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TN Code § 43-14-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-301. County Legislative Body Authorized to Purchase Terracing Equipment — Conditions

 Where there is organized in a county a soil conservation association, whose membership shall comprise bona fide landowners, incorporated under the Cooperative Marketing Law, compiled in chapter 16 of this title; and when sufficient members of the association have agreed with the association by written contract to pay their proportionate share of the cost of terracing, including operating cost and retirement of the original purchase price of the terracing equipment, a minimum total of five thousand (5,000) acres; and when the authorizing officers of the association have petitioned the county legislative body with proper evidence that bona fide landowners in the county desire to have a minimum of five thousand (5,000) acres terraced and pay their proportionate share of the cost of constructing the terraces, including the retirement of the original purchase price of the terracing equipment, the county legislative body is authorized within its own discretion to make an appropriation for the purchase of terracing equipment for use on farm lands in the county, and on farms of the members of the association, and the county legislative body shall be reimbursed for the original cost of the equipment through the payment by each member of the association of that member's proportionate share of the cost of the equipment, including operating cost for each acre of land terraced.
TN Code § 43-14-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-302. Pulverizing Lime — Purchase and Lease of Equipment and Quarries

  Where there is organized in a county a county soil conservation association, whose membership shall comprise bona fide landowners incorporated under the Cooperative Marketing Law, compiled in chapter 16 of this title; and when the members of the association have agreed with the association by written contract to pay their proportionate share of the cost of producing a minimum of two thousand (2,000) tons of pulverized lime; and when the authorized officers of the association have petitioned the county legislative body with proper evidence that bona fide landowners in the county desire to use a minimum of two thousand (2,000) tons of pulverized lime and will pay their proportionate share of the cost of production, the county legislative body is authorized, within its own discretion, to make an appropriation for the purchase and to purchase equipment for the pulverizing of lime to be used on farm lands in the county and on farms of members of the association. The county legislative body is further authorized, within its own discretion, to make appropriation for the leasing or purchasing of quarries or limestone deposits for the manufacture of pulverized lime.   In the event the lime pulverizing equipment is purchased and quarries or limestone deposits are leased or purchased, the county legislative body is authorized in its discretion to:  Pulverize, manufacture and produce lime for sale to the farmers of the county on such terms and conditions as the county should deem proper; and   Lease or sell the lime pulverizing equipment and/or quarries to the association on such terms and conditions as the county legislative body deems proper.
TN Code § 43-14-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-303. Analyzing Soil for Lime and Phosphate Content — Purchase of Equipment

 Where there is organized in the county a soil conservation association whose membership shall comprise bona fide landowners incorporated under the Cooperative Marketing Law, compiled in chapter 16 of this title, and when sufficient members of the association shall have agreed with the association by written contract to pay their proportionate share of the cost of purchasing equipment for analyzing soil for lime and phosphate content, the county legislative body is authorized, in its own discretion, to make an appropriation for the purchase of such equipment for use on farm lands of members of the association, and the county legislative body shall be reimbursed for the original cost of the equipment through the payment by each member of the association of that member's proportionate share of the cost of the equipment.
TN Code § 43-14-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-304. Organization With Aid of University of Tennessee Extension Service

 Farmers in a county desiring to organize a soil conservation association in order to participate in the benefits of this part shall request the advice and help of the University of Tennessee extension, in the organization and incorporation of such association.
TN Code § 43-14-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-305. Purchase of Terracing Equipment With Advice of Extension Service

 Before a county soil conservation association shall petition a county legislative body for aid in the purchase of terracing equipment, the officers of the association shall seek advice from the extension service, and particularly, its rural engineers, on the type of equipment that would prove most efficient in the county, and the equipment shall be approved by the foregoing engineers for the county.
TN Code § 43-14-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-306. Only Equipment Recommended to Be Purchased

 Only terracing equipment recommended by the soil conservation association shall be purchased with any funds appropriated by the county legislative body for the purposes set forth in this part.
TN Code § 43-14-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-307. Operators of Terracing Equipment — Salaries

