Every motor vehicle or motorized bicycle, as defined in chapter 8 of this title, and every trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer, when driven or moved upon a highway, and every mobile home or house trailer, when occupied, shall be subject to the registration and certificate of title provisions of Chapters 1 6 of this title, […]
It is a Class C misdemeanor for any person to: Drive or move or for any owner knowingly to permit to be driven or moved on any highway any vehicle of a type required to be registered under Chapters 1 6 of this title that is not registered or for which the appropriate fee has […]
Every owner of a vehicle, subject to registration under this title, for which no certificate of title has ever been issued by the department, shall make application to the county clerk of the county where the vehicle is to be registered, or directly to the registrar of motor vehicles in the case of either proportional […]
In the event a vehicle for which an application for a certificate of title is made is a specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicle, this fact shall be stated in the application and with reference to every foreign vehicle that has been registered outside of this state, the owner shall surrender to the county clerk […]
It is unlawful for a county clerk to accept an application for a certificate of title as provided for in Chapters 1 6 of this title, unless the applicant presents evidence that a sales or use tax at the rate specified in title 67, chapter 6, part 2 and § 67-6-501 has been paid on […]
Section 55-3-105 does not apply to applications filed for motor vehicles belonging to the United States, the state of Tennessee, or any of its political subdivisions, or to any nonprofit institution exempt from the payment of the sales or use tax under title 67, chapter 6, part 3; provided, that a nonprofit institution shall present […]
Except as indicated in § 55-3-106, the commissioner shall issue a certificate to an applicant, which may be used by the applicant to file an application for a certificate of title when it appears that the applicant is not required to pay any sales or use tax on any motor vehicle for which a certificate […]
It is unlawful for any person to alter or to indicate on any bill of sale or any other documents that a sales or use tax has been paid when the tax has in fact not been paid.
A violation of §§ 55-3-105 — 55-3-108 is a Class C misdemeanor.
Prior to the issuance of a certificate of title for a motor vehicle, the department shall determine, by computer or otherwise, if the vehicle has been stolen.
The department shall keep a record of all outstanding certificates of title issued by it in suitable books as follows: Numerically, under the certificate of title number assigned, which entry shall show, in addition to title number, all the information required to be set out on the face of the certificate; Under the serial number, […]
The department shall refuse to issue a certificate of title upon any of the following grounds: The application contains any false or fraudulent statement, or the applicant has failed to furnish required information or reasonable additional information requested by the department, or the applicant is not entitled to the issuance of a certificate of title […]
An action of the commissioner in issuing or refusing to issue any certificate of title, in discharging or refusing to discharge any lien, and in issuing or refusing to issue any replacement certificate of title applied for shall be reviewed in the manner provided for in the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, […]
The commissioner shall, upon receipt of an application for a certificate of title, and after determining by an examination of its records that the applicant is entitled to a certificate of title, issue the same. Except as provided by subdivision (a)(3), the several county clerks are designated deputies to perform, at their option, duties in […]
In the event any certificate of title is lost, mutilated, or becomes illegible, the owner or a legal representative or successor in interest of the owner of the vehicle for which the same was issued, as shown by the records of the department, shall immediately make application for and obtain a replacement upon the payment […]
The department shall assign a new and distinguishing number to a motor vehicle whenever the serial and/or motor number on the motor vehicle is destroyed or obliterated, which distinguishing number shall be stamped on the vehicle in a position to be determined by the commissioner. The motor vehicle shall be registered under the distinguishing number […]
The commissioner is authorized to adopt and enforce reasonable rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary and compatible with the public interest with respect to the change or substitution of one (1) engine in place of another in any motor vehicle.
In order to transfer titling to any motor vehicle coming within the title provisions of Chapters 1 6 of this title, the owner shall endorse an assignment and warranty of title upon the certificate of title, if in such owner’s possession, for such vehicle, with a statement of all liens or encumbrances, and the owner […]
The transferee, before operating or permitting the operation of a transferred vehicle upon a highway, shall apply for and obtain a registration and apply for a certificate of title for the transferred vehicle in the manner provided in § 55-4-101, except as otherwise permitted in §§ 55-3-120 and 55-3-121.
When the transferee of a vehicle is a dealer who holds the same for resale and lawfully operates the same under dealer’s registration plates, the transferee shall not be required to obtain a new registration of the vehicle or be required to obtain a new certificate of title, but the transferee, upon transferring title or […]
