How much notice does a landlord have to give before filing an eviction for unpaid rent in Tennessee?

14 days. Tennessee runs two nonpayment schemes that share that same headline number, and which one applies depends on the county. Under both, the tenant defeats termination by paying in full inside the window, which runs in calendar days from receipt of the notice.

How much notice is required to evict for a lease violation in Tennessee?

14 days. The notice period depends on the county, and it is not always 14 days. In URLTA counties a lease violation carries 14 days from receipt, with a cure right only where the breach can be fixed by paying money; outside them, most defaults other than nonpayment or property damage require 30 days.

How long does an eviction take in Tennessee?

About a month at the statutory minimum for an uncontested nonpayment case — roughly 31 days from notice to an enforceable writ, and about 3 weeks from the rent due date in a URLTA county whose lease carries the notice waiver.

Can a landlord change the locks or shut off utilities instead of going to court in Tennessee?

No — Tennessee bars self-help eviction by statute; a landlord must go through the court process. A Tennessee landlord must retake a unit through the detainer process; locking a tenant out or cutting off essential utilities is unlawful. In URLTA counties a tenant can sue for possession or termination plus actual and punitive damages and attorney's fees; elsewhere only common-law claims apply.

What is the eviction process and timeline in Tennessee?

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Measure that did not become law. The following recent proposal failed and is not law — noted here because failed bills are sometimes still described as if enacted:

SB 961 / HB 955 (114th General Assembly) — 'Affordable Housing and Tenant Protection Act' — Would repeal the residential half of the rent-control preemption in T.C.A. § 66-35-102, allowing local rent control adopted by a two-thirds vote with a local rent agency, plus a THDA gap-financing program. Would flip local_control_preempted for residential property if ever enacted.Status: Not enacted. HB 955 was deferred in the House Cities & Counties Subcommittee to the 'January 2027 calendar' on 2026-03-18 — with the 114th GA adjourned sine die, this is effectively a soft kill; watch for a 115th GA refile. (checked 2026-07-09).

Tennessee runs two eviction rulebooks, and which one applies depends on the county: the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act (URLTA) governs only counties with more than 75,000 people in the 2010 federal census — Memphis's Shelby County, Nashville's Davidson, Knoxville's Knox, Chattanooga's Hamilton, and the state's other large counties — while every other county follows the older general landlord-tenant statutes.

Cited to TCA 66-28-102 (a), (e) and 27 more Tennessee statutes · Verified August 12, 2026

Both schemes start a nonpayment eviction with a 14-day written notice that the tenant can defeat by paying in full within the window, but the details split from there: URLTA leases can waive the nonpayment notice entirely in 12-point bold print (leaving only a 5-day grace period), URLTA repeat offenders get just 7 days with no cure, and in small counties a lease violation other than nonpayment or property damage requires a full 30-day notice. Serious misconduct moves fast everywhere — 3 days for violence or dangerous behavior under either scheme, with drug activity expressly on the 3-day list only outside URLTA counties. The court case itself is statewide and uniform: a detainer warrant tried without a jury before a general sessions judge no sooner than 6 days after service, judgment covering possession plus back rent, and then a mandatory 10-day pause — no writ of possession may issue until 10 days after judgment, the same 10 days the tenant has to appeal for a fresh trial in circuit court. Appealing tenants must post a year's rent in bond, cash, or letter of credit; landlords can take possession during an appeal only by bonding double a year's rent. Add it up and the statutory best case runs about a month from notice to writ, roughly three weeks with a URLTA notice waiver. Self-help is barred: only a peaceable, court-ordered repossession is lawful anywhere in the state, and in URLTA counties a locked-out tenant can sue for possession or termination plus actual damages, punitive damages, and attorney's fees. Once the writ is executed, the tenant's belongings sit undisturbed for 48 hours — then the landlord may discard them.

