All penalties owed under this chapter shall be paid to the commissioner for deposit into the state treasury in the general fund and shall be earmarked for expenditure solely for use in the division of occupational safety and health equally between enforcement activities and the safety consulting service conducted under this chapter, and may be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state, in the county where the violation is alleged to have occurred or where the employer has its principal office.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 50-3-408
Payment of penalties — Action to recover
Known as the Occupational Safety and Health Act
The act spans §§ 50-3-1001 to 50-3-920 (95 sections).
Acts 1972, ch. 561, § 11; 1974, ch. 585, § 34; 1977, ch. 111, § 23; T.C.A., § 50-538; Acts 1996, ch. 944, § 44; 1999, ch. 520, § 41.
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.