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TN Code § 68-102-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-122. Expense Not Paid by Parties to Be Certified and Paid

 If a party fails, neglects, or refuses to repay the officer the expense incurred by the officer within thirty (30) days after the occurrence, the officer may immediately place a lien upon the property for the expenses incurred pursuant to § 68-102-121, together with a twenty-five percent (25%) penalty. The lien shall be a lien on the property, including the real estate on which the property is located, and the lien shall be superior and prior to all other liens on the property, except a lien for taxes assessed and due the state, county and city in which the property is located, and vendors' liens.
TN Code § 68-102-124 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-124. Officer Authorized to Enforce Lien

 The officer is authorized to institute legal proceedings to enforce the lien in any court of record or any general sessions court.
TN Code § 68-102-125 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-125. Registration of Order to Make Lien Effective

  In order to make the lien against the property valid and binding, the officer, officer's assistant, or other person entitled to assert the lien shall immediately upon serving the order provided in § 68-102-117, upon any party or parties, including any lienholders of record, file a copy of the order in the register's office in the county in which the property is located and cause the copy of the order to be registered.   For the registration of the order, the register of any county shall receive a fee authorized for the recording of the documents, such fee to be added to the cost and expense of executing the order.   The copy of the order shall be filed in the register's office of the county in which the property is located, before or at any time the order is served upon the owner or occupant of the premises, and the order when so filed shall be notice to all parties.
TN Code § 68-102-126 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-126. Penalty for Failure to Comply With Order

  Any owner or occupant failing to comply with an order pursuant to § 68-102-117 within thirty (30) days after the order has been made final commits a Class C misdemeanor for each day's neglect thereafter. An action may be brought in any court having jurisdiction, including the court of general sessions of the county in which the property is located, in the name of the state of Tennessee, upon the relation of the commissioner of commerce and insurance.   If defective or unlawful conditions, as defined in § 68-102-117 have resulted from the failure of any architect, contractor, builder, mechanic, electrician or other person to comply with the requirements of laws and regulations relating to the installation of facilities, appliances and equipment for the use of electrical energy or gas (natural, artificial or liquid petroleum) in any building, structure or on premises located in this state, then the architect, contractor, builder, mechanic, electrician or other person shall be required to comply with any order or orders issued by an officer or inspector insofar as the order or orders may relate to the failure. Upon failure to comply with the order or orders within thirty (30) days, the architect, builder, contractor, mechanic, electrician or other person commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 68-102-127 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-127. Police Powers of Commissioner and Deputies and Municipal Fire Investigators

  The commissioner of commerce and insurance and the commissioner's deputies have police powers and have the right to make arrests when necessary to preserve the law in this department, and may, in addition to investigations made by any of the commissioner's assistants, at any time make further investigations as to the origin or circumstances of any fire occurring in this state, by the appointment of special assistants or the employment of other means necessary in the commissioner's discretion.   Municipal fire investigators who have been authorized by the chief of the municipal fire department or the director of fire services to conduct investigations relative to the cause and origin of fires and/or arson investigations shall also have police powers and shall have the right to make arrests when necessary to preserve the laws of this state or their respective municipalities relative to cases of arson or suspected arson.   Salaried county fire investigators who have been authorized by the chief of the county-wide fire department or the director of fire services to conduct investigations relative to the cause and origin of fires or arson investigations have police powers and have the right to make arrests when necessary to preserve the laws of this state or their respective jurisdiction relative to cases of arson or suspected arson.
TN Code § 68-102-128 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-128. Power to Summon and Swear Witnesses — False Swearing as Perjury

 The commissioner, the commissioner's deputies and assistants, including full-time arson investigators, have the power to summon witnesses and to compel them to attend before them, or either of them, and to testify under oath in relation to any matter that is by this chapter a subject of inquiry and investigation, and may require the production of any book, paper, document or other matter whatsoever deemed pertinent or necessary to the inquiry. They also have the power to administer oaths and affirmations to any person appearing as a witness before them, and false swearing in any matter shall be deemed perjury, and shall be punishable as such.
TN Code § 68-102-129 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-129. If Crime Suspected, Testimony and Other Facts Presented to District Attorney General

 If, after examination of witnesses or any investigation, the commissioner, or any of the commissioner's deputies or assistants, is of the opinion that the facts in relation to a fire indicate that a crime has been committed, the commissioner shall present the testimony taken on examination, together with any other data in the commissioner's possession, to the district attorney general of the county in which the crime has been committed, and the district attorney general shall call especially to the attention of the grand jury such testimony, and if the facts warrant an indictment, no prosecutor shall be required.
TN Code § 68-102-130 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-130. Power to Enter Buildings or Premises for Inspection or Investigation

 The commissioner, the commissioner's deputies or any of the commissioner's assistants may at all hours enter any building or premises for the purpose of making an inspection or investigation that under this chapter, the person may deem necessary to be made.
TN Code § 68-102-131 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-131. Fees of Witnesses and Officers

