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TN Code § 62-40-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 40 - Industrial Hygienists|§ 62-40-101. Chapter Definitions — Qualifications — Penalties

  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:  “Industrial hygiene” means the science and art devoted to anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of environmental factors or stressors arising in or from the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers;   “Industrial hygienist” means a person who possesses a baccalaureate degree issued by an accredited college or university in industrial hygiene engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, medicine or related physical and biological sciences and who, by virtue of special studies and training, has acquired competence in industrial hygiene. The special studies and training shall have been sufficient in industrial hygiene engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, medicine or related physical and biological sciences to provide the ability to:  Recognize environmental stressors in the workplace and to understand their effects;   Evaluate, on the basis of experience and with the aid of quantitative measurement techniques, the magnitude of these stressors in terms of ability to impair health and well-being; and   Prescribe methods to eliminate, control or reduce the stressors when necessary to alleviate their effects; and     “Professional industrial hygienist” means a person who possesses a baccalaureate degree issued by an accredited college or university in industrial hygiene, engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, medicine or related physical and biological sciences and who has a minimum of three (3) years full-time industrial hygiene experience. A completed master's degree in a related physical or biological science, or in a related engineering discipline, may be substituted for one (1) year of the experience requirement; and a similar doctoral degree may be substituted for an additional year of the experience requirement. Nonexclusive examples of professional industrial hygienists are certified industrial hygienists and industrial hygienists in training, as recognized by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene.     An individual shall meet the requirements or qualifications of a professional industrial hygienist as set out in subdivision (a)(3), certified industrial hygienist and industrial hygienist in training, as recognized by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, before the individual may use the title or represent the individual to the public as a professional industrial hygienist, certified industrial hygienist and industrial hygienist in training.   A person who violates subdivision (a)(3) or subsection (b) is subject to a civil penalty of no more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) in chancery court.
TN Code § 62-40-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 40 - Industrial Hygienists|§ 62-40-102. Limitation on Government Prohibiting or Restricting Practice of Industrial Hygiene

 Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, no entity of state government shall by rule prohibit or restrict a qualified industrial hygienist who complies with the provisions established by or pursuant to this chapter from engaging in the practice of industrial hygiene.
TN Code § 62-41-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 41 - Tennessee Asbestos Contractor Accreditation and Regulation Act|§ 62-41-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Asbestos Contractor Accreditation and Regulation Act.”
TN Code § 62-41-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 41 - Tennessee Asbestos Contractor Accreditation and Regulation Act|§ 62-41-102. Purpose

 The purpose of this chapter is to establish an asbestos contractor accreditation program for this state in compliance with Title II, Section 206 of the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C.A. § 2646).
TN Code § 62-41-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 41 - Tennessee Asbestos Contractor Accreditation and Regulation Act|§ 62-41-103. Rules and Regulations

 The commissioner of environment and conservation, in consultation with the commissioner of commerce and insurance, has the authority to promulgate rules and regulations for the purpose of establishing an asbestos contractor accreditation program for this state. The commissioner shall prescribe in the rules and regulations any fees to be paid in order for a contractor to be accredited under this program. The rules and regulations shall be approved by the state building commission before they are filed with the secretary of state.
TN Code § 62-43-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act.”
TN Code § 62-43-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-103. Rules — Creation of Professional Employer Organization Advisory Council — Composition of Council — Officers — Compensation — Powers and Duties — Administration — Recommendations for Appointments to Council

   The department may promulgate rules and prescribe forms reasonably necessary for the administration and enforcement of §§ 62-43-106, 62-43-107 and 62-43-112.   Rules shall be promulgated pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5 and as amended.      The professional employer organization advisory council is created and shall consist of five (5) members to be appointed by the governor to four (4) year terms. A term shall become effective on appointment and continue until a successor has been appointed. A vacancy shall be filled by appointment to the unexpired term by the governor.    Three (3) members of the council shall be individuals owning or working for a professional employer organization.   The remaining two (2) members shall:   Be residents of this state; and   Not be, or ever have been, connected with a professional employer organization.     Among the members described in subdivision (b)(2)(B):   One (1) such member shall represent the consumer interests of this state; and   One (1) such member shall be a representative of the department.       The council shall elect a chair and other officers to a term of one (1) year or until a successor is elected. Meetings may be called by the chair or by any two (2) members. A meeting may be held by electronic means. Three (3) members shall constitute a quorum to conduct business. Whenever vacancies prevent a quorum, the remaining members shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of recommending to the governor appointments to the council.   Members shall serve without compensation.   The following are the powers and duties of the council:  Determine its rules of order and procedure;   Recommending to the governor appointments to the council;   Send notice of its agenda and proceedings to any requesting person;   Petition the department, pursuant to § 4-5-201 and as amended; and   Advise the department on this chapter.      The council is attached to the department for the purposes of administration and cooperation.   The department shall notify the council of any action pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5 and as amended, relating to a rule promulgated pursuant to this chapter.   Any nonprofit organization representing five (5) or more professional employer organizations registered in this state may recommend appointments to the council.
TN Code § 62-43-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-104. Confidentiality

