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

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:

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(b)  Where any route over which a private or commericial 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 twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents ($27.50) 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).

[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.]