Setting fire to personal property or land
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case United States v. Velasquez-Reyes (2005)
Most recently applied in United States v. Carlos Fallins (September 2017)
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) A person commits arson who knowingly damages any personal property, land, or other property, except buildings or structures covered under § 39-14-301, by means of a fire or explosion: Without the consent of all persons who have a possessory or proprietary interest therein; or
(2) With intent to destroy or damage any such property for any unlawful purpose.
(3) A violation of this section is a Class E felony.
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.