Tennessee eviction process at a glance

Nonpayment notice (pay-or-quit)	14 days
Nonpayment notice rules (day counting, cure rights, service)	Tennessee runs two nonpayment schemes that share that same headline number, and which one applies depends on the county. Under both, the tenant defeats termination by paying in full inside the window, which runs in calendar days from receipt of the notice. URLTA counties (TCA 66-28-102(a): counties over 75,000 population per the 2010 federal census — Shelby/Memphis, Davidson/Nashville, Knox, Hamilton, Rutherford and the other large counties): under TCA 66-28-505(a)(1)-(2), the landlord delivers a written notice specifying the breach, and for a breach remediable by payment of rent the notice states that the rental agreement terminates if the breach 'is not remedied within fourteen (14) days after receipt of such notice' — a 14-day CALENDAR-day window running from RECEIPT, with full payment inside it defeating termination. Repeat of substantially the same breach within 6 months: 7 days' written notice, no second cure (505(a)(2)(B)). Lease-waiver shortcut (URLTA only): if the rental agreement contains a waiver 'set out in twelve (12) point bold font or larger,' the landlord 'may proceed to file a detainer warrant immediately upon breach ... without ... notice,' except that the waiver 'shall not reduce the tenant's grace period as provided in § 66-28-201' — the 5-day grace period of 66-28-201(d) (day rent is due counts as day one; if day five falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, payment on the next business day) (505(b)). Non-URLTA counties (all other counties): TCA 66-7-109(a)(1)(A) — 14 days' notice of termination for 'neglect or refusal to pay rent that is due and is in arrears, upon demand'; under 66-7-109(a)(2) the agreement does not terminate if the tenant 'adequately remedies the breach prior to the date specified in the notice'; repeat within 6 months permits termination on at least 14 days' written notice with no cure language. Day counting in both schemes is calendar days; no statute makes these business/court days, and Tennessee's general rule (TCA 1-3-102) excludes the first day, includes the last, and rolls a last day falling on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday. Cure ladder: (1) pre-filing — payment within the notice window defeats termination in both schemes; (2) post-filing/pre-judgment — no statutory right to cure, but under URLTA 66-28-508 a landlord who 'accepts rent without reservation and with knowledge of a tenant default ... condones the default' and is estopped from terminating for that breach; (3) post-judgment — no statutory redemption; the tenant's only route is the 10-day de novo appeal with the possession bond of 29-18-130(b)(2). A 2025 bill (SB 1088/HB 1345) would have cut both schemes' nonpayment notice to 7 days; it failed (House subcommittee, 2025-03-12), so 14 days remains the law.
Lease-violation notice period	14 days
Lease-violation notice rules (cure vs. termination)	The notice period depends on the county, and it is not always 14 days. In URLTA counties a lease violation carries 14 days from receipt, with a cure right only where the breach can be fixed by paying money; outside them, most defaults other than nonpayment or property damage require 30 days. URLTA counties (TCA 66-28-505(a)): written notice specifying the acts and omissions constituting the breach. If the breach is remediable by payment of rent, cost of repairs, damages, or other amounts owed — 14 days after receipt to remedy or the agreement terminates, with the proviso that tenant repairs must be requested by the tenant and authorized by the landlord in writing beforehand, and the notice must say so (505(a)(2)(A)). If the breach is NOT so remediable — termination on a date 'not less than fourteen (14) days after receipt of the notice,' no cure (505(a)(3)). Repeat of substantially the same act or omission within 6 months — at least 7 days' written notice specifying the breach and termination date, no cure (505(a)(2)(B)). Material noncompliance includes misrepresenting a disability-related need for a service or support animal (505(f)). NON-URLTA counties (TCA 66-7-109): damage beyond normal wear and tear by tenant, household members, or guests — 14 days' notice, curable by adequate remedy before the date specified (109(a)(1)(B), (a)(2)); 'all other defaults in the lease agreement' — a THIRTY-day termination notice, with no statutory cure right attached (109(b)). 66-7-109(c) exempts tenancies with rental periods under 14 days from the section entirely. The two schemes never mix: 66-7-109(g) states the section does not apply in URLTA counties.
