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United States — Tennessee
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The chapter’s purpose is to support a state system of scenic and recreation trails to improve outdoor recreation and public access.
United States — Tennessee
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This section defines several terms used in the chapter.
United States — Tennessee
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The system must include scenic trails, recreation trails, and connecting or side trails, with scenic trails generally limited to foot use and open wood fires barred except in specially designated areas.
United States — Tennessee
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This section sets the criteria for different trail classes, including scenic, horse, bicycle, and motorized-vehicle restrictions.
United States — Tennessee
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This section adds named trails to the Tennessee trails system and requires the commissioner to work with North Carolina and South Carolina officials on the Overmountain Victory Trail.
United States — Tennessee
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The department may establish and designate certain state recreation trails, and scenic trails can be authorized and designated only by an act of the general assembly.
United States — Tennessee
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The commissioner must study and periodically submit proposals and reports to the governor and general assembly about state scenic trails and state recreation trails.
United States — Tennessee
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The department must choose trail routes and publish notice for state scenic trails, while trying to avoid harm to nearby landowners and users.
United States — Tennessee
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All state agencies must promptly tell the commissioner about certain activities that could affect the trails or system.
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The department must review railroad right-of-way abandonment declarations for possible inclusion in the state trails system, and the commissioner must determine trail right-of-way boundaries within three years after a trail route is located.
United States — Tennessee
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The commissioner may acquire land or land interests within the right-of-way for Tennessee, but must do so quickly and cannot use eminent domain beyond specific limits.
United States — Tennessee
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The department must avoid incompatible uses of the right-of-way, keep vegetation undisturbed except for limited clearing, and may allow other non-interfering uses. Hunting wild game is generally barred on or along the trail system, except when the department authorizes it or when an adjacent landowner hunts on the adjo
United States — Tennessee
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Motorized vehicles are prohibited for the general public in the right-of-way of state scenic or recreation trails, with limited exceptions.
United States — Tennessee
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Parts of the system that become part of certain state park or wildlife areas must follow this chapter and the laws governing those areas.
United States — Tennessee
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The department must establish trail markers, and the markers must be placed at access points with signs showing prohibited modes of travel.
United States — Tennessee
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The department must administer the Tennessee trail system and handle trail maintenance and related public-use facilities when required.
United States — Tennessee
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The department may relocate segments of state trails when needed, but it must consult other involved agencies, publish notice, and use the procedures in §§ 11-11-109 to 11-11-113 when setting the new location and right-of-way.
United States — Tennessee
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The commissioner must coordinate the state trails system with the national trails system and help federal studies for including Tennessee trails. The commissioner may also make written cooperative agreements for joint federal-state administration, if land-use administration is at least as restrictive as this chapter.
United States — Tennessee
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A person who disobeys this chapter or a commissioner’s regulation or order may be compelled to comply and may also be fined up to $50 per day of the violation.
United States — Tennessee
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This part may be cited as the Tennessee Adventure Tourism and Rural Development Act of 2011.