Section 57-3-213 - Expiration of licenses - Renewal(a) Each license shall expire twelve (12) months following the date of its issuance. The commission is authorized to issue renewal licenses for all qualified persons licensed as of July 1, 1981 for a period of time greater than three (3) months but less than a year so as to distribute expiration dates throughout the year, for the year following July 1, 1981 only. The license fee or the proportionate part thereof prescribed by this chapter shall be paid in advance at the time the application for renewal is made as provided by this chapter.(b) Each license issued pursuant to this chapter may be renewed upon application therefor by the licensee. The renewal application shall be accompanied by the payment of the annual fee for such license. Each license shall automatically expire twelve (12) months from the date of its issuance unless the licensee has filed a renewal application and paid the annual license fee or privilege tax required by this title.(c) The commission shall consider the application with all other evidence which it may obtain by investigation or otherwise in determining whether the license is to be renewed. The commission shall make such order, as the entire record justifies, granting or refusing the renewal application, and such order shall be effective from its date. If the license is not renewed, the applicant is entitled to the hearing and notice requirements as set out in § 57-3-214.Amended by 2019 Tenn. Acts, ch. 136, s 1, eff. 8/1/2019.Acts 1939, ch. 49, § 14; 1949, ch. 284, § 6; C. Supp. 1950, § 6648.17; Acts 1951, ch. 52, § 5; impl. am. Acts 1963, ch. 257, § 29; Acts 1976, ch. 438, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 57-126; Acts 1981, ch. 152, § 2; 1982, ch. 577, § 1; 1985, ch. 76, § 1.