Tennessee Code Title 68. Health, Safety and Environmental Protection § 68-14-728

(a) The department shall issue, or cause to be issued, a farmers market food unit permit to a qualified applicant who pays the permit fee and successfully completes a pre-operational inspection to determine compliance with the applicable rules of the department for food service establishments. A pre-operational inspection for a farmers market food unit permit applicant must be conducted at a local health department at a pre-scheduled time and date. When an inspection is complete, compliance is verified, and the permit fee paid, the department shall issue a permit.

(b) Subject to the following and subsection (d), this part, and rules promulgated pursuant to this part concerning permitting and regulation of a temporary food service establishment, apply to a farmers market food unit:

(c) If a person operates more than one (1) farmers market food unit simultaneously, then the person must possess a separate permit for each farmers market food unit.

(d) This part does not prohibit a person from applying for, and being issued, a farmers market food unit permit and a temporary food service establishment permit for the same food service establishment; however, if the person operates as a temporary food service at a temporary event, then subsection (b) does not apply and the person shall comply with all requirements of this part, and the rules promulgated pursuant to this part, concerning permitting and regulation of a temporary food service establishment.

(e) A physical copy of a farmers market food unit permit must be present in the physical space occupied by the farmers market food unit at all times the farmers market food unit is in operation.

(f) A municipal or county legislative body, or local health department, by ordinance or otherwise, shall not impose a regulation or requirement for the permitting and operation of a farmers market food unit that is more stringent than the requirements of this part.