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Mosheim
Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 1 : Miscellaneous

15-120 : Delivery of vehicle to unlicensed driver, etc.

    1. "Adult" shall mean any person eighteen (18) years of age or older.
    2. "Automobile" shall mean any motor driven automobile, car, truck, tractor, motorcycle, motor driven cycle, motorized bicycle, or vehicle driven by mechanical power.
    3. "Custody" means the control of the actual, physical care of the juvenile, and includes the right and responsibility to provide for the physical, mental, moral, and emotional well being of the juvenile. "Custody" as herein defined, relates to those rights and responsibilities as exercised either by the juvenile's parent or parents or a person granted custody by a court of competent jurisdiction.
    4. "Driver's license" shall mean a motor vehicle operators license or chauffeurs license issued by the State of Tennessee.
    5. "Juvenile" as used in this chapter shall mean a person less than eighteen years of age, and no exception shall be made for a juvenile who has been emancipated by marriage or otherwise.
  2. It shall be unlawful for any adult to deliver the possession of or the control of any automobile or other motor vehicle to any person, whether an adult or a juvenile, who does not have in his possession a valid motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license issued by the Department of Safety of the State of Tennessee, or for any adult to permit any person, whether an adult or a juvenile, to drive any motor vehicle upon the streets, highways, roads, avenues, parkways, alleys, or public thoroughfares in the Town of Mosheim unless such person has a valid motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license as issued by the Department of Safety of the State of Tennessee.
  3. It shall be unlawful for any parent or person having custody of a juvenile to permit any such juvenile to drive a motor vehicle upon the streets, highways, roads, parkways, avenues, or public ways in the town in a reckless, careless, or unlawful manner, or in such a manner as to violate the ordinances of the town.