Nashville, TN

Metro Nashville's Fire Prevention Code requires smoke alarms in every bedroom, in the hallway outside sleeping areas, and on each story of homes, apartments, hotels, and dorms…

Metro Nashville regulates residential propane storage through the 2024 edition of NFPA 58, adopted wholesale into the Metro Code, with no separate local storage-distance or tank-size…

Metro Nashville bans selling, possessing for sale, or using any fireworks anywhere in Davidson County, unless the fire marshal issues a permit for a supervised public display.

Metro Nashville allows small recreational fires and outdoor fireplaces countywide, but recreational fires need a 25-foot setback from structures and a fire marshal permit.

Open burning of brush, leaves, and yard waste is prohibited in Davidson County under an EPA regulation in effect since the 1980s. Metro Nashville does not issue burn permits for…

Tennessee Division of Forestry has statewide authority over wildfire prevention, declares hazard seasons, and may issue burn bans during drought conditions affecting all residents.

Metro Nashville makes it unlawful to kill or attempt to kill any bird, game or nongame, except English sparrows, or squirrels in public parks and cemeteries under Metropolitan Code of…

Metro Nashville requires a $50 certificate from the health department to possess wildlife like Class I or IV species, pumas, cougars, or wolves, but animal rehabilitation centers…

Metro Nashville's home-occupation rules expressly exclude animal grooming activities, so a pet groomer cannot run a grooming business out of a house or accessory building, even by…

Metro Nashville pet stores can only sell dogs and cats obtained from an animal care facility or a nonprofit rescue, never from a breeder or broker, and no animal under eight weeks old…

Metro Nashville bars keeping more than five companion animals if their owner shows general disregard for their conditions, denying food, water, shelter, or care.

Nashville doesn't require pet owners to microchip their animals. Metro Animal Control can implant a microchip in any impounded dog before release, billed to the owner, and Metro…

Metro Nashville requires owned cats over six months to be rabies-vaccinated and licensed through the Health Department, but community cats fed by neighborhood caregivers are exempt…

Metro Nashville caps veterinary clinics at 4,000 square feet of building footprint and requires outdoor exercise yards to be fully fenced, used only 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and buffered from…

Metro Nashville does not ban specific dog breeds: a dog becomes "vicious" under Metropolitan Code Chapter 8.08 only after it bites, seriously injures, or kills without provocation, or…

Metro Nashville bars letting any dog or other animal run at large; owners must keep it on their own property or physically restrain it off-premises, with fines starting at $50 per…

Metro Nashville requires a $25 annual permit from the department of health to keep domesticated hens outside agricultural-zoned land, and a separate livestock permit for cattle, sheep…

Metro Nashville courts must order pet sterilization after a second cruelty or companion-animal-hoarding conviction, not a blanket citywide spay/neuter law.

Metro Nashville bans keeping wildlife, Class I and IV species plus pumas, cougars, cheetahs and wolves, as pets without a $50 certificate approved by the Metro Council; the ban does…

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…

Nashville allows natural landscaping in place of a mowed lawn only if the design is filed with and approved by the beautification commission horticulturalist and Metro's chief traffic…

Metro Nashville caps weeds and grass at 12 inches on any property; taller growth is a public nuisance enforced by the Department of Codes Administration, with notice, fines, and a lien…

Removing a retained, protected, or heritage tree in Metro Nashville requires a zoning administrator permit backed by a tree survey, and approval hinges on meeting one of eight specific…

Metro Nashville bans any tree, hedge, or bush inside a public street right-of-way, and bars them within 25 feet of intersections above 30 inches tall, whenever they block driver sight…

Metro Water Services' director can ban outdoor sprinkling with hose or wagon anytime the water system's condition makes it necessary for public safety, publishing the order in a local…

Metro's citywide noise ordinance does not cover aircraft or airport operations. Title 9 expressly exempts airport uses from every decibel and hour limit it sets.

Metro Nashville caps overnight noise from business equipment, vehicles, and heavy machinery at 70 Db(A) near residential structures, rising to an 85 Db(A) ceiling for facilities in the…

Metro Nashville bans sound amplification equipment audible from a neighbor's property line, but downtown's DTC district follows numeric decibel limits instead.

Metro Nashville bars business and commercial noise above 70 Db(A) near homes between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., with a relaxed 85 Db(A) limit inside downtown DTC/CF zoning districts.