Unconditional-quit grounds	Both schemes have a 3-day track, with different scope. URLTA counties — TCA 66-28-517(a): termination 'within three (3) days from the date written notice is received' where the tenant or a person on the premises with the tenant's consent (1) willfully or intentionally commits a violent act, (2) behaves so as to constitute or threaten a real and present danger to the health, safety or welfare of the life or property of others on the premises, (3) creates a hazardous or unsanitary condition, or (4) refuses to vacate after entering as an unauthorized subtenant or occupant. The notice must specifically detail the violation and is effective only from receipt (517(b)); the tenant has a statutory right of 'immediate access to any court of competent jurisdiction' for an injunction against the termination (517(c)); the landlord still may not seize possession or cut services (517(d)); and where domestic abuse underlies the termination only the perpetrator may be evicted, subject to the order-of-protection machinery of 517(g). NON-URLTA counties — TCA 66-7-109(d): 3 days' notice for a tenant (or consented occupant) who willfully or intentionally commits a violent act, engages in any drug-related criminal activity, or poses a real and present danger — but by its terms this fast track covers housing-authority tenants and tenants 'not mentally or physically disabled' in non-URLTA counties; 66-7-109(f) adds a 3-day notice to evict an unauthorized subtenant or occupant who refuses to vacate. Statewide, TCA 66-7-107 lets a tenancy be terminated where the premises are knowingly used for specified prostitution or controlled-substance offenses (39-13-513, 39-13-515, 39-17-417), with the district attorney general empowered to demand the landlord evict and to prosecute the eviction in the landlord's stead on 5 days' inaction. Drug activity in a URLTA county, not being enumerated in 66-28-517, is handled as material noncompliance under 66-28-505 or via 66-7-107.
Court and action	Statewide, the eviction action is 'unlawful detainer' under the forcible entry and detainer chapter, TCA Title 29, ch. 18 — committed where a tenant 'willfully and without force, holds over the possession from the landlord' (29-18-104). It is filed as a detainer warrant and tried before a single general sessions judge, bench trial only, deciding possession without inquiry into title (29-18-119; jurisdiction under 29-18-107; circuit court holds concurrent original jurisdiction under 29-18-108). No common-law notice to quit is required beyond service of the warrant itself (29-18-113) — but the TERMINATION notices of 66-28-505/66-7-109 are separate substantive prerequisites that end the tenancy and make the holdover unlawful. Service of the warrant may be made on any adult found in possession of the premises, with posting-plus-publication alternatives when no one can be served (29-18-115). If the landlord wins possession, the judge must also ascertain and award arrears of rent, interest, and damages in the same judgment (29-18-125). Appeals go de novo to circuit court (27-5-108, 29-18-129); certiorari removal is barred (29-18-129, as rewritten by 2024 Pub. Ch. 755).
Filing to hearing	The officer serving the detainer warrant notifies the defendant of the time and place of trial, 'the time not to be less than six (6) days from the date of service' (TCA 29-18-117) — a minimum, not a maximum; no statute fixes an outer hearing deadline. Either party may obtain one postponement 'to any time not exceeding seven (7) days' for good reason (29-18-118, cut from 15 days by 2024 Pub. Ch. 755, with longer postponements only by agreement, when no civil court is being conducted, or at the plaintiff's request). Trial is 'in all respects like other civil suits' before general sessions, single judge, no jury (29-18-119).
