(a) The board shall prescribe its rules of order, procedure in hearings or other proceedings before it under this chapter.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 60-1-204

  • Board: means the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas created by §. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Person: means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, fiduciary or representative of any kind. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Supervisor: means the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
(b) No rule or order, in the absence of an emergency, may be made by the board except after a public hearing upon at least ten (10) days’ notice in a manner and form prescribed by the board. Such public hearing shall be held at such time, place, and manner as may be prescribed by the board and any person having any interest in the subject matter of the hearing shall be entitled to be heard.
(c) If an emergency appears to the board to exist, it may act without a public hearing and the rule, regulation, or order shall be valid. This emergency rule or regulation shall remain in force not longer than fifteen (15) days after its effective date, and, in any event, shall expire when the rule or regulation made after due notice and hearing shall become effective.
(d) All rules and regulations of the board shall be entered in writing by the supervisor in a book kept for such purposes, which shall be a public record and open to inspection. A copy of such rules and regulations certified by the supervisor shall be received in evidence in all courts in this state with the same effect as the original.
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