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Tenn. Code Ann. § 62-13-110

Penalties

Known as the Tennessee Real Estate Broker License Act

The act spans §§ 62–62 (62 sections).

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Bowden Building Corp. v. Tennessee Real Estate Commission (1999)

Most recently applied in Burks v. Elevation Outdoor Advertising, LLC (August 2006)

Acts 1973, ch. 181, § 18(a), (b), (c); T.C.A., § 62-1339; Acts 1982, ch. 589, §§ 1, 2; 1982, ch. 864, §§ 11, 12; 1989, ch. 89, § 5; 1989, ch. 591, § 112; 2002, ch. 812, § 3.

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

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.

(1) Any person acting as a broker, affiliate broker, time-share salesperson or acquisition agent without first obtaining a license commits a Class B misdemeanor.

(2) A corporation that violates subdivision (a)(1) is ineligible to obtain a license for a period of one (1) year from the date of conviction of the offense.

(3) Any person acting as a broker, affiliate broker, time-share salesperson or acquisition agent without first obtaining a license who has received any money or the equivalent of money as a fee, commission, compensation or profit by or in consequence of a violation of this chapter, is, in addition, liable for a penalty of no less than the amount of the sum of money so received and no more than three (3) times the sum so received, as may be determined by the court, which penalty may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction by any person aggrieved.

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.