{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-46-4-101","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 46-4-101","heading":"Grounds affected - Facts that justify termination of use","body":"This chapter, which is enacted for the public welfare in the exercise of the police powers of the state of Tennessee, applies to any burial ground in this state, including any land owned or controlled by cemetery companies, that the court to which jurisdiction is given by this chapter finds, for any of the reasons stated in this chapter, is unsuitable for its use as such and as a resting place for the dead whose remains are buried in the burial ground, or the further use of which for those purposes the court finds, for any of such reasons, is inconsistent with due and proper reverence or respect for the memory of the dead or otherwise unsuitable for those purposes, the reasons being:\n(1) The burial ground is abandoned; or\n(2) The burial ground is in a neglected or abandoned condition; or\n(3) The existence of any conditions or activities about or near the burial ground that the court finds render the further use of the burial ground for the purposes mentioned in this section that are inconsistent with due and proper reverence or respect for the memory of the dead, or for any other reason unsuitable for those purposes.","path":["TN Code","Title 46","Chapter 4"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"29911a4d920e05a0d7d12e3668b261b6b86c335042280493d78f06949bac83f7","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-46-2-107","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-46-4-102","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}