Tennessee § 68-212-208 - Authority of counties.
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§ 68-212-208. Authority of counties.
The county mayor and four (4) members of the county legislative body appointed by the county mayor of the county in which any commercial facility is located may accompany the department upon any site investigation or monitoring inspection. The county legislative body of the county in which any commercial facility is located may, by a majority vote of the members to which it is entitled, require that independent monitoring tests be conducted. Such tests shall be conducted by a laboratory which is certified to conduct tests for safe drinking water by the department or the federal environmental protection agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act. All such tests shall be paid for by such county. Acts 1983, ch. 423, § 8; T.C.A., § 68-46-208 ; Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2. Compiler's Notes. Former title 68, ch. 46, parts 1-3 were transferred to title 68, ch. 212, parts 1-3, respectively, in 1992. See the parallel reference table in § 68-212-101 for the former and new section locations. The Safe Drinking Water Act, referred to in this section, is compiled in U.S.C. in various sections throughout titles 5, 21, and 42, and the Tennessee act of the same name is compiled in title 68, ch. 221, part 7. Acts 2003, ch. 90, § 2, directed the code commission to change all references from “county executive” to “county mayor” and to include all such changes in supplements and replacement volumes for the Tennessee Code Annotated.
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