisions upon other special questions upon which such board is authorized by any such ordinance to pass; and   Where, by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness, or shape of a specific piece of property at the time of the enactment of the regulation or by reason of exceptional topographic conditions or other extraordinary and exceptional situation or condition of such piece of property, the strict application of any regulation enacted under such sections would result in peculiar and exceptional practical difficulties to or exceptional and undue hardship upon the owner of such property, authorize, upon an appeal relating to the property, a variance from such strict application so as to relieve such difficulties or hardship; provided, that such relief may be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantially impairing the intent and purpose of the zone plan and zoning ordinances.
TN Code § 13-7-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-110. Building Commissioner — Position Established — Permits

 Any county legislative body may provide for the enforcement of its zoning regulations by means of the withholding of building permits and, for such purpose, may establish the position of county building commissioner and may fix the compensation attached to such position. The county building commissioner shall be appointed by the county mayor, subject to the confirmation of the county legislative body. From and after the establishment of such position and the filling of same, it is unlawful to erect, construct, reconstruct, alter or use any building or other structure within the territory covered by such zoning regulations without obtaining a building permit from such county building commissioner, and such building commissioner shall not issue any permit unless the plans for the proposed erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration or use fully conform to all zoning regulations then in effect.
TN Code § 13-7-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-111. Violation of Regulations — Penalties — Modes of Enforcement and Remedies

 It is unlawful to erect, construct, reconstruct, alter, maintain or use any building or structure or to use any land in violation of any regulation in any provision of any ordinance or any amendment thereof enacted or adopted by any county legislative body under the authority of this part. A violation of this part is a Class C misdemeanor. Each and every day during which such illegal erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance or use continues is deemed a separate offense. In case any building or structure is or is proposed to be erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, maintained or used or any land is or is proposed to be used in violation of this part or of any regulation or provision enacted or adopted by any county legislative body under the authority granted by this part, such county legislative body, the attorney general and reporter, the district attorney general for the judicial district in which such violation occurs or is threatened, the county building commissioner or any adjacent or neighboring property owner who would be specially damaged by such violation, in addition to other remedies provided by law, may institute injunction, mandamus, abatement or any other appropriate action, actions, proceeding or proceedings to prevent, enjoin or abate or remove such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, maintenance or use.
TN Code § 13-7-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-112. Regulations Conflicting With Other Laws

 Wherever the regulations made under authority of this part require a greater width or size of yards, courts or other open spaces, or require a lower height of buildings or less number of stories, or require a greater percentage of lot to be unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required in any other statute, the regulations made under authority of this part shall govern. Whenever any other statute requires a greater width or size of yards, courts or other open spaces, or require a greater percentage of lot to be left unoccupied, or impose other higher standards than are required by the standards that are required by the regulations made under authority of this part, the provisions of such statute shall govern.
TN Code § 13-7-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-113. “Regional Planning Commission” Defined

 For the purposes of this part, “regional planning commission” means any regional planning commission established by the [former] state planning office as authorized by law, and includes any municipal planning commission designated by the state planning office, as authorized by law, as the regional planning commission of a planning region composed of the territory of a single municipality, together with territory adjoining but outside of such municipality.
TN Code § 13-7-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-114. Construction — Building Permits — Agricultural Use of Land — Land Located in Special Flood Hazard Area

  This part shall not be construed as authorizing the requirement of building permits nor providing for any regulation of the erection, construction, or reconstruction of any building or other structure on lands now devoted to agricultural uses or which may hereafter be used for agricultural purposes, except on agricultural lands adjacent or in proximity to state federal-aid highways, public airports or public parks; provided, that such building or structure is incidental to the agricultural enterprise. Nor shall this chapter be construed as limiting or affecting in any way or controlling the agricultural uses of land.   For purposes of this section, buildings used as residences by farmers and farm workers are “incidental to the agricultural enterprise”.    Notwithstanding subsection (a) or any other law to the contrary, a county participating in the national flood insurance program shall regulate buildings and development on land located in a special flood hazard area identified on the flood insurance rate map adopted by the county for purposes of participating in the national flood insurance program, but only to the minimum extent necessary to comply with the national flood insurance program.   Subdivision (c)(1) shall apply only to the regulation of buildings and development on land located within the one hundred-year floodplain.
TN Code § 13-7-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-115. Private Acts Unaffected

 This part shall not be construed as repealing or modifying any provision of any private act heretofore enacted relating to the powers of any county therein designated or of any municipality therein designated, to enact zoning regulations in such county or in territory lying outside of such municipality.
TN Code § 13-7-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-116. [reserved.]

  No building permit shall be issued until the county building commissioner receives a copy of either a certificate of insurance or a workers' compensation policy as evidence of the existence of workers' compensation insurance.   The county building commissioner shall keep on file such copy of either the certificate of insurance or the workers' compensation policy for the life of the permit. After the building permit has expired, the county building commissioner shall return by mail the copy of the certificate of insurance or the workers' compensation policy within ten (10) working days to the person who obtained the permit.    This section does not apply to those persons who are not required by title 50, chapter 6, to obtain workers' compensation coverage, to any person who performs work on such person's own property in such person's own county of residence, or to any person who directly supervises work on such person's own property in such person's own county of residence.   Persons not required to present evidence of compliance with §§ 50-6-405 and 50-6-406 pursuant to this subsection (c) shall present or sign an affidavit which attests to their exemption from this section. A person authorized to issue building permits who issues a building permit to a person exempted from this section shall keep on file for the life of the permit such affidavit of exemption.     A person authorized to issue building permits, who in good faith accepts an affidavit of exemption, a copy of a certificate of insurance, or a copy of a workers' compensation policy shall not be liable in any criminal or civil action alleging the person obtaining the building permit was subject to §§ 50-6-405 and 50-6-406 and such person did not in fact have workers' compensation coverage. Compliance with this section shall be a rebuttable presumption that the person authorized to issue building permits acted in good faith.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 13-7-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-118. Land Use Plan in Certain Counties That Are in an Early Action Compact or in Nonattainment for Air Quality

