§ 69-11-101 Short title
§ 69-11-102 Chapter definitions
§ 69-11-104 Powers of commissioner
§ 69-11-105 Certificates of approval required
§ 69-11-106 Information required for certificates – Plans and specifications
§ 69-11-107 Multiple owners
§ 69-11-108 Change in ownership
§ 69-11-109 Failure to apply – Notice
§ 69-11-110 Examination of applications – Inspection
§ 69-11-111 Conditions for granting certificate
§ 69-11-112 Imposition of additional conditions – Hazard categories
§ 69-11-113 Duration of certificates
§ 69-11-114 Modification of certificates
§ 69-11-115 Inspections
§ 69-11-116 Fees
§ 69-11-117 Failure to comply with certificate – Compliance orders – Emergency action – Recovery of costs
§ 69-11-118 Hearings before commissioner
§ 69-11-120 Injunctions
§ 69-11-121 Civil penalties and damages
§ 69-11-122 Actions for civil penalties or injunctions
§ 69-11-123 Criminal penalties
§ 69-11-124 Duties and liabilities of owners – Right of action against owners – Duties and liabilities of state counties or cities
§ 69-11-125 Local regulation restricted
§ 69-11-127 Inventory of dams – Notification associated with building permits

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 69 > Chapter 11 - Dams

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • bondsman: extends to and includes the agents, representatives or employees of a professional bondsman, or those acting for the bondsman, whether with or without compensation or salary. See Tennessee Code 40-11-301
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation, the commissioner's duly authorized representatives, and in the event of the commissioner's absence or a vacancy in the office of commissioner, the deputy commissioner. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Dam: means any artificial barrier, together with appurtenant works, that does or may impound or divert water, and that either:
    (A) Is or will be twenty feet (20') or more in height from the natural bed of the stream or watercourse at the downstream toe of the barrier, as determined by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Days: means calendar days, including Sundays and holidays. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Division: means the division of water management of the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Enlargement: means any change in, or addition to, an existing dam or reservoir, that does or may raise the water storage elevation of the dam. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Farm pond: means any impoundment used only for providing water for agricultural and domestic purposes for the owner or occupant of the farm, the owner's or occupant's family, and invited guests, such as livestock and poultry watering, irrigation of crops, recreation, and conservation, but does not include any impoundment for which the water, or privileges or products of the water, are available to the general public. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Owner: means any person who owns an interest in, controls, or operates a dam. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Person: means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust corporation, company, county, municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, public utility, utility or other district, the state of Tennessee and its departments, divisions, institutions, and agencies, and the duly authorized officers, agents, and representatives thereof, or any combination of any of the above. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Petit jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
  • Professional bondsman: means any person, firm, partnership or corporation, engaged for profit in the business of furnishing bail, making bonds or entering into undertakings, as surety, in criminal proceedings, or for the appearance of persons charged with any criminal offense or violation of law or ordinance punishable by fine, imprisonment or death, before any of the courts of this state, including municipal courts or securing the payment of fines, judgments or damages imposed and of costs assessed by those courts upon preliminary or final disposition thereof. See Tennessee Code 40-11-301
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Reservoir: means any basin that contains or will contain the water impounded by a dam. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Water: means that liquid, including solids or other matter dissolved or suspended in the liquid, that is or will be impounded. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102
  • Water storage elevation: means the maximum elevation of water surface that can be obtained by the dam or reservoir. See Tennessee Code 69-11-102