 All records, reports and other information obtained from an applicant or registrant under this chapter, except to the extent necessary for the proper administration of this chapter by the department, shall be confidential and shall not be published or open to public inspection other than to public employees in the actual performance of their public duties.
TN Code § 62-43-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-107. Fees

  The department may establish the following fees by rule:  Initial application fee;   Initial registration fee, which includes a fee for limited registration, as applicable; and   Renewal registration fee.     No fee charged pursuant to this section shall exceed the amount reasonably necessary for the administration of this chapter. All fees collected by this state pursuant to this chapter shall be used by the department to implement and administer this chapter. The fees shall be deposited in a reserve for such purposes and the principal and interest of the reserve shall not revert on June 30 of any year.   Fees under this section shall be:  Remitted with the application or with the hearing request;   Payable to this state; and   Nonrefundable.
TN Code § 62-43-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-110. Duties of Professional Employer Organization

  A professional employer organization shall:  Ensure that its Tennessee covered employees are covered by workers' compensation insurance provided in accordance with title 50 and the applicable Tennessee insurance laws and regulations as amended;   Notify the department and its clients within ten (10) days of any notice of cancellation of its workers' compensation coverage; and   Notify the department and its workers' compensation carrier, if applicable, of the termination of the professional employer organization's relationship with any client with covered employees in this state.     The professional employer organization shall be entitled along with the client to the exclusivity of the remedy under both the workers' compensation and employer's liability provisions of a workers' compensation policy or plan that either party has secured.
TN Code § 62-43-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-111. Collecting and Assessing Sales Tax

  Covered employees whose services are subject to sales tax shall be deemed the employees of the client for purposes of collecting and levying sales tax on the services performed by the covered employee. Nothing contained in this chapter shall relieve a client of any sales tax liability with respect to its goods or services.   Any tax or assessment imposed upon professional employer services or any business license or other fee which is based upon “gross receipts” shall allow a deduction from the gross income or receipts of the business derived from performing professional employer services that is equal to that portion of the fee charged to a client that represents the actual cost of wages and salaries, benefits, workers' compensation, payroll taxes, withholding or other assessments paid to or on behalf of a covered employee by the professional employer organization under a professional employer agreement.   Any tax assessed or assessment or mandated expenditure on a per capita or per employee basis shall be assessed against the client for covered employees and against the professional employer organization for its employees who are not covered employees co-employed with a client. Benefits or monetary consideration that meet the requirements of mandates imposed on a client and that are received by covered employees through the professional employer organization either through payroll or through benefit plans sponsored by the professional employer organization shall be credited against the client's obligation to fulfill such mandates.   In the case of a tax or an assessment imposed or calculated upon the basis of total payroll, the professional employer organization shall be eligible to apply any small business allowance or exemption available to the client for the covered employees for purpose of computing the tax.   Except to the extent provided otherwise in the professional employer agreement with a client, a professional employer organization is not liable for the general debts, obligations, loss of profits, business goodwill or other consequential special or incidental damages of a client with which it has entered into a professional employer agreement.   This section applies to this state and local governmental entities.
TN Code § 62-43-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-113. Severability

 The provisions of this chapter are severable. If any provision of this chapter or application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.
TN Code § 62-43-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 43 - Tennessee Professional Employer Organization Act|§ 62-43-114. Rules of the Former Tennessee Employee Leasing Act Remain in Effect — Effect of Current Licenses — Recent Appointments to Advisory Board

  Rules promulgated pursuant to the Tennessee Employee Leasing Act, that are in effect prior to May 21, 2012, shall remain in effect unless such rules are in conflict with this chapter or until modified or repealed by the department.   A plan, adopted by a study committee establishing criteria for a staff leasing company sponsoring and maintaining a plan for self-insurance for health benefits on or before January 1, 1998, shall be deemed a rule of the department and shall remain in effect unless such rule is in conflict with this chapter or until modified or repealed by the department.   A current license in effect at May 21, 2012, shall remain in effect until one hundred eighty (180) days after the close of the licensee's current fiscal year.   The most recent appointments to the advisory board under the Tennessee Employee Leasing Act shall be considered appointments to the advisory council unless the governor appoints a successor to an expired term.
TN Code § 62-44-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 44 - Salvage House Operators|§ 62-44-101. Recordkeeping Requirements

 Any person, firm, corporation or other entity operating a salvage house, by which is meant all persons in any way buying, selling, exchanging, trading or dealing in surplused or used building materials of any sort within the state, shall keep a record of the names of all persons from whom the person, firm, corporation or entity buys or gets surplused or used building materials of any sort, the date of purchase, the amount paid for the building materials, the kind of building materials purchased or gotten and the amount of each kind. The records shall be kept in chronological order from day to day, as the business is transacted. The records shall at all times be open to inspection of the police or other officer or any person who may desire to see the records and shall be in good faith kept and preserved by the dealers for convenient inspection.
TN Code § 62-44-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 44 - Salvage House Operators|§ 62-44-102. Identification of Seller