Writ of possession and lockout	The writ is a 'writ of possession' commanding the sheriff or constable to restore possession, take 'the force of the county, if necessary,' and make return within 20 days (TCA 29-18-127(a)). Core timing rule: 'No execution or writ of possession shall issue against the defendant upon any judgment, under this chapter, until after the lapse of ten (10) days from the rendition of the judgment' (29-18-126) — matching the 10-day de novo appeal window, and if no appeal is taken within those 10 days, execution of a writ of possession 'shall issue by operation of law' (27-5-108(d)(2)). In tension with this, 29-18-130(a) says an awarded writ 'shall be executed and the plaintiff restored to the possession immediately'; read with 29-18-130(b), the immediate-execution route operates when the tenant appeals — the landlord may take possession pending appeal only by bonding in DOUBLE the value of one year's rent against wrongful enforcement (130(b)(1)), while a tenant who wants to appeal at all must post bond, cash, or an irrevocable letter of credit of one year's rent (or two good personal sureties in that amount) (130(b)(2), as amended 2022/2024); if the tenant appeals without complying, the landlord takes possession with no bond required. At lockout, the tenant's personal property is placed on the premises or in an appropriate area clear of the entrance and may not be disturbed for 48 hours, after which it may be discarded; the landlord is shielded from liability absent clear and convincing proof of malice (29-18-127(b)-(d)).
Appeal window	10 days
Best-case uncontested timeline (derived from statutory minimums — contested cases run longer)	About a month at the statutory minimum for an uncontested nonpayment case — roughly 31 days from notice to an enforceable writ, and about 3 weeks from the rent due date in a URLTA county whose lease carries the notice waiver. Both figures are derived from the statutory minimums cited on this page, not a promise. Standard path (either scheme, nonpayment): a 14-day pay-or-quit notice running from receipt (66-28-505(a)(2) / 66-7-109(a)), then a detainer warrant filed after the window lapses, then service, with trial no less than 6 days from service (29-18-117), then judgment for possession plus arrears (29-18-125), then a writ of possession barred for 10 days from judgment (29-18-126) and issuing by operation of law if no appeal (27-5-108(d)(2)), then execution by the officer, with the tenant's property held 48 hours (29-18-127). The arithmetic: 14 + 1 + 6 + 10 ≈ 31 days from notice to an enforceable writ, before adding real-world service and docket time. In a URLTA county whose lease carries the 12-point-bold notice waiver of 66-28-505(b), the landlord may file immediately upon breach (the 5-day grace period of 66-28-201(d) intact), compressing the derivation to roughly 5 + 6 + 10 ≈ 3 weeks from the rent due date. Contested cases, the 7-day postponement, a tenant appeal (10 days, one year's rent bonded), or sheriff scheduling extend every figure.
Self-help eviction (lockout, utility shutoff) barred	Yes
Self-help scope and tenant remedies	A Tennessee landlord must retake a unit through the detainer process; locking a tenant out or cutting off essential utilities is unlawful. In URLTA counties a tenant can sue for possession or termination plus actual and punitive damages and attorney's fees; elsewhere only common-law claims apply. Statewide, TCA 29-18-101 forbids any entry onto lands or tenements to detain or hold them 'but where entry is given by law, and then only in a peaceable manner' — the forcible-entry bar behind Tennessee's rule that a landlord repossesses through the detainer process, not force. URLTA counties add an express prohibition and a damages remedy: a landlord 'may not recover or take possession of the dwelling unit by action or otherwise, including willful diminution of services to the tenant by interrupting or causing the interruption of electric, gas, water or other essential service,' except in case of abandonment, surrender, or as permitted in the chapter (66-28-511), and a tenant unlawfully removed or excluded, or whose contracted services are willfully diminished, may recover possession OR terminate the rental agreement and in either case recover actual damages, punitive damages when appropriate, plus a reasonable attorney's fee, with all prepaid rent and security deposits returned on termination (66-28-504). 66-28-517(d) repeats the no-lockout/no-shutoff bar even for the 3-day violence track. Non-URLTA counties have NO statutory damages remedy — protection rests on 29-18-101, the criminal trespass/forcible entry framework, and common-law wrongful-eviction and conversion claims; this page reflects that asymmetry rather than importing 66-28-504 statewide. Narrow URLTA carve-out: if a written lease requires the tenant to put utilities in the tenant's own name and the tenant fails to do so within 3 days of occupancy, the landlord may have service in the landlord's name terminated (66-28-521).

