QUARANTINE AREAS

0080-06-09-.03 QUARANTINE AREAS.

(1) Designated quarantine areas. States and provinces outside Tennessee with the exception of counties that share a border with Tennessee including; Alabama counties of Jackson, Lauderdale, Limestone, and Madison; Arkansas counties of Crittenden and Mississippi; Georgia counties of Dade, Catoosa, Fannin, Murray, Walker and Whitfield; Kentucky counties of Fulton, Hickman, Graves, Calloway, Trigg, Christian, Todd, Logan, Simpson, Allen, Monroe, Cumberland, Clinton, Wayne, McCreary, Whitley and Bell; Mississippi counties of Alcorn, Benton, DeSoto, Marshall, Tippah, Tishomingo; Missouri counties of New Madrid and Pemiscot; North Carolina counties of Ashe, Avery, Cherokee, Graham, Haywood, Madison, Mitchell, Swain, Watauga and Yancey; Virginia counties of Bristol, Grayson, Lee, Scott and Washington.

(2) Temporary quarantine of non-designated areas.

(a) The department may temporarily quarantine any non-designated area upon written notice to its owner or upon general publication if:

1. Significant symptoms or indicators of invasive pests commonly spread by movement of firewood are observed within the area;

2. Infected firewood or other regulated articles are shipped into the area; or,

3. Any firewood or other regulated article shipped into the area shares a common container, vessel, producer, or shipper with firewood or articles found to be infected.

(b) The department may lift the temporary quarantine of a non-designated area if after due inspection the invasive pest suspected from firewood is not observed within the area and there exists no reasonable cause to continue the quarantine.

Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-3-203, 43-6-104, and 43-6-106. Administrative History: Original rule certified June 5, 1974. Repeal filed May 31, 2013; effective October 29, 2013. New rules filed June 14, 2021; effective September 12, 2021.