2019 Tennessee Code
Title 55 - Motor and Other Vehicles
Chapter 6 - Fees and Duties of Officers Under Title and Registration Law — Disposition of Funds
§ 55-6-101. Fees due department for specified services.
(a) The following fees are due to the department of revenue with regard to services pertaining to the titling and registration of motor vehicles:
(1) For issuing a certificate of title there shall be collected, in addition to the registration fee, a sum of five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50). The revenue generated from one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) of this fee shall be earmarked for the purpose of paying the principal and interest on bonds issued pursuant to chapter 1028 of the Public Acts of 1992. Any funds in excess of the amount necessary to pay the principal and interest shall be earmarked for the purposes of capital projects at state parks. It is the legislative intent that the department of environment and conservation in the planning and development of its capital renovation and improvement programs for state parks give priority to the camp sites, marinas and cabins;
(2) For noting new liens or encumbrances and transferring liens or encumbrances from one (1) lienor to the lienor's assignee upon a certificate of title when the transaction does not involve a change of ownership and where the certificate of title is forwarded to the department together with the application, the sum of eleven dollars ($11.00);
(3) For noting on a certificate of title the extension of any mortgage therein described and noted thereon, the sum of eleven dollars ($11.00);
(4) For issuing a duplicate certificate of ownership to replace a lost or destroyed certificate, the sum of five dollars and fifty cents ($5.50);
(5) For issuing a plate with a new and distinguishing number for a vehicle where the serial or manufacturer's identification number has been removed, destroyed or obliterated, or for replacing a plate and number issued by a manufacturer, the sum of ten dollars ($10.00); and
(6) For issuing or duplicating any other certificate or document not specifically enumerated in this section, but not including the initial issuance of a registration certificate, then at a charge that the commissioner deems necessary to cover the actual cost of preparation and distribution thereof, but not to exceed the sum of two dollars ($2.00) each.
(b) The increase of fifty cents (50¢) in the state fees for certificates of title authorized by Acts 1989, ch. 276, subject to an annual appropriation in the general appropriations act, shall be used for the purpose of funding action against odometer fraud, including the expenses of odometer fraud related activities of the department of safety and the department of revenue.
(c)
(1) Revenue to the state from the fee increases in subdivisions (a)(2)-(4), as provided by chapter 529, §§ 3-5 of the Public Acts of 1993, are earmarked to the department for equipment, staff, and other costs incurred by the department or a county clerk's office under contract with the department pursuant to § 55-3-114(e). [See the Compiler's Notes.]
(2) No state funds collected pursuant to the fee increases provided by chapter 529 of the Public Acts of 1993 shall be expended in any county where the additional funds provided in the fee increases provided by chapter 529 are not collected.
