Tennessee Code 55-4-111 v2 – Registration fees – Classification of vehicles – Registration taxes
[Effective 7/1/2024]
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 55-4-111 v2
- Collector: includes any person entrusted with the collection of public revenue. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Department: means the department of revenue. See Tennessee Code 55-1-111
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Person: means a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, or an engaged ADS. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
- Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Semitrailer: 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 some part of its weight and that of its load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle. 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
- 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
- Truck: means every motor vehicle designed, used or maintained primarily for the transportation of property. 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
- Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Class (A) |
Motorcycles or autocycles . registration fee …………………………… |
$ 16.75 |
Class (B) |
Passenger motor vehicle and motor home . registration fee ……………………………………………………………. |
23.75 |
Class (C) |
Antique vehicles . registration fee ……………………………………… |
30.00 |
Class (D)(i) |
Privately owned trailers and trailers held for public rental, not exceeding eight feet (8′) in width and less than twenty feet (20′) in length, exclusive of the tongue, and all trailers which are limited to vacationing and camping purposes, unless otherwise exempted in this section, and any privately owned trailer or semitrailer that is otherwise exempted, but the owner desires to be registered . registration fee ….. |
14.50 |
(ii) |
Mobile homes or house trailers, whether privately owned or held for public rental, the chassis and exterior shell of which are designed and constructed for occupancy, but with dimensions not exceeding eight feet (8′) in width . registration fee …………………………………….. |
24.00 |
(iii) |
Mobile homes or house trailers, whether privately owned or held for public rental, the chassis and exterior shell of which are designed and constructed for occupancy, but with dimensions exceeding eight feet (8′) . registration fee …………………………………………………….. |
36.00 |
Class (E) |
Private buses (not for hire) . In the case of buses or motor driven coaches utilized exclusively for transporting either the owner or persons associated with the owner in a trade, business or vocation, or both of them, together with personalty constituting the tools of such trade, business or vocation, between places where such trade, business or vocation may be carried on, and not used to transport persons or property for hire . registration fee …………………………………. |
205.00 |
Class (F) |
Low speed vehicles . registration fee ………………………………….. |
14.50 |
Class (G) |
Medium speed vehicles . registration fee ……………………………… |
14.50 |
Class (H)(i) |
Class I off-highway vehicles . registration fee …………………………. |
15.00 |
(ii) |
Class II off-highway vehicles . registration fee ………………………… |
16.00 |