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Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-11-105

Mail order and telephone sales

Known as the Retail Installment Sales Act

The act spans §§ 47-11-101 to 47-11-111 (11 sections).

Acts 1961, ch. 110, § 1; T.C.A., § 47-1905.

(1) Retail installment contracts and retail charge agreements negotiated and entered into by mail or telephone without personal solicitation by salespersons or other representatives of the seller, where a catalog of the seller or other printed solicitation of business, which is distributed and made available generally to the public, clearly sets forth the cash price and other terms of sales to be made through such medium, may be made as provided in this section.

(2) All of the provisions of this chapter apply to such sales, except that the seller shall not be required to deliver a copy of the contract to the buyer as provided in § 47-11-103(e) and, if the contract when received by the seller contains any blank spaces, the seller may insert in the appropriate blank space the amounts of money and other terms which are set forth in the seller's catalog or other printed solicitation which is then in effect.

(3) In lieu of sending the buyer a copy of the contract as provided in § 47-11-103(e), the seller shall furnish to the buyer a written statement of any items inserted in the blank spaces in the contract received from the buyer.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.