Tennessee Code 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:
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 55-4-112
Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
Bus: means every motor vehicle designed for carrying more than ten (10) passengers and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Person: means a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, or an engaged ADS. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
School bus: means every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency and operated for the transportation of children to or from school or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from school. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Vehicle: means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
(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).
