Detaining drivers involved in accidents involving serious bodily injury or death if driver does not have valid driver license and evidence of financial responsibility
Acts 2012, ch. 737, § 1.
An officer shall detain a driver without a warrant, as provided in § 40-7-103, and bring the driver before a committing magistrate if the driver:
(1) Is involved in an accident resulting in: Serious bodily injury, as defined in § 55-50-502; or
(2) Death; and
(3) Does not have a valid driver license; and
(4) Does not have evidence of financial responsibility as required by § 55-12-139.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.