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2017 Tennessee Code
Title 55 - Motor and Other Vehicles
Chapter 6 - Fees and Duties of Officers Under Title and Registration Law -- Disposition of Funds
§ 55-6-102. Fees returnable -- Causes.
Universal Citation: TN Code § 55-6-102 (2017)
- (a) Whenever any application to the department or any county clerk is accompanied by any fee as required by law, and the application is refused or rejected, the fee shall be returned to the applicant.
- (b) Whenever the department, or any county clerk of the state, through error, collects any fee not required to be paid hereunder, the fee shall be refunded to the person paying the fee upon application made within six (6) months after the date of the payment.
- (c) Whenever the department declines to issue a certificate of title to any purchaser of a motor vehicle required to be registered hereunder, the applicant may, if the applicant has already applied for and received a registration of the motor vehicle, at any time within five (5) days from receipt of formal notice that the applicant's application for a certificate of title has been rejected, surrender the applicant's certificate of registration and registration plate or plates issued for the motor vehicle to the county clerk from whom they were purchased and be thereby entitled to an immediate refund of all the fees paid by the applicant for the registration of the motor vehicle, except, however, that the applicant shall not be entitled to any part of fees paid to the county clerk by virtue of § 55-4-207.
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