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TN Code § 65-15-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Motor Carriers|Part 3 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 65-15-305. Complaint Handling Procedures — Recordkeeping Requirements

  A transportation network company operating in this state shall establish procedures to report any complaint about a driver with whom a rider was matched and whom the rider reasonably suspects was under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the course of the trip.   Upon receipt of a rider complaint alleging a violation of the zero-tolerance policy set out in § 65-15-304(4), the transportation network company shall immediately suspend the driver's access to the transportation network company's digital network, and shall conduct an investigation into the reported complaint. The suspension shall last the duration of the investigation.   The transportation network company shall maintain records relevant to a rider complaint made pursuant to this section for a period of at least two (2) years from the date that a complaint is received by the transportation network company.
TN Code § 65-15-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Motor Carriers|Part 3 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 65-15-306. Individuals Prohibited From Acting as Drivers

 A transportation network company operating in this state shall not permit any individual to act as a driver on its digital network who:   Has been convicted of more than three (3) moving violations in the prior three-year period, or one (1) major violation in the past three-year period, including, but not limited to, attempting to evade the police, reckless driving, or driving on a suspended or revoked license;   Has been convicted, within the past seven (7) years, of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, fraud, any sexual offense, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, a crime involving property damage, theft, any crime involving acts of violence, or acts of terror;   Is a match in the national sex offender registry;   Does not possess a valid driver license;   Does not possess proof of registration for any motor vehicle used to provide a prearranged ride;   Does not possess proof of personal automobile liability insurance that satisfies the requirements of title 55, chapter 12, for any motor vehicle used to provide a prearranged ride; or   Is not at least nineteen (19) years of age.
TN Code § 65-15-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Motor Carriers|Part 3 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 65-15-307. Acceptance of Street Hails Prohibited

 A driver shall not solicit or accept street hails.
TN Code § 65-15-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Motor Carriers|Part 3 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 65-15-308. Cash Payments Prohibited

  The transportation network company shall adopt a policy prohibiting a driver, while providing transportation network company services, from the solicitation or acceptance of cash payments from riders and notify drivers of the policy.   While providing transportation network services, drivers shall not solicit or accept cash payments from riders.   Any payment for a prearranged ride shall be made only electronically using the transportation network center's digital network or software application.
TN Code § 65-15-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Motor Carriers|Part 3 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 65-15-309. Nondiscrimination Policy — Accomodation of Service Animals — Wheelchair Accessible Service

  The transportation network company shall adopt a policy of nondiscrimination with respect to passengers and potential passengers and notify transportation network company drivers of the policy.   Drivers shall comply with all applicable laws regarding nondiscrimination against passengers or potential passengers.   Drivers shall comply with all applicable laws relating to accommodation of service animals.   A transportation network company shall not impose additional charges for providing a prearranged ride to persons with physical disabilities because of those disabilities.   A transportation network company shall provide riders an opportunity to indicate whether they require a wheelchair-accessible vehicle. If a transportation network company cannot arrange wheelchair-accessible service in any instance, it shall direct the rider to an alternate provider of wheelchair-accessible service, if available.
TN Code § 65-15-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Motor Carriers|Part 3 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 65-15-310. Information to Be Provided in Event of Accident

  If a motor vehicle accident occurs involving a motor vehicle that is being used to provide a prearranged ride, including when the driver is logged into or otherwise using the transportation network company's digital network, the transportation network company shall provide documentation, upon request by a law enforcement officer, that the driver was logged into the transportation network company's digital network at the time of the accident.   A transportation network company shall comply with any law enforcement investigation in which transportation network company trip data may be pertinent.
TN Code § 65-15-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 15 - Motor Carriers|Part 3 - Transportation Network Companies|§ 65-15-311. Suspected Drug or Alcohol Use During Course of Trip

