(a) Whenever a certified industrial hygienist or other person or entity named on the commissioner‘s list, pursuant to § 68-212-502, determines that the property, quarantined pursuant to § 68-212-503, is safe for human use, based upon the standards prescribed pursuant to this part, such person or entity shall issue a certificate of fitness.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-212-508

  • commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-212-501
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) The owner or any person having any right, title or interest in the real property, including any lien holders, may file the certificate of fitness for recording in the office of county register in the county in which the real property or any portion of the property lies. The certificate shall be acknowledged or proved as provided in title 66, chapter 22. The register shall record such certificate with the record series containing the title deeds, and shall index the certificate with the owner or owners of the real property as the grantee, and the local law enforcement agency that issued the quarantine as grantor. The fee for such filing shall be in accordance with § 8-21-1001.
(c) A form substantially as follows is sufficient to comply with subsection (a):

Click here to view form.