Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 36 > Chapter 5 - Alimony and Child Support

• Active and in good standing as reflected in the records of the secretary of state: means a corporation, limited liability company, or partnership that is in existence, registered or authorized to transact business in this state as reflected in the records of the secretary of state. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Aesthetics: means any of the following practices:
  (A) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or similar work with hands or mechanical or electrical apparatus or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Age of majority: means eighteen (18) years of age or older. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Agriculture: means :
  (i) The land, buildings and machinery used in the commercial production of farm products and nursery stock. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alluvial valley floors: means the unconsolidated stream laid deposits holding streams where water availability is sufficient for subirrigation or flood irrigation agricultural activities but does not include upland areas that are generally overlain by a thin veneer of colluvial deposits composed chiefly of debris from sheet erosion, deposits by unconcentrated runoff or slope wash, together with talus, other mass movement accumulation, and windblown deposits. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• applicant: means a person applying for a permit. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Approximate original contour: means that surface configuration achieved by backfilling and grading of the mined area so that the reclaimed area, including any terracing or access roads, closely resembles the general surface configuration of the land prior to mining, and blends into and complements the drainage pattern of the surrounding terrain, with all highwalls and spoil piles eliminated. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Area affected: means the area of land from which overburden is to be or has been removed and upon which a spoil bank is to be or has been deposited. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Arrears: means any child support or spousal support associated with a child support order owed under a court or administrative order that is delinquent pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles of conversion: means articles under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Articles of merger: means articles under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means any corporation organized under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 59-13-103
• Association: means the Tennessee insurance guaranty association. See Tennessee Code 4-31-803
• Assumed name: means any name used by a domestic limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, other than the limited partnership's true name. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attest: means providing the following services:
  (A) Any audit or other engagement to be performed in accordance with the Statements on Auditing Standards (SAS). See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Authority: means the Tennessee local development authority, a public agency and instrumentality of the state, created by this chapter, or if such authority shall be abolished, the board, body, commission or agency succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers and duties granted or imposed upon the authority shall be given by law. See Tennessee Code 4-31-102
• Authority: means the Tennessee local development authority. See Tennessee Code 4-31-1003
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Bench: means the ledge, shelf or terrace formed in the contour method of surface mining. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Blockchain: means a decentralized data system in which the data stored is mathematically verifiable that uses distributed ledger technology, as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 9-3-602
• Board: means the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners created by §. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Board: means the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas created by §. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Board: means the state board of accountancy established under §. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Board: means the Tennessee board of water quality, oil, and gas, established by §. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Board: means the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Board: means the state board of examiners for architects and engineers. See Tennessee Code 62-2-902
• Board: means the underground storage tanks and solid waste disposal control board created pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Bond: means any bond authorized and issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 4-31-102
• Bonds: means all bonds, notes or other obligations issued by the authority under this part. See Tennessee Code 4-31-803
• Business: means every trade, occupation, and profession and any other activity, including the holding or ownership of property, entered into for profit. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Certificate: means a certificate as certified public accountant issued under §. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate referred to in §. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Child: means a person entitled to support from such person's parents by virtue of such person's minority or who is entitled to support as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
• Child support order: means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Clerk: means the clerk of the transferor or transferee court, or the clerk of any court who has been designated by either of those courts to collect support payments for such court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Clerk: means the clerk of the original or registering court, or the clerk of any court who has been designated by either of those courts to collect support payments for such court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Client: means a person or entity that agrees to receive any professional service from a licensee. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Coal: means coal and all of its derivatives. See Tennessee Code 59-13-103
• Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of revenue, or the commissioner's authorized delegate. See Tennessee Code 60-3-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of human services. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's duly authorized representative. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's designees. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation, the commissioner of environment and conservation's duly authorized representatives, and in the event of absence or a vacancy in the office of commissioner, the deputy commissioner. See Tennessee Code 59-8-304
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation, the commissioner's authorized representatives, or in the event of the commissioner's absence or a vacancy in the commissioner's office, the deputy commissioner. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's authorized agent. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Condensate: means liquid hydrocarbons that were in the gaseous phase in the reservoir in initial reservoir conditions. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Confirmation of good standing: means confirmation by the commissioner of revenue issued through electronic communication to the secretary of state or a certificate of tax clearance that at the time such confirmation is issued a limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership is current on all taxes and penalties to the satisfaction of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Confirmation of good standing: means confirmation by the commissioner of revenue issued through electronic communication to the secretary of state or a certificate of tax clearance that at the time such confirmation is issued a limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership is current on all taxes and penalties to the satisfaction of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Construction: means the building, reconstruction, creation, replacement, extension, repairing, betterment, improvement, alteration, equipment, extension, or acquisition, including, but not limited to, the acquisition of land and of rights in land, the engineering, architectural designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, and other action necessary in the construction of such capital projects, and the inspection and supervision of such capital projects. See Tennessee Code 4-31-1003
