Tennessee § 45-6-219 - Authority of counties, incorporated municipalities, cities and taxing districts to regulate.

§ 45-6-219. Authority of counties, incorporated municipalities, cities and taxing districts to regulate.

Counties, incorporated municipalities, cities and taxing districts in this state have the authority by ordinance to adopt provisions of this part and have the authority to adopt further rules and regulations that the legislative bodies of the counties, incorporated municipalities, cities and taxing districts may deem right and proper. No county, incorporated municipality, city or taxing district has the authority to: Regulate interest, fees and insurance charges; Regulate hours; Regulate the nature of the business or types of pawn transactions; Regulate license requirements; Require reports or pawn tickets providing identification, information or descriptions different from that required in § 45-6-209; or Require a pawnbroker to hold over-the-counter purchase of goods that the seller does not intend to buy back for a period of more than twenty (20) business days before offering the merchandise for resale. Counties shall have no more authority than incorporated municipalities, cities and taxing districts have under this subsection (a) in regulating pawnbrokers. A law enforcement official from any county, municipality, city or taxing district may not charge a pawnbroker, firm or corporation a fee for receiving, reviewing or processing daily reports or pawn tickets as defined in § 45-6-209, or any other information required by the law enforcement official. Acts 1988, ch. 724, § 19; 1995, ch. 186, §§ 11, 12; 1996, ch. 885, §§ 1, 2; 1997, ch. 409, § 2. Attorney General Opinions. A city may not adopt an ordinance requiring the pledgor in a pawn transaction to place a thumbprint on the pawnbroker's copy of the pawn transaction, OAG 00-071, 2000 Tenn. AG LEXIS 73 (4/11/00). A city does not have authority, by ordinance, to require the pledgor in a pawn transaction to place a thumbprint on a form separate from the pawn ticket to be maintained by the pawnbroker and made available to law enforcement authorities, OAG 00-167, 2000 Tenn. AG LEXIS 170 (10/26/00).