City claims authority to regulate vehicles for hire
A bus subject to city regulation passes in front of the Realto theater in 1935. The city charter gives the corporation power to tax for-profit vehicles for hire — and boldly claims the power to impose a tax on private “pleasure” cars. (Photo Chattanooga History Center, Picnooga) Transportation administrative notice is supported from an another […]
Might we work together, dear reverend, to abolish this roadside human trafficking?
God’s people at Greater Friendship Primitive Baptist Church in Glenwood and others in Chattanooga have an interest to work toward ending a police oppression upon the people through the state’s commercial transportation statute. (Photo Google) The following is a thank you letter to a Christian minister who has just given me an hour to discuss […]
Notice to Hammond: Reform required even though Haslam, judges, legislators opposed
Sheriff Jim Hammond talks with Greg Luther, left, at a 2014 political event. Mr. Luther is defending the right of citizenry to photograph department officers in any public place. (Photo David Tulis) The following is a letter sent to Jim Hammond, sheriff of Hamilton County, Tenn., regarding an interview about the laws he is charged […]
Dayton mayor Louallen debates journalist on limits of police authority
David Tulis gives a transportation administrative notice Feb. 23, 2018, to Gary Louallen, mayor of Dayton, Tenn., a town in which a few people use the public roadway without state permit but face arrest or citation is stopped. (Photo Facebook) Dayton is the seat of Rhea County, Tenn., where a courthouse stands as a tourist […]
Hammond gets help on key question: Does travel = transportation?
Sheriff Jim Hammond, the most powerful man in Hamilton County, Tenn, declines to answer questions about the scope of authority of the driver license law, but indicates his belief that no one can be on the road without a license, even if that person is non-commercial. (Photo David Tulis) Sheriff Jim Hammond declines to answer […]
How Berke could win all sides by restraining cops, ordering ’open’ city
Mayor Andy Berke speaks with members of the audience at a campaign debate at UTC in 2017. (Photo David Tulis) I realize it will take a while for the policy and political implications of transportation administrative notice to take effect. For busy men such as Mayor Andy Berke and city attorney Wade Hinton, it will […]
Transportation administrative notice Tennessee
Chattanooga police officers in two cruisers enforce Title 55 of the Tennessee Code Annotated against a man on state highway 153 who is, by rebuttable presumption, a driver and an operator of a motor vehicle — but who may just be a private traveler caught in a legal snare set up by local officials in […]
Journalist gives city administrative notice on limits to police power
Police officers in Chattanooga conduct a transportation stop against a traveler who, under legal presumption only, is involved in transportation. (Photo David Tulis) David Tulis in Chattanooga city council chambers after giving the corporation administrative notice about the limits of police authority to enforce transportation law on all users of the public right of way. […]
Why travel by blacks allowed, but only under license
Roger Taney, the supreme court justice whose Dred Scott opinion shored up black chattel slavery. Black people aren’t free to travel the highways, lanes and roads of Tennessee, according to state government and its rows of officials and officers. By David Tulis / NoogaRadio 92.7 They are told they cannot be on the open road […]
How Tennesseans could throw off shackles of police state imposed on highways
Deputy Mark Kimsey of the Hamilton County sheriff’s department might have less enforcing to do against innocent travelers if Tennessee took up a reform proposed in New Hampshire that explicitly separates private automotive travel from for-profit and commercial uses of the public right of way. (Photo Facebook) A bill in the general assembly of New […]