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contribution: means any cash, property, services rendered or a promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services, which a partner contributes to a limited partnership in his capacity as a partner. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Convention: means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Conversion: means a transaction authorized by §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Converted entity: means the converting entity as the converting entity continues in existence after a conversion. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Converting entity: means the domestic entity that approves a plan of conversion pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Cosmetology: means any of the following practices:
  (A) Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring or similar work on the hair of any person by any means. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Cosmetology shop: means any place of business where any person engages or offers to engage in any practice of cosmetology for a fee or other form of compensation, but does not include a manicure shop, skin care shop, natural hair styling shop, or eyelash services shop. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Court: means , except as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Court: means a juvenile, circuit, or chancery court or other court of this state with jurisdiction to enter support or custody orders. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Court of record: means a court of equity jurisdiction in the county where the partnership maintains its registered office, or if it maintains no registered office in any county, then in a court of equity jurisdiction in Davidson County. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Cryptocurrency: means a virtual currency that utilizes cryptography to validate and secure transactions that are digitally recorded through distributed ledger technology. See Tennessee Code 9-3-602
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of revenue. See Tennessee Code 60-3-102
• Department: means the department of environment and conservation, or, if the department shall be abolished, the board, body, commission or agency succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers and duties granted or imposed upon the department shall be given by law. See Tennessee Code 4-31-102
• Department: means the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Department: means the department of human services or its contractor or other designee. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
• Department: means the department of human services or its contractor or designee. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Department: means the department of human services or its contractor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 59-8-304
• Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Department: means the department of environment and conservation through its executive officer, the commissioner of environment and conservation, or the commissioner's legally designated representative. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Designated manager: means a person licensed under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity of the shop in the absence of the manager. See Tennessee Code 62-3-109
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the division of water pollution control. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner or to the partner's transferee. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Distributional interest: means the right under an unincorporated entity's organic law and organic rules to receive distributions from the entity. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• domestic: means a partnership that has filed an application for registration as a registered limited liability partnership under §. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dual shop: means any shop licensed by the board where services are performed or offered to be performed in more than one (1) field of cosmetology, including aesthetics, natural hair styling, manicuring, and eyelash services, or in both cosmetology, or a field of cosmetology, and barbering. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Duty of support: means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Employee: means an individual who is an employee within the meaning of Chapter 24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 ( 26 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
• Employer: has the meaning given such term in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Event of withdrawal of a general partner: means an event that causes a person to cease to be a general partner as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Eyelash services: means applying and removing a semi-permanent, thread-like, natural or synthetic single fiber to an eyelash, including cleansing of the eye area and lashes prior to applying and after removing extensions. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Eyelash services shop: means a place of business where a person licensed pursuant to this chapter performs or offers to perform only eyelash services for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal lands: means any land, including mineral interests, owned by the United States without regard to how the United States acquired ownership of the land and without regard to the agency having responsibility for management thereof, except Indian land. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Federal program: means a program established by the secretary pursuant to 30 U. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Filing: means the initiation of judicial action by the completion of a motion or petition seeking to order the alteration of a legal status through the act of sending or bringing the motion or petition to the office of the clerk of the court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Fill bench: means that portion of the bench which is formed by depositing overburden beyond the cut section. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• financial institution: means :
  (1) A depository institution, as defined in Section 3(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-814
• financial institution: shall mean :
  (1) A depository institution, as defined in Section 3(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-910
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• For exploratory purposes: means drilling of mineral test holes for the specific purpose of exploring for mineral resources. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• foreign: means a partnership that:
  (A) Is formed under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and:
  (A) Which has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Foreign limited liability limited partnership: means a foreign limited partnership whose general partners have limited liability for the debts, obligations, or other liabilities of the foreign partnership under a provision similar to §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Foreign limited partnership: includes a partnership formed under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Tennessee and having as partners one (1) or more general partners and one (1) or more limited partners. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Foreign tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country which is authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gas: means all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons not defined as oil, including condensate because it originally was in a gaseous phase in the reservoir. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• General partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement and is so named in the certificate of limited partnership or similar instrument under which the limited partnership is organized, if so required. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• General partner: means a person that:
  (A) Has become a general partner under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good standing with the department of revenue: means the secretary of state has received and verified through electronic confirmation or a certificate of tax clearance issued by the commissioner of revenue that a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or limited partnership is current on all fees, taxes, and penalties to the satisfaction of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Governance interest: means a right under the organic law or organic rules of an unincorporated entity, other than as a governor, agent, assignee, or proxy, to:
  (A) Receive or demand access to information concerning, or the books and records of, the entity. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Governmental entity: means a local governmental entity, including, but not limited to, a municipality, metropolitan government, county, utility district, school district, public building authority, and development district created and existing pursuant to the laws of this state, or an instrumentality of government created by one (1) or more of the named local governmental entities or by an act of the general assembly. See Tennessee Code 9-3-602
• Governor: means :
  (A) A director of a business corporation. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• Highwall: means a slope in excess of thirty-five degrees (35°. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Holder: includes the initial holder or purchaser (such as a loan originator), any subsequent holder (such as a successor-in-interest or subsequent purchaser of the security interest on the secondary market), any subsequent assignee, transferee or purchaser from a holder, guarantor of an obligation, surety or any other person who holds ownership who acts on behalf of or for the benefit of a holder. See Tennessee Code 68-215-201
• Home state: means the state or foreign country in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least six (6) consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than six (6) months old, the state or foreign country in which the child lived from birth with any of them. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Imminent danger to the health and safety of the public: means the existence of any condition or practice, or any violation of a permit or other requirement of this part in a surface coal mining and reclamation operation, which condition, practice, or violation could reasonably be expected to cause substantial physical harm to persons outside the permit area before the condition, practice, or violation could be abated. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Income-withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as provided for in part 5 of this chapter, to withhold support from the income of the obligor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indicia of ownership: means evidence of a security interest, evidence of an interest in a security interest, or evidence of an interest in real or personal property securing a loan or other obligations, including any legal or equitable title to real or personal property acquired incident to foreclosure and its equivalents. See Tennessee Code 68-215-201
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• individual party: means a party to the support action who is a person, but does not include a governmental agency, or the contractor or agent of such governmental agency, that is enforcing an order of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-101
• Initiating tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading is filed for forwarding to another state or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inspector: means an employee of the petroleum tax division of the department who is designated as such. See Tennessee Code 60-3-102
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Interest: means :
  (A) A share in a business corporation. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Interest holder: means :
  (A) A shareholder of a business corporation. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Interest holder liability: means :
  (A) Personal liability for a liability of an entity that is imposed on a person:

  (i) Solely by reason of the status of the person as an interest holder. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Issuing county: means the county in which a court issues a support or custody order or that renders a judgment determining parentage or to which a support or custody order has been previously transferred. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Issuing court: means the court that issues a support or custody order or renders a judgment determining parentage or to which a support or custody order has been previously transferred. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Issuing court: means the court that entered the order sought to be enforced in the registering court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Issuing state: means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Issuing tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or renders a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Jurisdiction of formation: means the jurisdiction whose laws govern the internal affairs of an entity. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Labor organization: has the meaning given such term in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
• Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Lands eligible for remining: means those lands that would otherwise be eligible for expenditures under 30 U. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Letter of good standing from the department of revenue: means a letter issued by the department of revenue that a corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or limited partnership is current on all fees, taxes, and penalties to the satisfaction of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• License: means a certificate issued under §. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• License: means a license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document issued to an individual evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in a profession, trade, occupation, business, or industry, to hunt or fish, or to operate any motor vehicle or other conveyance, but does not include a license to practice law unless the supreme court establishes guidelines pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Licensee: means the holder of a license. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Licensee: means any individual holding a license, certification, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to, or granting authority to engage in a profession, trade, occupation, business, or industry, to hunt or fish, or to operate any motor vehicle or other conveyance, but "licensee" does not include an attorney only with respect to the attorney's license to practice law unless the supreme court establishes guidelines pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Licensing authority: means the board, commission, or agency, including the department of safety, that has been established by statute or state regulation to oversee the issuance and regulation of any license. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Limited partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a limited partner as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Limited partner: means a person that:
  (A) Has become a limited partner under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Liquidating trustee: means a person, other than a general partner, but including a limited partner, carrying out the winding up of a limited partnership. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Local government unit: means any county, metropolitan government, incorporated town or city, or special district of the state, water/wastewater authority or any energy authority created by an act of the general assembly. See Tennessee Code 4-31-102
• Locality: means the county where all or the majority of a surface coal mining and reclamation operation is located. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Magistrate: means a duly licensed attorney who has been actively engaged in the practice of law for a period of not less than two (2) years appointed by court authority to set and enforce child support, to review the administrative hearing decisions of the department of human services pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
• Manager: means a person licensed under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity in the shop whose information is filed with the board. See Tennessee Code 62-3-109