Metro Nashville bans loud mufflers, cut-out exhaust and car stereos audible 50+ feet from the vehicle or 200+ feet for exhaust noise.

Metro Nashville bans keeping any dog, bird, or animal whose frequent or loud continued noise disturbs neighbors' comfort: a violation is a public nuisance enforceable by court…

Metro Nashville bans outdoor construction, repair, or demolition work between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. citywide (except on IWD, IR, and IG zoned parcels), tightening to 8:00 p.m.-6:00…

Metro Nashville splits home daycare by headcount: 5-7 kids is a small day care home needing conditions review, 8-12 is a large one needing a special exception from the Board of Zoning…

Metro Nashville requires a zoning permit for home businesses that see customers or employ a non-resident worker, capping floor area, employee count, and customer visits under…

Metro Nashville bans exterior signage entirely for home occupations: any sign, product display, or exterior clue that a dwelling is used for business voids the residential character…

Metro Nashville caps home-business customer visits to three per hour and six per day, allowed only by scheduled appointment between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

Tennessee runs one of the loosest cottage food regimes in the country. The Tennessee Food Freedom Act, T.C.A. § 53-1-118, exempts homemade food items from state licensing, permitting…

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…

Metro Nashville treats a painted curb the same as a posted sign: Section 12.40.020 requires the Department of Public Works to paint curbs or the street surface wherever parking is…

Metro Codes Administration can tag, tow and demolish an abandoned vehicle left on public streets, alleys or thoroughfares in Nashville and Davidson County.

Metro Nashville's traffic and parking commission runs a curb loading zone management program that can reserve specially designated curb loading zones for permitted, fee-paying users…

Metro Nashville bans parking, stopping, or standing large commercial or heavy-duty vehicles in the public right-of-way without an NDOT permit, and bars overnight parking outright.

Metro Code Chapter 6.80 puts nonconsent towing in Nashville under the Metropolitan Transportation Licensing Commission: a wrecker may pull a car off private property only with the…

Metro Nashville lets residents petition the Traffic and Parking Commission to create Residential Permit Parking (RPP) areas, exempting resident vehicles with a $10 annual permit from…

Metro Nashville requires vehicles parked on private property to sit on a paved or graveled surface, not grass or dirt, and caps that paved parking area at 25% of an unimproved…

Metro Nashville bars stopping or parking on sidewalks, in intersections, or within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, and bans standing in front of any driveway, even briefly, under the Metro…

Metro Nashville bans front-yard storage of trailers and watercraft on single-family and two-family lots: they must sit on a paved or graveled driveway or behind the home's front facade.

Metro Nashville prohibits overnight parking, stopping, or standing by large vehicles, USDOT Class 4 and up, including box trucks, semi-trailers and dump trucks, anywhere in the public…

In Metro Nashville parking lots with 10 or more spaces, marked EV charging spaces are reserved for plug-in electric vehicles only, backed by a $50 fine.

Nashville requires STRP permit applicants to submit proof of homeowner's fire, hazard, and liability insurance, with liability coverage of at least $1 million per occurrence.

Metro Nashville can revoke a short-term rental permit once the zoning administrator finds three violations of the Metro Code tied to that unit's operation.

Metro Nashville caps short-term rental occupancy at twice the number of sleeping rooms plus four, posted inside the unit, with separate-party subletting banned and violations grounds…

Metro Nashville's owner-occupied short-term rental permit requires the owner to occupy the property as their primary residence, verified by four documents, or the application can be…

Nashville requires every short-term rental permit holder to collect and remit all room, occupancy, and sales taxes owed under state law or the Metropolitan Code, plus pay a renewal fee…

Nashville doesn't write STR-specific decibel limits: permitted short-term rentals must follow the same citywide noise and public-peace ordinances as any resident, per Metro Code §…

Metro Nashville requires an STRP permit from the Department of Codes Administration before operating or advertising a short-term rental; applications stay valid for 90 days and must be…

Short-term rental properties in Metro Nashville must provide parking as required by the zoning code's off-street parking standards, and no RVs, buses, or trailers may be visible on the…

Metro requires detached ADUs be owner-occupied and capped at 700-850 square feet by lot size, permitted only in the Urban Services District, a DADU overlay in the General Services…

Metro Nashville caps rear-yard accessory buildings under 40,000-square-foot lots at 850 square feet (or half the house's footprint, whichever is larger) and never more than 2,500…

