2018 Tennessee Code
Title 39 - Criminal Offenses
Chapter 14 - Offenses Against Property
Part 1 - Theft
§ 39-14-135. Manufacture, sale or possession of farm implement without serial number.
(a)
(1) No new tractor-drawn major farm implement manufactured as a self-contained unit after December 31, 1968, and designed to be pulled by or attached to a farm tractor and sold as a complete unit, shall be sold or offered for sale at wholesale or retail unless a manufacturer's serial number shall be prominently stamped on the equipment or on a piece of metal securely affixed to the equipment.
(2) It shall be the responsibility of the manufacturer to see that such an implement is properly supplied with a serial number.
(b) Any person who manufactures, distributes, sells or transfers any tractor-drawn major farm implement subject to the requirements of this section without a serial number prominently stamped on the equipment or on a piece of metal securely affixed thereto commits a Class A misdemeanor.
(c) This section shall not apply to the sale of parts, components or accessories for major farm implements where serial numbers are not required by law.
