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TN Code § 66-25-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 25 - Release of Liens Created by Written Instruments|Part 2 - Marginal Release of Liens|§ 66-25-207. Affidavit in Lieu of Production of Instrument

  In case the lawful owner or holder of the instrument secured, as provided in this part, shall be unable to produce same at the time of making application for such release, on account of same having been lost, destroyed or mislaid, the lawful owner or holder of the instrument secured shall subscribe and swear to an affidavit, before the register or deputy, hereby duly authorized to administer such oaths, stating that such person is the true and lawful owner or holder of the instrument thereby secured, and stating briefly the facts which account for the inability of the owner or holder to produce such instrument.   The affidavit, excusing production, shall be substantially in the following form:  State of Tennessee   County of   I,  , do hereby solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am the true and lawful owner or holder of the note (or other instrument) secured by a lien created by an instrument which is of record in Deed (or Trust) Book  , page  , of the register's office of  County, Tennessee; that I desire to make a marginal release of the lien securing the instrument (in whole or in part, as the case may be — specifying the extent); that the same has been fully paid (wholly or in part, as the case may be — specifying the extent) to me as such lawful owner and holder, and that I am unable to produce the original note (or other instrument) for the following reasons: (Here state briefly the facts showing why the secured instrument cannot be produced for cancellation, and that its loss, etc., was unintentional).   Owner or Holder of Note   Sworn to and subscribed before me, this the  day of  , 20 .   Register or Deputy    Any person who shall willfully swear falsely in the affidavit is guilty of perjury, and liable to the penalty for perjury upon conviction.   The affidavit shall be filed with the register, and shall be recorded by the register in a well-bound book to be kept by the register in the register's office, and the original affidavit shall be filed and preserved as a record of the register's office.   In case the affidavit is made, the register shall charge a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for filing and recording the same, in addition to the register's fee for attesting the marginal release, these fees to be paid by the party making the release.   Upon the making of the affidavit, the register or the register's deputy shall permit a party to make the marginal release upon the record, where the original secured instrument is not produced, this release to be duly attested by the register or the register's deputy.
TN Code § 66-25-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 25 - Release of Liens Created by Written Instruments|Part 2 - Marginal Release of Liens|§ 66-25-208. Procurement of Release by Forgery or Fabrication — Penalties

  Any person who produces a fabricated or forged note or other evidence of indebtedness secured by a lien, and procures thereby a release under §§ 66-25-201 — 66-25-206, is guilty of forgery and punishable accordingly.   If the true note, or other such evidence of indebtedness be produced, after its fraudulent or felonious obtainment, and the lien thereby procured to be so released, such person is guilty of a felony, with penalty as in case of forgery.
TN Code § 66-25-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 25 - Release of Liens Created by Written Instruments|Part 2 - Marginal Release of Liens|§ 66-25-209. Liability of Register for Improper Release

 Should the register attest a marginal release without seeing to the compliance with the requirements of this chapter, the register and the sureties on the register's official bond shall be liable to any person injured in consequence thereof.
TN Code § 66-25-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 25 - Release of Liens Created by Written Instruments|Part 2 - Marginal Release of Liens|§ 66-25-210. Right to Release by Deed of Release or Quitclaim Preserved

 This chapter shall not be construed to preclude the right of release by way of deed of release or quitclaim.
TN Code § 66-25-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 25 - Release of Liens Created by Written Instruments|Part 2 - Marginal Release of Liens|§ 66-25-211. Applicability of This Part to Certain Counties

 This part applies to any county having a population of not less than thirty-two thousand six hundred (32,600) nor more than thirty-two thousand seven hundred (32,700), according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census.
TN Code § 66-27-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-101. Title

 This part shall be known as the “Horizontal Property Act.”
TN Code § 66-27-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-103. Horizontal Property Regime — Planned Unit Development — Establishment

