50-3-201 - Regulations authorized. - Tennessee Statutes

50-3-201. Regulations authorized.

(a)  It is the responsibility of the commissioner of labor and workforce development to develop and promulgate regulations that adopt occupational safety and health standards.

(b)  The commissioner may adopt as an occupational safety or health standard the federal standard relating to the same issue.

(c)  The commissioner may, by regulation, promulgate, modify or revoke any occupational safety and health standard in the manner provided in the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.

[Acts 1972, ch. 561, § 6; 1977, ch. 111, § 5; T.C.A., § 50-507; Acts 1999, ch. 520, § 41.]