Title 55, Motor and Other Vehicles

Transport of mobile homes shall be subject to § 55-7-205 pertaining to excess weight.

A permit is required for each category of size, height, width, length and/or weight, that is exceeded by the mobile home being transported, except as provided in § 55-4-405.

(a) The department of transportation is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations prescribing safety precautions and equipment to be utilized by those transporting mobile homes subject to this part. (b) The transporter and the seller of the mobile home, if the seller is a di…

(a) This part shall be administered by the department of transportation, which is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations for the administration of this part. (b) (1) The department of transportation shall issue to all annual permit holders a placard bearing the applicable…

(a) Any person transporting a mobile home, manufactured house or house trailer, as defined in § 55-4-402, into or through this state, or over any street, road or highway of this state in violation of any provision of this part, commits a Class B misdemeanor punishable as follows:…

(a) The transporter of any mobile home, manufactured home or house trailer subject to this part shall be liable for any and all damages resulting from the mobile home, manufactured home or house trailer striking a guardrail, bridge, concrete barrier, overhead structure or other o…

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires, “fleet” means one thousand (1,000) or more vehicles owned or long-term leased by a corporation or other legal entity and registered in the state pursuant to this part.

(1) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, in lieu of staggered vehicle registration, a company may register its fleet on an annual basis so that the registration of all vehicles in the fleet expires in the same month, that month to be requested by the applicant and approved by…

(a) The department is the registering officer for the initial application for registration and subsequent renewal applications of fleet registrants. In the application for registration, the applicant shall group vehicles by county of domicile. The commissioner shall collect and d…

On approval of the application for fleet registration, the department shall issue a permanent registration card and a permanent validating sticker for each of the qualified vehicles in the fleet. The permanent registration card shall be carried in the vehicle at all times and sha…

(a) For the purposes of establishing a new fleet registrant, in order to establish a uniform month of expiration, the valuation for the vehicle license tax shall be maintained at the current valuation if it is necessary to calculate a partial year vehicle license tax. (b) For the…

If a vehicle is added to the fleet during the registration year, the commissioner shall discount all fees required for registration as prescribed by law. In addition to all registration fees, the registrant shall pay a five-dollar identification fee for each vehicle added to the …

(a) On the renewal of a fleet registration, the department shall require payment of full licensing fees for every vehicle registered in the preceding year unless the vehicle has been properly deleted from the fleet. (b) In order to delete a vehicle from the fleet, the fleet regis…

(a) Upon the registration or registration renewal of any motor vehicle in any county in which the county clerk participates in this program, the registrant shall have the opportunity to make a voluntary donation of one dollar ($1.00) for the purpose of promoting and supporting or…

Each county clerk desiring to participate in this program shall notify the county legislative body of the clerk's participation in writing. A county clerk desiring to cease participation in this program shall notify the county legislative body to that effect in writing.

The voluntary contributions authorized in this part are not subject to any commissions including, but not limited to, those authorized by § 8-21-401(h).

(a) An owner or lessee of a Class I or Class II off-highway vehicle, as defined in § 55-8-101, who is a resident of this state shall be issued an off-highway vehicle license plate authorized by § 55-4-210(f) upon:(1) Compliance with the applicable provisions of chapters 1-6, incl…

(a) An owner or lessee of a Class I or Class II off-highway vehicle, as defined in § 55-8-101, who is a not a resident of this state, upon complying with rules promulgated by the department and paying both a four-dollar fee and a fee equal to the cost of designing and manufacturi…

(a) (1) It is the duty of every law enforcement officer who receives a report based on reliable information that any motor vehicle has been stolen to report the theft of the vehicle to the department of safety immediately after receiving the information.(2) The officer, who recov…

(a) The owner, lienholder or insurer of the owner of a registered vehicle that has been stolen or embezzled shall notify the Tennessee highway patrol or the local sheriff's office or police department of the theft or embezzlement, but in the event of an embezzlement, the person s…

(a) (1) The commissioner of safety is authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations pertaining to the submission of the reports required under §§ 55-5-101 and 55-5-102. The rules and regulations shall include time limits for the submission of the reports and shall p…

(a) Any person who, with intent to defraud the owner of any motor vehicle or a person in lawful possession of the motor vehicle, obtains possession of the vehicle from the owner, or the servant, agents or employees of the owner, by agreeing in writing, to pay a rental for use of …

(a) It is unlawful for any chauffeur or any other person in like capacity to use the automobile of another without the owner's permission or consent. (b) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.

