Clarksville, TN

Clarksville has no ordinance against feeding deer, birds, or other wildlife. Feeding that breeds vermin or creates offensive odors is reachable as a health and sanitation nuisance, and…

Clarksville makes it unlawful to keep Class I or Class IV wildlife under Tennessee Code Annotated section 70-4-402(a)(1) anywhere in the city without a police-issued certificate. The…

Cattle, horses, sheep, goats, swine and poultry are banned in residential zones citywide, but Clarksville carves out a permitted exception for up to eight domesticated hens in E-1…

Clarksville bans letting any animal run at large on a public street, sidewalk, park or someone else's property, and requires owners to keep animals on their own premises unless a…

Tennessee's Apiary Act of 1995 requires every beekeeper who owns one or more colonies to register each apiary location with the state apiarist, then re-register every three years. New…

Tennessee animal cruelty statutes apply uniformly statewide and treat aggravated cruelty as a felony, allowing prosecution of hoarding cases regardless of city or county ordinances.

Clarksville treats family day care as permitted on review in every residential district, so it goes to the Board of Zoning Appeals. Tennessee DHS separately licenses any agency serving…

The Tennessee Food Freedom Act exempts home-kitchen food from state licensing, permitting and inspection, with no sales cap. Clarksville adds no food rule of its own, but running the…

Tennessee does not issue a microenterprise home kitchen permit because it does not require one. Under the Tennessee Food Freedom Act, T.C.A. § 53-1-118, producing and selling homemade…

Clarksville bars operating a vehicle radio, tape, CD, or similar audio device that is audible more than 50 feet away, on public streets or private property alike, and separately…

Clarksville bans private use of loudspeakers or sound amplification devices on city-owned property outright, unless the department of parks and recreation issues a permit at least 10…

Clarksville names frequent or long-continued barking, howling, or crying by a kept animal or bird as an example of an unreasonably loud noise banned citywide whenever it disturbs the…

Clarksville exempts domestic power equipment, naming leaf blowers explicitly, from the anti-noise chapter between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. Outside that window a blower is judged against…

Clarksville's noise ordinance caps sound measured at a complainant's property line by land use and hour: 70 dB(A) from residential sources by day, dropping to 65 dB(A) overnight…

Clarksville bans excavation, construction, demolition, repair, or paving noise in residential areas between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. on weekdays and 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. on weekends…

Clarksville's fire code makes it unlawful to burn refuse, garbage, or salvage materials in the open. Cooking fires, ceremonial fires, and small leaf burns are allowed without a permit…

Since April 1, 1984, no Clarksville dwelling, from single-family houses to mobile homes to boarding-house rooms, can be sold, leased or re-rented without a working smoke detector…

Cooking fires, barbecues, outdoor fireplaces and ceremonial or recreational burning don't need a permit in Clarksville, just Fire Department approval, but they're still capped by…

Clarksville has no defensible-space program. Brush is handled two ways: Section 7-208 sets hard clearance and attendance conditions for burning leaves on your own property, and…

Tennessee maps no fire hazard severity zones and Clarksville adopts no wildland-urban interface code. What governs is Section 7-208, a Clarksville Fire Rescue permit for large piles…

Tennessee allows consumer fireworks (DOT 1.4G) statewide, sold only by State Fire Marshal-permitted retailers to buyers 16 or older. Under T.C.A. § 68-104-116, cities and counties may…

Tennessee makes the 2008 NFPA 58 Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code its statewide minimum standard for propane storage and handling, enforced by the State Fire Marshal's Division of Fire…

Clarksville requires every property owner and tenant to keep trees and shrubbery trimmed back so they never impede, obstruct, interfere with, or endanger the free flow of traffic on an…

When a city department or utility removes a city public tree it must replant caliper for caliper. A homeowner who removes a private tree owes no replacement, and development tree…

Clarksville's Code of Ordinances and Zoning Ordinance contain no artificial or synthetic turf provision. The landscaping chapter exempts single-family and two-family lots outright, and…

No Clarksville ordinance authorizes or restricts a native-plant yard, and no registration exists. Section 8-107 still lets the city order vegetation cut once growth passes one foot…

Clarksville's code has no rain barrel or rainwater harvesting provision and requires no permit. Two existing rules bite: cistern openings must be securely covered, and plumbing a…