 If the transportation network company is informed through the complaint procedure as described in § 65-15-305(a) that a rider reasonably suspects that a driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol during the course of a trip, the transportation network company shall instruct the rider who filed the complaint to also report the driver's suspected drug or alcohol use to a local law enforcement agency having jurisdiction over any criminal offense that may have occurred as a result of a driver being under the influence of drugs or alcohol. A transportation network company shall comply with any investigation by the local law enforcement agency.
TN Code § 65-19-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 1 - Jitney Service|§ 65-19-101. Common Carrier — Business Declared a Privilege

 Any person operating for hire any public conveyance propelled by steam, gasoline, electricity, or other motive power, for the purpose of affording a means of street transportation similar to that ordinarily afforded by street railways (but not operated upon fixed tracks) by indiscriminately accepting and discharging such persons as may offer themselves for transportation along the course of operation, is declared to be a common carrier, and the business of all such common carriers is declared to be a privilege.
TN Code § 65-19-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 1 - Jitney Service|§ 65-19-102. Permit From City or Town Required

 It is unlawful for any such common carrier to use or occupy any street, alley or other public place in any incorporated city or town, without first obtaining from such city or town a permit or license by ordinance giving the right to so use or occupy such public place, such permit or license to embody such routes, terms and conditions as such city or town may elect to impose; provided, that no such permit or license shall be granted which does not require the execution and filing of a bond as provided for in § 65-19-103.
TN Code § 65-19-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 1 - Jitney Service|§ 65-19-103. Bond Required

 Any such common carrier, before operating any public conveyance as aforementioned, in addition to obtaining such a permit or license, shall execute to the state and file with the county clerk of the county in which the business is to be carried on, and renew or increase from time to time as may be required by such city or town, a bond with good and sufficient surety or sureties, to be approved by the mayor of such incorporated city or town, in such sum as such city or town may reasonably demand, in no case, however, in a sum less than five thousand dollars ($5,000) for each car operated, conditioned that such common carrier will pay any damage that may be adjudged finally against such carrier as compensation for loss of life or injury to person or property inflicted by such carrier or caused by the negligence of the carrier.
TN Code § 65-19-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 1 - Jitney Service|§ 65-19-104. Use of Streets Without Permit — Operation Without Bond — Penalty

 Any such common carrier, which shall use or occupy any such public place in any incorporated city or town without first obtaining such a permit or license, or shall operate any such conveyance, without first executing and filing such bond, commits a Class C misdemeanor for each offense. Each day upon which such common carrier so unlawfully uses or occupies any such public place in any incorporated city or town of this state is a separate offense.
TN Code § 65-19-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 1 - Jitney Service|§ 65-19-105. Authority to Grant Permits — Restriction

 All incorporated cities and towns are empowered to grant such permits or licenses to such common carriers, and to fix in such licenses and permits the routes, terms, and conditions upon which such common carriers may operate, subject to the above limitations; provided, that no license or permit shall be granted to any such common carrier, without the execution and filing of the above recited bond being required.
TN Code § 65-19-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 1 - Jitney Service|§ 65-19-106. Privilege Tax

 All such incorporated cities and towns are empowered to impose upon all such common carriers a tax for the exercise of the privilege allowed to be granted by this part.
TN Code § 65-19-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 2 - Tennessee Ridesharing Act|§ 65-19-201. Short Title

 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Ridesharing Act.”
TN Code § 65-19-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 2 - Tennessee Ridesharing Act|§ 65-19-202. Part Definitions

 “Ridesharing” means the prearranged transportation of persons in a motor vehicle where such transportation is incidental to another purpose of a volunteer driver, and includes ridesharing arrangements known as carpools, vanpools, and buspools.
TN Code § 65-19-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 2 - Tennessee Ridesharing Act|§ 65-19-203. Workers' Compensation