(a) New Motor Vehicles, Freight Vehicles and Livestock Trailers and Components Manufactured Within This State. All new motor vehicles, new motor vehicle engines and transmissions, new freight vehicles, and new livestock trailers, as specified herein, and manufactured in this stat…

(a) The identification numbers required by § 55-5-106 shall be placed upon the passenger car and components required to be numbered in a permanent manner so that any attempt to remove, alter, deface, obliterate or destroy them will be ascertainable. (b) The permanent manner requi…

(a) (1) Any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling used automobile parts shall keep permanent records of transactions of buying or selling engines, transmissions, vehicle bodies, chassis, doors, deck lids, front end clips (fenders and grill), se…

Any person, firm or corporation who sells, offers for sale, ships or causes to be shipped into this state, or manufactures a passenger car, passenger car engine or passenger car transmission, the same being intended to be sold at retail within the state, that does not bear an ide…

The provisions of §§ 55-5-106 — 55-5-109 requiring vehicle identification numbers on passenger cars only apply to those passenger cars manufactured after January 1, 1969, and designated by the manufacturer as a 1969 or subsequent model.

Any person who knowingly buys, receives, disposes of, sells, offers for sale, or has in that person's possession any motor vehicle, engine or transmission removed from a motor vehicle, from which the manufacturer's serial, engine or transmission number or other distinguishing num…

(a) No person shall with fraudulent intent deface, destroy or alter the manufacturer's serial, engine or transmission number or other distinguishing number or identification mark of a motor vehicle or its component parts, nor shall any person place or stamp any serial, engine, tr…

Any person who fraudulently uses a false or fictitious name in any application for the registration of a vehicle or certificate of title, or knowingly conceals a material fact, or otherwise commits a fraud in the application, commits a Class C misdemeanor.

(a) Employees of the department of safety shall be charged with the duty of policing and enforcing the motor vehicle laws administered by the commissioner of safety, and they shall have authority to make arrests for violations of the provisions, execute search warrants and do all…

(a) No person shall lend to another any certificate of title, certificate of registration, registration plate, special plate, or permit issued to such person, if the person desiring to borrow the same would not be entitled to the use thereof, nor shall any person knowingly permit…

(1) It is a Class E felony for any person to:(1) Alter with fraudulent intent any certificate of title, certificate of registration, registration plate, or permit issued by the department or any county clerk of this state by virtue of chapters 1-6 of this title;(2) Alter or falsi…

(a) The department is authorized to suspend or revoke the registration of a vehicle or a certificate of title, certificate of registration, or registration plate, or any nonresident or other permit in any of the following events:(1) When the department is satisfied that the regis…

The department is also authorized to suspend or revoke a certificate or the special plates issued to a manufacturer, transporter or dealer and temporary tags or permits issued under chapters 1-6 of this title upon determining that the person is not lawfully entitled to the certif…

(a) Whenever the department as authorized hereunder cancels, suspends, or revokes the registration of a vehicle, or a certificate of title, a certificate of registration or registration plate or plates, or any nonresident or other permit or the license of any dealer or wrecker, t…

(a) It is a Class C misdemeanor for any person to violate any of the provisions of chapters 1-6 of this title unless such violation is by chapters 1-6 of this title or other law of this state declared to be a felony. (b) Unless another penalty is in chapters 1-6 of this title or …

Any person who is convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of chapters 1-6 of this title declared to constitute a felony shall be punished for a Class E felony.

(a) It is unlawful for any person, or the person's agent, to move or cause to be moved, any motor vehicle located on private property, from the property, if the owner of the motor vehicle has acquired any interest in the private property by virtue of a lease or any contract, with…

A violation of § 55-5-122 is a Class C misdemeanor.

In addition to the criminal penalties prescribed by §§ 55-5-122 — 55-5-125, any person who violates § 55-5-122 is civilly liable to the owner of the motor vehicle in a sum treble the amount of the costs incurred by the owner in recovering the motor vehicle so moved.

Sections 55-5-122 — 55-5-124 shall not affect nor prevent the operation of any state law relative to the removal of abandoned and junked motor vehicles.

(a) It is a Class C misdemeanor for any person to display upon a vehicle, for the purpose of indicating its registration, any license plate known by the user to have been stolen, or reported as lost or stolen in an application made to the department for a replacement plate, or is…

(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or exchange, offer to sell or exchange, or to give away any certificate of title or manufacturer's identification number plates, serial plates or motor vehicle license plates of any motor vehicle that has been sold as…

(a) (1) If a motor vehicle is seized or repossessed in Tennessee, the sheriff of the county in which the seizure or repossession occurred shall be notified immediately of the action taken; provided, that if the seizure or repossession occurred in a county having a metropolitan fo…