55-10-308 - Enforcement within municipalities. - Tennessee Statutes

55-10-308. Enforcement within municipalities.

Where §§ 55-8-101 55-8-180 and 55-10-101 55-10-310 apply to territory within the limits of a municipality, the primary responsibility for enforcing the sections shall be on the municipality which shall be further authorized to enforce the additional ordinances for the regulation of the operation of vehicles as it deems proper; provided, however, that any municipality having a population of ten thousand (10,000) or less, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, must exercise the authority conferred by this section in full compliance with the rules promulgated by the commissioner of safety to regulate enforcement of §§ 55-8-101 55-8-180 and 55-10-101 55-10-310, on the portions of any highway designated and known as part of the national system of interstate and defense highways lying within the territorial limits of the municipalities; provided, that this restriction shall not apply to drug interdiction officers employed by the municipality while the officers are actively serving with any judicial district drug force.

[Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 111A; T.C.A., § 59-1029; Acts 2004, ch. 914, § 5; 2005, ch. 506, § 28.]