 The soil conservation association shall employ only competent trained operators for terracing equipment, and their salaries shall be charged as a part of the operating cost of the equipment.
TN Code § 43-14-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 14 - Soil Conservation|Part 3 - Soil Conservation Associations|§ 43-14-308. Terracing Specifications of Agricultural Engineer to Be Followed

 All terracing work done, to qualify for payment under the federal Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, shall be in accordance with specifications prescribed by the agricultural engineer of the University of Tennessee extension.
TN Code § 43-19-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-101. Warehouses — Persons Operating

 Any person may open a warehouse for the inspection and sale of tobacco under the rules, regulations, and restrictions of this chapter.
TN Code § 43-19-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-102. Proof of Sufficiency of Warehouse Required

 Every person opening a warehouse for the inspection and sale of tobacco shall prove to the county clerk by the testimony of two (2) impartial witnesses known to the clerk to be well qualified, from knowledge and experience, that the person is the proprietor of a good and sufficient warehouse, situated so as to be exposed to no extraordinary risk from fire or flood, and furnished besides, with all the implements necessary to the accurate weighing and inspection of tobacco.
TN Code § 43-19-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-103. Bond of Tobacco Warehouseman

 Such person shall also enter into bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the county mayor, and payable to the state, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), conditioned to keep the warehouse in good condition and repair, so as effectually to protect the tobacco stored in the warehouse, that the person will not sell any tobacco that has been bought by the person or on the person's account, or purchase on such person's own account any tobacco stored in the warehouse, either directly or indirectly, and that the person will perform faithfully all the duties of warehouseman as prescribed by law.
TN Code § 43-19-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-104. Fees Uncollectible Upon Failure to Give Bond — Penalty for Violations

 A proprietor who fails to execute a bond shall not be entitled to collect any fees on tobacco stored in the warehouse, under a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense, to be recovered in the name of the state, one half (½) to go to the informer.
TN Code § 43-19-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-105. Suit on Bond — Parties

 Any person aggrieved may sue on this bond for a breach thereof, in the name of the state, until the penalty is exhausted.
TN Code § 43-19-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-106. Warehouses to Be Floored and Kept in Repair

  The proprietor shall fit up the warehouse with plank floors or skids, upon which to place the tobacco, so that the hogsheads may be at least four inches (4") from the earth.   Any proprietor who fails to keep a warehouse in good repair, or to furnish it as in this section provided, shall forfeit two hundred dollars ($200) to the state, and is also liable upon the bond to an action for damages, at the instance of any planter or owner whose tobacco is injured.
TN Code § 43-19-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-107. Scales to Be Kept and Tested

 The proprietor shall keep good and sufficient scales for weighing tobacco, which shall be tested at the beginning of each tobacco commerical year, and every three (3) months thereafter, by the keeper and sealer of weights for the county, and at any time when written application is made by two (2) or more planters or burghers.
TN Code § 43-19-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-108. Breaking Irons for Inspection, and Screws for Cooperage

 The proprietor shall also keep the necessary breaking irons for the proper inspection of tobacco, and screws for the proper cooperage and return of loose tobacco to the hogshead after inspection.
TN Code § 43-19-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-109. Attention to Duty — Prompt Delivery for Shipment

 The proprietor or the proprietor's clerks shall be constant and prompt in their attendance at the warehouse for the reception and storage of tobacco, and promptly deliver tobacco to the planter or person entitled thereto, upon order for shipment.
TN Code § 43-19-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-110. Private Warehouses

 Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any person from establishing a private warehouse for the storage of tobacco.
TN Code § 43-19-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-111. Tobacco Commercial Year

 The “tobacco commercial year” commences and ends on November 1 of each year.
TN Code § 43-19-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 43-19-112. Prosecution for Penalties — Duties of Clerk and District Attorney General — Fees

 The county clerk shall attend to all prosecutions for penalties under this chapter, for the use of the state, for which the county clerk shall receive ten percent (10%) on the sums collected and paid into the state treasury. The county clerk may, also, when necessary, call on the district attorney general to give attention to prosecutions for penalties under this chapter, for which service the district attorney general shall be allowed ten dollars ($10.00) to be taxed in the bill of costs, and when collected, shall be paid into the state treasury at the same time and in the same manner as other state revenue is by law required to be paid.
TN Code § 43-19-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-201. Warehouse Proprietor May Be Inspector — Appointment of Deputy Inspectors — Oath — Bond

