2021 Tennessee Code
Title 47 - Commercial Instruments and Transactions
Chapter 18 - Consumer Protection
Part 6 - Rental-Purchase Agreements
§ 47-18-609. Renegotiations — Extensions

Universal Citation: TN Code § 47-18-609 (2021)
  1. A renegotiation occurs when an existing rental-purchase agreement is satisfied and replaced by a new lease agreement undertaken by the same consumer. A renegotiation is a new agreement requiring new disclosures. However, events such as the following shall not be treated as renegotiations:

    1. The addition or return of property in a multiple item agreement or the substitution of lease property, if in either case the average payment allocable to a payment period is not changed by more than twenty-five percent (25%);

    2. A deferral or extension of one (1) or more periodic payments, or portions of a periodic payment;

    3. A reduction in charges in the agreement;

    4. An agreement involving a court proceeding; and

    5. Any other event described in regulations prescribed by the attorney general.

  2. No disclosures are required for any extension of a rental-purchase agreement.
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