(a) When an obligor who is served notice under § 36-5-702 complies with the order of support, the department shall provide the licensing authority with written or electronic data exchange confirmation that the obligor is in compliance with the order and issue a release to the obligor.

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 36-5-707

  • Department: means the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
  • License: means a license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document issued to an individual evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in a profession, trade, occupation, business, or industry, to hunt or fish, or to operate any motor vehicle or other conveyance, but does not include a license to practice law unless the supreme court establishes guidelines pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
  • Licensing authority: means the board, commission, or agency, including the department of safety, that has been established by statute or state regulation to oversee the issuance and regulation of any license. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
  • Obligor: means any individual owing a duty of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
  • Order of support: means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including an order in a final decree of divorce, or any order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law in this or another state that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b)

(1) Upon receipt of the written confirmation of reasonable or full compliance, the licensing authority shall issue or extend the obligor’s license, or withdraw any denial, revocation, restriction or suspension of the obligor’s license; provided, that all other applicable licensing requirements are met by the obligor. If all other applicable licensing requirements are met by the obligor, the obligor shall not, however, be required to be retested or recertified for a license that was valid and that was held in good standing by the obligor, or for which the obligor had been determined otherwise eligible by the licensing authority to receive, prior to the revocation, restriction or suspension or denial of such license pursuant to this part, and which license was revoked, restricted, suspended or denied solely pursuant to this part.
(2) If, subsequent to the revocation, restriction, suspension or denial of the license, and prior to the date on which the next periodic licensing would be due, the license is restored or issued by the licensing authority due to reasonable or full compliance, the obligor shall not be required to pay a new periodic license fee for the period remaining before the next periodic licensing fee would be due; provided, that the licensing authority may impose a reasonable reinstatement fee not to exceed five dollars ($5.00) for processing of the restoration or issuance of the license at any time.