41-22-125 - Manufacture of license plates and similar articles.

41-22-125. Manufacture of license plates and similar articles.

(a)  The Tennessee rehabilitative initiative in correction (TRICOR) board is authorized and empowered to manufacture numbered motor vehicle registration plates, highway and street signs, and other kindred articles for the purpose of supplying the requirements of the state as hereinafter provided, and to sell to other cities, counties and states when deemed advisable by the board.

(b)  The necessary machinery and equipment shall be purchased, as all other supplies are purchased, so as to properly equip the plant, and the number of inmates necessary to operate the plant shall be employed.

[Acts 1923, ch. 94, §§ 1, 2; Shan. Supp., § 7581a27; Code 1932, § 12208; Acts 1972, ch. 701, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 41-427, 41-428; Acts 1994, ch. 737, § 20; 1996, ch. 564, § 2.]