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2017 Tennessee Code
Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
Safety
Chapter 101 - Miscellaneous Safety and Environmental Regulations
§ 68-101-108. Limitations on release of balloons into the atmosphere -- Exemptions.
Universal Citation: TN Code § 68-101-108 (2017)
- (a) No person, including an officer or employee of this state or any political subdivision of the state, shall knowingly release into the atmosphere more than twenty-five (25) balloons that are:
- (1)
- (A) Made of a nonbiodegradable material; or
- (B) Made of a biodegradable material that requires more than several minutes of contact with air or water to degrade; and
- (2) Filled with helium or another substance that causes the balloons to rise or float in the atmosphere.
- (1)
- (b) Any person violating subsection (a) is subject to a civil penalty of two hundred fifty dollars ($250). Each balloon released in a single day, in excess of the limit imposed in subsection (a), constitutes a separate violation.
- (c) This section does not apply to weather balloons that are used for the purpose of carrying scientific instruments during the performance of an experiment or testing procedure.
- (d) This section does not apply to any county having a population, according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of:
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24,600......................24,700
28,500......................28,560
28,690......................28,750
49,275......................49,375
51,025......................51,125
58,075......................58,175
770,000......................780,000
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