Spring Hill, TN

No one can operate a short-term rental in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee without first obtaining a short-term rental permit from the city, unless the use existed before the chapter…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, the Development Services Director must revoke a short-term rental permit once the property has three documented warnings, suspensions, or…

Guests at a short-term rental in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee must follow the city's applicable noise restrictions, and the rental's agent must be on the premises within four…

A short-term rental in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee can offer no more than five bedrooms. Maximum occupancy is two persons per bedroom up to 140 square feet, and larger bedrooms…

A short-term rental in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee must provide one off-street parking space per bedroom, located in a garage, carport, driveway, or parking lot. On-street…

An applicant for a short-term rental permit in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee must submit proof of insurance on the dwelling unit with a sworn application to the City Development…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, a host must display the city permit number on any platform used to advertise a short-term rental. Listing a property without a permit, including…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, a short-term rental permit costs $150 to apply for when the unit is owner-occupied and $300 for every other unit. The same amount is due again…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, every short-term rental needs a designated agent, and the owner is the default. The agent must appear on the premises within four hours after the…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, it is unlawful for a property owner or occupant to allow tree limbs on the property to project out over any street, alley or sidewalk at a height…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 13-102(C) fills in the IPMC Section 302.4 height blank with twelve inches. Section 13-102(E) exempts agricultural crops and pastures, portions…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, permitted construction runs Monday through Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. from June 1 to August 30) and Saturday from…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, running a radio, band, amplifier or loudspeaker so it is plainly audible at 50 feet is prima facie evidence of a violation between 10:00 p.m. and…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 11-402(A) declares unnecessary vehicle horn use, exhaust discharged without an effective muffler, and vehicles so out of repair or loaded as to…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, no person can own, keep or harbor a dog that annoys or disturbs the peace and quiet of a neighborhood through loud and frequent barking, whining…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, the noise section sets hours activity by activity. Yelling, shouting, hooting, whistling or singing on public streets or commercial parking lots…

Municipal Code § 11-402(C)(4) of the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee makes it unlawful to operate any aircraft over the city that produces noise levels exceeding 87 dB(A). Aircraft…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, only a portable one-story detached accessory structure used as a tool or storage shed, playhouse or similar use is exempt from a building permit…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, the amended Residential Code exempts from the building permit requirement only fences not over 32 inches high. The exemption is exemption 2 in…

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…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 15-601(C) of the Municipal Code bars parking on any public street or alley within the fire limits between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. On any other…

In residential zones of the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 15-608(A) bars parking a commercial vehicle on a public street between 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. and restricts commercial…

Section 15-604 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code bans parking in front of and opposite a driveway in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and on a sidewalk, within 15 feet of an intersection or…

Section 15-706 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code prohibits storing a non-compliant (inoperable, unlicensed or abandoned) motor vehicle in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee. It sets a…

Section 15-605 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code limits any place the city marks as a loading and unloading zone to a single use: the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers or…

Section 15-608(B) of the Spring Hill Municipal Code bars motor homes, campers, fifth wheels, trailers over 30 feet and other recreational vehicles from parking on any public street in…

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…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, fireworks can be discharged only on July 4 and Christmas Eve from 12:00 noon to 11:00 p.m., on New Year's Eve from 12:00 noon to 12:30 a.m., and…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, open burning is prohibited within the entire city limits except for commercial barbeque fireplaces, fires set for fire training or hazard…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 13-302(E) requires each room in a boarding house or rooming house to have a ceiling at least seven feet high and one working smoke detector…

Homeowners in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee can have fire pits and BBQ pits as long as the pit sits 25 feet from a structure or other combustible material. The allowance covers…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, a plant or place of business that manufactures, distributes or handles liquefied petroleum gas can be built or enlarged only in the commercial…

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

It is unlawful in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee to knowingly permit a dog you own or control to run at large within the corporate limits. A loose dog can be impounded: the owner…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, it is unlawful to knowingly or negligently let a cat run at large in any street, alley or unenclosed lot within the corporate limits. Section…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, keeping chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys or livestock within 1,000 feet of any residence, place of business or public street requires a permit…

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 classifies wild animals into five classes under TWRA rules and prohibits private possession of Class I species like big cats and great apes statewide, regardless of city…

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.

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 licenses family child care homes (up to seven children) and group homes (eight to twelve) through the Department of Human Services under T.C.A. § 71-3-501 et seq. A DHS…

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…

Tennessee Department of Health regulates public swimming pools statewide under the Public Swimming Pool Inspection Act (T.C.A. § 68-14-301 et seq.) and Rule 1200-23-05, requiring…

Section 16-101 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code bars anyone in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee from using or occupying a public street, alley, sidewalk or right-of-way to store…

Section 16-110 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code makes it unlawful for a club, organization or similar group in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee to hold a meeting, parade…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, a festival or fair that closes a street must provide its own barricades, trash removal and sanitary facilities. Section 16-305 of the Spring Hill…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, a block party that closes a street needs a special event permit from the City Administrator under § 16-302 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code. A…

