Crockett County property owner receives state cease and desist over alleged nuisance
CROCKETT COUNTY, Tenn. — District Attorney General Frederick Agee’s office has issued a cease and desist letter to the owner of a property in Crockett County, alleging the site constitutes a public nuisance.
View the full letter below:
“This letter serves as the State of Tennessee’s notice, by and through the District Attorney General for the Twenty-Eighth Judicial District of Tennessee, that you have created and are maintaining a public nuisance on your real property, located at 3059 Jennings Road, Alamo, Tennessee 38001 (“Property”), in violation of Tennessee law.
Property in or upon which persons, among other things, “… breaches of the peace are carried on or permitted, and personal property, contents, furniture, fixtures, equipment and stock used in or in connection with the conducting and maintaining any such place for any such purposes[]” constitutes and may be declared a nuisance under Tennessee law. And any person “who uses, occupies, establishes or conducts a nuisance, or aids and abets therein, and the owner,… is guilty of maintaining a nuisance and such nuisance shall be abated….” Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-3-101(a)(2)(C).
By accumulating and storing debris; garbage; inoperable equipment; abandoned, wrecked, junked, or inoperative motor vehicles on the Property, you have created and maintained a public nuisance. Further, you have used the Property to facilitate violations of the law by, among other things, providing criminals any means of avoiding arrest and assisting with the commission of the offenses. When you permit and even promote the nuisance activities by failing to take any action to terminate the nuisance activity, it shows reckless disregard and deliberate indifference to the rights of adjacent property owners and to the safety and welfare of all persons in the community.
In an effort to resolve these problems and avoid litigation, the State hereby gives you notice that you are required to abate or take all actions necessary to abate the above-mentioned nuisance and nuisance activity by April 30, 2026. If you fail to abate the above-mentioned nuisance and nuisance activity within the prescribed time, then the State will evaluate and pursue all options remaining as provided under Tennessee law including, but not limited to, filing a petition in a court of law requesting the court to abate the Property.”
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