Although patrons of the county clerk office still have to pay a visit for most services, the Tennessee County Clerk website can be a useful tool to help them prepare for completing their transactions.
Applications for such services as duplicate titles, new businesses, marriages, notary public, etc. can be accessed, filled out, and sent online through www.tncountyclerk.com. according to County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss.
” We hope this website will help you find the resources or information you need to complete your desired task and cut down on your wait time while in our office. This service is not intended to keep people out of the office but a means of offering convenience especially to those who do like to use computers,” he said.
Poss said the website offers a variety of links and options for patrons to select. “After accessing the website, you are to select your county (DEKALB), which will then give you our office hours, phone number, and any other information regarding our office. On the left side of the screen you will see a list of links to select including motor vehicles, title applications, dealers, and handicap placards/plates. With most of these placards/plates, you will have the option to renew online or by mail. Either way comes with a mail fee but whether by online or mail it is a convenience to be able to do this from home,” said Poss.
“Another option to select on the website is licenses. Information is there regarding marriage licenses and requirements for marriage. Actually by going online you can put in your information on a marriage license application at home and then come to our office to finish it. It speeds up the process by having the application almost completed before you get here. Once you arrive, we can search online by last name and finish the process which cuts down considerably on the amount of time,” Poss continued.
“You’ll also see a license link for game and fish. However our office in DeKalb County does not provide hunting and fishing licenses. We are not set up to do those here and haven’t been for several years”,” he said.
The site has links for taxes including forms for business and hotel/motel taxes. “We have a lot of people who mail in their hotel/motel taxes. It’s not a requirement that they bring those into our office. About half the people mail them in and the other half drop them by. A new business application can also be done online. That can be mailed in with the fifteen dollar fee and can be taken care of without the applicants actually coming into our office,” Poss said.
Under the forms column, Poss said patrons interested in a title and registration form have access to a variety of options. “By clicking the link for title and registration it opens up to a full page of options with several different forms to choose from including blank bills of sales for watercrafts or motor vehicles, etc. There are separate forms for each including medium speed vehicles. We’re having several people purchasing medium speed vehicles now and they’re registering and putting plates on them,” Poss said.
” There’s just a variety of different applications and affidavits available there that we use in our office daily. Whether you are requesting duplicate titles, noting of liens, specialty license plates, certificates of ownership, etc. you’ll find applications for them online as well as information regarding such services as organ donor awareness,” said Poss.
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