28-3-203 - Injury during fourth year after completion Limitation of action. - Tennessee Statutes

28-3-203. Injury during fourth year after completion Limitation of action.

(a)  Notwithstanding the provisions of § 28-3-202, in the case of such an injury to property or person or such injury causing wrongful death, which injury occurred during the fourth year after such substantial completion, an action in court to recover damages for such injury or wrongful death shall be brought within one (1) year after the date on which such injury occurred, without respect to the date of death of such injured person.

(b)  Such action shall, in all events, be brought within five (5) years after the substantial completion of such an improvement.

[Acts 1965, ch. 353, § 2; T.C.A., § 28-315.]