§ 55-5-101 Stolen and recovered motor vehicles – Duties of law enforcement officers – Responsibilities attaching to wrecker, salvage and garage businesses – Penalties
§ 55-5-102 Theft or embezzlement and recovery of registered vehicle – Notice required – Penalty
§ 55-5-103 Rules and forms for theft or embezzlement reports – Duties of commissioner and department of safety and department of revenue
§ 55-5-104 Temporary taking of vehicle – Joyriding – Obtaining possession fraudulently – Neglect to return – Class E felony
§ 55-5-105 Chauffeur using automobile without owner’s consent – Penalty
§ 55-5-106 Required identification numbers
§ 55-5-107 Identification numbers – Method of installation
§ 55-5-108 Permanent records of transactions – Bills of sales – Inspections – Contraband subject to forfeiture – Rights of claimants – Sale of forfeited property
§ 55-5-109 Penalties for sale, shipment, or manufacture of passenger cars or components not bearing identification numbers
§ 55-5-110 Application of Sections 55-5-106 – 55-5-109
§ 55-5-111 Buying, disposing of or possessing motor vehicle, engine or transmission with removed or altered identification mark or number unlawful
§ 55-5-112 Altering or changing of distinguishing number or identification mark – Restoration of vehicle identification number
§ 55-5-113 Fraudulent statements in application – Penalty
§ 55-5-114 Enforcement of motor vehicle laws – Penalties – Enforcement procedures – Operation without registration plates – Penalties – Failure to license mobile home or house trailer
§ 55-5-115 Misuse of evidences of registration a misdemeanor – Penalties
§ 55-5-116 Altering, falsifying or forging evidences of title, assignments or plates a felony
§ 55-5-117 Grounds for suspension or revocation of registrations, certificates of titles, and permits
§ 55-5-118 Grounds for suspension or revocation of certificates or special plates and temporary tags or permits of manufacturers, transporters or dealers
§ 55-5-119 Evidences of registration to be returned by owner upon cancellation, suspension or revocation
§ 55-5-120 Penalty for violations
§ 55-5-121 Violation – Class E felony
§ 55-5-122 Moving any motor vehicle located on private property unlawful – Exceptions
§ 55-5-123 Penalties for violations
§ 55-5-124 Treble damages
§ 55-5-125 Abandoned and junked vehicle laws unaffected
§ 55-5-126 Use of stolen plates – Penalty
§ 55-5-127 Junked or salvaged motor vehicles – Sale or transfer of certificates of title, identification plates or license plates – Penalties
§ 55-5-128 Seized or repossessed motor vehicles – Notice to sheriff
§ 55-5-129 Impounded vehicles – Entry onto private property
§ 55-5-130 Reporting theft of motor vehicle from bailee
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 55 > Chapter 5 > Part 1 - Violations of Title and Registration Law

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Chauffeur: means every person who is employed by another for the principal purpose of driving a motor vehicle and every person who drives a school bus transporting school children or any motor vehicle when in use for the transportation of persons or property for compensation. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dealer: means every person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging vehicles of a type required to be registered and who has an established place of business for that purpose in this state. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Department: means the department of revenue. See Tennessee Code 55-1-111
  • Driver: means :
    (A) For purposes of a conventionally operated vehicle, every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gross weight: means the weight of a vehicle without load plus the weight of any load thereon. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way when any part thereto is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Manufacturer: means every person engaged in the business of constructing or assembling vehicles of a type required to be registered at an established place of business in this state. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Operator: means :
    (A) For purposes of a conventionally operated vehicle, every person, other than a chauffeur, who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Owner: means a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof, with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this chapter and chapter 10, parts 1-5 of this title. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, or an engaged ADS. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Police officer: means every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Special mobile equipment: means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and incidentally operated or moved over the highways, including farm tractors, road construction or maintenance machinery, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and concrete mixers. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Street: means the entire width between boundary lines of every way when any part thereof is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Streetcar: means a car other than a railroad train for transporting persons or property and operated upon rails principally within a municipality. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Trailer: means every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Vehicle: means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105