55-8-168 - Following fire apparatus prohibited Penalty.
55-8-168. Following fire apparatus prohibited Penalty.
(a) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm closer than five hundred feet (500¢) or park the vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
(b) A violation of this section is a Class C misdemeanor.
[Acts 1955, ch. 329, § 68; T.C.A., § 59-869; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]