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Tennessee Eviction Process Laws (verified August 12, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/tennessee/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Every figure above is cited to the Tennessee statute in the citations section below.

Notes and caveats

Two rulebooks — the answer depends on the county — The central trap is the dual-scheme split: an answer that is right in Memphis is wrong in a rural county, and vice versa. URLTA governs only counties over 75,000 people in the 2010 federal census; every other county runs on the older general statutes.
The county roster is frozen, and unofficial — check the 2010 figure — 2021 Pub. Ch. 182 deleted 'or any subsequent federal census,' so later population growth does not pull a county into URLTA. The county list is itself a derivation from the 2010 census rather than statutory text — only the mechanism (75,000, 2010 census) is treated as fact here, so confirm your county's 2010 figure rather than trusting a stale list.
Stale-source trap — 30 days is pre-2014, 7 days is a failed bill — Secondary sources citing a 30-day URLTA nonpayment notice predate 2014 Pub. Ch. 593 (SB 1787, effective March 28, 2014), which restructured § 66-28-505 to 14 days — deleting the old 30-day termination language for curable breaches, cutting the non-remediable notice from 30 to 14 days, and the repeat-breach notice from 14 to 7. Any source reporting 7 days for a first nonpayment is repeating SB 1088/HB 1345, which died in a House subcommittee on March 12, 2025.
The detainer warrant does not replace the termination notice — 29-18-113 says no notice to quit need be given other than service of the warrant. That does not erase the termination notices of 66-28-505 and 66-7-109 — those notices end the tenancy, and the warrant then remedies the holdover.
The 10-day writ bar versus 'executed immediately' — a judgment call — 29-18-126 bars any writ for 10 days after judgment, while 29-18-130(a) says an awarded writ is executed and possession restored immediately. This page reads 130 as the appeal-posture provision (the landlord bonds double one year's rent to take possession pending appeal), with 27-5-108(d)(2) making the writ issue by operation of law after 10 appeal-free days. It is the one judgment call here.
New in 2026 — no real-time broadcasting of eviction service — Public Chapter No. 657 (2026), approved in April 2026, adds a section to T.C.A. tit. 29, ch. 18: a private participant in an eviction process — a person or entity serving or executing an eviction notice, judgment of possession, or writ of possession, expressly excluding a law enforcement officer acting in official duties — may not publish, transmit, or broadcast video of the service or execution of that process upon an individual in real time or near real time in a publicly accessible manner without the individual's express written permission, unless the purpose is legal documentation of the service or a court order authorizes it. Sharing with the landlord, the property owner, their counsel, a law enforcement agency, the court, or the property management company remains permitted. An intentional violation carries statutory damages of at least $25,000, plus actual damages, punitive damages, equitable relief, and costs and attorney fees. No notice, hearing, writ, or appeal period on this page changes. The act is cited here by its public chapter number; the compiled Code section number follows once the annual code supplement carries it.
Every deadline runs in calendar days — No Tennessee eviction period uses business days. TCA 1-3-102 excludes the first day, includes the last, and rolls an ending that falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
URLTA notice windows run from receipt — The 14-day URLTA windows start when the tenant receives the notice, not when the landlord sends it.
The five-day late-fee grace period is a separate clock — The grace period of 66-28-201(d) includes the day rent is due, and the 66-28-505(b) notice waiver cannot cut it.
Currency — the 2025-2026 session moved no figure here — The 114th General Assembly, adjourned sine die, changed none of the periods or figures on this page. Its one enactment inside the eviction chapter — Public Chapter No. 657 (2026), the real-time broadcast ban noted above — added a new section without touching any notice, hearing, writ, or appeal rule. 2025 Pub. Ch. 90 (SB 292) created an expedited unauthorized-occupant removal for commercial property only, and the 7-day nonpayment bill failed.
Why the citations point to a code mirror — Tennessee's official code is published through a consent-gated LexisNexis portal that cannot be deep-linked, so statutory text is cited to Justia's 2024 Tennessee Code mirror and anchored to official sources: the enrolled 2014 Pub. Ch. 593, 2021 Pub. Ch. 182, and 2024 Pub. Ch. 755 PDFs from the Secretary of State's publications server, whose amendatory language appears in the mirror in identical terms, and the SB 1088 bill text from capitol.tn.gov, whose 'deleting fourteen (14) days' language independently confirms the statutes still read 14 days.
Out of scope — mobile home parks and RV tenancies — Neither is covered here.
Noted but not broken out above — Housing-authority tenancies carry their own 3-day track under 66-7-109(d) plus federal overlays, and the 66-7-109(i) 60-day elderly-facility redevelopment notice and the perpetrator-only domestic-abuse rules of 66-28-517(g) and 66-7-109(e) are flagged here rather than carried in the answers above.
The 2014 act, as the enrolled text has it — As of August 5, 2026 the attribution stands as the enrolled act has it. 2014 Pub. Ch. 593 (SB 1787, substituted for HB 1573, approved March 28, 2014) amends only § 66-28-505 across its three sections, deleting the 30-day termination language, dropping the non-remediable notice from 30 to 14 days, and the repeat-breach notice from 14 to 7. The section's current credit line on the 2024 code mirror lists the same act ('Amended by 2014 Tenn. Acts, ch. 593' among 2018 and 2019 amendments), and the General Assembly's bill records show SB 1787 assigned Public Chapter 593 — enrolled act, credit line, and bill records carry the attribution in identical terms.

