Tennessee Code 50-3-408 – Payment of penalties – Action to recover
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 50-3-408
- division of occupational safety and health: means the division of occupational safety and health of the department. See Tennessee Code 50-3-103
- Employer: means a person engaged in a business who has one (1) or more employees and includes county, metropolitan and municipal governments. See Tennessee Code 50-3-103
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
All penalties owed under this chapter shall be paid to the commissioner for deposit into the state treasury in the general fund and shall be earmarked for expenditure solely for use in the division of occupational safety and health equally between enforcement activities and the safety consulting service conducted under this chapter, and may be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state, in the county where the violation is alleged to have occurred or where the employer has its principal office.