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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 821
SENATE BILL NO. 1473
•By Taylor, Rose
Substituted for: House Bill No. 2034
By Harris, Stinnett
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 6; Title 7; Title 13; Title 16, Chapter 18 and
Title 29, Chapter 3, relative to violations of municipal ordinances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 16, Chapter 18, Part 3, is amended by adding
the following as a new section:
(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, if a municipal court has found a
person or entity to be in violation of a municipal ordinance related to the maintenance of
property and the person or entity in violation of the municipal ordinance has failed to remedy
the property maintenance violation within thirty (30) days of the municipal court's finding that
the ordinance has been violated, then the municipality may remedy the ordinance violation at
a cost in conformity with reasonable standards. The municipality shall not remediate such
violations if the cost may negatively impact the municipality's financial position, or if the cost
is budgetarily prohibitive.
(b) The cost of remediation may be assessed against the owner of the property in the
form of a lien upon the property in favor of the municipality; however, the municipality is not
precluded from seeking recovery of remediation cost through other allowable means under
state or local law.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
SENATE BILL NO. 1473
PASSED: April 9, 2026
RANDY !\\:NALLY
SPEAKER OF THE §ENATE
CAMEReN SEXTON, SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
l~pn. , APPROVED this Zl!!::day of 2026
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