Metro Nashville limits each lot to one detached accessory dwelling unit, requires it to share ownership with the principal house, and mandates that one of the two dwellings be…

Metro Nashville bars newly built or converted detached accessory dwelling units on single-family, RN-, or RL-zoned lots from operating as owner-occupied short-term rentals under the…

Metro Nashville allows tiny homes only as Detached Accessory Dwelling Units (DADUs) on a permanent foundation, capped at 700 sq ft (or 850 sq ft on lots 10,000+ sf), and only in the…

Converting an attached garage or detached garage to living space in Nashville requires a building permit. Converting a detached garage to a DADU requires a contractor permit and…

Metro Nashville requires a codes-administration permit to erect an above-ground pool, and the pool must sit at least three feet from the side property line under the zoning setback…

Metro's Property Standards Code requires any gate the Building Code already mandates be self-closing and self-latching, pool barrier gates included, to actually work: closing and…

Nashville's Metro Code has no minimum setback requirement from a neighboring property line for fences. There is no boundary fence law requiring cost-sharing. Disputes are private…

Metro Nashville limits fences to specific materials, chain link, wrought iron, wood/vinyl/metal slats, masonry, treated synthetic, or decorative split rail, under the property…

Metro Nashville requires retaining walls that stabilize graded slopes on multifamily hillside development to be screened with a landscape buffer yard: the zoning code sets no blanket…

Nashville allows privacy fences up to 6 feet in side and rear yards and up to 8 feet on the side or rear of the principal structure. No building permit is currently required for…

Nashville does not currently require building permits for fence construction. Fences must comply with zoning height and setback requirements. Solid fences in front setbacks have…

Metro Nashville requires a yearly NDOT permit before any restaurant can set up permanent sidewalk cafe dining in the public right-of-way, with a $100 application fee plus an annual…

Metro Nashville requires a one-year NDOT permit before anyone installs a parklet or streatery in a street parking stall, with a $150 nonrefundable fee and mandatory neighbor support…

Metro Nashville requires a parade permit from the police chief filed at least six days ahead, with recreational parades needing liability insurance and security.

Metro Nashville requires a permit from the Mayor's Office of Film and Special Events for any commercial filming that uses public property or the right-of-way, and filming permits can…

Metro Nashville requires a special event permit for any street fair or festival on public property, with a $230 permit fee plus administrative fees for right-of-way use, filed 45 days…

Metro Nashville requires a special event permit before closing a street for a block party expected to draw more than 75 people, issued by the mayor's office of film and special events.

Metro Nashville requires a Board of Parks and Recreation permit before holding any meeting, ceremony, speech, or organized gathering in a park, with permits denied only for…

Commercial door-to-door solicitors must get a permit and photo ID badge from the Metro Clerk, pass a criminal background check, and pay a nonrefundable fee before knocking on doors…

Residents can add their address to Metro Nashville's no-solicitation list, banning door-to-door commercial sales for two years, and all commercial solicitors need a clerk-issued permit…

Private-property nonconsent towing in Nashville and Davidson County is capped at $155 for vehicles under 7,000 pounds, with storage limited to $40 per day and no fee for the first two…

Metro Nashville's zoning code bars auto repair as a home occupation outright: repairing automobiles or other transportation equipment from your house is never a permitted home…

Metro requires a board-issued license before any sexually oriented business opens, and zoning confines these uses to an adult entertainment overlay district set back 500 feet from…

Metro's age-restricted-venue vaping ban carves out retail vapor product stores, shops that draw their largest sales category from vapor products and accessories, along with retail…

Metro Nashville requires pawnbrokers, secondhand dealers, and junk dealers to hold every item purchased for 15 days before resale, keep a police-inspectable register of each…

Metro Nashville requires a license before anyone can operate a pawnbroking business, plus a police-inspected register of every item taken in pawn and, in the urban services district…

Metro Nashville bans aggressive panhandling, blocking, touching, or persisting after someone says no, and prohibits all panhandling near ATMs, bus stops, sidewalk cafes, and building…

Metro Nashville treats possession of up to a half-ounce of marijuana as a civil offense: police issue a $50 citation instead of an arrest, with community service available in lieu of…

Metro Nashville bans carrying an unsealed beer, wine, or liquor container on streets, sidewalks, alleys, and parking areas, with exceptions for enclosed structures and licensed bars or…

Smoking is banned on the grounds of all Metro-owned playgrounds and outdoor amphitheaters seating 6,000 or more, plus non-enclosed public areas where smoke can drift into a government…

Metro Nashville pedestrians must yield to traffic when crossing outside a marked crosswalk, and between signalized intersections they must cross only within a marked crosswalk.