  Whenever a developer, the sole owner, or the co-owners of a building expressly declare, through the recordation of a master deed or lease, or by plat, which shall set forth the particulars enumerated by § 66-27-107, their desire to submit their property to the regime established by this part, there shall be thereby established a horizontal property regime.   If there is substantial compliance with this part as pertaining to private elements, and if an appropriate legal opinion is obtained from an attorney licensed to practice law in this state to the effect that all legal documents required in this part for the creation of a planned unit development are attached and therefore a planned unit development is created under this part, then a planned unit development shall be deemed to have been properly organized and constituted under state law. All planned unit developments shall require a declaration, bylaws, a plat showing private and common elements, a townhouse corporation, charter and an attorney's opinion.
TN Code § 66-27-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-104. Ownership — Building Code Compliance

  Once the property is submitted to the horizontal property regime, an apartment in the building may be individually conveyed and encumbered and may be the subject of ownership, possession or sale and of all types of juridic acts intervivos or mortis causa, as if it were sole and entirely independent of the other apartments in the building of which they form a part, and the corresponding individual titles and interest shall be recordable.   If private elements are created, the original construction of all apartments must substantially comply with local building codes for planned unit developments, established by the appropriate local authorities for planned unit developments. If no appropriate local authority exists, then compliance must be pursuant to the international building code. A certificate from a professional engineer or architect licensed to practice engineering or architecture in this state, to the effect that construction of the apartments is in substantial compliance with such code, shall be sufficient for the attorney to rely upon in giving an opinion.
TN Code § 66-27-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-105. Joint Ownership

 Any apartment may be held and owned by more than one (1) person, as tenants in common, as tenants by the entirety, or in any other real estate tenancy relationship recognized under the laws of the state.
TN Code § 66-27-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-106. Owner's Rights — Exclusive and Common

  An apartment owner shall have an exclusive ownership to the apartment and shall have a common right to share, with other co-owners, in the common elements of the property. Each co-owner may use the elements held in common in accordance with the purpose for which they are intended.   If a condominium owner is in compliance with the master deed and by-laws, the charter, and any rules and regulations of the horizontal property regime, then the council of co-owners may not deny that condominium owner use and enjoyment of the general common elements of the property.
TN Code § 66-27-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-107. Recordation and Contents of Master Deed, Lease or Declaration

  A master deed, or lease or declaration shall be recorded in the same manner and subject to the same law as are deeds. Plats may likewise be recorded as in the case of recordation of plats as provided by law.   A master deed, or lease or declaration or the plat, or any combination of them, to which § 66-27-103 refers shall express the following particulars:  The description of the land, whether leased or in fee simple, and the building, expressing their respective areas;   The general description and number of each apartment, expressing its area, location and any other data necessary for its identification;   The description of the general common elements of the building, and the limited common elements of the building, and the private elements of the property; and   Bylaws for the administration of the building as in §§ 66-27-111 and 66-27-112 provided.     The common elements, both general and limited, shall remain undivided and shall not be the object of an action for partition or division of co-ownership.   The declaration shall provide that each owner of a private element shall own a pro rata share of the total membership in the townhouse corporation.
TN Code § 66-27-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-108. Recordation and Conveyance of Apartments

  The deed of each individual apartment shall be recorded in the same manner and subject to the same law as are deeds. Likewise shall mortgages of each individual apartment be recorded subject to the law applicable to the recording of mortgages. Likewise shall other instruments conveying or affecting title to individual apartments be recorded as in the case of recording of such instruments affecting title to real property.   Any conveyance of an individual apartment shall be deemed to also convey the undivided interest of the owner in the common elements, both general and limited, appertaining to that apartment without specifically or particularly referring to the same. In the case of private elements, a conveyance shall be deemed to convey the undivided membership of the private element owner in the townhouse corporation.
TN Code § 66-27-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-109. Merger of Filial Estates With Principal Property

 All of the co-owners or the sole owner of a building constituted into a horizontal property regime may by deed waive this regime and regroup or merge the records of the filial estates with the principal property; provided, that the filial estates are unencumbered, or if encumbered, that the creditors in whose behalf the encumbrances are recorded accept as security the undivided portions of the property owned by the debtors.
TN Code § 66-27-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-110. Horizontal Property Regime Following Merger