  This section applies to any county in the state that either is in an early action compact or is in nonattainment for air quality according to the environmental protection agency as of April 15, 2004.   Any county that qualifies under subsection (a) and whose population according to the 2000 federal census was sixty thousand (60,000) or more and the county as of April 15, 2004, did not have a land use plan, shall adopt a land use plan which states that air quality issues will be considered as part of the county-wide land use plans.
TN Code § 13-7-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 1 - County Zoning|§ 13-7-119. Compiling of Effective Zoning Ordinance and Map — Zoning Ordinance and Map as Public Record — Challenge to Accuracy

  Any county that has exercised zoning powers under this part shall compile its zoning ordinance and map, as amended, that is in effect so as to be able to provide any member of the public with a current zoning ordinance and map. In that county, the county legislative body shall authenticate, compile, update, keep, maintain and make available the zoning ordinance, map and all amendments as a public record. Any county zoning ordinance and map made available to the public through a compilation made pursuant to this section, whether in electronic or paper form, shall be presumed to be a true and accurate statement of the county's zoning ordinance and map.   Any party challenging the accuracy of any county zoning ordinance or map compiled as currently in effect in accordance with this section, whether in a rezoning proceeding before a county legislative body, an appeal to a board of zoning appeals, a subdivision or site plan approval proceeding before a planning commission or in any judicial proceeding, must prove the inaccuracy of the zoning ordinance or map by clear and convincing evidence.
TN Code § 13-7-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 2 - Municipal Zoning|§ 13-7-202. Zoning Plan

 Whenever the planning commission of the municipality makes and certifies to the chief legislative body a zoning plan, including both the full text of a zoning ordinance and the maps, representing the recommendations of the planning commission for the regulation by districts or zones of the location, height, bulk, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of the lot which may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the uses of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence, recreation, public activities and other purposes, and identify areas where there are inadequate or nonexistent publicly or privately owned and maintained services and facilities when the planning commission has determined the services are necessary in order for development to occur, then the chief legislative body may exercise the powers granted and for the purposes mentioned in § 13-7-201, and may divide the municipality into districts or zones of such number, shape and areas it may determine, and, for such purposes, may regulate the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration and uses of buildings and structures and the uses of land.
TN Code § 13-7-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 2 - Municipal Zoning|§ 13-7-203. Hearing on Ordinance or Amendment — Notice — Publication — Procedure

  Before enacting the zoning ordinance or any amendment thereof, the chief legislative body shall hold a public hearing thereon, at least fifteen (15) days' notice of the time and place of which shall be published in the official municipal journal or in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.   No change in or departure from the text or maps as certified by the planning commission shall be made, unless such change or departure be first submitted to the planning commission and approved by it, or, if disapproved, shall receive the favorable vote of a majority of the entire membership of the chief legislative body.   Notwithstanding the requirements of any municipality's charter to the contrary, the entire text of a comprehensive zoning ordinance need not be published in a newspaper. For those municipalities whose charters do require ordinances to be published in a newspaper, it shall be sufficient for the comprehensive zoning ordinance that its caption and a complete summary be published.
TN Code § 13-7-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 2 - Municipal Zoning|§ 13-7-204. Amendments to Zoning Ordinances

 The zoning ordinance, including the maps, may from time to time be amended; but no amendment shall become effective unless it is first submitted to and approved by the planning commission or, if disapproved, receives the favorable vote of a majority of the entire membership of the chief legislative body.
TN Code § 13-7-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 2 - Municipal Zoning|§ 13-7-206. Jurisdiction of Board — Parties to Appeals

  The zoning ordinance may provide that the board of appeals may, in appropriate cases and subject to the principles, standards, rules, conditions and safeguards set forth in the ordinance, make special exceptions to the terms of the zoning regulations in harmony with their general purpose and intent. The chief legislative body may also authorize the board of appeals to interpret the zoning maps and pass upon disputed questions of lot lines or district boundary lines or similar questions as they arise in the administration of the zoning regulations.   Appeals to the board of appeals may be taken by any person aggrieved or by any officer, department, board or bureau of the municipality affected by any grant or refusal of a building permit or other act or decision of the building commissioner of the municipality or other administrative official based in whole or part upon this ordinance enacted under this part and part 3 of this chapter.
TN Code § 13-7-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 13 - Public Planning and Housing|Chapter 7 - Zoning|Part 2 - Municipal Zoning|§ 13-7-207. Powers of Board of Appeals

 The board of appeals has the power to:   Hear and decide appeals where it is alleged by the appellant that there is error in any order, requirement, permit, decision, or refusal made by the municipal building commissioner or any other administrative official in the carrying out or enforcement of any provision of any ordinance enacted pursuant to this part and part 3 of this chapter;   Hear and decide, in accordance with any such ordinance, requests for special exceptions or for interpretation of the map or for decisions upon other special questions upon which such board is authorized by any such ordinance to pass; and   Where, by reason of exceptional narrowness, shallowness or shape of a specific piece of property at the time of the enactment of the zoning regulation, or by reason of exceptional topographic conditions or other extraordinary and exceptional situation or condition of such piece of property, the strict application of any regulation enacted under this part and part 3 of this chapter would result in peculiar and exceptional practical difficulties to or exception or undue hardship upon the owner of such property, authorize, upon an appeal relating to the property, a variance from such strict application so as to relieve such difficulties or hardship; provided, that such relief may be granted without substantial detriment to the public good and without substantially impairing the intent and purpose of the zone plan and zoning ordinance.