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TN Code § 62-1-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-1-121. Fund of the State Board of Accountancy

  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, all moneys collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the state treasury in a separate fund to be known as the fund of the state board of accountancy.   Disbursements from the fund shall be made solely for the purpose of defraying expenses incurred in the implementation and enforcement of this chapter.   No such expenses shall be payable from the general fund of the state.   Any part of the fund of the state board of accountancy remaining at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund, but shall be carried forward until expended in accordance with this chapter.   The board shall budget annually in advance its expenditures for programs, services, allocated overhead or charge backs and other normal operating expenses as determined by the board. These expenditures so established shall be budgeted at the beginning of the year by the board, not to exceed the fees to be received by the board, including the excesses accumulated in the fund of the board. The commissioner of finance and administration shall inform the board annually, in advance for budgeting purposes, the allocation of all overhead or charge backs to the board.   Subject to approval of the comptroller of the treasury and the commissioner of finance and administration, the board may also contract for services to carry out this chapter.
TN Code § 62-1-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-1-122. Payments to Obtain Clients or for Referrals

   A licensee shall neither pay any consideration or commission to obtain a client nor accept any consideration or commission for the referral of a client to others when the licensee or the licensee's firm also performs for that client any of the following:  An audit or review of a financial statement;   A compilation of a financial statement when the licensee expects, or reasonably might expect, that a third party will use the financial statement and the licensee's compilation does not disclose a lack of independence; or   An examination of prospective financial information.     The prohibition in subdivision (a)(1) applies during the period in which the licensee is engaged to perform any of the services listed in subdivision (a)(1) and the period covered by any historical financial statements involved in the services listed in subdivision (a)(1).     A licensee who is not prohibited by subdivision (a)(1) from performing services or receiving consideration or a commission and who is paid or expects to be paid consideration or a commission shall disclose that fact in compliance with the requirements of this section to any person who the licensee recommends or refers a product or service to which the commission relates.   Any licensee who accepts consideration or a commission for a referral shall disclose the acceptance or payment to the client in compliance with the requirements of this section.   The board shall promulgate regulations specifying the terms of the disclosures required by subsections (b) and (c) and the manner in which the disclosures shall be made. The regulations shall comply with the following:  The disclosure must be in writing and be clear and conspicuous;   The disclosure must state the amount of the consideration or commission or must state the basis on which it will be computed; and   The disclosure must be made at or prior to the time of the recommendation or referral of the product or service for which consideration or commission is paid or prior to the client retaining the licensee to whom the client has been referred for which a referral fee is paid.     Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit:  Payments for the purchase of all, or a part, of an accounting practice;   Retirement payments to persons formerly engaged in the practice of accountancy or payments to the heirs or estates of those persons; or   Payments, including incentive or bonus payments, to employees or members of an accounting firm as compensation for their services.
TN Code § 62-1-123 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-1-123. Contingent Fee Arrangements

  As used in this section, “contingent fee” means a fee established for the performance of any service pursuant to an arrangement under which a fee will not be charged unless a specified finding or result is attained or under which the amount of the fee is otherwise dependent upon the finding or result of such service. “Contingent fee” does not mean a fee fixed by a court or other public authority or a fee related to any tax matter that is based upon the results of a judicial proceeding or the findings of a governmental agency.    A licensee shall not receive or agree to receive a contingent fee from a client for the following:  Performance of any professional services for a client for whom the licensee or person associated with the licensee performs any of the following:   An audit or review of a financial statement;   A compilation of a financial statement when the licensee expects, or reasonably might expect, that a third party will use the financial statement and the licensee's compilation does not disclose a lack of independence; or   An examination of prospective financial information; or     Preparation of an original tax return.     This prohibition applies during the period in which the licensee is engaged to perform any of the services listed in subdivision (b)(1) and the period covered by any historical financial statements involved related to those services.     Any licensee who accepts or agrees to accept a contingent fee shall disclose the terms of the contingent fee to the client in compliance with the requirements of this section.   The board shall promulgate regulations specifying the terms of the disclosures required by subsection (c) and the manner in which the disclosures shall be made. The regulations shall comply with the following:  The disclosure must be in writing and be clear and conspicuous;   The disclosure must state the amount of the contingent fee or must state the basis on which the contingent fee will be computed; and   The disclosure must be made at or prior to the time the licensee undertakes representation of or performance of the service upon which a contingent fee will be charged.     Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit:  Payments for the purchase of all, or a part, of an accounting practice;   Retirement payments to persons formerly engaged in the practice of accountancy or payments to the heirs or estates of those persons; or   Payments, including incentive or bonus payments, to employees or members of an accounting firm as compensation for their services.
TN Code § 62-1-124 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-1-124. [reserved.]

