SB0871 - Tennessee: Explosives, Local Government, General

Companion Bill HB1165. Explosives - Authorizes a municipality or county to adopt local blasting standards that are more stringent than those set by state law. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 105, Part 1. Fiscal Summary for *SB0871 / HB1165 Increase Local Govt. Expenditures - Exceeds $100,000/Permissive Increase Local Govt. Revenues - Not Significant/Permissive Bill Summary for *SB0871 / HB1165 Present law provides that in all blasting operations the peak particle velocity on any one of three mutually perpendicular components of ground motion, transverse, vertical or longitudinal, may not exceed two inches per second at the location of any dwelling house, public building, school, church, commercial or institutional building normally occupied. For blast to structure distances greater than 300 feet, the standard [...]

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