Tennessee imposes no statewide duty to cut weeds already growing on your land. Instead, Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0080-06-24-.02 bans propagating, selling, offering for sale, or releasing…

Every Clarksville short-term rental owner has to pay the hotel/motel tax, sales tax, gross receipts tax, and standard property and income taxes assessed by the city, Montgomery County…

It's unlawful to operate or advertise a short-term rental in Clarksville without an operating permit under Sec. 5-303. Owners apply to the Department of Finance and Revenue with a…

A Clarksville short-term rental can't host more transient guests than the maximum occupancy printed on its operating permit under Sec. 5-311(d), and owners can't rent to two separate…

Clarksville has no chapter devoted to retaining walls. The zoning ordinance exempts them from the corner sight-triangle height limit, the drainage chapter exempts their excavation from…

Clarksville bans barbed wire outright on residential property and requires five feet of clearance on commercial lots. Where the zoning ordinance demands an opaque screening fence…

Tennessee's partition fence statute requires adjoining landowners using land for crops or livestock to share fence costs equally. The law applies statewide and cannot be overridden by…

Clarksville forbids open storage of any inoperable motor vehicle on residential or commercial property, and a car parked at a home must be registered to the owner or occupant. On city…

A sweep of the Clarksville Code of Ordinances and the separate Zoning Ordinance returns no provision on electric vehicle charging. Charging stalls count as ordinary off-street parking…

Clarksville sets no citywide overnight street parking ban and no snow emergency route restrictions. Instead the Parking Commission caps any city street stay at 72 hours, and both the…

Tennessee rewrote its towing law twice in two years. The Modernization of Towing, Immobilization, and Oversight Normalization Act of 2025, at T.C.A. §§ 55-31-101 to 55-31-307, deleted…

Every swimming pool in Clarksville needs a permit before installation, in-ground or above-ground. The city requires a minimum ten-foot setback from property lines, five feet from the…

Clarksville treats a permanently installed spa or hot tub as a pool for permit purposes. Tennessee goes further for shared tubs: a hot tub at an apartment complex, subdivision or club…

Tennessee has no solar access law that overrides private covenants. The Solar Access Law of 1979 only enables voluntary recorded easements between neighbors, so a Clarksville…

Clarksville permits solar panels as a utility accessory use subject to setbacks. The distinctive local requirement is code section 4-310: any grid-tied generator needs a lockable…

In Clarksville's central business district, a sign, awning, or other projection cannot hang over a public street or sidewalk unless its lowest point sits at least eight feet above the…

Clarksville bans placing goods, wares, merchandise or any obstruction on a street, sidewalk, alley or public way, except briefly while actively moving items. City Code Sec. 12-111 also…

Any group that wants to use a Clarksville public park or recreation area for a carnival, fair, festival or similar event needs the same parks and recreation department permit required…

No carnival, circus, fair, festival or parade can operate in Clarksville without a permit from the Department of Parks and Recreation. Section 5-1001 lets the department deny permits…

Clarksville requires a permit from the parks and recreation department before any parade, carnival, circus, fair or festival can operate within city limits. The department can deny the…

Every single-family district in Table 4.2 requires a 30-foot front yard. Side and rear yards tighten as lots shrink: R-1 needs 10 feet per side totaling 30, R-2 needs 8 feet totaling…

Clarksville caps lot coverage in all residential districts, loosening as density rises: 25 percent in E-1, 30 percent in R-1, 35 percent in R-1A, 40 percent in R-2 and 50 percent in…

Tables 4.2 and 4.3 cap all uses at 35 feet in E-1 through R-3. R-6 allows 45 feet. Detached accessory buildings may reach the height of the principal structure or 25 feet, whichever is…

Clarksville has adopted the 2017 National Electric Code (NFPA 70) by reference for all electrical work in the city. Section 4-304.5 requires a permit before any wiring change, and…

Clarksville adopted the 2018 International Plumbing Code by reference, effective January 1, 2021, with local amendments to clearance and trap-arm distances. Section 4-503 charges a…

Clarksville has adopted the 2018 International Building Code by reference, effective January 1, 2021, to govern when and how a building permit is required. Section 4-201 folds in…

Clarksville's Property Maintenance Code ties its carbon monoxide rule directly to state law: under Sec. 4-603(b)(10), CO alarms must go in according to the statewide building safety…

