(a) No residential roofing services provider shall require any payments from a person pursuant to a contract until the person has received written notice from the insurer that the contract or claim is fully covered or the three-day cancellation period required pursuant to this part has expired.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 62-6-604

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract: means a contract in this state between a person and a residential roofing services provider for the provision of goods or services related to the repair or replacement of a roof system the costs of which the residential roofing services provider represents are to be paid, or are likely to be paid, in whole or in part, from the proceeds of a property and casualty insurance policy. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Contracting: means any person or entity that performs or causes to be performed any of the activities defined in subdivision (4)(A) or (7). See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • Emergency repairs: means goods or services provided for the purpose of making urgent and necessary repairs to the roof system of residential real estate if, without such repairs, damage to the residential real estate would occur. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Person: means an individual or entity. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Residential real estate: means a new or existing building constructed for habitation by one to four (1-4) families, and includes the building's garage, even if the garage is detached from such building. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Within ten (10) business days after a person cancels a contract in accordance with this part, the residential roofing services provider shall tender to the:

(1) Payor any payments, partial payments, or deposits made to the residential roofing services provider except those made pursuant to subsection (c); and
(2) Person any note or other evidence of the person’s indebtedness to the residential roofing services provider except indebtedness incurred pursuant to subsection (c).
(c)

(1) Notwithstanding subsection (a), if the residential roofing services provider has made any emergency repairs, acknowledged by the contracting person in writing to be necessary to prevent damage to the residential real estate, then the residential roofing services provider shall be entitled to collect the amount due from the person for the emergency repairs at the time the repairs are rendered. Any provision in a contract that requires the payment of any fee for any good or service except those provided in relation to emergency repairs shall not be enforceable against any person who has canceled a contract in accordance with this part.
(2) No residential roofing services provider shall misrepresent that emergency repairs are necessary to prevent damage to the residential real estate owned or possessed by such person.
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