Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 62-6-502 (2026)
Prohibited activities
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) No person may engage in or transact any home improvement business, represent to the public as doing home improvement business or offer to transact any home improvement business in this state, except in compliance with the applicable provisions of this part. No person, whether subject to licensing by any law or otherwise, may engage in this state in any trade practice or other act that is prohibited by this part. Every person who willfully participates in a prohibited act or violation with knowledge of the prohibited act or violation is subject to the criminal penalty for the prohibited act or violation. This part may not be waived by agreement.
- (b)
- (1) No person shall maintain, own, operate or transact a home improvement business unless a license is first obtained as prescribed in this part.
- (2) An applicant for a home improvement contractor's license shall establish that the applicant is the real owner and possesses title to, or is entitled to, the possession of the establishment and will conduct, operate, engage in and transact a home improvement business.
Acts 2007, ch. 460, § 2.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2012–2021 · leading case: Beacon4, LLC v. I & L Investments, LLC, 514 S.W.3d 153 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2016).
Beacon4, LLC v. I & L Investments, LLC, 514 S.W.3d 153 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2016). “§ 47-18-104 (b)(35) (providing as an unfair or deceptive act constituting a violation of the TCPA: “Representing that a person is a licensed contractor when such person has not been licensed as required by § 62-6-103 or § 62-6-502 ....”). The trial court initially conducted a…”
State of Tennessee v. Gary Allen Carlton (Tenn. Crim. App. 2012). “As to violations of the Act, Tennessee Code Annotated section 62-6-502 provides as follows: (a) No person may engage in or transact any home improvement business, represent to the public as doing home improvement business or offer to transact any home improvement business in…”
Clarksville Towers, LLC v. John Straussberger (Tenn. Ct. App. 2021). “2020) of the TCPA defines the following as an “unfair or deceptive act or practice affecting the conduct of any trade or commerce” and declares it “unlawful”: (35) Representing that a person is a licensed contractor when such person has not been licensed as required by §…”
Robert McCollum v. Darrell Peters (Tenn. Ct. App. 2015). “offered, or which may otherwise misrepresent the goods or services in such a manner that later, on disclosure of the true facts, there is a likelihood that the buyer may be switched from the advertised goods or services to other goods or services; * * * (35) Representing that a…”
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