Section 1200-03-36-.03 - MOTOR VEHICLE TAMPERING PROHIBTED(1) No person shall cause, suffer, allow, or permit tampering of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine that is in compliance with federal motor vehicle standards except where the purpose of modification or removal of the air pollution emission control device is to install another device which is equally effective in reducing emissions from the vehicle.(2) No person shall manufacture, sell, offer to sell, or install any part or component on a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine where the purpose of the part or component is to bypass, defeat, or render inoperative any device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle engine that is in compliance with the federal motor vehicle standards.(3) No person shall perform emission related repairs on any part of a motor vehicle that is in a tampered state unless such repairs are performed that bring the vehicle into compliance with federal motor vehicle standards. This provision applies regardless of the age or mileage of a vehicle that was designed to meet federal motor vehicle standards.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-03-36-.03
Original rule filed October 15, 2004; effective December 29, 2004.Authority: TCA 68-201-105, 68-201-120, and 4-5-202.