No action or suit shall be instituted, nor recovery be had by any person, in any court of this state for compensation for any act done or service rendered, the doing or rendering of which is prohibited under this chapter to other than by licensed brokers, affiliate brokers or time-share salespersons, unless the person was duly licensed under this chapter as a broker, affiliate broker or time-share salesperson at the time of performing or offering to perform any such act or service or procuring any promise or contract or the payment of compensation for any such contemplated act or service.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 62-13-105
Action by broker to collect compensation
Known as the Tennessee Real Estate Broker License Act
The act spans §§ 62-13-101 to 62-13-604 (62 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Bowden Building Corp. v. Tennessee Real Estate Commission (1999)
Most recently applied in Baugh v. Novak (May 2011)
Acts 1973, ch. 181, § 6; 1981, ch. 473, § 3; T.C.A., § 62-1308; Acts 1989, ch. 89, §§ 3, 4.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.