2010 Tennessee Code
Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades
Chapter 43 - Tennessee Employee Leasing Act
62-43-114 - Deceptive practices.
62-43-114. Deceptive practices.
The following acts and omissions are deemed to constitute deceptive practices and are prohibited for staff leasing companies and staff leasing groups:
(1) Making, issuing, circulating or causing to be made, issued or circulated, any estimate, illustration, circular, statement, advertisement, sales presentation, omission or comparison that misrepresents the benefits, advantages, conditions or terms of any staff leasing arrangement or is otherwise untrue, deceptive or misleading;
(2) Entering into any agreement to commit or, by any concerted action, committing any act of boycott, coercion or intimidation resulting in or tending to result in unreasonable restraint of or monopoly in the business of employee leasing;
(3) Filing with the commissioner or other public official or making, publishing, disseminating, circulating, or delivering to any person, or placing before the public or causing, directly or indirectly, to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or delivered to any person, any false statement of financial condition of a person with intent to deceive;
(4) Knowingly making any false entry of a material fact in any book, report or statement of any person or knowingly omitting to make a true entry of any material fact pertaining to the business of the person in any book, report or statement of that person;
(5) Permitting to be used or using, permitting to be filed or filing, any name, trade name, fictitious name or business identity which is the same as, similar to or may be confused with the name, trade name, fictitious name or business identity of an existing licensee, any governmental agency or any nonprofit organization; or
(6) Any other practice that the commissioner determines by regulation, rule or otherwise after notice and hearing to be a deceptive practice.
[Acts 1994, ch. 950, § 15.]
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