47-18-202 - Registration of operators Bond Fee Exemptions. - Tennessee Statutes

47-18-202. Registration of operators Bond Fee Exemptions.

(a)  (1)  Every operator shall register with the division of consumer affairs in the department of commerce and insurance on forms prescribed by the division.

     (2)  The registration form shall contain, but shall not be limited to, the following information:

          (A)  Name, address, and telephone number of the operator;

          (B)  Name, address, and telephone number of the individual or officer of the organization having full responsibility for the conducting of the pageant;

          (C)  Names of pageants customarily promoted by the operator;

          (D)  Name, address, and telephone number of the financial institution in which the entrants' fee is held; and

          (E)  The operator's exemption certificate number from the tax imposed by title 67, chapter 6, or the operator's sales tax registration number.

(b)  (1)  Except as provided in subsection (d), each operator shall, at the time of registration, file and have approved by the division of consumer affairs, a bond in which the candidate for registration shall be the principal obligor in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000).

     (2)  Such bond shall be payable to the state of Tennessee for the use of the division of consumer affairs and any person who may have a cause of action against the obligor of the bond for any losses caused by a failure to conduct a beauty pageant.

(c)  (1)  Except as provided in subsection (d), each operator shall, at the time of registration, submit a nonrefundable registration fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).

     (2)  In order to continue to hold a valid registration in a subsequent year each operator shall annually renew the operator's registration.

     (3)  Such an annual renewal shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fifty-dollar ($50.00) fee.

     (4)  Each registration shall expire on December 31 of each year.

(d)  A bona fide civic club in existence for one (1) year, a community fair, a county fair, a district fair or a division fair as defined in § 43-21-104, or any other regional fair, or a religious organization or church, or a local governmental entity or organizations auxiliary to or affiliated with such local governmental entities, including, but not necessarily limited to, school booster clubs, shall be exempt from the requirements of subsections (b) and (c).

[Acts 1980, ch. 846, § 3; 1982, ch. 570, § 2; 1984, ch. 728, § 15; 1986, ch. 593, § 1; 1999, ch. 55, §§ 1, 2, 6.]