Metro Nashville's code bans loitering, idling, wandering, strolling or playing in, about or on any school, college or seminary grounds or buildings without lawful business there, on…

Metro Nashville requires an electrical permit from the Department of Codes Administration before installing, connecting, or altering any electrical system, wired under the 2023…

Any plumbing installation, repair, or connection to a sewer or septic system in Metro Nashville and Davidson County requires a permit from the department of codes administration before…

Metro Nashville building permits require staged inspections, foundation, frame, mechanical rough-in and final, before work may continue past each point or a certificate of occupancy…

Metro Nashville can adopt a Two-Story Residential Overlay in single-family neighborhoods that caps new principal structures at two stories and 35 feet to curb out-of-scale rebuilds.

Metro Nashville issues an optional "green permit" on top of the standard certificate of occupancy for buildings that earn LEED or EarthCraft House sustainable design certification.

Metro's fire code amendment bars any modification to listed panic hardware, fire door hardware, or door closers on classroom lockdown doors in schools, and requires each locked door to…

Metro Nashville amended the residential code so townhouses are exempt from automatic fire sprinkler systems, unlike the model code default.

Metro Nashville requires an operational fire permit to run any daycare facility, issued under the Metropolitan Fire Prevention Code's 2024 International Fire Code amendments.

Metro's property standards code requires elevators, escalators and dumbwaiters to stay safe and operational, with a current inspection certificate posted or on file, and at least one…

Metro Nashville requires a building permit for altering, repairing, or enlarging an existing structure, but exempts normal maintenance work, painting, papering, glazing, and floor…

In Nashville's urban services district, property owners must keep the sidewalk along their property free of dangerous holes and hazards, per Metropolitan Code Section 13.32.030.

Metro Nashville bans leaving rocks, lumber, abandoned property or other obstructions on any sidewalk, street or public right-of-way; police, fire and NDOT officers can remove and…

Nashville requires a permit before installing any aerial cable, canopy, sign, or other structure that crosses over or across a sidewalk or public right-of-way, with violators barred…

Metro Water Services gives a one-time bill credit for concealed leaks, but only if the customer repairs the leak and stops using water once notified of it.

Codes Administration inspects a rental unit once a complaint is filed with the department, under the Property Standards Code covering all of Metro Nashville and Davidson County.

Metro Nashville requires all landlords to register rental units with the Department of Codes Administration for $10 a year, while physical inspections apply only inside 14 designated…

Metro Nashville regulates valet trash and recycling pickup in apartment buildings by adopting the International Fire Code's Appendix O into its Fire Prevention Code, giving…

Metro Nashville picks up garbage and recyclables once a week from one- and two-family homes in the Urban Services District, with containers capped at 50 pounds and placed curbside only…

Metro Nashville bans emptying dumpsters near homes from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. and requires non-metal lids plus a one-inch owner label within 300 feet of residences.

Metro Water Services picks up garbage and recyclables once a week for homes and apartments, but only inside the Urban Services District. GSD residents arrange their own private hauler.

Metro Nashville bans dumping waste anywhere but an approved disposal facility or into someone else's private receptacle without permission, with fines running per day the violation…

Metro Nashville has no curbside pickup for furniture, appliances or tires: residents haul bulky waste to a Waste Services convenience center and pay a per-load fee set by ordinance…

Metro Nashville bans yard waste from garbage containers and only picks it up as curbside brush stockpiles under the Department of Public Works' brush collection service, per…

Metro Nashville bans corrugated cardboard and electronics from trash containers, and every licensed waste hauler must offer curbside recycling service under the city's waste management…

Metro Nashville requires every premises to keep lidded, director-approved containers for garbage and recyclables, set out only in a fixed evening window before collection.

