47-18-205 - Exceptions.
47-18-205. Exceptions.
(a) The provisions of this part shall not apply to any operator existing as a nonprofit corporation for twenty (20) years or more whose primary function involves the annual organization, promotion, and sponsorship of a statewide talent and beauty pageant in which contestants compete for scholarships, awarded by such operator, as well as for the opportunity of being Tennessee's representative and contestant in an annual nationwide talent and beauty pageant with which such operator is affiliated.
(b) The provisions of this part do not apply to any operator who operates an annual talent and beauty pageant in which the contestants have an opportunity to represent the pageant pursuant to a franchise agreement at a statewide talent and beauty pageant exempted from the provisions of this part under subsection (a).
[Acts 1980, ch. 846, § 5; 1999, ch. 114, § 1.]