  The proprietor of a warehouse, regularly authorized under this chapter, is created an inspector of tobacco, with power to appoint deputy inspectors; but, before any warehouse keeper, who may personally act as inspector, or any deputy who may act as inspector for the warehouse keeper, enters upon the duties of an inspector, that person shall go before the county clerk, and take and subscribe the following oath: “I,  , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will carefully and diligently perform all the duties of an inspector of tobacco, according to law and to the best of my skill and judgment, without fear, favor, affection, malice, or partiality, and that I will not buy nor sell any tobacco inspected and sampled by me, nor accept any interest or profit in or from the purchase or sale of any tobacco inspected and sampled by me. So help me God.”   The person shall enter into bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the county mayor, and payable to the state, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), conditioned to faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of the office, and that the person will not buy nor sell any tobacco inspected and sampled by that person, nor accept any interest or profit in or from the purchase or sale of any tobacco inspected or sampled by the person.
TN Code § 43-19-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-202. Duties of Proprietor or Deputy

 It is the duty of the proprietor or one (1) of the proprietor's regular deputies to:   Inspect the uncasing and breaking of any tobacco for inspection, and examine and classify the tobacco according to law and the proprietor's or deputy's oath of office;   Break each hogshead for inspection, in at least four (4) different places, drawing from each break at least four (4) bundles or hands of tobacco, from different courses or layers, so as to get a fair and just representation of the quality and condition of the tobacco;   Place these bundles together in one (1) sample, stamp with the following seal: “State Tobacco Inspection,” and mark with ink upon the label of the sample the name of the warehouse, the planter's name, the warehouse number of the hogshead and its approximate gross weight, the date of inspection, and the name of the sampler drawing the sample;   Mark “A,” or “Admitted,” all sound, clear, well assorted leaf tobacco, clear of lugs or trash, in good keeping order, and mark “R,” or “Refused,” all lugs or trash, or leaf mixed with lugs or trash, or clean leaf tobacco, if not in good keeping order;   Condemn all hogshead or casks that are insecure, or made of green or unsound timber, and mark, upon the label of the sample, “Cask Condemned”; the cost of putting such hogshead in proper merchantable order shall be charged to the owner of the tobacco;   Refuse to classify, and mark as “Damaged,” expressing on the label the probable amount of damage, every hogshead so damaged that the sample drawn will not show the character and extent of damage;   Refuse to classify, and to mark “Condemned,” any hogshead of tobacco that is falsely and fraudulently packed with intent to deceive, and give full information to the grand jury about such hogshead, from the proprietor's or deputy's books, when called upon to furnish the information;   Superintend the coopering and reweighing; see that each cask is replaced over the same tobacco from which it was taken; and mark the hogshead on both heads with distinct figures, specifying the correct weights;   Carefully enter in a book, to be provided and kept, for that purpose alone, an account of every hogshead of tobacco inspected, stating the planter's name, warehouse number, the gross weight, the tare, the net weight, the price at which it sold, the purchaser's name, and its quality, whether “Admitted” or “Refused”; and   Be personally present, and witness the breaking of any tobacco for inspection, and personally attach the proprietor's or deputy's seal to the sample drawn, and pay all just reclamations on tobacco improperly sampled by the proprietor or deputy.
TN Code § 43-19-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-203. Reinspection — Making

  Should any planter, or the planter's agent representing the planter, claim that the sample drawn from the planter's tobacco by an inspector does not represent fairly the hogshead from which it was taken, the planter may demand and have that hogshead reinspected.   The tobacco board of trade, where one exists, shall appoint a committee, consisting of two (2) warehousemen and one (1) buyer, who shall resample such tobacco, so as to show, as nearly as may be, the average condition and quality of the hogshead; and upon such sample so drawn by the committee, and the sample drawn by the inspector, the board of trade shall proceed to adjudge, in the same manner and in all respects as reclamations in favor of the buyer are determined, the amount, if any, the hogshead has been undersampled by the inspector, and the amount so adjudged shall be paid by the inspector to the planter.   Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent any planter from guaranteeing the planter's tobacco to come up to the sample drawn by any inspector.
TN Code § 43-19-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-204. Responsibility of Keeper