  Every licensee shall notify the board in writing within thirty (30) days of:  Any material change in the information previously furnished to or required to be furnished to the board, including, but not limited to, the holder's name or mailing address;   Any conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction of a felony; or   The limitation, suspension or revocation of the right to practice public accountancy by any state board of accountancy or any other state, federal or international agency.     Every office registered pursuant to § 62-1-113 shall notify the board in writing within thirty (30) days of any change of address or location of the office.
TN Code § 62-1-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 2 - Review Committees|§ 62-1-201. Peer Review

  As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires, “review committee” means any person or persons carrying out, administering or overseeing peer review.   The board shall require, by rule, as a condition to renewal of permits under this section, that applicants enroll in a board approved peer review program and undergo at least once every three (3) years, peer reviews conducted in the manner that the board specifies. The review shall include a verification that individuals in the firm who are responsible for supervising attest services and sign or authorize someone to sign the accountant's report on the financial statements on behalf of the firm meet the experience requirements set out in the professional standards for those services; provided, that the rule:  Shall include reasonable provision for compliance by an applicant showing that the applicant has, within the preceding three (3) years, undergone a peer review that is a satisfactory equivalent to peer review generally required pursuant to this subsection (b);   May require, with respect to any organization administering peer review programs contemplated by this section, that the organization be subject to evaluations by the board or the board's designee, to periodically assess the effectiveness of the peer review program under its charge;   Shall require with respect to peer reviews contemplated by this section that licensees timely remit any peer review documents as specified by board rule or upon board request and that such documents be maintained by the board pursuant to § 62-1-116; and   Shall require, with respect to peer reviews contemplated by subdivision (b)(1), that the peer review processes be operated, and documents maintained, in a manner designed to preserve confidentiality under §§ 62-1-116 and 62-1-202 and that no third party, other than the board or the board's designee, shall have access to documents furnished or generated in the course of the peer review.
TN Code § 62-1-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 2 - Review Committees|§ 62-1-202. Review Committees — Confidentiality of Records and Proceedings — Scope of Confidentiality

  The proceedings, records, and work papers of a review committee shall be privileged and confidential and shall not be subject to discovery, subpoena, or other means of legal process or introduction into evidence in any civil action, arbitration, or administrative proceeding other than a state board of accountancy proceeding; and no member of the review committee or person who was involved in the peer review process shall be permitted or required to testify in any civil action, arbitration, or administrative proceeding other than a state board of accountancy proceeding as to any matters produced, presented, disclosed, or discussed during or in connection with the peer review process or as to any findings, recommendations, evaluations, opinions, or other actions of the committees or any member of the committees; provided, that information, documents, or records that are publicly available are not immune from discovery or use in any civil action, arbitration, administrative proceeding, or state board of accountancy proceeding merely because they were presented or considered in connection with the peer review process.   The privilege created by this part also does not apply to materials prepared in connection with a particular engagement merely because they happen to be subsequently presented or considered as part of the peer review process, nor does it apply to disputes between review committees and persons or firms subject to a peer review arising from the performance of the peer review.
TN Code § 62-1-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 2 - Review Committees|§ 62-1-203. Accountants Serving on Review Committees — Immunity

  Any certified public accountant or public accountant who serves on any review committee is immune from liability with respect to any action taken by the accountant in good faith as a member of the review committee.   Certified public accountants and public accountants, and any other individual appointed to or authorized to perform administrative services for any review committee, are immune from liability for furnishing information, data, reports or records to any review committee or for damages resulting from any decisions, opinions, actions and proceedings rendered, entered or acted upon by the review committees undertaken or performed within the scope or functions of the duties of the review committees, if made or taken in good faith and without malice and on the basis of facts reasonably known or reasonably believed to exist.
TN Code § 62-1-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 1 - Tennessee Accountancy Act of 1998|Part 2 - Review Committees|§ 62-1-120. Hearings and Judicial Review

 62-1-125. Notice to board of material changes in licensee's status or other information.
TN Code § 62-2-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 2 - Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-2-101. Registration

 In order to safeguard life, health and property and to promote public welfare, by requiring that only properly qualified persons shall practice architecture, engineering and landscape architecture, or use the title “registered interior designer” in this state, any person practicing architecture, engineering or landscape architecture or using the title “registered interior designer” shall be registered as provided in this chapter, and it is unlawful for any person to practice or offer to practice architecture, engineering or landscape architecture, or use the title “registered interior designer” unless the person has been duly registered under this chapter, except as otherwise provided.
TN Code § 62-2-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 2 - Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-2-102. Practice and Persons Exempt From Registration

