§ 55-6-104 — Fees due county clerk for specified duties

(a) The county clerks, as deputies to the registrar of motor vehicles, shall, upon the performance of the duties that the registrar prescribes under the laws governing the titling and licensing of vehicles and upon complying with the requirements of this chapter, be entitled to the following fees from applicants for the following services: (1) For issuing certificates of registration and registration plates, for transferring registration plates from one motor vehicle to another and issuing a certificate therefor, for accepting for surrender certificates of registration and registration plates, for each set of registration plates and certificates of registration, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50); (2) For issuing replacement certificates of registration, the sum of three dollars ($3.00) each; (3) For receiving and forwarding to the division each application for certificates of title, including all acknowledgments of signatures thereunder, the sum of eight dollars and fifty cents ($8.50); provided, that three dollars ($3.00) of the fee must be earmarked for the provision of services directly related to titling and registration and must not revert to the county general fund at the end of a budget year if unexpended; (4) For issuing a duplicate certificate of ownership to replace a lost or destroyed certificate, the sum of five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50); and (5) For each transaction where sales tax is collected one dollar ($1.00); except that the fee shall be two dollars ($2.00) where sales tax is collected on the isolated sale of boats and other such vessels. (b) (1) The county clerks, as deputies to the commissioner under § 55-3-114(a)(2) , shall be entitled to the following fees from the department, to be paid on a regular basis as determined by the commissioner, for the following services: (A) For issuing certificates of title pursuant to § 55-3-114 , the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per month; or (B) The fee under subdivision (b)(1)(A) shall be the sum of four hundred dollars ($400) per month; provided, that the county clerk scans documents related to the issuance of titles and submits such images to the department electronically. (2) Funds payable as fees under subdivision (b)(1) shall be earmarked for the provision of services directly related to titling and registration and shall not revert to the county general fund at the end of a budget year if unexpended. (c) In the event that the number of certificates of title issued by a county clerk in a calendar month divided by the number of applications for a certificate of title received by that county clerk in that calendar month yields a ratio of less than fifty-one percent (51%), then the applicable amount provided for in subsection (b) shall be reduced to the amount that results from multiplying the applicable amount in subsection (b) by the ratio calculated in this subsection (c). (d) The commissioner is authorized to establish a reasonable transactional based payment to compensate the county clerks for the acquisition, maintenance, modernization, enhancement, or replacement of software or equipment and related necessary supplies used in the operation of the titling and registration system.

Legislative History

Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 1003, s 1, eff. 7/1/2022. Amended by 2014 Tenn. Acts, ch. 718, s 5, eff. 4/16/2014. Acts 1951, ch. 70, § 89 (Williams, § 5538.189); Acts 1963, ch. 145, § 2; 1967, ch. 316, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; Acts 1979, ch. 268, §§3, 4; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 59-604; Acts 1981, ch. 531, § 1; 1986, ch. 791, § 3; 1989, ch. 16, §§ 5, 6; 1993, ch. 529, §§ 2, 10; 2004, ch. 599, § 1; 2004, ch. 660, §§ 1, 2; 2006, ch. 989, §§1, 2; 2008 , ch. 924, §§ 9, 10.