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2019 Tennessee Code
Title 69 - Waters, Waterways, Drains and Levees
Chapter 3 - Water Pollution Control
Part 1 - Water Quality Control Act
§ 69-3-120. Construction of part.

Universal Citation: TN Code § 69-3-120 (2019)
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  • (a) This part is intended to supplement other provisions of the Tennessee Code Annotated, and no part thereof shall be construed to repeal any such provisions specifically enacted for the protection of health or the protection of fish and game of the state, except that the administration of any laws pertaining to the pollution of waters as defined in § 69-3-103 shall be in accordance with the general policies and regulations adopted by the board.

  • (b) All sections in this part shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of its policy and purpose.

  • (c) All grants of power to the board or commissioner shall be liberally construed.

  • (d) Any list in this part preceded by “include” or “including” shall not be construed as exhaustive or otherwise limiting unless specifically stated.

  • (e) All procedures in this part are intended to be in conformity with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. If any provision of this part conflicts with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, then the latter shall govern.

  • (f) If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or words of this part are for any reason held to be invalid, such decree shall not affect the validity of any remaining portion of this part.

  • (g) Nothing whatsoever in this part shall be so construed as applying to any agricultural or forestry activity or the activities necessary to the conduct and operations thereof or to any lands devoted to the production of any agricultural or forestry products, unless there is a point source discharge from a discernible, confined, and discrete water conveyance.

  • (h) The passage of the Water Quality Control Act of 1977 shall grant no new authority over non-point sources to the department, which was not previously established by the Water Quality Control Act of 1971. In all cases of conflict between this part and §§ 68-221-101 — 68-221-108, the Sanitary Engineering Law, this part shall take precedence.

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