Tenn. Code Ann. § 62-6-511: False documentation

Any person who accepts or receives a completion certificate or other evidence that performance of a home improvement contract is complete or satisfactorily concluded, with knowledge that the document is false and that the performance is not completed, or who utters, offers or uses the document in connection with the making or accepting of any assignment or negotiation of the right to receive any payment from the owner, under or in connection with a home improvement contract, or for the purpose of obtaining or granting any credit or loan on the security of the right to receive any payment, as mentioned in this section, knowing or having good reason to know the document to be false, commits a Class A misdemeanor.