  Except as provided in subsections (b) and (d), nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring registration for the purpose of practicing architecture, engineering or landscape architecture by a person; provided, that the person does not use the appellation “architect,” “engineer” or “landscape architect,” an appellation that compounds, modifies or qualifies the word “architecture,” “engineering” or “landscape architecture,” or that gives or is designed to give the impression that the person using those words is an architect, engineer or landscape architect.   It is unlawful for any person other than a registered architect or engineer to prepare plans and specifications for any building or structure other than the following:  Structures classified as business, factory-industrial, hazardous, mercantile, residential and storage occupancies, as those occupancies are defined in the 1985 edition of the Standard Building Code, that are:  Less than three (3) stories in height; and   Less than five thousand square feet (5,000 sq. ft.) in total gross area;     One-family and two-family dwellings and domestic outbuildings appurtenant to those dwellings;   Farm buildings not designed or intended for human occupancy; or    Signs that do not exceed either of the following limits:   Any portion of the sign is twenty feet (20') or more above the ground level; or   Any portion of the sign is fifteen feet (15') or more above the ground level, if the sign has more than one hundred twenty square feet (120 sq. ft.) in total sign face area;     Subdivision (b)(4)(A) shall not apply if, in the opinion of the local government building official, failure of the support system for the sign is likely to cause harm to people or property.       Nothing in this section shall prevent any awarding authority, public or private, from requiring the services of a registered architect, engineer or landscape architect for any project.   Any person, firm, company, business, corporation or other entity that was organized and doing business other than business regulated in this chapter that was organized and doing business prior to January 1, 1967, and whose corporate name includes the appellation “engineer” or an appellation that compounds, modifies or qualifies the word “engineering,” may continue to use that corporate name and shall not be required to register pursuant to this chapter. This section shall not be construed to authorize those entities to engage in the practice of architecture, engineering or landscape architecture without registering pursuant to this chapter.
TN Code § 62-2-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 2 - Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-2-103. Persons Exempt From Chapter

 The following shall be exempted from this chapter; provided, that, except as provided in subdivision (4), nothing in this section shall be construed as exempting any person who makes public use of the title “engineer,” “architect” or “landscape architect” or any appellation of those titles, including persons employed by this state or its political subdivisions:   Any person engaging in architectural, engineering or landscape architectural work as an employee of a registered architect, registered engineer or registered landscape architect; provided, that such work may not include responsible charge of design or supervision;   Architects, engineers or landscape architects who are not residents of and have no established place of business in this state, who are acting as consulting associates of an architect, engineer or landscape architect registered under this chapter; provided, that the nonresident is qualified for such professional service in the nonresident's own state or country;   Architects, engineers or landscape architects who are employed by a person, firm or corporation not engaged in the practice of architecture, engineering, or landscape architecture and who render architectural, engineering or landscape architectural services to their employer only and not to the general public; and   Architects, engineers or landscape architects who are employed by a municipal electric system or electric and community service cooperative as defined in § 65-34-102 or telephone cooperatives as defined in title 65, chapter 29 and who render architectural, engineering or landscape architectural services pertaining to the operations of their employer and who do not offer their services to the general public in exchange for compensation other than that received from their employer. Nothing in this subdivision (4) shall be construed as exempting any person who makes public use of the title “engineer,” “architect” or “landscape architect” or any appellation of those titles.
TN Code § 62-2-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 2 - Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-2-104. Employees of Licensees

  Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the drafters, students, clerks of the work superintendents and other employees of lawfully practicing architects, engineers and landscape architects under this chapter from acting under the instruction, control or supervision of the employer or to prevent the employment of superintendents on the construction, enlargement or alterations of buildings or any appurtenance to buildings, or prevent such superintendents from acting under the immediate personal supervision of registered architects, registered engineers or registered landscape architects by whom the plans and specifications of the building enlargements, constructions or alterations were prepared.   Nothing in this chapter shall prevent persons, mechanics or builders from making plans, specifications for or supervising the erection, enlargement or alterations of buildings or any appurtenance to buildings, to be constructed by themselves or their employees exclusively for their own use and occupancy, unless the same involves the public health or safety; provided, that the working drawings for such constructions are signed by the authors of the drawings and their true appellations as “contractor,” “carpenter,” etc., without the use in any form of the title “architect,” “engineer” or “landscape architect.”
TN Code § 62-2-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 2 - Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-2-105. Violations — Penalties — Reporting Offenses

   No person shall:  Present or attempt to file as the person's own the certificate of registration of another;   Give forged or willfully false evidence of any kind to the state board of examiners for architects and engineers or any member of the board for the purpose of obtaining a certificate;   Falsely impersonate any other practitioner; or   Use or attempt to use an expired or revoked certificate of registration.     A violation of subdivision (a)(1) is a Class B misdemeanor.      No person shall practice or offer to practice engineering, architecture or landscape architecture, or use the title “registered interior designer” in this state in violation of this chapter.   A violation of subdivision (b)(1) is a Class B misdemeanor.   Each day's violation of subdivision (b)(1) is a separate offense.     A person is construed to practice or offer to practice engineering, architecture or landscape architecture who, by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, card or in any other way, represents that person to be an architect, engineer or landscape architect, with or without qualifying adjective, or through the use of some other title implies that the person is an architect, engineer or landscape architect.   It is the duty of the members of the board to report any violations of this chapter to the proper authorities.
TN Code § 62-2-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 2 - Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 62-2-106. Enforcement

  It is the duty of the state board of examiners for architects and engineers to inquire into the identity of any person claiming to be an architect, engineer, landscape architect or registered interior designer and to prosecute any person or persons violating this chapter.   The board may, when it deems appropriate, seek civil remedies at law or equity to restrain or enjoin any unauthorized practice or other violation of this chapter.