Metro Nashville limits curbside garbage and recycling containers to a set window, 7 p.m. the night before collection to 7 p.m. on collection day, under Metropolitan Code of Laws §…

Metro Nashville exempts temporary storefront window displays from sign permitting only if they're unaffixed to the glass, non-illuminated, and cover no more than 25% of the window's…

Metro Nashville's sign code exempts holiday lights and decorations entirely from sign regulation, with no permit, size cap, or seasonal timing limit: unlike election or event signs…

Businesses fronting a controlled-access highway in Metro Nashville may add one extra ground sign per 1,000 feet of highway frontage, spaced at least 1,000 feet apart, under the Metro…

Digital billboards in Metro Nashville must sit at least 2,000 feet apart along the roadway, are confined to CL, CS, CF, IWD, IR and IG zoning districts, and each message must hold…

Metro Nashville bans posting political campaign signs on telephone and light poles across the general services district, and bars posting them on or within 200 feet of any polling…

Metro Nashville exempts yard-sale signs up to six square feet, one per lot, from sign permits -- but you must post them no sooner than four days before the sale and take them down…

Metro Nashville has no sit-lie ordinance banning people from simply sitting or lying on a sidewalk. Metropolitan Code § 13.08.040(B)(1) instead bars obstructing any public…

Metro Nashville requires business buildings to be ratproofed and bans letting garbage or trash pile up if it could feed or shelter rats, enforced by the Health Department's chief…

Metro Nashville requires physician's clinics, dental offices, blood banks and medical labs to separate needles from syringes, breaking them off at the hub, and seal pathological waste…

Metro Nashville grants developers up to a 25% density or floor-area bonus in a Planned Unit Development in exchange for dedicating land for public use, such as parks, schools, or…

Metro Nashville adopted the Downtown Code (DTC), a separate development-standards document that sets building placement, height, and design rules for the DTC zoning district and…

Metro Nashville requires a director-approved license before you can photograph on government-owned property, with fees set case-by-case and sign-off from the property's board, the…

Metro Nashville's mayor's office of film and special events can close streets for an approved filming or special event with police and public works sign-off, but closures lasting more…

Metro Nashville requires all outdoor lighting, including residential security floodlights, to be full cutoff and shielded so light stays on the property, capping spill at adjacent…

Metro Nashville caps billboard brightness at 200 foot-lamberts for internally lit signs or 75 footcandles for indirect lighting, and requires billboards within 500 feet of residential…

Metro Nashville requires full cutoff outdoor light fixtures and lets commercial developers meet International Dark-Sky Association model lighting standards instead of the code's own…

Metro Nashville designates AG and AR2a agricultural zoning districts to preserve rural and environmentally constrained land, permitting only very low-density development on…

Metro Nashville's noise code defines "plainly audible" to expressly include bass reverberation, so a car stereo or party speaker violates the law once the bass alone can be heard off…

Downtown bars and nightclubs are capped at 85 Db(A) measured 50 feet from the building during business hours, dropping to 70 Db(A) after hours; live music is exempt from the cap, but…

Metro Nashville requires council approval before installing license plate readers in the public right-of-way, caps LPR data retention at ten days, and bars police from using…

Metro Nashville's voluntary 'donor camera' program lets residents share security footage with MNPD, but the ordinance bars police from accessing any residential camera feed that views…

Metro Nashville bars its police-linked community safety camera network from identifying people via facial recognition and bars license plate readers from having facial-recognition…

Metro doesn't require a permit for a home security camera, but MNPD's donor-camera program only pulls footage from participating private cameras, and it's barred from residential-only…

Metro Code § 12.60.135 bars driving, turning through, or parking in a bicycle lane, and requires motorists to yield to cyclists riding in one.

Metro Nashville caps shared scooter operators through a Transportation Licensing Commission RFP process: no new permits or fleet expansions may be issued until an RFP selects…

Metro Nashville has no TNC-specific curb law. Uber and Lyft pickups fall under the general passenger curb loading zone rule, capped at the posted time limit and enforceable citywide.

