2010 Tennessee Code
Title 13 - Public Planning And Housing
Chapter 24 - Zoning Classifications
Part 1 - Residences of Retarded or Handicapped Persons
13-24-102 - Homes in which mentally retarded, mentally handicapped or physically handicapped persons reside classified as single family residence.
13-24-102. Homes in which mentally retarded, mentally handicapped or physically handicapped persons reside classified as single family residence.
For the purposes of any zoning law in Tennessee, the classification single family residence includes any home in which eight (8) or fewer unrelated mentally retarded, mentally handicapped or physically handicapped persons reside, and may include three (3) additional persons acting as houseparents or guardians, who need not be related to each other or to any of the mentally retarded, mentally handicapped or physically handicapped persons residing in the home.
[Acts 1978, ch. 863, § 2; 1979, ch. 361, § 2; T.C.A., § 13-2402; 1999, ch. 204, § 1.]
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