Legal Documents of Gatlinburg

Code of Gatlinburg

Gatlinburg
Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 8 : Booting Vehicles On Private Property

15-802 : Definitions.

  1. "Private parking facility" shall mean a parking facility owned by a private party, entity or organization or managed by a party other than the city.
  2. "Vehicle" shall mean every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, whether or not operational.
  3. "Vehicle immobilization" shall mean the impounding, incapacitating or immobilizing of any vehicle, whether motorized or not, without the permission of the owner or agent of the owner of the vehicle by the use of any device, wheel clamp, object barrel, "car boot," mechanism, or method, either attached to the vehicle or not, by the owner or agent of the property upon which the vehicle is parked, that does not allow the owner of the vehicle, or his or her authorized agent, to freely move the vehicle from the place where it is immobilized. (as added by Ord. #2348, June 2006)
Date Last Updated: 03/23/2022
Codification Date: 03/01/2000

Officials at Date of Last Codification:

Mayor - Mike Werner

Vice Mayor - Mark McCown

Commissioner - Ryan DeSear

Commissioner - Chad Reagan

Commissioner - Kirby Smith

City Manager - Cindy Cameron Ogle

City Attorney - Ronald E. Sharp