Tennessee Code 65-28-109 – Limit of commission’s jurisdiction
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 65-28-109
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Nothing in §§ 65-28-104 – 65-28-111 shall be deemed to confer upon the commission any additional power and jurisdiction to supervise or regulate the rates, services, franchises or other matters pertaining to pipeline systems or transportation of gas except with respect to the enforcement of federal safety standards prescribed by the secretary of the United States department of transportation and such additions and amendments as ordered by the commission; nor shall anything in §§ 65-28-104 – 65-28-111 be deemed to confer upon the commission any power to adopt or continue in force any standards for pipeline systems or transportation of gas, including carbon dioxide transported via interstate pipeline, subject to the jurisdiction of the federal power commission as prohibited in the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act ( 49 U.S.C. § 60101 et seq.).