It is unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, to engage in or conduct, to advertise or claim to be engaging in or conducting the business, or acting in the capacity of a real estate broker, affiliate broker, time-share salesperson or acquisition agent, as defined in § 62-13-102, within this state, without first obtaining a license as broker, affiliate broker, time-share salesperson or acquisition agent, as provided in this chapter, unless exempted from obtaining a license under § 62-13-104. No person shall be permitted to hold, at the same time, an active time-share salesperson license and an active acquisition agent license.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 62-13-301
License requirement
Known as the Tennessee Real Estate Broker License Act
The act spans §§ 62-13-101 to 62-13-604 (62 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Business Brokerage Centre v. Dixon (1994)
Most recently applied in Burks v. Elevation Outdoor Advertising, LLC (August 2006)
Acts 1973, ch. 181, § 2; 1981, ch. 473, § 2; T.C.A., § 62-1303; Acts 1989, ch. 89, § 7; 2002, ch. 812, § 2; 2004, ch. 456, § 1.
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.