Tennessee Code 70-7-105 – Waiver of landowner’s duty of care
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 70-7-105
- Fishing: means any effort made to take, kill, injure, capture, or catch any fish and every act of assistance in any effort. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
- Hunting: means chasing, driving, flushing, attracting, pursuing, worrying, following after or on the trail of, searching for, trapping, shooting at, stalking, or lying in wait for, any wildlife, whether or not such wildlife is then or subsequently captured, killed, taken, or wounded and every act of assistance to any other person, but "hunting" does not include stalking, attracting, searching for, or lying in wait for, wildlife by an unarmed person solely for the purpose of watching wildlife or taking pictures of wildlife. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
- Landowner: includes any governmental entity. See Tennessee Code 70-7-101
- Person: means an individual, association, partnership, or corporation. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
Any person eighteen (18) years of age or older entering the land of another for the purpose of camping, fishing, hunting, sporting clays, shooting sports, and target shooting, including archery and shooting range activities, hiking, dog training, cutting or removing firewood, recreational noncommercial aircraft operations or recreational noncommercial ultra light vehicle operations on private airstrips, for such person’s use for a consideration may waive, in writing, the landowner‘s duty of care to such person for injuries that arise from camping, fishing, hunting, sporting clays, shooting sports, and target shooting, including archery and shooting range activities, hiking, dog training, cutting or removing firewood, recreational noncommercial aircraft operations or recreational noncommercial ultra light vehicle operations on private airstrips for such person’s use, if such waiver does not limit liability for gross negligence, or willful or wanton conduct, or for a failure to guard or warn against a dangerous condition, use, structure or activity.