65-28-109 - Limit of authority's jurisdiction. - Tennessee Statutes

65-28-109. Limit of authority's jurisdiction.

Nothing in §§ 65-28-104 65-28-111 shall be deemed to confer upon the authority any additional power and jurisdiction to supervise or regulate the rates, services, franchises or other matters pertaining to pipeline systems or transportation of gas except with respect to the enforcement of federal safety standards prescribed by the secretary of the United States department of transportation and such additions and amendments as ordered by the authority; nor shall anything in §§ 65-28-104 65-28-111 be deemed to confer upon the authority any power to adopt or continue in force any standards for pipeline systems or transportation of gas subject to the jurisdiction of the federal power commission as prohibited in the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act, 49 U.S.C. § 60101 et seq.

[Acts 1970, ch. 558, § 7; T.C.A., § 65-2810; Acts 1995, ch. 305, § 36.]