 Title 50, chapter 6, concerning compensation for workers injured during the course of their employment, shall not apply to a person injured while participating in a ridesharing arrangement between such person's place of residence and place of employment or termini near such places; however, if the employer owns, leases, or contracts for the motor vehicle used in such an arrangement, title 50, chapter 6 shall apply.
TN Code § 65-19-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 2 - Tennessee Ridesharing Act|§ 65-19-204. Employer Liability for Injuries

  An employer shall not be liable for injuries to passengers and other persons resulting from the operation or use of a motor vehicle, not owned, leased, or contracted for by the employer, in a ridesharing arrangement unless the employee operating the motor vehicle is also on an errand or performing some task or function for the employer.   An employer shall not be liable for the injuries to passengers and other persons because it provides information, incentives or otherwise encourages its employees to participate in ridesharing arrangements. If the employer provides information, incentives, or otherwise encourages its employees to participate in ridesharing arrangements, the employer shall inform its employees that they will not be covered by the workers' compensation laws while participating in such arrangement unless while participating they perform some task or errand for the employer.
TN Code § 65-19-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 2 - Tennessee Ridesharing Act|§ 65-19-205. Local Taxes and Licenses

 No county, city, town, or other municipal corporation may impose a tax on or require a license for a motor vehicle used in a ridesharing arrangement other than that required for a private passenger automobile.
TN Code § 65-19-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 19 - Ridesharing|Part 2 - Tennessee Ridesharing Act|§ 65-19-206. Additional Registration Fees

 The additional registration fees imposed by § 55-4-112 do not apply to any passenger motor vehicle used in a ridesharing arrangement, regardless of any compensation paid to the owner or driver of such a vehicle, unless the vehicle is also used to transport passengers for hire for other purposes.
TN Code § 65-21-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-101. Special Powers of Corporations

 Telegraph and telephone corporations may construct a telegraph or telephone line and erect the necessary fixtures along, or over, or under the line of any public highway, the streets of any village, town, or city, across, or over, or under rivers, or any land belonging to the state, or along, across, or under county roads, and also over the lands of private individuals in pursuance of the general law authorizing the condemnation of the easement of right of way for works of internal improvement as set forth in title 29, chapter 16; provided, that the ordinary use of such public highway, streets, or county road be not thereby obstructed or the navigation of such waters impeded.
TN Code § 65-21-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-102. Railroad Enabled to Operate Telegraph and Telephone

 Any railroad company incorporated by or under the laws of or operating lines of railroad within this state, and operating telegraph and telephone lines in connection therewith, upon filing its assent to this chapter in the office of the secretary of state, shall thereby become clothed with the rights, powers, and duties provided by this chapter for telegraph and telephone companies, so as to enable telegraph or telephone companies to be operated by it.
TN Code § 65-21-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-103. Local Regulation

 Any village or city within which such line may be constructed shall have all reasonable police powers to regulate the construction, maintenance, or operation of the line within its limits, including the right to exact rentals for the use of its streets and to limit the rates to be charged; provided, that such rentals and limitations as to rates are reasonable and imposed upon all telephone and telegraph companies without discrimination. No village, town, or city shall have the right to prevent the company from constructing, maintaining, and operating the line within the village, town, or city, so long as the line is being constructed, maintained, or operated within the village, town, or city, in accordance with the reasonable police regulations.
TN Code § 65-21-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-104. Consolidation of Telephone and Electric Light Companies

 It is lawful for telephone and electric light companies to consolidate into one (1) corporation, or partially consolidate or cooperate in such manner as the respective corporations may determine, with the concurrence of the stockholders of each; but the rights and privileges conferred by this section shall be subject to revocation and repeal.
TN Code § 65-21-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-105. Use of Poles of Other Companies

 No telegraph or telephone company, or other such company, shall be permitted to attach its lines to, or otherwise use, the poles of any other telegraph or telephone company without the consent of such company being first had and obtained.
TN Code § 65-21-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-106. Discrimination in Telephone Connections Prohibited

