Following fire apparatus prohibited — Penalty
Known as the Jeff Roth and Brian Brown Bicycle Protection Act
The act spans §§ 55-8-101 to 55-8-307 (115 sections).
Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 68; T.C.A., § 59-869; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.
(1) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than five hundred feet (500') or park the vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
(2) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
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.