Fiedler serves top cop administrative notice on TN law limits
Notice instructs city, county governments about limits of scope of Titles 55, 65 (chapter 15) on transportation; also, as grounds for punitive damages in oppression, misconduct litigtion
Sunday, May 5, 2024 — Free-traveling Christopher M. Fiedler served Tennessee transportation administrative notice on Paris, Tenn., police chief Ricky Watson.
Mr. Fiedler, under continuing enforcement of the state trucking law upon his private use of the road by private scooter, went to the municipal building at 100 N. Caldwell on May 1 and at 2:30 p.m. served the 21pp notice and affidavit to the woman at the department front desk.
“It is for the chief to look over for himself. It is undisputed” since 2018, Mr. Fiedler says.
Mr. Fiedler intends to inform the city of the disabilities in state law regulating the privilege of driving and operating a motor vehicle and of constitutional protections of property rights that inhere in movement of one’s person and property on the people’s rights of way. The duty of the department of safety and homeland security at Tenn. Code Ann. § 65-15-101 to “[p]rotect the welfare and safety of the traveling and shipping public *** in their contact with the agencies of motor transportation and allied occupations.”
Administrative notice seeks to reduce cities’ lawsuit risks, explaining limits of tax, police power upon use on public way
“The main point is that there are freedoms and we do have freedom of movement,” Mr. Fiedler says. The law “regulates the commerce of the state. I’m not in commerce, not when I am just traveling to work, or from work, or to or from the park.”
“I hope I get results by them leaving me alone, because they know it is right after they read it. They can’t argue with the points that are in what I sent them, in Tennessee [transportation] administrative notice. What can they do? If they can’t prove it wrong, what can they say?”
The notice intends to spare Tennessee cities and counties civil lawsuits for official misconduct and oppression by prompting them to reform traffic enforcement and to be leery of arresting and charging people who are not involved in shipping, trucking, hauling and for-profit privileged use of the public roads.
Chief Watson at a meeting just after Mr. Fiedler was freed handed Mr. Fiedler a copy of T.C.A. 55-50-108, highlighted in yellow. Mr. Watson indicates Paris will continue to seize and arrest Mr. Fiedler.