§ 55-10-401 Driving under the influence prohibited – Alcohol concentration in blood or breath
§ 55-10-402 Penalty for violations of Section 55-10-401 – Alternative facilities for incarceration – Public service work – Monitoring – Inpatient alcohol and drug treatment
§ 55-10-403 Fines for violations of Section 55-10-401 – Restitution
§ 55-10-404 Driving prohibitions – Restricted licenses – Revocation and suspension – Commercial licenses and vehicles
§ 55-10-405 Prior convictions – Driving record as evidence
§ 55-10-406 Breath and blood tests to determine alcohol or drug content of a motor vehicle operator’s blood
§ 55-10-407 Penalty for violations of Section 55-10-406
§ 55-10-408 Tests for alcohol or drug content of blood – Procurement and processing of samples – Results – Additional testing
§ 55-10-409 Restricted driver license – Ignition interlock device – Geographic restrictions
§ 55-10-410 Probation conditions – Access to inmates by alcohol and drug treatment organizations
§ 55-10-411 Presumption of impairment – Notice of penalties for additional offenses – Allegation of prior convictions – Mandatory service of minimum sentence – No defense that person is lawful user of substance – Strip searches – Jurisdicti
§ 55-10-411 v2 Presumption of impairment – Notice of penalties for additional offenses – Allegation of prior convictions – Mandatory service of minimum sentence – No defense that person is lawful user of substance – Strip searches – Jurisdiction of
§ 55-10-412 Disposition of fines – Collection of increased fines – County fund – Disposition of fund
§ 55-10-413 Additional fees – Ignition interlock fee – Alcohol and drug addiction treatment fee – Blood alcohol concentration test (BAT) fee – Blood alcohol or drug concentration test (BADT) fee – TBI toxicology unit intoxicant testing fund
§ 55-10-414 Seizure and forfeiture of vehicles
§ 55-10-415 Underage driving while impaired – Penalties
§ 55-10-416 Open container law
§ 55-10-417 Ignition interlock devices
§ 55-10-418 Maximum allowable fee – Reports
§ 55-10-419 Electronic monitoring indigency fund – Account for ignition interlock devices – Account for other monitoring devices – Responsibility for costs to comply with ignition interlock requirements – Indigency
§ 55-10-420 License to provide compliance-based ignition interlock services
§ 55-10-421 Adult driving while impaired
§ 55-10-422 Program development fee required for applicants for restricted license for vehicle with ignition interlock device
§ 55-10-423 Confidentiality of information about interlock program participant
§ 55-10-424 “Transdermal monitoring device” defined
§ 55-10-425 Compliance-based removal of ignition interlock device
§ 55-10-426 Contract service providers

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 55 > Chapter 10 > Part 4 - Alcohol and Drug Related Offenses

  • 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.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of revenue. See Tennessee Code 55-1-111
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Driver: means :
    (A) For purposes of a conventionally operated vehicle, every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way when any part thereto is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular travel. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Manufacturer: means every person engaged in the business of constructing or assembling vehicles of a type required to be registered at an established place of business in this state. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Operator: means :
    (A) For purposes of a conventionally operated vehicle, every person, other than a chauffeur, who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Owner: means a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle, or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof, with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this chapter and chapter 10, parts 1-5 of this title. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Person: means a natural person, firm, copartnership, association, corporation, or an engaged ADS. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Trailer: means every vehicle with or without motive power, other than a pole trailer, designed for carrying persons or property and for being drawn by a motor vehicle and so constructed that no part of its weight rests upon the towing vehicle. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • transdermal monitoring device: means any device or instrument that is attached to the person, designed to automatically test the alcohol or drug content in a person by contact with the person's skin at least once per one-half (½. See Tennessee Code 55-10-424
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • 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
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105