Current through September 24, 2024
(1) Definitions:
(a) The term municipality or municipalities,
as used in this order should to understood to refer only to cities, towns,
villages and boroughs which have been created by special legislative acts or
otherwise individually incorporated or chartered pursuant to general laws or
which are recognized as such under the Constitution or by the laws of the State
of Tennessee, and which have existing local governments.
(b) Distances. Airline distances about
corporate limits of municipalities shall be used in all instances.
(c) Population. The population of any
municipality shall be that shown for such municipality by the 1960 Decennial
Census conducted by the United States Bureau of Census, or any subsequent
Decennial Federal Census.
(d)
Unincorporated area. The term "Unincorporated area" as used herein means any
area regardless of its urban development not included within the corporate
limits of an incorporated city, town village or borough.
(e) Contiguous municipalities. Two
municipalities having the same common border or boundary, (contiguous for the
purpose used herein, shall not mean in close proximity to one
another.)
(f) Adjacent
municipalities. Municipalities which although not contiguous have a distance of
not over 15 miles between their respective boundaries or corporate limits at
any point or points.
(g) Base
municipality. Base Municipality designates the municipality whose commercial
zone is under consideration.
(h)
Terminal Areas. The limits around a city which line-haul carriers authorized to
serve the particular city may serve.
(2) The commercial zone of each municipality
shall consist of:
(a) The base municipality
which shall include all annexations thereof on the effective date of the
annexation and the population of which is determined by the last official
census.
(b) All contiguous
municipalities within the State of Tennessee.
(c) All unincorporated areas as follows:
1. When the base municipality has a
population less than two-thousand five hundred (2,500) all unincorporated areas
within two (2) miles of its corporate limits and all of any other municipality
any part of which is within two (2) miles of the corporate limits of the base
municipality
2. When the base
municipality has a population of two-thousand five hundred (2,500), but less
than twenty-five thousand (25,000), all unincorporated areas within three (3)
miles of the corporate limits and all of any other municipality any part of
which is within three (3) miles of the corporate limits of the base
municipality;
3. When the base
municipality has a population of twenty-five (25,000), but less than one
hundred thousand (100,000), all unincorporated areas within four (4) miles of
its corporate limits and all of any other municipality any part of which is
within four (4) miles of the corporate limits of the base
municipality;
4. When the base
municipality has a population of one hundred thousand (100,000) or more, all
unincorporated areas within five (5) miles of its corporate limits and all of
any other municipality any part of which is within five (5) miles of the
corporate limits of the base municipality.
(d) All adjacent municipalities any part of
which would be included under (c) above as unincorporated.
(e) All municipalities completely surrounded
by the base municipalities and any contiguous municipality or adjacent
municipality included in the zone under (d) above.
(f) That the base municipality of
Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee shall be extended to
include all of Davidson County, but this commercial zone shall, under no
provisions, or any circumstances, extend into the surrounding counties, but
shall terminate at the county line of Davidson County.
(3) The terminal area within the meanings of
the above definition, of any motor carrier of property authorized by this
Commissioner of Safety and Homeland Security under Chapter 15 of Title 65 of
the T.C.A., at any unincorporated community having a post office of the same
name which is authorized to be served by such motor carrier of property shall
be construed as:
(a) All points or places in
Tennessee which are located within the limits of the operating authority of the
motor carrier of property, and within two and a half (2-1/2) miles of the post
office at such authorized unincorporated point.
(b) All of any municipality any part of which
is included under (a) of this section.
(c) Any municipality wholly surrounded by any
municipality included under (b) of this section or so wholly surrounded except
for a water boundary.
(4) Exceptions. The points of Warcer,
Tennessee and Jersey-Tyner, Tennessee shall be excluded from the commercial
zones of Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee, respectively; that the
commercial zone applicable to the point of Ducktown, Tennessee, shall be
extended east along U. S. Highway 64 to the North Carolina line so as to
authorize common carrier service thereto.
(5) Clarksville Commercial Zone. That the
Commercial Zone of Clarksville, in addition to that set forth above, shall be
extended northeastwardly from the existing zone at approximately the
intersection of U. S. Highways 79 and 1-24 northwardly to the Tennessee
Kentucky State Line in a corridor three miles in width, the same encompassing
the L & N right-of-way as well as Highway 79 to the Tennessee-Kentucky
State Line.
Authority: T.C.A. §§
65-15-106 and
65-15-113.
