Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-6-604

  • Commissioner: means and includes the commissioner of revenue or the commissioner's duly authorized assistants. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Person: includes any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, any governmental agency whose services are essentially a private commercial concern, or other group or combination acting as a unit, in the plural as well as the singular number. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105

Whenever any person fails to comply with any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation of the commissioner relating to this chapter, the commissioner, upon hearing, after giving the person ten (10) days’ notice in writing, specifying the time and place of a hearing and requiring the person to show cause why the person’s certificate of registration should not be revoked, may revoke or suspend any one (1) or more of the certificates of registration held by the person. The notice may be served personally or by certified mail directed to the last known address of the person. The commissioner may designate a hearing officer from the department to conduct the hearings provided for in this section, who shall make findings of fact, conclusions of law, and proposed orders based thereon. The commissioner, if concurring, shall issue the order; or may, upon review of the record, make such findings, conclusions, and issue such orders as, in the commissioner’s discretion, the record justifies.