66-28-401 - General maintenance and conduct obligations. - Tennessee Statutes

66-28-401. General maintenance and conduct obligations.

The tenant shall:

     (1)  Comply with all obligations primarily imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions of building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety;

     (2)  Keep that part of the premises that the tenant occupies and uses as clean and safe as the condition of the premises when the tenant took possession;

     (3)  Dispose from the tenant's dwelling unit all ashes, rubbish, garbage, and other waste to the designated collection areas and into receptacles;

     (4)  Not deliberately or negligently destroy, deface, damage, impair or remove any part of the premises or permit any person to do so; and shall not engage in any illegal conduct on the premises; and

     (5)  Act and require other persons on the premises, with the tenant's or other occupants' consent, to act in a manner that will not disturb the neighbors' peaceful enjoyment of the premises.

[Acts 1975, ch. 245, § 3.101; T.C.A., § 64-2831; Acts 2005, ch. 156, § 4.]