Section 0680-01-.28 - TEMPORARY LICENSING(1) Hardships or Emergency Actions(a) The Executive Director is permitted to approve increases in the monetary limits and to consider timely licensure applications or renewal applications for which there are no evident impediments to licensure and for which loss of substantial business is imminent if licensure is delayed. The Executive Director shall obtain consent of at least one (1) Board member for purposes of considering the issuance of the temporary license.(b) The application for a temporary license may be denied or delayed in order to request more information regarding a contractor's financial statement or any other issue which is deemed to have a possible detrimental effect to the public safety and welfare.(c) Notice of emergency actions shall be posted on the Board's website and shall be scheduled as the first agenda item at the next scheduled meeting of the Board in order that the Board may review and, in its discretion, modify the actions of the executive director.(d) Applicants who wish to apply for an hardship license shall submit the following: 1. Contractor's License Application2. Written request from the project owner describing the hardship and letter must include: details of the hardship; reason the hardship application process should be utilized; reason for requiring the use of the applicant contractor as opposed to a currently licensed contractor; description of the project and location; and the bid date, if applicable(e) The Board must ratify the issuance of a hardship license at their next regularly scheduled board meeting. The Board may deny the license or terminate the temporary license by providing written notice of the rejection within fifteen (15) days of the board meeting.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 0680-01-.28
Original rule filed October 9, 2012; effective January 7, 2013. Amendments filed June 8, 2017; to have been effective September 6, 2017. However, the Government Operations Committee filed a 45-day stay of the effective date of the rules on August 17, 2017; new effective date 10/21/2017.Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-3-1304, 62-6-108, 62-6-109, 62-6-111, 62-6-116, and 62-6-117.