§ 55-4-112 — Registration fees for private and commercial motor vehicles operating for hire and transporting passengers - Fees deemed additional to certain registration fees

(a) The registration fees for private and commercial motor vehicles operating for hire who transport passengers shall be as follows: (1) Motor vehicles with not more than seven (7) seats for passengers .................... $ 47.13 (2) Motor vehicles with over seven (7) seats and not more than fifteen (15) seats for passengers .................... $ 96.63 (3) Motor vehicles with over fifteen (15) seats and not more than twenty-five (25) seats for passengers .................... $ 162.63 (4) Motor vehicles with over twenty-five (25) seats and not more than thirty-five (35) seats for passengers .................... $ 245.12 (5) Motor vehicles with over thirty-five (35) seats for passengers .................... $ 327.63 (b) Where any route over which a private or commercial motor vehicle operating for hire is operated is exclusively within the limits of a municipality of the state, or where the route is partially within and partially without the limits of a municipality of the state, but does not extend more than fifteen (15) miles beyond the municipal limits, or where the route is wholly within the limits of a metropolitan government created under title 7, chapter 1, the fees shall be in addition to the registration fees set out in § 55-4-111 for passenger motor vehicles, fifty-five cents (55¢) for each passenger seat, with a minimum fee of thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($37.50) for any single vehicle. The applicant must submit an affidavit confirming the route mileage and seating capacity of any vehicle registering under this provision. (c) Personal buses that are not used in a trade or business shall be subject to the registration fee set out in § 55-4-111(a)(1) , Class (B). All buses not subject to the registration fees set out in this section or in § 55-4-111 shall be subject to the registration fees set out in § 55-4-113(a)(2) . (d) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the registration fee for one (1) school bus owned by a person under contract with a local education agency (LEA), as defined in § 49-1-103 , for the provision of transportation services pursuant to § 49-6-2101 , is equal to the fee charged for a school bus owned by an LEA. This subsection (d) does not prohibit a person under contract with an LEA for the provision of transportation services from registering more than one (1) school bus. The registration fee for each additional school bus owned by a person under contract with an LEA for the provision of transportation services pursuant to § 49-6-2101 , is the respective fee specified in subsection (a).

Legislative History

Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 462, s 1, eff. 7/1/2023. Amended by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 181, s 5, eff. 7/1/2017. Amended by 2017 Tenn. Acts, ch. 181, s 4, eff. 7/1/2017. Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 84 (Williams, § 5538.184); Acts 1955, ch. 52, § 8; 1957, ch. 383, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 14; Acts 1961, ch. 327, § 1; 1963, ch. 277, § 1; 1976, ch. 418, § 1; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-422; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113; 1999, ch. 98, § 4; 2002, ch. 856, §§ 8b, 8c; 2009 , ch. 530, § 111.