Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-108 (2026)
Cooperation by department with federal government in designating roads, and in erection of danger signals and safety devices
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a)
- (1) The department has full power, and it is made its duty, acting through its commissioner, to cooperate with the federal government in formulating and adopting a uniform system of numbering or designating roads of interstate character within this state, and in the selection and erection of uniform danger signals and safety devices for the protection and direction of traffic on those highways.
- (2) The department is empowered to expend out of the funds of the department any and all amounts necessary in the carrying out of this section.
- (b) The department has full power, and it is made its duty, acting through its commissioner, to formulate and adopt a manual for the design and location of signs, signals, markings, and for posting of traffic regulations on or along all streets and highways in Tennessee, and no signs, signals, markings or postings of traffic regulations shall be located on any street or highway in the state regardless of type or class of the governmental agency having jurisdiction of the streets and highways, except in conformity with the provisions contained in the manual.
Acts 1925, ch. 52, §§ 1, 2; Shan. Supp., §§ 1720a7b28, 1720a7b29; Code 1932, §§ 3187, 3188; Acts 1965, ch. 160, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 829, § 7; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 54-508; Acts 1981, ch. 264, § 12.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1989–2022 · leading case: Thomas v. Schroer, 248 F. Supp. 3d 868 (W.D. Tenn. 2017).
Thomas v. Schroer, 248 F. Supp. 3d 868 (W.D. Tenn. 2017). “Public/Private Property Fifth, the State contends that Thomas’s proposal to “treat” all public and private property signs the “same” is confusing, unless Thomas seeks to subject all signs to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (“MUTCD”), T.C.A. § 54-5-108(b). (Id. at…”
Gorman v. Earhart, 876 S.W.2d 832 (Tenn. 1994). “The manual referenced in the charge was adopted by the Tennessee Department of Transportation pursuant to the authority granted to it by T.C.A. § 54-5-108. See Rules of Tennessee Department of Transportation, Tenn.”
Begley v. State, 162 S.W.3d 535 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2004). “Fitzgerald, Plaintiff's expert, testified that the Manual On Uniform Traffic Control Devices ("the MUTCD"), a publication by the Federal Highway Administration, which contains the "nationally accepted practice for traffic control including work zone type activities", has been…”
O'Guin v. Corbin, 777 S.W.2d 697 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1989). “” Plaintiff insists that since the legislature by the enactment of Tenn.Code Ann. § 54-5-108 adopted the Uniform Manual for Uniform Traffic Control devices, defendant must take the manual into consideration in determining where and when to erect a traffic control device and that…”
Curtis Robin Russsell v. Anderson Cnty. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2011). “The trial court found that the MUTCD has been adopted by this state and the City through enabling legislation in Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-108 (b) requiring governmental agencies in the state to conform to the provisions of the manual.”
Gabriel Dryden v. The Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson Cnty. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2002). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-108 (b) (1998). Regarding the placement of yield signs, the manual provides several situations where “YIELD signs may be installed.”
Eimers v. Valmont Indus., Inc. (E.D. Tenn. 2022). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-108 (emphasis added); see also Austin v.”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-108(b): 2 cases
Thomas v. Schroer, 248 F. Supp. 3d 868 (W.D. Tenn. 2017). “Public/Private Property Fifth, the State contends that Thomas’s proposal to “treat” all public and private property signs the “same” is confusing, unless Thomas seeks to subject all signs to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (“MUTCD”), T.C.A. § 54-5-108(b). (Id. at…”
Gabriel Dryden v. The Metro. Gov't of Nashville & Davidson Cnty. (Tenn. Ct. App. 2002). “Tenn. Code Ann. § 54-5-108 (b) (1998). Regarding the placement of yield signs, the manual provides several situations where “YIELD signs may be installed.”
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