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Sponsored by Brandon Oakes, Eric Zheng of Baylor School
This legislation was filed in the Economic and Community Development category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT |
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| 3 | Section 1) Terms in this act shall be defined as follows: |
| 4 | Landlord: A person who rents out residential property to tenants. |
| 5 | Absentee Landlord: A person whose primary residence is not within a 100-mile straight line |
| 6 | distance of any secondary properties. |
| 7 | Nuisance: As defined in TCA 29-3-101 |
| 8 | Local: Within a 100-mile straight line of the property |
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| 10 | Section 2) A landlord must have their primary residence within a 100-mile straight line distance of |
| 11 | any secondary properties. They must provide a name and the appropriate contact information for |
| 12 | the property manager, which may include their own. |
| 13 | If the landlord resides outside of the 100-mile straight line distance they must provide the |
| 14 | following information. |
| 15 | The name and appropriate contact for a local maintenance person or company. |
| 16 | A publicly available business contact for all rental properties. |
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| 18 | Section 3) If a nuisance occurs on a property owned by an absentee landlord and it is not resolved |
| 19 | by a local maintenance person or company within 2 weeks, the landlord can be subjected to a |
| 20 | penalty of 10% of the monthly rental income per week for a first offense, 20% for a second |
| 21 | offense, and 35% for any reoccurring offenses. |
| 22 | All fines collected from this bill will be delegated to the Tennessee Department of Health as they |
| 23 | have jurisdiction over Property Maintenance Codes. |
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| 25 | Section 4) There is no cost to the state, but will generate profit from fines. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Section 5) All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. |
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| 29 | Section 6) This act shall take place on January 1st, 2026, the public welfare requiring it. |
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