The department of agriculture, through the division, is authorized to establish and manage a system of state forests to provide for the multiple use management of the various renewable and nonrenewable resources such that those resources are utilized in the combination that best meets the needs of the people of Tennessee. The system shall include those lands which the division deems suitable for public forestry purposes.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-4-801
Basic system of state forests authorized
Known as the Tennessee Forestry Act
The act spans §§ 11-4-1002 to 11-4-901 (39 sections).
Acts 1986, ch. 652, § 39.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.