Clarksville makes it illegal to possess or drink alcohol, including beer, in any city park or boat dock, including ones the city only patrols or maintains. The single carve-out is a…

Clarksville bars standing in a street, median, alley or sidewalk to solicit or accept money from vehicle occupants while traffic is moving, and separately bars using a sign or device…

Clarksville makes it unlawful to cross a street anywhere except by the shortest route straight across at a right angle to the curb, or inside a marked crosswalk. In the business…

Clarksville's loitering offense is purpose-specific, not a general vagrancy ban. A person is guilty only when remaining in a public place to gamble, engage in or solicit prostitution…

Clarksville prohibits skateboards and roller skates on the streets, sidewalks, or lots of any commercially-zoned property unless the rider carries the property owner's written…

Within the Madison Street Corridor Urban Design Overlay, window signs cannot cover more than 15% of the window area, and lettering is capped at 10 inches tall. The Design Review Board…

Clarksville's sign chapter expressly exempts holiday signs and decorations carrying no commercial message. Lights and yard displays on private property are not regulated as signs, and…

Clarksville requires yard sale holders to register with the building official and confines all advertising to temporary signs inside the yard where the sale is held. Signs on utility…

Tennessee cities cannot ban political signs on private residential property; content-neutral size, setback, and duration rules are allowed under First Amendment limits (Reed v. Town of…

City code makes it unlawful to let a property become filthy or breed rodents, flies, or other vermin to the menace of public health. A companion section lets the city order overgrown…

Clarksville's Property Maintenance Code bars anyone from occupying or renting out a dwelling unit that lacks a kitchen sink, lavatory, tub or shower, flush toilet, working heat, and…

Tennessee's Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act applies in Montgomery County, so no reason is required to end a tenancy, only proper written notice. Month-to-month ends on 30…

Clarksville runs no registration, licensing, or inspection program for long-term rentals. Only short-term rental units need a permit. Substandard conditions are handled after the fact…

In URLTA counties, Tenn. Code 66-28-505 gives a tenant 14 days to cure nonpayment of rent or another remediable breach before the lease terminates. Dangerous or violent conduct allows…

In URLTA counties, a Tennessee landlord must give at least 24 hours' notice before entering to show the unit to prospective tenants in the last 30 days of tenancy, may enter without…

In URLTA counties, Tenn. Code 66-28-201(d) caps any late fee at 10% of the rent past due and requires a five-day grace period before a fee may be charged. If the grace period ends on a…

In URLTA counties, Tenn. Code 66-28-512 lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice before the periodic rental date, and a week-to-week tenancy…

Tennessee has no statewide rent control and no cap on rent increases. Under Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-35-102, no local government may enact, maintain, or enforce an ordinance controlling…

Tennessee sets no statutory cap on security deposits. Under Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-28-301, landlords in counties over 75,000 must hold deposits in a separate account, let the tenant…

Tennessee adverse possession requires 7 years of possession when the claimant holds recorded color of title (Tenn. Code 28-2-101 to -102), or 20 years of open, continuous, hostile…

Clarksville taxes every transient's hotel stay at 2.75 percent of the amount charged, a rate effective since January 1, 2025 under Sec. 6-308, and the code's definition of hotel…

No adult-oriented establishment, bookstore, cabaret, escort service or similar business can open in Clarksville without a license from the adult-oriented establishment board, which…

Any wrecker service operating in Clarksville needs a permit from the chief of police, and non-consent tows off private property are tightly limited: the vehicle must have sat immobile…

Clarksville requires two separate licenses for the massage business: a $35-a-year premises license for the establishment itself and a $20-a-year operator's license for every masseur or…

Every Clarksville pawnbroker has to log the name, age, sex, and address of anyone they take goods from or lend money to, plus a description of the item, under Sec. 5-602, and hand the…

Tennessee regulates vapor product retailers under T.C.A. 39-17-1504 and related statutes, requiring age verification, restricting youth access, and prohibiting sales to those under 21.

