(a) A service provider shall not record or cause to be recorded a service agreement or notice or memorandum of the agreement in this state.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 66-33-104

  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • 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
  • Recording: means presenting a document to a county register in this state for official placement in the public land records. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
  • Service agreement: means a contract pursuant to which a person agrees to provide services in connection with the sale of residential real estate or the sale of any product or the performance of any personal service on or for the maintenance of residential real estate. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
  • Service provider: means a person who provides services or products to a consumer. See Tennessee Code 66-33-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) A service provider who records or causes to be recorded a service agreement or notice or memorandum of the agreement in this state in violation of § 66-33-103 is liable to an affected party for ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in statutory damages.
(c) Notwithstanding chapter 24 of this title, a register in this state may refuse to accept for recordation a service agreement and is not liable for mistakenly recording an unfair service agreement.
(d) If a service agreement is recorded in violation of this chapter, then it does not constitute actual or constructive notice to an otherwise bona fide purchaser or creditor.
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