{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-46-6-108","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 46-6-108","heading":"Burial services for person who died in line of duty or while on active duty","body":"(a) This section is known and may be cited as the \"Major Trevor Joseph Act.\" (b) (1) The department of veterans services shall provide burial services for a person who died in the line of duty or while on active duty with the United States armed forces, the Tennessee national guard, or the Tennessee air national guard and is being interred in a state veterans' cemetery on a date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the burial service. (2) No burial services may be provided pursuant to subdivision (b)(1) that are scheduled on legal holidays, as defined in § 15-1-101 . (3) Notwithstanding subdivisions (b)(1) and (2), the commissioner may authorize burial services to be provided on a weekday if a weekend burial cannot be held due to inclement weather, an emergency that directly affects the ability for persons to conduct a burial service, or other circumstances that would adversely affect the department's ability to provide burial services. Added by 2021 Tenn. Acts, ch. 445, s 1, eff. 5/13/2021.\n(a) This section is known and may be cited as the \"Major Trevor Joseph Act.\"\n(b) (1) The department of veterans services shall provide burial services for a person who died in the line of duty or while on active duty with the United States armed forces, the Tennessee national guard, or the Tennessee air national guard and is being interred in a state veterans' cemetery on a date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the burial service. (2) No burial services may be provided pursuant to subdivision (b)(1) that are scheduled on legal holidays, as defined in § 15-1-101 . (3) Notwithstanding subdivisions (b)(1) and (2), the commissioner may authorize burial services to be provided on a weekday if a weekend burial cannot be held due to inclement weather, an emergency that directly affects the ability for persons to conduct a burial service, or other circumstances that would adversely affect the department's ability to provide burial services.\n(1) The department of veterans services shall provide burial services for a person who died in the line of duty or while on active duty with the United States armed forces, the Tennessee national guard, or the Tennessee air national guard and is being interred in a state veterans' cemetery on a date requested by the family members of the person if the department is given notice of the burial at least seventy-two (72) hours in advance of the burial service.\n(2) No burial services may be provided pursuant to subdivision (b)(1) that are scheduled on legal holidays, as defined in § 15-1-101 .\n(3) Notwithstanding subdivisions (b)(1) and (2), the commissioner may authorize burial services to be provided on a weekday if a weekend burial cannot be held due to inclement weather, an emergency that directly affects the ability for persons to conduct a burial service, or other circumstances that would adversely affect the department's ability to provide burial services.","path":["TN Code","Title 46","Chapter 6"],"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":"1c0ef802fe986331064594e3ef207e9a841c37aec53d775b51386a27ae46f310","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-46-6-107","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-46-7-101","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."}