39-14-135 - Manufacture, sale or possession of farm implement without serial number. - Tennessee Statutes

39-14-135. Manufacture, sale or possession of farm implement without serial number.

(a)  (1)  No new tractor-drawn major farm implement manufactured as a self-contained unit after December 31, 1968, and designed to be pulled by or attached to a farm tractor and sold as a complete unit, shall be sold or offered for sale at wholesale or retail unless a manufacturer's serial number shall be prominently stamped on the equipment or on a piece of metal securely affixed to the equipment.

     (2)  It shall be the responsibility of the manufacturer to see that such an implement is properly supplied with a serial number.

(b)  Any person who manufactures, distributes, sells or transfers any tractor-drawn major farm implement subject to the requirements of this section without a serial number prominently stamped on the equipment or on a piece of metal securely affixed thereto commits a Class A misdemeanor.

(c)  This section shall not apply to the sale of parts, components or accessories for major farm implements where serial numbers are not required by law.

[Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.]