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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 55-17-416

  • Dealer: means every person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging vehicles of a type required to be registered and who has an established place of business for that purpose in this state. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101
  • Established place of business: means a permanent structure or structures owned, leased, or rented by a recreational vehicle dealer providing signs, facilities, and office space used exclusively for buying, selling, displaying, advertising, demonstrating, servicing, or repairing recreational vehicles or functional or nonfunctional parts of recreational vehicles and where replacement parts, repair tools, and equipment as well as the books and records needed to conduct the business are kept. See Tennessee Code 55-17-401
  • Sale: means the issuance, transfer, agreement for transfer, exchange, pledge, hypothecation, or mortgage in any form, whether by transfer in trust or otherwise, of any recreational vehicle or interest in such vehicle, as well as any option, subscription or other contract, or solicitation looking to sell, offer, or attempt to sell in any form, whether spoken or written. See Tennessee Code 55-17-401
  • Vehicle: means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, excepting devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Tennessee Code 55-8-101

A recreational vehicle dealer licensed to sell recreational vehicles may operate one (1) additional business at the recreational vehicle dealer’s established place of business; provided, at least sixty-six percent (66%) of the recreational vehicle dealer’s established place of business is used for the sale or service, or both, of recreational vehicles and that the income derived from the additional business is less than thirty-three percent (33%) of the gross income of the dealership. The recreational vehicle dealer may also install signs at the dealer’s established place of business for the purpose of advertising the other business.