AUTHORITY:
Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 55-4-101, 55-4-103, 55-4-111, 55-4-132, and 55-4-223
STATE PORTION OF VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE WAIVED:
Public Chapter 1143 (2022), effective July 1, 2022, waives the state registration fees for Class A and Class B motor vehicles upon the renewal of the motor vehicle’s registration if the renewal occurs after July 1, 2022 and before June 30, 2023. Plates expiring before or after this period will be subject to the ordinary registration fee.
VEHICLES INCLUDED WAIVER:
Class A includes motorcycles and autocycles and Class B includes passenger motor vehicles and motor
homes. The state portion of the fee that is waived under this law is ordinarily $16.75 for Class A and
$23.75 for Class B. The other $2.75 of the state fee will still be collected and remitted. Those go to different funds and are a different parts of the statute, please see a breakdown of these fees below:
$1.00 State Computer Fund
$1.00 Trooper Safety Fund
.75 Reflectorization Fee
The additional $100.00 Electric Vehicle Registration is not waived
County fees are NOT part of the waiver
VEHICLES NOT INCLUDED WAIVER:
- Registered commercial motor vehicles (includes Joint plates and H Plates)
- Class (C) Antique vehicles — registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00
- Class (D)(i) Privately owned trailers and trailers held for public rental, not exceeding eight feet (8′) in width and less than twenty feet (20′) in length, exclusive of the tongue, and all trailers which are limited to vacationing and camping purposes, unless otherwise exempted in this section, and any privately owned trailer or semitrailer that is otherwise exempted, but the owner desires to be registered — registration fee . . . . . 14.50
- (ii) Mobile homes or house trailers, whether privately owned or held for public rental, the chassis and exterior shell of which are designed and constructed for occupancy, but with dimensions not exceeding eight feet (8′) in width — registration fee .. . . . 24.00
- (iii) Mobile homes or house trailers, whether privately owned or held for public rental, the chassis and exterior shell of which are designed and constructed for occupancy, but with dimensions exceeding eight feet(8′) — registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36.00
- Class (E) Private buses (not for hire) — In the case of buses or motor driven coaches utilized exclusively for transporting either the owner or persons associated with the owner in a trade, business or vocation, or both of them, together with personalty constituting the tools of such trade, business or vocation, between places where such trade, business or vocation may be carried on, and not used to transport persons or property for hire — registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205.00
- Class (F) Low speed vehicles — registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.50
- Class (G) Medium speed vehicles — registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.50
- Class (H)(i) Class I off-highway vehicles — registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.00 (ii) Class II off-highway vehicles — registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.00
NOTES:
The waiver applies to renewals only.
If a customer comes in to renew after July 2022 and they sign an affidavit that the vehicle was not in use and they are changing the expiration date to July or a qualifying month they would get the waiver. The fees will have to be adjusted by the county when this scenario applies.
Affidavit for General Information
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