2010 Tennessee Code
Title 55 - Motor and Other Vehicles
Chapter 22 - Automobile Race Tracks and Drag Strips
55-22-109 - Tourist resort counties Motor vehicle racing When permitted Penalty.

55-22-109. Tourist resort counties Motor vehicle racing When permitted Penalty.

(a)  (1)  In any county that is a tourist resort county, motor vehicle racing may be permitted on not more than three (3) days a week. If racing is conducted for three (3) days a week, one (1) of the days shall be Sunday.

     (2)  For the purpose of this section, “tourist resort county” means a county having two (2) or more municipalities in which at least forty percent (40%) of the assessed valuation of the real property in those municipalities consists of hotels, motels, restaurants and similar businesses serving traveling persons as shown by the tax assessment records of the  county.

(b)  (1)  No racing shall be conducted after eleven o'clock p.m. (11:00 p.m.). At the conclusion of a racing event, the track management shall encourage all participants and patrons to vacate the premises by not later than eleven-thirty p.m. (11:30 p.m.).

     (2)  No racing shall be conducted on a Sunday except between twelve o'clock (12:00) noon and six o'clock p.m. (6:00 p.m.). At the conclusion of a Sunday racing event, the track management shall encourage all participants and patrons to vacate the premises by not later than six-thirty p.m. (6:30 p.m.).

(c)  A violation at any track of any condition of a license is punishable by a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars ($500).

[Acts 1991, ch. 368, § 1.]