Common questions: Tennessee eviction process

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

How much notice does a landlord have to give before filing an eviction for unpaid rent in Tennessee?: 14 days. Tennessee runs two nonpayment schemes that share that same headline number, and which one applies depends on the county. Under both, the tenant defeats termination by paying in full inside the window, which runs in calendar days from receipt of the notice.
How much notice is required to evict for a lease violation in Tennessee?: 14 days. The notice period depends on the county, and it is not always 14 days. In URLTA counties a lease violation carries 14 days from receipt, with a cure right only where the breach can be fixed by paying money; outside them, most defaults other than nonpayment or property damage require 30 days.
How long does an eviction take in Tennessee?: About a month at the statutory minimum for an uncontested nonpayment case — roughly 31 days from notice to an enforceable writ, and about 3 weeks from the rent due date in a URLTA county whose lease carries the notice waiver.
How long does a tenant have to appeal an eviction judgment in Tennessee?: 10 days.
Can a landlord change the locks or shut off utilities instead of going to court in Tennessee?: No — Tennessee bars self-help eviction by statute; a landlord must go through the court process. A Tennessee landlord must retake a unit through the detainer process; locking a tenant out or cutting off essential utilities is unlawful. In URLTA counties a tenant can sue for possession or termination plus actual and punitive damages and attorney's fees; elsewhere only common-law claims apply.

Statute citations

TCA 66-28-102 (a), (e) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-28-201 (c)-(d) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-28-505 (a)-(c), (f) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-28-508 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-28-511 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-28-504 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-28-517 (a)-(d), (g) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-28-521 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-7-109 (a)-(d), (f)-(g) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 66-7-107 (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-101 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
2026 Pub. Ch. 657 (official session law — real-time broadcast of eviction process; adds a section to T.C.A. tit. 29, ch. 18) (verified 2026) Official source
TCA 29-18-104 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-113 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-115 (a) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-117 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-118 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-119 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-125 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-126 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-127 (a)-(d) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-128 (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 29-18-130 (a)-(b) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
TCA 27-5-108 (a), (c)-(d) (verified 2026) Unofficial mirror
2014 Tenn. Pub. Ch. 593 (SB 1787) §§ 1-3 — enrolled act restructuring TCA 66-28-505's notice periods (30-day termination language deleted; non-remediable notice cut from 30 to 14 days; repeat-breach notice from 14 to 7), eff. 2014-03-28 (verified 2026) Official source
2021 Tenn. Pub. Ch. 182 (HB 716) — enrolled act amending TCA 66-28-102 (URLTA county coverage frozen to 2010 census; county preemption) §§ 1-2 (verified 2026) Official source
2024 Tenn. Pub. Ch. 755 (HB 2267) — enrolled act amending TCA 29-18-118, -128, -129, -130 §§ 1-4 (verified 2026) Official source
SB 1088/HB 1345 (114th Gen. Assem., 2025, FAILED) — bill text confirming the current 14-day language it would have cut to 7 days §§ 1-5 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Tennessee's official code is published via LexisNexis without stable deep links (GA-class sourcing situation), so verification pairs current code mirrors with official session-law PDFs from the Tennessee Secretary of State: T.C.A. §§ 66-28-102, 66-28-201, 66-28-301, 66-28-403, 66-28-512, and 66-35-102 read verbatim on the Justia 2024-edition and FindLaw (current through 2024-01-02) mirrors — §§ 66-28-102, 66-28-201, and 66-28-403 each read twice independently, with the reads matching — with every recent amendment traced to the official act text: 2011 Pub. Ch. 272 (inspection scheme, late-fee rule, entry rewrite), 2012 Pub. Chs. 847 and 887, 2013 Pub. Ch. 206, and 2021 Pub. Ch. 182 (census freeze + county preemption), all read from publications.tnsosfiles.com PDFs. Bill statuses (SB 961/HB 955 et al.) checked on official capitol.tn.gov pages 2026-07-09.