No landfill area for the disposal of solid waste materials in this state shall be constructed and no contract between any person or persons for the purpose of constructing or utilizing the same shall be completed or executed unless the location of the landfill area shall have been approved by the department and the governing body of the area in which the site is located. Should the department or the governing body disapprove of the site, no further action shall be taken in regard to the construction of a landfill area at that site.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-213-103
Approval of landfill area location
Known as the Sanitary Landfill Areas Act
The act spans §§ 68-213-101 to 68-213-106 (6 sections).
Acts 1970, ch. 417, § 3; T.C.A., §§ 53-4503, 68-33-103.
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.