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Department of environment and conservation members, employees, and officers must not use their official authority or influence to interfere with elections, affect election results, or coerce anyone’s political action.
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The department may acquire certain lands and properties for park and public purposes, but only within appropriations and with required title approval.
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The department may receive money or other personal property for park purposes by bequest, gift, or otherwise.
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The department may convey property in the designated Great Smoky Mountain National Park area to the federal government. Money received from that conveyance must be deposited with the state treasurer and can be disbursed only on the commissioner’s warrant or written order.
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The department must study suitable park lands and set up a system for their development, preservation, and administration. It may also make rules for managing and controlling the property, and the commissioner may pledge park revenues with state building commission approval.
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Violations of the listed state park rules can be punished as a Class C misdemeanor, and certain acts can also trigger civil penalties.
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Creates a division of educational service in the department and gives it conservation-education duties; its director is appointed by the commissioner.
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The commissioner of environment and conservation may use part of the central office appropriation for the division of educational service, as the commissioner considers appropriate.
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The commissioner may make specified park-facility transactions, but only with state building commission approval and only for the section’s stated purpose.
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The commissioner of environment and conservation may make grants, with state building commission approval, for construction-only utility service projects.
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The commissioner of environment and conservation may make agreements, provide park rangers, and acquire nearby land or easements for public recreation, but must follow contract, property, and leasing laws.
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The commissioner of environment and conservation may contract with the Cloverbottom Association to help renovate, repair, maintain, operate, and preserve the Cloverbottom Mansion, but only with state building commission approval.
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The commissioner of environment and conservation is encouraged to employ persons under 19 to work in state parks and recreation areas, and must file an annual report to two legislative committees.
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The commissioner may start court proceedings and seek injunctions or other legal or equitable relief against a person alleged to have violated, or about to violate, this part or its rules.
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This section defines terms used in the chapter, including “charge,” “conservation easement,” “land,” “owner,” “public use easement,” and “recreational purposes.”
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An owner who leases land for recreational use to state or local government entities generally has no duty to keep it safe or warn about hazards, unless the parties agree otherwise in writing.
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Owners of land covered by certain state-held conservation or public use easements owe no duty to keep the land safe or warn entrants about hazards.
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This section says the chapter does not limit existing liability in certain cases and does not create a new duty of care or liability. It also preserves the obligation of recreational users of another person's land to use due care.
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Owners of land subject to certain conservation or public use easements are exempt from a duty of care and may not create implied safety warranties, invitee/licensee status, or liability by granting the easement.
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This chapter may be cited as the “Tennessee Trails System Act.”