 Every person, summoned and testifying before the commissioner, the commissioner's deputies or assistants, shall receive from the funds for the maintenance of the department, on the certificate of the commissioner, for witness fees and mileage, such sum or sums as provided for witnesses testifying in the circuit courts of this state, and officers serving subpoenas and rendering other services to the commissioner shall be paid as for like services in such courts.
TN Code § 68-102-132 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-132. Record of Fires Kept — Open to Public — Information May Be Withheld

 The commissioner shall keep in the commissioner's office a record of all fires occurring in this state and of all the facts concerning the fires occurring in the state, including statistics as to the extent of the fires and the damage caused by the fires, and whether such losses were covered by insurance, and, if so, in what amount. Such records shall be made daily from the reports made to the commissioner by the commissioner's assistants under this chapter. All such records shall be public, except any information secured in an investigation under this chapter, which the commissioner, in the commissioner's discretion, may withhold from the public.
TN Code § 68-102-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-133. Report of Commissioner — Amendment of Laws

 The commissioner shall, annually, on or before February 15, transmit to the governor a full report of the commissioner's proceedings under this chapter, and such statistics as the commissioner may wish to include in the report, for the year previous. The commissioner shall also recommend any amendments to the law that, in the commissioner's judgment, are deemed advisable. The report of the commissioner shall include a full and complete report of all collections made and all expenditures and for what purposes they were made and to whom paid.
TN Code § 68-102-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-134. Acts of Witness Punishable as for Contempt of Court

 Any witness who refuses to obey a summons of the commissioner, or the commissioner's deputies or assistants, or who refuses to be sworn or testify, or who disobeys any lawful order of the commissioner, or the commissioner's deputies or assistants, in relation to any investigation instituted by the commissioner or such deputies or assistants, or who fails or refuses to produce any book, paper or document, or other matter touching any matter under investigation or examination, or who is guilty of any contemptuous act, after being summoned to appear before either of them, to give testimony in relation to any matter under examination or investigation, may be punished as for contempt of court, and for this purpose application may be made to any court of record within whose jurisdiction the contempt in question took place, and for which purpose the courts are given jurisdiction.
TN Code § 68-102-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-135. District Attorney General Assisting in Investigation of Fires of Suspicious Origin

 The district attorney general of any county, upon request of the commissioner, or the commissioner's deputies or assistants, shall assist such officers, upon an investigation of any fire that, in their opinion, is of suspicious origin.
TN Code § 68-102-136 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-136. No Compensation of Local Assistants

 All local assistants not receiving a salary from the state shall investigate fires without compensation and no expenses shall be paid to them.
TN Code § 68-102-137 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-137. Public and Private Schools — Institutions — Fire Drills — Doors to Be Kept Unlocked — Safety Drills

  It is the duty of the commissioner, or the commissioner's deputies and assistants, to require fire drills in educational and institutional occupancies.   Fire drills requiring full evacuation in educational occupancies where such occupancies constitute the major occupancy of a building shall be held at least one (1) time every thirty (30) school days, with two (2) fire drills occurring during the first thirty (30) full days of the school year. Additionally, four (4) fire safety educational announcements will be conducted throughout the year. The LEA will develop the content of the educational announcements. Fire drills requiring full evacuation shall be held at least once every two (2) months in institutional occupancies where such occupancies constitute the major occupancy of a building. A record of all fire drills, including the time and date, shall be kept in the respective school or institutional offices, and shall be made available upon request to the state fire marshal, or the state fire marshal's deputies or assistants, for inspection and review.   In educational occupancies, fire drills shall include complete evacuation of all persons from the building. In institutional occupancies, fire drills shall be conducted to familiarize operating personnel with their assigned position of emergency duty. Complete evacuation of occupants from the building at the time of the fire drill shall be required only where it is practicable and does not involve moving or disturbing persons under medical care.   The state fire marshal, or the state fire marshal's deputies and assistants, shall avail themselves for the training of owners, tenants or their employees in methods of fire drills, to ensure the efficient and safe use of exit facilities in buildings and to prevent panic and in the coordination of the drills with fire alarm systems.   All doors serving as an exit shall be kept unlocked during the periods that a building is occupied.   In addition to the fire drills required by this section in educational occupancies, safety drills not requiring full evacuation of all persons from the building shall be conducted at least three (3) times during each school year. A record of all safety drills, including the time and date, shall be kept in the respective school offices, and shall be made available upon request to the state fire marshal, or the state fire marshal's deputies or assistants for inspection and review.
TN Code § 68-102-138 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-138. Noncompliance by Persons or Corporations — Penalty

 Any person, persons or corporation failing to comply with this chapter commits a Class C misdemeanor for each violation of this chapter.
TN Code § 68-102-139 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-139. Noncompliance by Officers — Penalty

 Any officer, including assistants referred to in §§ 68-102-101 — 68-102-143, 68-102-147, and 68-102-148, who neglects, fails or refuses to comply with any of the requirements of those sections, commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 68-102-140 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-140. Penalties Used for Maintenance of Division

