Tennessee Trails System Act
Tennessee · Natural Areas and Recreation · §§ 11-11-101 to 11-11-206 · 25 sections
Overview
The act creates a statewide system of scenic and recreation trails, setting the criteria a trail must meet, naming the system's initial components, and prescribing how additional trails are proposed, routed, and formally established. It authorizes the acquisition of land and trail rights-of-way, including consideration of abandoned rights-of-way, and provides for signing, maintenance, relocation, and regulation of trail use — restricting hunting and generally prohibiting motorized vehicles, with limited exceptions and penalties for violations. It also allows state trails to be incorporated into the national trail system and establishes adventure tourism districts to promote recreation and economic development in rural areas, subject to liability limitations and posted warning requirements.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 1 court decision.
Most-cited authority: 140 SCT 1837 - United States Forest Service v. Cowpasture River Preservation Assn.
Sections covered
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-101Short title
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-102Trail system authorized — Purpose of chapter
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-103Chapter definitions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-104Composition of system
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-105Criteria for trails
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-106Initial components1 cite
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-107Establishment of scenic or recreation trails
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-108Proposals for establishing trails
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-109Locating routes of trails
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-110Reports of other agencies on activities that may affect trails
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-111Consideration of abandoned rights-of-way — Establishment of trail right-of-way boundaries
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-112Acquisition of property
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-113Use of right-of-way — Hunting restricted
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-114Motorized vehicles prohibited — Exceptions — Prosecution for violations
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-115Application of law to area becoming part of a park or other state system
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-116Signs and markers
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-117Administration of system — Maintenance
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-118Relocation procedure
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-119State trails as part of national system
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-120Violations — Compelling compliance — Penalties
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-202Plan for promotion and development of adventure tourism and other recreation and economic development in rural areas
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-203Part definitions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-204Creation of adventure tourism district
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-205Liability — Warning notices — Limitations
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-11-206Assistance by departments
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