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A Tennessee producer continues violating a licensing provision for several weeks after being ordered to stop. How does Tennessee law treat the duration of the continuing violation when penalties are assessed?
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Why A is correct
Under T.C.A. § 56-6-112(g), each day of continued violation constitutes a separate violation, so a producer who ignores a cease-and-desist order watches per-violation penalties multiply day by day, up to the $100,000 aggregate cap. The rule gives the Commissioner a strong enforcement lever: stopping promptly limits exposure, while persistence compounds the monetary penalty.
Why the other options are wrong
- B) Counting a continuing violation once would defeat the statute's purpose; Tennessee expressly counts each day separately.
- C) No in-person warning is a precondition — the day-count mechanism operates by statute once the violation continues.
- D) Duration is central: each additional day of violation is a new violation subject to its own penalty.
Memory hook
Every day you keep breaking it is a brand-new violation.