(1) It is an offense for a person to display, exhibit, handle, or use a poisonous or dangerous snake or reptile in a manner that endangers the life or health of any person.
(2) An offense under this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-101
Handling snakes so as to endanger life prohibited
Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.
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.