 The merger provided for in § 66-27-109 shall in no way bar the subsequent constitution of the property into another horizontal property regime whenever so desired and upon observance of the provisions of this part.
TN Code § 66-27-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-111. Administrative Bylaws Recorded

 The administration of every building constituted into horizontal property shall be governed by bylaws which shall be inserted in or appended to and recorded with the master deed or declaration, as the case may be.
TN Code § 66-27-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-112. Contents of Bylaws — Modification

  The bylaws must necessarily provide for at least the following:  Form of administration, indicating whether this shall be in charge of an administrator or of a board of administration, or otherwise, and specifying the powers, manner of removal, and, where proper, the compensation of such administrator, board of administration, or otherwise;   Method of calling or summoning the co-owners to assembly; that a majority of co-owners is required to adopt decisions; who is to preside over the meeting and who will keep the minute book wherein the resolutions shall be recorded;   Care, upkeep and surveillance of the building and its general or limited common elements and services;   Manner of collecting from the co-owners for the payment of the common expenses; and   Designation and dismissal of the personnel necessary for the works and the general or limited common services of the building.     The sole owner of the building, or if there is more than one (1), the co-owners representing two thirds (2/3) of the total apartments of the building, may at any time modify the system of administration, but each one (1) of the particulars set forth in this section shall always be embodied in the bylaws. No such modification may be operative until it is embodied in a recorded instrument which shall be recorded in the same office and in the same manner as was the master deed or lease or plat and original bylaws of the horizontal property regime involved.
TN Code § 66-27-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-113. Administrator's Books — Examination by Co-Owners

  The administrator, or the board of administration, or other form of administration specified in the bylaws, shall keep a book with a detailed account, in chronological order, of the receipts and expenditures affecting the building and its administration and specifying the maintenance and repair expenses of the common elements and any other expenses incurred.   Both the book and the vouchers accrediting the entries made thereupon shall be available for examination by all the co-owners at convenient hours on working days that shall be set and announced for general knowledge.
TN Code § 66-27-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-114. Expenses Prorated — No Exemptions

  The co-owners of the apartments are bound to contribute pro rata toward the expenses of administration and of maintenance and repair of the general common elements, and, in the proper case, of the limited common elements, of the building, and toward any other expense lawfully agreed upon.   No co-owner may be exempted from contributing toward the expenses in subsection (a) by waiver of the use or enjoyment of the common elements or by abandonment of the apartment belonging to that co-owner or by any other means.
TN Code § 66-27-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-115. Homestead Provisions Applicable

 The provisions of article XI, § 11 of the Constitution of Tennessee relating to homestead and exemptions and the acts of the general assembly pertaining to or implementing the constitutional provisions shall be applicable to individual apartments which shall have the benefit of such exemptions in those cases the same as in ownership of any other property, and shall inure to the benefit of the owners of such apartments, that is to say, that individual apartments in a horizontal property regime are declared to be homesteads within the purview of article XI, § 11 of the Constitution of Tennessee.
TN Code § 66-27-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-116. Prorated Expenses and Taxes — Lien

 The sale or conveyance of an apartment shall in all cases be subject to all unpaid assessments against the owner thereof for such owner's pro rata share in the expenses to which § 66-27-114 refers and, if the same are not paid by the owner thereof prior to sale or conveyance, shall be a lien against the apartment and shall be paid by the new owner of the apartment. Likewise shall taxes and other levies and assessments by governmental taxing bodies be a lien against individual apartments.
TN Code § 66-27-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-117. Building Insurance

 The co-owners may, upon resolution of a majority, insure the building against risks, without prejudice to the right of each co-owner to insure such co-owner's apartment on such co-owner's own account and for co-owner's own benefit.
TN Code § 66-27-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-118. Reconstruction of Damaged Building

