54-5-133 - Eradication and control of noxious weeds. - Tennessee Statutes

54-5-133. Eradication and control of noxious weeds.

The commissioner shall adequately eradicate or control, or both, by chemical or other means, noxious weeds growing on state highway rights-of-way in the following instances:

     (1)  Johnson grass along state highway rights-of-way whenever areas adjacent to the rights-of-way are determined by the commissioner of agriculture, in accordance with § 43-1-106, to be row crop areas; and

     (2)  Canadian thistles along state highway rights-of-way whenever areas adjacent to the rights-of-way are determined by the commissioner of agriculture, in accordance with § 43-1-106, to be grassland areas.

[Acts 1972, ch. 801, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 829, § 7; T.C.A., § 54-578; Acts 1981, ch. 264, § 12.]