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Code of Sweetwater
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Code of Sweetwater
Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 7 Enforcement
Title 15 Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 7 Enforcement
Sweetwater
Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 7 : Enforcement
15-706 : Deposit of license in lieu of bail.
- Whenever any person lawfully possessed of a driver's license theretofore issued to him by the Tennessee Department of Safety, or under the driver licensing laws of any other state or territory or the District of Columbia, is issued a citation or arrested and charged with a violation of any municipal ordinance regulating traffic, except those ordinances and statutes the violation of which call for the mandatory revocation of a driver's license for any period of time, within the corporate limits of the City of Sweetwater or the jurisdiction of its law enforcement agencies, such person shall have the option of depositing his driver's license with the officer or court demanding bail in lieu of any other security required for his appearance in any court of the City of Sweetwater in answer to such charge before the court.
- Whenever any person deposits his driver's license as provided, either the officer or the court demanding bail shall issue the person a receipt for said license upon a form approved or provided by the Department of Safety, and thereafter said person shall be permitted to operate a motor vehicle upon the public highways of this state during the pendency of the case in which the license was deposited.
- The clerk or judge of the court accepting the license shall thereafter forward to the Department of Safety the license of a driver deposited in lieu of bail if the driver fails to appear and answer to the charge filed against him and which license shall not be released by the Department of Safety until the charge for which such license was so deposited has been disposed of by the court in which pending.
- The provisions of this section are in addition to any other provisions of the municipal code and are implemented as an alternative procedure to the other provisions of the code for the purpose of securing the appearance of defendants cited for violations of the municipal code. (as replaced by Ord. #806, April 2007)
Date Last Updated: 08/05/2024
Codification Date: 03/01/2004
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Doyle F. Lowe
Vice Mayor - Sam Moser
Commissioner - Lamar Hughes
Commissioner - Johanna Jinks
Commissioner - Alan Richeson
Commissioner - James A. Stutts
Recorder - Sonya Crush
City Attorney - John Cleveland