 All penalties, fees or forfeitures collected under §§ 68-102-101 — 68-102-143, § 68-102-147, or § 68-102-148, shall be placed by the commissioner of commerce and insurance to the credit of the fund for the maintenance of the division of fire prevention and shall be used as such.
TN Code § 68-102-141 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-141. Purpose of Chapter — Liberal Construction

 It is declared that this chapter is necessary for the public safety, health, peace and welfare, is remedial in nature, and shall be construed liberally.
TN Code § 68-102-142 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-142. Tax on Net Premium Receipts of Fire Insurance Companies to Defray Expenses of Enforcement

 For the maintenance of the division of fire prevention and the payment of expenses incident thereto, and for the maintenance of the fire investigations section transferred to the Tennessee bureau of investigation pursuant to chapter 487 of the Public Acts of 2019, and the payment of expenses incident to the duty of the fire investigations section to investigate destructive fires in this state, each fire insurance company transacting business in this state, at the same time it pays other taxes now required by law, shall pay to the commissioner of commerce and insurance the sum of three-quarters of one percent (0.75%) on the net premium receipts of the insurance companies on all business transacted by them in Tennessee, during the next preceding year, as shown by their annual statement under oath to the department of commerce and insurance. This sum shall be held in a separate fund by the commissioner, and shall be designated as the fire prevention fund, for the maintenance of the division of fire prevention and the fire investigations section, and for the payment out of the fund for the expenses and maintenance of the division and the fire investigations section shall be made only on the warrant of the commissioner, and any and all moneys on hand in this division at the end of each fiscal year shall be turned in to the general fund of the state; provided, that this state shall in no way be liable for the salaries or expenses of the fire prevention division other than the fund as provided in this section for such purposes.
TN Code § 68-102-145 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-145. Sheriffs and Highway Patrol Officers to Prevent Spread of Forest Fires — Punishment for Refusing Aid

  It is the duty of various county sheriffs and the state highway patrol officers to use all effective methods in their power to prevent the spread of forest fires. Whenever the various sheriffs or any member of the state highway patrol becomes aware of the fact that there is a forest fire in the vicinity, the officer shall summon a sufficient number of the male citizens of the county in which the fire is burning, who are between eighteen (18) and thirty (30) years of age, to control the fire, and the officer shall be in complete charge and direction of the efforts to restrain the fire until duly relieved by division of forestry personnel.   Any person who, after being duly summoned by the officer to aid in the suppression of the fire, willfully refuses to act in the premises commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 68-102-146 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-146. Controlled Burns — Burning Woods — Notice — Extinguishment — Penalty

  No person shall set fire to any woods that are not the person's own property, nor to the person's own property, without giving at least two (2) days' notice to persons owning the adjacent lands, and also taking effectual care to extinguish the fire before it extends beyond such person's own lands.   A violation of this section is a Class B misdemeanor.    Code 1858, §§ 1703, 1704 (deriv. Acts 1777, ch. 25, § 1; 1782, ch. 29, § 2); Shan., §§ 3017, 3018; Code 1932, §§ 5241, 5242; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 53-2445, 53-2446; Acts 1986, ch. 651, § 2; 1989, ch. 591, § 112; T.C.A., § 68-17-146.
TN Code § 68-102-148 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-148. Fire Alarms and Extinguishers — Approval Before Sale — Exceptions — Penalty

  It is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, or offer for sale, for use in this state, any device, appliance, system or equipment designed to act as an alarm in the detection and prevention of fires, unless the device, appliance, system or equipment has been investigated and listed by a nationally recognized and approved independent testing agency or laboratory, or agency authorized to make such independent inspections by the state fire marshal.   This section does not apply to any device, appliance, system or equipment referenced in subsection (a) offered by a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of, or regulation by, the Tennessee public utility commission or a comparable federal agency.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 68-102-149 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 102 - Fire Prevention and Investigation|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-102-149. Firearms for Fire Officials

  It is lawful for the state fire marshal provided for in § 68-102-112, and such deputies as the fire marshal may designate who are full-time salaried employees of this state, to carry a pistol or side arm while on active duty in order to protect their own lives and to effectuate the purposes of their responsibilities in investigating cases of arson or suspected arson.   It is lawful for municipal fire investigators who have been authorized by the chief of the municipal fire department or the director of fire services to conduct investigations relative to the cause and origin of fires and/or arson investigations to carry a pistol or side arm while on active duty in order to protect their own lives and to effectuate the purposes of their responsibilities in investigating cases of arson or suspected arson. For the sole purpose of being able to carry a pistol, such investigators shall comply with the requirements of § 39-17-1315(a).   It is lawful for salaried county fire investigators who have been authorized by the chief of the county-wide fire department or the director of fire services to conduct investigations relative to the cause and origin of fires or arson investigations to carry a pistol or side arm while on active duty in order to protect their own lives and to effectuate the purposes of their responsibilities in investigating cases of arson or suspected arson. For the sole purpose of being able to carry a pistol, such investigators shall comply with the requirements of § 39-17-1315(a).