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Miscellaneous Business Regulations Reference Number: MTAS-84Tennessee Code Annotated
Reviewed Date: August 08, 2016
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Cities may adopt state provisions regulating pawnbrokers and other regulations they "may deem right and proper." Cities may not regulate interest, fees, insurance charges, hours, types of pawn transactions, or license requirements, nor may cities make requirements other than those under the state statutes. A law enforcement official of a city may not charge a pawnbroker for receiving or processing daily reports or pawn tickets or any other information required by the law enforcement official. A pawnbroker is required to have a computer system in operation that is capable of electronically transferring information regarding pledged goods to a requesting law enforcement agency. T.C.A. § 45-6-221. The state code intimates that even though a city may not license pawnbrokers, a city may suspend or revoke a pawnbroker’s license if the owner, major stockholder, or managing partner is convicted of violating the state statute. Upon request, pawnbrokers must furnish law enforcement agencies with the names of suppliers from whom they bought merchandise for resale. T.C.A. §§ 45-6-201, et seq. Pawn shop operators in Knox and Shelby counties must obtain the thumbprint or fingerprint of the pledger. T.C.A. § 45-6-209.
The Alarm Contractors Licensing Act of 1991 prohibits municipalities and counties from offering services as an alarm system contractor except for facilities wholly owned by the municipality or county. Municipalities may provide monitoring and response service to alarm systems if
A municipality may require alarm businesses and agents to register their names, addresses, and license certificate numbers. A city may not impose a fee or require an application for this registration. T.C.A. §§ 62-32-301, et seq.
Junkyards Restrictions have been imposed on junkyards located within 1,000 feet of an interstate or primary highway. They are enforced and implemented by the Tennessee Department of Transportation. "Junkyard" includes a place where 10 or more abandoned motor vehicles are stored and any place that stores, buys, or sells junk. T.C.A. §§ 54-20-101, et seq. but it does not include recycling centers as defined in T.C.A. § 54-20-103(6)(B) or solid waste facilities registered under T.C.A. § 68-211-106. Otherwise, the definition of "junk" includes a wide variety of materials. A municipality is empowered to enforce regulations at least as stringent as those established under this statute for city streets that are in the state highway system. T.C.A. §§ 54-20-101, et seq.
Municipalities are empowered to license, control, and regulate taxicabs by ordinance or resolution. The statute outlines the scope of this authority and extends to a municipality the full extent of antitrust immunity accorded to the state as sovereign under state and federal laws. Governmental entities in a county of 287,700 to 287,800 (Hamilton County) are exempted from this law. Governmental entities in counties with more than 500,000 population (Shelby and Davidson) also may regulate limousine, sedan, shuttle, and taxicab services. T.C.A. §§ 7-51-1001–1007. T.C.A. § 6-54-128 requires a criminal records check on cab drivers through the TBI and FBI by municipalities in counties with over 100,000 population that choose to license and regulate persons operating vehicles for hire and disqualify those convicted of specified crimes. Municipalities are not permitted to regulate transportation network companies. T.C.A. § 65-15-302.
T.C.A. §§ 47-18-5101, et seq., and 47-18-104 make it unlawful for businesses to charge excessive prices for essential goods during states of emergency. Local ordinances prohibiting and penalizing similar conduct are not pre-empted.
State law regulates limited license plumbers (plumbers who do plumbing work at a total cost of less than $25,000). T.C.A. §§ 62-6-401, et.seq. Municipalities may have stricter testing and experience requirements. The state law also makes other allowances for local regulation of these plumbers. The state law apparently does not apply in the 24th and 25th senatorial districts T.C.A. § 62-6-416.
As of July 1, 2011 persons and companies engaged in appraisal management are regulated by T.C.A. Title 62, Chapter 39, Part 4. Banks, savings and loan institutions, licensed attorneys, licensed accountants or state and local governments who order appraisals for tax purposes are exempt from the act.
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