 After the tobacco is inspected, coopered, weighed, and numbered, the warehouse keeper becomes responsible to the planter or owner for the weights and proper keeping of the tobacco.
TN Code § 43-19-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-205. Conversion of Samples or Plucking Leaves Therefrom Prohibited — Penalty

  No warehouse keeper, nor anyone in the employment of the warehouse keeper, shall take or convert to that person's own use, or dispose of, any sample of tobacco, but the tobacco shall be delivered to the purchaser, and all loose tobacco shall be neatly returned to the hogshead or other container from which it came, before coopering and weighing.   No person shall willfully or wantonly pluck any leaf or leaves from any sample of tobacco to which the inspector has attached the inspector's seal, either before or after sale.   Any person violating any provision of this section commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-19-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-206. Erasure or Counterfeiting a Misdemeanor

 Any person who erases, or in any way alters or defaces, any letter, mark, number or figure put upon any hogshead or other container by an inspector, or counterfeits the letter, mark, number or figure, previous to the delivery to the purchaser, commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-19-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-207. Keeper Not to Sell Tobacco Until Inspection — Penalty

 No warehouse keeper shall sell publicly any sample of tobacco that has not been regularly inspected under this chapter, under a penalty of five dollars ($5.00) for each hogshead so sold, to be recovered by any person suing for that amount.
TN Code § 43-19-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-208. Copy of Sample Cards With “Inspected” Thereon

 Any warehouse keeper called upon to inspect a lot of tobacco shall make a copy of the original sample card, and write on it, in plain letters, “Inspected,” adding the date.
TN Code § 43-19-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-209. Warehouseman Not to Sell or Buy

  No proprietor of a warehouse shall sell any tobacco that has been directly or indirectly bought by that person, or on that person's account, nor directly or indirectly purchase on that person's own account any tobacco stored in that person's warehouse. This section is not to be construed as referring to the sale of crops of tobacco raised by the proprietor or any of the proprietor's agents or employees.   No proprietor of a warehouse, nor any deputy of a proprietor, who acts as inspector of tobacco, shall buy or sell any tobacco inspected and sampled by the proprietor or deputy, nor accept any interest or profit in or from the purchase or sale of any tobacco inspected and sampled by that person.   Any person violating this section shall forfeit fifty dollars ($50.00) for each hogshead so purchased or sold, or in which such interest or profit was accepted, one half (½) to the state, the other one half (½) to the informer.
TN Code § 43-19-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-210. Accepting Gratuity or Reward — Penalty

 If any warehouse keeper accepts, directly or indirectly, any gratuity or reward for anything by that person done or omitted in the discharge of that person's official duties, that person shall forfeit two hundred dollars ($200) to the state, and, moreover, the warehouse keeper commits a Class C misdemeanor. The warehouse keeper shall also forfeit the office, and be forever afterward disqualified from holding the office of tobacco inspector.
TN Code § 43-19-211 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-211. Derelictions to Be Reported to County Clerk

 Any planter or person shall inform the county clerk of any dereliction of duty on the part of the warehouse keeper.
TN Code § 43-19-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-212. Fraudulent Packing or “Nesting” a Misdemeanor — Penalty

 Any person who fraudulently packs or “nests” a hogshead of tobacco with intent to deceive and obtain by the deception more than its true value commits a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 43-19-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 43 - Agriculture and Horticulture|Chapter 19 - Tobacco Sales|Part 2 - Tobacco Inspectors—inspections—violations|§ 43-19-213. Description of Best Hogshead to Be Posted in Warehouse

 The warehouse keeper shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the warehouse a description of the hogsheads or casks, length, measurement, etc., best suited to contain tobacco for market.