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. The officer, who recovers or upon receiving information of the recovery of any motor […]
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 shall make the report only after having procured the […]
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 prescribe the forms that the reports shall be submitted upon. The commissioner of […]
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 the vehicle based in […]
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. A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
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 state and intended for sale to the general public within this state, shall be required to have […]
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. The permanent manner required by §§ 55-5-106 — 55-5-110 may be by any suitable manufacturing process […]
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), seats, differentials, tires and wheels, steering wheels, automobile radios and automobile tape players, and bumpers. […]
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 identification number or numbers as set out […]
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 number or identification mark or number placed thereon under assignment from the division has […]
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, transmission or other number or mark upon a motor vehicle or its component […]
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.
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 the acts incident thereto in the same manner as other […]
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 the use of any of the same by one not […]
It is a Class E felony for any person to: 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; Alter or falsify with fraudulent intent or forge any assignment […]
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: When the department is satisfied that the registration or that the certificate, plate, or permit was fraudulently or erroneously […]
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 certificate or plates or has made or knowingly permitted […]
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, the owner or person in possession of the same shall immediately return […]
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. Unless another penalty is in Chapters 1 6 of this title […]