Clarksville bars anyone 15 or younger from loitering, wandering, or playing in public streets, parks, or other unsupervised public places between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Minors 16 and…

Clarksville sets no single citywide park closing time. Section 12-506 gives the parks and recreation director authority to set opening and closing hours, posted at each park entrance…

No Clarksville ordinance requires you to clear snow or ice from a public sidewalk. The charter grants that power but the council never used it. Section 12-124 puts sidewalk maintenance…

Clarksville makes every owner or tenant periodically cut grass and weeds, and it is unlawful to ignore a cutting order once growth passes one foot. Overgrown or debris-strewn lots get…

Clarksville did not adopt the International Property Maintenance Code. It wrote its own as Title 4, Chapter 6, and pairs it with a state slum-clearance procedure letting the building…

Clarksville makes it unlawful to throw, place, or scatter objects on city-owned or private property with intent to dispose of them, if doing so clutters the property or lessens its…

Clarksville has no curbside recycling and no ordinance requiring anyone to recycle. Bi-County takes recyclables free at the Dover Road landfill and 17 convenience centers, and unlike…

Clarksville runs no residential garbage route and neither does Montgomery County. Households either pay a private hauler or drive their own waste to a Bi-County convenience center…

The Street Department runs a free spring and fall yard waste pickup on request for city addresses. Furniture, mattresses, and appliances are not part of it; those go to the Bi-County…

Clarksville Code section 8-203 is the only container-storage rule. Between pickups, garbage cans must sit no closer to the street than the front building line of the house. Corner lots…

Clarksville has adopted no dark-sky or night-sky ordinance, no lumen caps, and no color-temperature limits. The one shielding standard sits in Zoning Ordinance 5.10, the site plan…

Clarksville's no-spillover language is real but narrow. Zoning Ordinance 5.10 exempts single-family and two-family dwellings from site plan review, so a neighbor's floodlight falls…

Tennessee treats growing marijuana as manufacturing a controlled substance, a felony at any plant count, and Clarksville adds no local cultivation rule. Growing high-THC hemp at home…

Tennessee runs no medical or adult-use cannabis program, so Clarksville has nothing to zone and its code and zoning ordinance contain no dispensary or cannabis use category…

Food trucks operating in Clarksville need the annual transient vendor permit issued under the peddler chapter, at a non-refundable $165 fee. A Clarksville Fire Rescue life safety…

Clarksville sets no mapped food truck zones. Instead it bars selling from a vehicle in the business district or within 200 feet of a traffic signal, denies peddlers any stationary spot…

The city tree board administers a landmark tree program covering trees of unusual rarity, size, age or historical value. Designation of a privately owned tree requires the owner's…

Clarksville's code contains no drone provision, so commercial operators answer to FAA Part 107 and Tennessee criminal law. Flying within 250 feet of a critical infrastructure facility…

No Clarksville ordinance regulates hobby drones and no park rule names them. Tennessee makes it a Class C misdemeanor to capture an image of a person or private property with intent to…

Tennessee is landlocked, so no coastal program exists. Building near the Cumberland and Red Rivers instead runs through the Floodway Overlay District in Zoning Ordinance 9.2, which…

Clarksville Code section 12-304 requires erosion prevention and sediment controls on land disturbance over one acre, or under an acre when part of a common plan. Grading permits cover…

The City of Clarksville is a Phase II MS4 permittee in its own right under TDEC permit TNS075205, separate from Montgomery County. Title 12, Chapter 3 of the city code implements it…

Section 5-607 caps yard and garage sales at two per year per holder, each no longer than three consecutive days. The building official keeps the record of when and where sales are…

Clarksville's Gas and Water Department will credit a customer's sewer bill for water lost through a leak in the customer's own piping, but only after the leak is fixed and the customer…

Clarksville makes it unlawful to offer, rent, park, or ride any dockless electric scooter, bicycle, or skateboard system within the central business district, along every arterial or…

Tennessee rebuilt this area in 2025. Public Chapter 255 repealed Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-191, the old low speed and medium speed vehicle section, effective April 24, 2025, and folded…

Clarksville runs no do-not-knock registry. A posted sign does the work: ignoring one, or refusing to leave when asked, is a trespass and a civil violation under Section 5-214.

Clarksville requires a peddler's permit for anyone going door to door selling goods or services. Each individual needs their own, it runs one calendar year, and the non-refundable…

Tennessee prohibits local governments from setting minimum wages above the federal floor under T.C.A. 50-2-112, reserving wage authority exclusively to the state.

Tennessee bars local governments from mandating paid sick or family leave on private employers under T.C.A. 50-2-112, leaving leave decisions to employer discretion.

Tennessee preempts local predictive scheduling and fair workweek ordinances under T.C.A. 50-2-112, preventing cities from regulating private employer scheduling practices.

