Tennessee legislation · 114th General Assembly
Tennessee HB2026: AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39; Title 62, Chapter 18 and Title 66, relative to land surveying monuments.
Status: Chaptered, May 27, 2026
Fiscal Summary LOCAL GOVERNMENTEXPENDITURESMandatoryFY26-27 & Subsequent Years$1,000 Article II, Section 24 of the Tennessee Constitution provides that: no law of general application shall impose increased expenditure requirements on cities or counties unless the General Assembly shall provide that the state share in the cost. Bill Summary ON MARCH 9, 2026, THE SENATE ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1 AND PASSED SENATE BILL 1814, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 exempts an employee or contractor of the department of transportation when engaged in the discharge of the employee's or contractor's official duties from the offense of intentionally moving without replacing, altering, destroying, or removing a monument the person knows, or reasonably should know, is a property corner monument, historic land surveying monument, or geodetic control monument.
What the bill says
From the amended text:
Senate Judiciary 1 Amendment No. 1 to SB1814 Gardenhire Signature of Sponsor AMEND S e n ate Bill No. 1814* House Bill No. 2026 by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting: SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 17, Part 1, is amended by adding the following as a new section: (a) As used in this section: (1) "Geodetic control monument" means a land surveying monument established by licensed professional land surveyors and governmental agencies. A geodetic control monument may be in the form of, but is not limited to, a metal pin, aluminum disk, brass disk, or other permanent or semi-permanent object, set in soil, concrete, or rock, and must be marked as a control point or with "do not disturb" or other language to identify the monument's purpose; (2) "Historic land surveying monument" means a land surveying monument established by federal, state, or local governments establishing a state boundary line, county boundary line, or city boundary line; and (3) "Property corner monument" means a land surveying monument established by a licensed professional land surveyor to identify property corners or property lines, the location and description of which are described in a recorded document in the register of deeds office of any county in this state. A property corner monument may be any permanent or …