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Commission approves reduced penalties, orders licensed salespeople at three auction locations
Summary
The Tennessee Motor Vehicle Commission adopted an amended legal report directing $5,000 civil penalties for unlicensed salesperson activity at three auction-affiliated dealer locations and ordered each respondent to obtain a licensed salesperson within 10 days; the full commission adopted the legal report with one abstention.
The Tennessee Motor Vehicle Commission on Jan. 28 approved an amended legal report calling for $5,000 civil penalties for unlicensed-salesperson activity at three dealer locations tied to a single auction company and required each respondent to secure a licensed salesperson within 10 days.
Commissioners said the cases involved the same business operating at three separate locations that had not held required salesperson licenses since 2017 despite reporting a small number of retail-titled vehicles on annual sales reports. Legal staff told the commission auditor inspection records had not identified the missing licenses until recently.
The commission’s legal committee members discussed possible mitigating factors,…
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