Tennessee allows permitless concealed and open carry for adults 21 and older (or qualified 18-20 year olds) under T.C.A. 39-17-1307 and 1351, with optional enhanced and concealed…

Tennessee law preempts virtually all local regulation of firearms, ammunition, and components, reserving authority exclusively to the state legislature under T.C.A. 39-17-1314.

Open carry of handguns is lawful in Tennessee under permitless carry, but rifles and shotguns are subject to general unlawful-carry rules in T.C.A. 39-17-1307.

Tennessee allows eligible adults to carry handguns openly or concealed in private motor vehicles without a permit under T.C.A. 39-17-1351 and 39-17-1307, preempting stricter local…

Tennessee bans gambling outright, but Title 3, Chapter 17 lets a qualifying 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) nonprofit run one raffle, reverse raffle, cakewalk, cake wheel, or bingo event per…

Tennessee's gambling statute contains no exemption for private, social, or friends-only wagering. Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-17-501(1) defines gambling as risking anything of value on a…

Tennessee has no general homeowners' association assessment statute, so a subdivision HOA's dues, budget, and late fees come from its recorded declaration rather than from state law…

A Tennessee condominium association must hold at least one meeting of the members every year, and notice of any meeting must go out not less than 10 and not more than 60 days in…

Since July 1, 2026 a Tennessee homeowners' association may not prohibit a property owner from installing an electric vehicle charging station for personal use on the owner's own…

Tennessee law voids any homeowners' association covenant or rule that prohibits, or has the effect of prohibiting, a property owner from flying the flag of the United States or an…

Tennessee sets no dollar cap on association fines. The only fining statute in the state is T.C.A. § 66-27-402(a)(11) in the Tennessee Condominium Act of 2008, which lets a unit owners'…

A Tennessee condominium association has an automatic lien on a unit from the moment an assessment or a fine falls due, and T.C.A. § 66-27-415(a)(1) lets it foreclose that lien by…

Tennessee does not cap rentals, set a minimum lease term or fix a vote threshold for adopting a leasing amendment. What it does instead is grandfather you: under T.C.A. § 66-27-703 an…

The Tennessee General Assembly has never passed a checkpoint statute. The phrases sobriety checkpoint and checkpoint return zero results in a full-text search of the Tennessee Code…

Tennessee has never enacted a statute granting a right to record police, and a full-text search of the Tennessee Code turns up no such provision. What it has instead, since July 1…

Tennessee got its first identification statute on July 1, 2025, and it deliberately stops short of a duty to identify. Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-16-611 lets an officer ask for your name…

Tennessee has not legislated on consent to search a vehicle. There is no statutory logging duty, no odor rule, and no clause saying lawful possession of anything cannot justify a…

Tennessee limits local zoning interference with bona fide farm operations under T.C.A. 13-7-114 and Right to Farm protections in T.C.A. 43-26-103, preserving rural land use rights.

Tennessee preempts local plastic bag bans and fees under T.C.A. § 7-51-2002 (enacted 2019), which makes the state the exclusive regulator of auxiliary containers such as bags.

Tennessee does not impose a statewide flavor ban on tobacco or vape products, and local flavor bans are generally preempted by uniform state licensing under Title 39, Chapter 17, Part…

Tennessee allows auxiliary road lighting lamps, but T.C.A. § 55-9-402(a)(2) lets only two of them burn at any one time on top of the two required headlights. Anything that shows to the…

Tennessee is one of the few states whose statute names the windshield as a lawful place to put a device. Section 55-8-199(b)(2)(A) permits a device "mounted on the vehicle's…

Tennessee prohibits lane splitting outright. Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-8-182(c) says no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of…

Tennessee draws a hard line on plate covers. Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-4-110(b) says no tinted materials may be placed over a license plate "even if the information upon the license plate…

A radar detector is legal to own, carry and use in a private passenger vehicle in Tennessee. A full text search of the Tennessee Code returns no provision using the phrase "radar…

Tennessee allows studded tires, but only during a fixed statewide season that runs from October 1 through April 15 each year. Outside that window Tenn. Code Ann. § 55-9-106(a) bans any…

Tennessee sets a single figure for every window on a car: aftermarket film may not drop visible light transmittance below 35 percent, and nothing except the manufacturer's standard…