  All dealers in used or surplused building materials shall obtain from the seller of the used or surplused building materials proper identification consisting of the seller's name and address and the seller's driver license number or vehicle license plate number or social security number.   In lieu of obtaining any of the above identification, if the seller is a building materials dealer who has registered with the county clerk in accordance with § 67-4-706, the seller shall provide an invoice, which shall include the name and address of the dealer or provide a sworn affidavit, including the name and address of the seller, the name and address of the person, firm or source from whom or which the seller acquired the used or surplused building materials and the condition and quantity of the used or surplused building materials.   All dealers shall keep the records for a period of three (3) years and the records shall be filed by date of purchase.
TN Code § 62-44-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 44 - Salvage House Operators|§ 62-44-103. Dealers to Cooperate With Officers Investigating Seller

  Dealers shall promptly give to any officers or other persons inquiring of them information to enable the seller to be identified or any information that the dealer may have that will lead to the identification of the seller.   The failure on the part of the dealer to give the information on demand shall render the dealer guilty of a violation of this chapter.
TN Code § 62-44-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 44 - Salvage House Operators|§ 62-44-104. Materials Not to Be Commingled for Ten (10) Days After Purchase

 The dealers shall keep on hand and in separate packages and not allow to be mixed or confused with other purchases, in order that identification may be easy, all surplused or used building materials bought or gotten from any person, the building materials, to be kept separate and subject to easy and convenient inspection of anyone desiring to investigate for a period of no less than ten (10) days after purchase or in any way acquired.
TN Code § 62-44-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 44 - Salvage House Operators|§ 62-44-105. Penalty

  A violation of this chapter is a Class C misdemeanor.   The court trying the case has the power to remit the term of imprisonment provided for a Class C misdemeanor for the first offense.
TN Code § 62-51-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades|Chapter 51 - Unlawful Representations|§ 62-51-101. Posing as Being Licensed or Bonded — Penalty

 In addition to any other penalty provided by law, it is unlawful for any individual, firm, association or corporation to advertise or otherwise claim to be licensed or bonded to perform any service unless local, state or federal law, in fact, requires licensing or bonding to perform the service, and the person is so licensed or bonded. A violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
TN Code § 63-2-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 2 - Medical Records|§ 63-2-102. Costs of Reproduction, Copying or Mailing of Records

  The party requesting the patient's records is responsible to the provider for the reasonable costs of copying and mailing such patient's records. For other than records involving workers' compensation cases, such reasonable costs shall not exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) for medical records five (5) pages or less in length and fifty cents (50¢) per page for each page copied after the first five (5) pages and the actual cost of mailing. Any third-party provider of record copying and related services shall be subject to the reasonable cost limits contained in this section and shall not impose any charge or fee for such services in excess of such cost limits. The costs charged for reproducing records of patients involved in a workers' compensation claim shall be as defined in § 50-6-204. A health care provider shall not charge a fee for copying or notarizing a medical record when requested by the department pursuant to a complaint, inspection or survey as set forth in § 63-1-117.   Any increase in charges for copying and certifying medical records permitted by this section that is above those charges established by this section as it existed on January 1, 2010, shall not apply to requests for medical records made by the department of human services, and charges for copying and certifying medical records requests made by the department of human services shall remain the same as existed under this section as of January 1, 2010.    Upon request, the provider shall submit a notarized affidavit by the custodian of records certifying that the records provided in response to the request:  Are true and correct copies of records in the custody of the affiant;   Were made at or near the time of the occurrence of the matters set forth by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge of and a business duty to record or transmit those matters;   Were kept in the course of regularly conducted activity; and   Were made by the regularly conducted activity as a regular practice.     In addition to the charge for the copies of the record, the provider may charge up to twenty dollars ($20.00) for the affidavit described in this subsection (c), and the records submitted with that affidavit, and the affidavit shall qualify for the business records exception to the hearsay rule.     Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as superseding any provision of law that establishes specific costs for the reproduction, copying or mailing of records.   Payment of such costs may be required by the provider prior to the records being furnished. Upon payment of the costs described in this section, the patient or a patient's authorized representative shall have the right to receive the medical records without delay.   In workers' compensation cases, a request for medical records shall include a medical or anatomical impairment rating as required by § 50-6-246 [See the Compiler’s Notes].
TN Code § 63-2-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 63 - Professions of the Healing Arts|Chapter 2 - Medical Records|§ 63-2-103. Authority to Promulgate Regulations Regarding Retention of Physician Medical Records — Limit on Retention of Mammography Records

  The board of medical examiners is authorized to promulgate regulations regarding the retention of physician medical records as defined in § 63-2-101(c).   Notwithstanding any law or rule to the contrary, such retention of mammography records shall not exceed ten (10) years.