GroundRules
← Search the law
Tennessee · Snapshot open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17

Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-5-116: Altering, falsifying or forging evidences of title, assignments or plates a felony

Read at publisher ↗
Where this section sits in the code
  1. TN Code
  2. Title 55
  3. Chapter 5

It is a Class E felony for any person to:

(1) Alter with fraudulent intent any certificate of title, certificate of registration, registration plate, or permit issued by the department or any county clerk of this state by virtue of chapters 1-6 of this title;

(2) Alter or falsify with fraudulent intent or forge any assignment upon a certificate of title; or

(3) Hold or use the document or plate, knowing the document or plate to have been altered, forged or falsified.

Collected 2026-09-17T21:51:56Z. Source file · JSON

Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text. Source · License

Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows. Source

Browse this collection