Tennessee § 48-1-120 - Judicial review.

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§ 48-1-120. Judicial review.

Any person aggrieved by a final order of the commissioner under this part may obtain judicial review of the order in the chancery court of Davidson County by proceedings in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. Acts 1980, ch. 866, § 20; T.C.A., § 48-16-120 ; T.C.A., § 48-2-120 . Code Commission Notes. Former § 48-2-120 was transferred to § 48-1-120 by the code commission in 2012. Compiler's Notes. The Securities Law of 1955, formerly codified as §§ 48-1601 — 48-1653, was repealed by Acts 1980, ch. 886, § 27. However, the section also contained a savings provision referring to former §§ 48-1601 — 48-1653 which read: “(b) Prior law exclusively governs all suits, actions, prosecutions, or proceedings which are pending or may be initiated on the basis of facts or circumstances occurring before the effective date of this Act, except that no civil suit or action may be maintained to enforce any liability under prior law unless brought within any period of limitation which applied when the cause of action accrued and in any event within two years after the effective date of this Act. “(c) All effective registrations under prior law, all administrative orders relating to such registrations, and all conditions imposed upon such registrations remain in effect so long as they would have remained in effect if this Act had not been passed. They are considered to have been filed, entered, or imposed under this Act, but are governed by prior law. “(d) Prior law applies in respect of any sale made within one year after the effective date of this Act pursuant to an offering exempt under prior law which offering was begun in good faith before such effective date. “(e) Judicial review of all administrative orders as to which review proceedings have not been instituted by the effective date of this Act are governed by Section 20, except that no review proceeding may be instituted unless the petition is filed within any period of limitation which applied to a review proceeding when the order was entered and in any event within 60 days after the effective date of this Act.” The effective date of the Act was July 2, 1980.

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