Tennessee Code Title 46. Cemeteries § 46-4-101

This chapter, which is enacted for the public welfare in the exercise of the police powers of the state of Tennessee, applies to any burial ground in this state, including any land owned or controlled by cemetery companies, that the court to which jurisdiction is given by this chapter finds, for any of the reasons stated in this chapter, is unsuitable for its use as such and as a resting place for the dead whose remains are buried in the burial ground, or the further use of which for those purposes the court finds, for any of such reasons, is inconsistent with due and proper reverence or respect for the memory of the dead or otherwise unsuitable for those purposes, the reasons being: