2023 Tennessee Code
Title 66 - PROPERTY (§§ 66-1-101 — 66-38-101)
Chapter 27 - HORIZONTAL PROPERTY (§§ 66-27-101 — 66-27-802)
Part 6 - DEDICATORY INSTRUMENTS (§§ 66-27-601 — 66-27-603)
Section 66-27-601 - Part definitions

As used in this part:

• (1) "Dedicatory instrument":
  • (A) Means each document governing the establishment, maintenance, or operation of a residential subdivision, planned unit development, condominium, horizontal property regime, or any similar planned development; and
  • (B) Includes a declaration or similar instrument subjecting real property to:
    • (i) Restrictive covenants, bylaws, or similar instruments governing the administration or operation of a homeowners' association;
    • (ii) Properly adopted rules and regulations of a homeowners' association; or
    • (iii) All lawful amendments to the covenants, bylaws, instruments, rules, or regulations of a homeowners' association;

• (2) "Homeowners' association" means an incorporated or unincorporated association owned by or whose members consist primarily of the owners of the property covered by the dedicatory instrument and through which the owners, or the board of directors or similar governing body, manage or regulate the residential subdivision, planned unit development, condominium, horizontal property regime, or any similar planned development; and

• (3) "Restrictive covenant" means any covenant, condition, or restriction contained in a dedicatory instrument, whether mandatory, prohibitive, permissive, or administrative.

Added by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 331,s 1, eff. 7/1/2017.