Tennessee Statutes

§ 11-6-106 — Defacement of sites or artifacts - Penalty

Tennessee § 11-6-106

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Tenn. Code Ann. § 11-6-106 (2026).

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In order that sites and artifacts on state-owned or controlled land shall be protected for the benefit of the public, it is a misdemeanor for any person, natural or corporate, to write upon, carve upon, paint, deface, mutilate, destroy, or otherwise injure any object of antiquity, artifact, Indian painting, Indian carving, or sites and all such acts of vandalism shall be punished as Class A misdemeanors according to this chapter.

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Legislative History

Acts 1970, ch. 468, § 6; T.C.A., § 11-1506; Acts 1989, ch. 591.

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