 Every telephone company doing business within this state, and engaged in a general telephone business, shall supply all applicants for telephone connection and facilities, without discrimination or partiality; provided, that such applicants comply or offer to comply with the reasonable regulations of the company. No such company shall impose any condition or restriction upon any such applicant that is not imposed impartially upon all persons or companies in like situations, nor shall such company discriminate against any individual or company engaged in lawful business by requiring, as condition for furnishing such facilities, that they shall not be used in the business of the applicant or otherwise, under penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for each day such company continues such discrimination and refuses such facilities after compliance or offer to comply with the reasonable regulations, and time to furnish the same has elapsed, to be recovered by the applicant whose application is so neglected or refused.
TN Code § 65-21-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-107. Government Messages

  In consideration of the right-of-way over public property pursuant to §§ 65-21-101 and 65-21-201, every telegraph or telephone corporation shall, in the case of war, insurrection, or civil commotion of any kind, and for the arrest of criminals, give immediate dispatch, at the usual rates of charge, to any message connected therewith of any officer of the state or of the United States.   Any officer or agent of a telegraph or telephone company who fails or refuses to carry out the provisions of subsection (a) commits a Class A misdemeanor.
TN Code § 65-21-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-108. Priority of Messages — Privacy

  All other messages, including those received from other telegraph or telephone companies, shall be transmitted in order of their delivery, correctly, and without unreasonable delay, and at the usual rates, and shall be kept strictly confidential, subject, however, to disclosure in any legal proceedings; provided, that arrangements may be made with the publishers of newspapers for the transmission of intelligence of general and public interest.   Any officer or agent of a telegraph or telephone company who willfully violates subsection (a) commits a Class A misdemeanor, and the telegraph or telephone company so violating is liable in damages to the party aggrieved.
TN Code § 65-21-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-109. Discrimination in Messages Prohibited

  Every telegraph or telephone company doing business in this state must, under a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each and every refusal so to do, transmit over its wires to localities on its lines, for any individual or corporation or other telegraph or telephone company, such messages, dispatches, or correspondence, as may be tendered to it by, or to be transmitted to, any individual or corporation, or other telegraph or telephone companies, at the price customarily asked and obtained for the transmission of similar messages, dispatches, or correspondence, without discrimination as to charges or promptness.   The penalty herein prescribed shall be recoverable in any court through proper form of law, one half (½) of which shall go to the prosecutor and one half (½) to the state.
TN Code § 65-21-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-110. Damage to Equipment — Impairment of Service — Unauthorized Connections

  It is unlawful for any person to damage or obstruct any telegraph or telephone poles, wires, fixtures, or other apparatus or appliances, or to impede or impair the service of any telegraph or telephone line; or to connect by wire, or other means, with any such line, so as to hear, or be in a position to hear, messages going over such line or lines, or for the purpose of getting any service over the line or lines, without first procuring the consent of the owner or owners of the line, or the duly authorized agent of same.   A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 65-21-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-111. Warrants Against Offenders

 It is the duty of any judge of the court of general sessions who knows of any offenses under this chapter to forthwith issue a warrant for the arrest of such person, and have such offender brought before the judge for trial.
TN Code § 65-21-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 65 - Public Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 21 - Telegraphs and Telephones|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 65-21-112. Failure to Relinquish Telephone Line for Emergency Call

  Any person who fails to relinquish a telephone party line or a public pay telephone after having been requested to do so to permit another to place an emergency call to a fire department or police department, or for medical aid or ambulance service, commits a Class C misdemeanor.   It is a defense to a prosecution under this section that the accused did not know or did not have reason to know of the emergency in question, or that the accused was also using the telephone party line or public pay telephone for such an emergency call.   Any person who requests another to relinquish a telephone party line or a public pay telephone on the pretext that such person must place an emergency call, knowing such pretext to be false, commits a Class C misdemeanor.   Every telephone company doing business in this state shall print a statement of the substance of this section in a permanent place in each telephone directory published by it.