Tenn. Code Ann. § 43-17-102

Any person offering pecans for sale that the person did not raise or own without purchasing, or on whose lands the pecans were not grown, shall be required by the buyer or dealer in the pecans, before such buyer or dealer buys them, to show a written permission to sell them from the party owning the land on which the pecans were grown, unless the party offering the pecans for sale is a bona fide owner of the land, and the dealer may require proper identification of the person offering pecans for sale.