  In case of fire or any other disaster, the insurance indemnity shall, except as provided in subsection (b), be applied to reconstruct the building.   Reconstruction shall not be compulsory where it comprises the whole or more than two thirds (2/3) of the building. In such case, and unless otherwise unanimously agreed upon by the co-owners, the indemnity shall be delivered pro rata to the co-owners entitled to it in accordance with provision made in the bylaws or in accordance with a decision of three fourths (¾) of the co-owners if there are no bylaw provisions.   Should it be proper to proceed with the reconstruction, the provisions for such eventuality made in the bylaws shall be observed, or in lieu thereof, the decision of the council of co-owners shall prevail.
TN Code § 66-27-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-119. Costs of Reconstruction

  Where the building is not insured or where the insurance indemnity is insufficient to cover the cost of reconstruction, the new building costs shall be paid by all the co-owners directly affected by the damage, in proportion to the value of their respective apartments, or as may be provided by the bylaws; and if any one (1) or more of those composing the minority shall refuse to make such payments, the majority may proceed with the reconstruction at the expense of all the co-owners benefited thereby, upon proper resolution setting forth the circumstances of the case and the cost of the works, with the intervention of the council of co-owners.   The provisions of this section may be changed by unanimous resolution of the parties concerned, adopted subsequent to the date on which the fire or other disaster occurred.
TN Code § 66-27-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-121. Supplemental Rules and Regulations

 Whenever they deem it proper, the planning and zoning commission of any county or municipality may adopt supplemental rules and regulations governing a horizontal property regime established under this part in order to implement this program.
TN Code § 66-27-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-122. Construction With Other Laws

 This part shall be in addition to and supplemental to all other laws of the state; provided, that wherever the application of this part conflicts with the application of such other laws, this part shall prevail.
TN Code § 66-27-123 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 1 - Horizontal Property|§ 66-27-123. Notice to Tenant of Intent to Convert Rental Units to Units for Sale

  All owners or lessors of buildings, apartments, rooms, office spaces, or other units, all of which terms in this section shall be referred to as units or unit, which are presently being occupied by one (1) or more persons under a lease or other rental agreement, shall give each tenant at least two (2) months' actual notice of such owner's or lessor's intent to convert such tenant's unit from a rental unit to a condominium, condominium project or other unit which is offered or proposed to be offered for sale. The notice shall specify that the tenant has the right to continue renting such unit at the same rental rate until the expiration of the two-month notice period required by this section.   No sale of a unit which was converted from a rental unit to a unit offered for sale to a person other than the tenant last renting such unit shall be valid unless such tenant has received two (2) months' actual notice of the owner's or lessor's intent to convert such unit. This provision shall apply regardless of whether the tenant's lease or other rental agreement expires prior to the end of the two-month notice period.   If an owner or lessor converts a rental unit to a unit offered for sale without giving the tenant of such unit at least two (2) months' actual notice of the conversion, such tenant may elect to remain, with or without a lease, in the unit at the same rental rate until the expiration of a two-month period from the date the tenant received such actual notice or the tenant may vacate the unit immediately upon receiving such actual notice and the owner or lessor shall pay such tenant all reasonable expenses incurred in moving to another location. If a tenant is in a position to make the election provided by this subsection (c) and does not vacate the premises immediately, the owner or lessor shall not be obligated to pay the tenant's moving expenses. The election provided by this subsection (c) shall apply regardless of whether the tenant's lease or other rental agreement has or would have expired prior to the end of the two-month notice period.   If it is necessary for a tenant to institute a court action to enforce this section and the tenant is the prevailing party, the court shall require the owner or lessor to reimburse the tenant for all reasonable costs incurred in bringing such action, including attorney fees, and shall tax all court costs against the owner or lessor.   This section shall apply to all units which are converted from rental units to units offered for sale on or after December 1, 1979; provided, that this section shall apply only to Class 1 and Class 2 counties as established by § 8-24-101.
TN Code § 66-27-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 66 - Property|Chapter 27 - Multiple Ownership of Property|Part 2 - Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008 — General Provisions|§ 66-27-201. Short Title

 This part and parts 3-5 of this chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008.”