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Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-102-146

Controlled burns — Burning woods — Notice — Extinguishment — Penalty

Code 1858, §§ 1703, 1704 (deriv

(1) No person shall set fire to any woods that are not the person's own property, nor to the person's own property, without giving at least two (2) days' notice to persons owning the adjacent lands, and also taking effectual care to extinguish the fire before it extends beyond such person's own lands.

(2) A violation of this section is a Class B misdemeanor.

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.