The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee adopts the International Plumbing Code, 2018 edition, for plumbing connected to the municipal water or sewerage system. The Building Inspector…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, building and plumbing permit fees pay for the first inspection of each major phase of construction. The first re-inspection on a permit is free…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, Residential Code § 12-402 exempts HVAC unit replacement, decks not exceeding 9 square feet and not more than 30 inches above grade, and roof…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, an automatic fire sprinkler system is required throughout every new or remodeled multi-family residential structure from a duplex up, every…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 11-401 bars disturbing the peace of others by violent, tumultuous, offensive or obstreperous conduct, and it also bars knowingly permitting…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, it is unlawful to drink or consume beer or intoxicating liquor, or to have an open container of either, on any public street, alley, avenue…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, Municipal Code § 11-805 states that it is unlawful to smoke or vape in city parks. The ban is a flat prohibition with no hours, zones or…

Section 9-305 bans panhandling in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee from one-half hour before sunset to one-half hour before sunrise, at bus stops, in parked vehicles on public…

Spring Hill's code uses no word jaywalking. Section 15-108 makes it unlawful for any pedestrian in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee to violate a traffic-control sign, signal, marking…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, every developed property outside the exempt classes pays a monthly storm water user fee measured in equivalent residential units of 3,412 square…

Tennessee's Water Quality Control Act and TDEC rules require erosion and sediment controls on regulated construction sites, with state inspectors empowered to enforce requirements…

The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee adopts the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code to regulate unsafe or unsanitary structures, including condemnation of buildings unfit for…

Section 13-103 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code requires lots, tracts and parcels of land in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee to be maintained, and makes it unlawful to let stagnant…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, the city's contractor provides curbside residential refuse collection one time per week to each residential unit, and carts must be at the curb…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, commercial refuse containers must be covered, strong, durable and rodent and insect proof under § 17-103. If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen does…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 17-204(C) names six refuse collection holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, containers go at curbside, as close to the roadway as practicable without interfering with vehicles or pedestrians, under § 17-203(C). After the…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, Municipal Code § 17-107 expressly prohibits disposing of refuse in any quantity, by any person, in any place public or private, other than the…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, the city's refuse contractor must provide special collection of bulky waste, construction debris and stable matter from residential units, under…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, the city's contractor collects residential refuse curbside once per week under § 17-203, with carts at the curb by 7:00 a.m. on the designated…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, tree, shrub and brush trimmings go to the curb as a bundle, securely tied and not longer than three feet or heavier than 35 pounds. Grass…

Tennessee sets a statewide goal to cut per-capita municipal solid waste sent to landfills and incinerators by 25 percent, enforced against each of the state's municipal solid waste…

Every permitted short-term rental in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee must be inspected yearly through the application and renewal process, and inspections can become more frequent…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, a minor 16 or under cannot remain in a public place from 10:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday or from 11:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Friday…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, Municipal Code § 11-402(A)(9) bars loud and excessive noise made loading or unloading any vehicle or dumpster, and it singles out the hours…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, § 11-402(C)(2) caps sound projected from one property into another by octave band. For the band below 75 cycles per second, Table I prints 65 for…

The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee does not print an air conditioner noise rule. Municipal Code § 11-402(A)(16) prohibits operating a noise-creating blower or power fan unless it is…

The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee names portable generators in only one place: continual use where the electric utility will connect temporary power service counts as construction…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, Municipal Code § 11-402(C)(3) makes it unlawful to sustain an amplitude of 95 dB(A) or more for more than 30 seconds inside any enclosed place of…

Spring Hill's code does not name car alarms. Its noise standard in § 11-402(A)(1) prohibits sounding any horn or signaling device on a vehicle on a street or public place except as a…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, the customer maintains the piping on his or her property at his or her own expense under § 18-121(A), while the city repairs the lateral between…

The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee holds all property, rentals included, to the 2006 International Property Maintenance Code, adopted by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen in § 13-101 to…

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's Short-Term Rental Unit Act limits how local governments can regulate vacation rentals and grandfathers properties operating before local bans took effect.

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…

Section 15-122 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code holds every bicycle rider in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, to the traffic ordinances that apply to drivers of other vehicles…

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…

The property code violations spelled out in § 13-103 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code are unmanaged dead animals, stagnant water, smoke and soot, unpermitted house trailers and…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, no peddler, canvasser, solicitor or transient merchant can work within the corporate limits without a permit under Title 9, Chapter 2. Applicants…

Tennessee enforces solicitation refusal at private residences through trespass law, allowing posted no-soliciting signs to create criminal liability for non-compliant door-to-door…

Section 17-103 of the Spring Hill Municipal Code requires every owner, occupant or other responsible person at premises where refuse accumulates to provide and keep covered an adequate…

In the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee, a permitted peddler cannot hold a stationary location in the public streets or work a congested area where the operation would impede or…

Tennessee Department of Health regulates mobile food units statewide through Rule 1200-23-01, requiring food service permits, commissary agreements, and inspections that cities cannot…

No adult entertainment establishment can operate in the City of Spring Hill, Tennessee without a license from the City of Spring Hill Adult Entertainment Licensing Board, whose nine…

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.

The City of Spring Hill, Tennessee levies a 4% privilege tax on the consideration charged by the operator of any hotel, and the code defines hotel to include short-term rental units…

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 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 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…

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 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…

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…