43-20-104 - Failure of purchaser to file report or pay assessment Violations Penalties. - Tennessee Statutes

43-20-104. Failure of purchaser to file report or pay assessment Violations Penalties.

(a)  Any purchaser who fails to file a report or to pay any assessment within the time required by the department shall forfeit to the department a penalty of five percent (5%) of the assessment determined to be due, plus one percent (1%) of that amount for each month of delay or fraction thereof after the first month after the report was required to be filed or the assessment became due. The penalty shall be paid over to the board and shall be disposed of by it in the same manner as funds derived from the payment of the assessment imposed.

(b)  The department shall collect the penalties levied in this section, together with the delinquent assessment, by either of the following methods:

     (1)  By voluntary payment by the person liable; and

     (2)  By legal proceedings instituted in a court of competent jurisdiction.

(c)  Any person required to pay the assessment provided for in this part who fails to remit the same or who refuses to allow full inspection of the premises, or books, records or other documents relating to the liability of the person for the assessment imposed in this part, or who shall hinder or in any way delay or prevent an inspection, commits a Class C misdemeanor.

[Acts 1977, ch. 208, § 4; T.C.A., § 43-3004; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113.]