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…

Where Metro has adopted a street tree and streetscape plan for an area, new development must plant right-of-way trees per the Metro Nashville Street Tree Specifications, and the…

Metro requires residential subdivisions and multifamily projects on land with a designated Cedar Glade environment to make reasonable efforts to preserve it, using the conservation…

Metro Nashville designates heritage trees by trunk diameter thresholds, 24 inches for oak, maple and poplar, down to 8 inches for dogwood and holly, or registration in the…

Metro Nashville's fire code bans hibachis, grills, smokers, and other open-flame cooking devices on balconies or within 10 feet of any structure at apartments, condos, and other…

Metro Nashville bans hibachis, grills, and other open-flame cooking devices on balconies, under overhangs, or within 10 feet of any building for apartments and other multifamily…

Metro Nashville caps most single-family and two-family homes at 24 feet to the eave and 35 feet to the roof ridge, with flat 3-story caps in large-lot districts and inside the…

Rear and side yard setbacks for single- and two-family homes in Metro Nashville run from 20 feet in the largest AG and RS80 zones down to 3 feet in the densest RS3.75 zone, per the…

Metro Nashville caps how much of a single-family or two-family lot a house can cover, from 20% in the largest-lot AG and RS80 districts up to 60% in RS3.75 and higher-density zones.

Landlords with one or more dwelling units in Nashville and Davidson County must register with the department of codes administration or face a $50-per-week fine.

Metro Nashville landlords must keep rental units safe, clean, and sanitary under Metro Code § 16.24.310, and must supply heat maintaining 65°F from October 1 to April 30 under §…

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…

Metro's Department of Codes Administration can order owners of dwellings unfit for habitation to repair, vacate, or demolish them under Metropolitan Code of Laws § 16.24.590, following…

Metro Nashville bars excessive vegetation and debris on any lot, occupied or vacant; weeds over twelve inches violate the code, and Codes Administration enforces it by notice, cleanup…

Metro Nashville requires an engineer-prepared grading and drainage plan, reviewed and approved by Water and Sewerage Services, before grading, excavation, or building permits are…

Metro Nashville charges a monthly stormwater utility fee on every parcel based on impervious surface area, funding drainage and flood control across the General Services District.

Metro Nashville's zoning code lists 'boat dock (commercial)' as a permitted use only in downtown, industrial, and select mixed-use districts, requiring one parking space per slip or…

Metro Nashville requires new structures in the floodplain to elevate the lowest floor at least four feet above base flood elevation for residential use, one foot for non-residential…

Metro Nashville bans new structures in the floodway under Metropolitan Code § 15.64.170, and requires floodplain construction to sit at least four feet above the base flood elevation.

Selling food from a truck parked in Metro Nashville's public rights-of-way requires a truck vending permit from NDOT under the Metro Code's dedicated truck vending permit program, with…

Metro Nashville confines licensed street vending to downtown's DTC and CF zoning districts, carving out no-vending pockets around Union Street, Symphony Place and the pedestrian…

Nashville bans pushcarts, wagons and vending stands on public property and rights-of-way unless the vendor holds a Davidson County Clerk or NDOT permit and sells inside the approved…

Metro Nashville's zoning code bars tree of heaven from landscape buffers required around telecommunications facilities, one of fifteen invasive or nuisance species excluded from that…

Metro Nashville's zoning code bars invasive exotic pest plants from being planted or credited toward required landscaping, buffers, or tree density, per Metropolitan Code of Laws §…

Metro Nashville charges a 6% hotel occupancy privilege tax on transient stays under 30 days, plus a $2.50 per-room convention center surcharge, collected by the Department of Finance.

Metro Nashville has no solar-specific ordinance. Installing panels requires a standard electrical permit before hookup, plus a building permit for the roof or ground mount, both from…

Tennessee has no solar-access law overriding HOA covenants, so a homeowners association may restrict or prohibit rooftop solar panels. The Solar Access Law of 1979 (T.C.A. § 66-9-201…

Metro Nashville parks close at 11 p.m. and reopen a half hour before sunrise; entering or remaining without board permission violates the parks and recreation code across Davidson…

Metro Nashville prohibits anyone 17 or younger from public places without a parent from 11 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and midnight Friday-Saturday during the school year, midnight nightly in…

Metro Nashville caps garage sales at two events per calendar year per residence, each lasting one to three days, under Metropolitan Code of Laws § 17.16.250.C.3.

Report a suspected property-standards violation, an unsafe, unsanitary, or dilapidated building or premises, by filing a complaint with Metro's Department of Codes Administration…

Because Tennessee prohibits marijuana sale and distribution, no recreational or full medical dispensaries may legally operate, and municipalities cannot authorize dispensary land uses…

Tennessee prohibits all marijuana cultivation, possession, and personal use under Tenn. Code Title 39 Chapter 17, leaving no authority for municipalities to legalize home growing.

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 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…