• Manager: means a person licensed under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer, who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity in the shop, and whose information is filed with the board. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Manager: means a manager of a limited liability company. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Manicure shop: means any place of business where any person performs or offers to perform only manicuring services for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Manicuring: means manicuring or pedicuring the nails of any person or performing nail artistry. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Member: means actual members of associations without capital stock, and holders of common stock in associations organized with capital stock. See Tennessee Code 59-13-103
• Member: means a member of a limited liability company. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Merger: means a transaction authorized by §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Merging entity: means an entity that is a party to a merger and exists immediately before the merger becomes effective. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Mineral: means , in any county having a population of more than six hundred thousand (600,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, clay, stone, gravel, sand, phosphate rock, metallic ore and any other solid material or substance of commercial value found in natural deposits on or in the earth, but does not include limestone, coal, marble, chert or dimension stone. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Mineral: means any substance with economic value whether organic or inorganic that can be extracted from the earth, but excluding oil and gas. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Mineral test hole: means any hole in excess of one hundred feet (100') drilled during the exploration for minerals but excludes auger drilling in surficial or otherwise unconsolidated material, drilling in conjunction with mining or quarrying operations, drill holes for the exploration of oil and/or gas, water, structural foundations, and seismic surveys. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Municipality: means any county, incorporated city or town, school district, utility district, improvement district, taxing district, housing authority, industrial development board, health and educational facilities board, or other district, authority, commission, board, public body or political subdivision in this state. See Tennessee Code 9-3-102
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Natural hair styling: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking or braiding of the hair by hand or mechanical appliances, which work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl or alter the structure of the hair. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Natural hair styling shop: means a place of business where a person licensed pursuant to this chapter performs or offers to perform only natural hair styling for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Natural hair stylist: means a person licensed to practice natural hair styling. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Nonrequesting party: means the party against whom a registered order is sought to be enforced. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Not in compliance with an order of support: means that the obligor is five hundred dollars ($500) or more in arrears and the arrears are ninety (90) days or more past due. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Obligee: means :
  (A) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Obligee: means any individual to whom a duty of support is owed or any state or political subdivision to whom such duty has been assigned or that is collecting support on behalf of an obligee. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Obligee: means an individual or agency to whom a support obligation is owed by an obligor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Obligor: means an individual, or the estate of a decedent that:
  (A) Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Obligor: means any individual owing a duty of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Obligor: means an individual against whom a support order has been entered. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• obligor: means a person whose petroleum underground storage tank or UST system is encumbered by a security interest. See Tennessee Code 68-215-201
• Office: means the office of surface mining reclamation and enforcement, established by the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Oil: means crude petroleum that was originally in an oil phase in the reservoir. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Oil or substance: means any oil or substance described in §. See Tennessee Code 60-3-102
• Operation: means all of the premises, facilities, and equipment and the use thereof in the process of removing and exploring for minerals from a designated surface mine area. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Operation: means the use, storage, filling or dispensing of petroleum contained in a petroleum underground storage tank or a UST system. See Tennessee Code 68-215-201
• Operator: means any person who owns or is directly responsible for a business involved in some phase of the production, manufacture, refining or distribution of petroleum oil or natural gas. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Operator: means any person, partnership, or corporation engaged in coal mining who removes or intends to remove more than two hundred fifty (250) tons of coal from the earth by coal mining within twelve (12) consecutive months in any one (1) location. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Operator: means any person, partnership or corporation engaged in surface mining who removes or intends to remove more than two hundred fifty (250) tons of any mineral from the earth by surface mining within twelve (12) successive calendar months. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Operator: means the person, whether owner or not, supervising or responsible for drilling, operating, repairing, abandoning or plugging of mineral test holes subject to this part. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Operator: means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of the petroleum underground storage tank. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Order of support: means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including an order in a final decree of divorce, or any order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law in this or another state that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• Organic law: means the law of an entity's jurisdiction of formation governing the internal affairs of the entity. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Organic rules: means the public organic record and private organic rules of an entity. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Other minerals: means clay, stone, sand, gravel, metalliferous and nonmetalliferous ores, and any other solid material or substances of commercial value excavated in solid form from natural deposits on or in the earth, exclusive of coal and those minerals that occur naturally in liquid or gaseous form. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Outside this state: means a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Overburden: means all earth and other materials which are removed to gain access to the mineral in the process of surface mining. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means the person who has the right to drill into and to produce from any pool, and to appropriate the production for such person or others. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Owner: means the person who has or attains the right to drill, convert or operate any mineral test hole subject to this part. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Owner: means :
  (A) For petroleum storage tanks in use or brought into use on or after November 8, 1984, any person who owns a petroleum underground storage tank used for the storage, use, or dispensing of petroleum products. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• PA firm: means a sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership or any other form of organization issued a permit under §. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Partner: means a limited or general partner. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Partner: means a limited partner or general partner. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Partnership: means an association of two (2) or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business or other undertaking for profit formed under §. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether written, oral, or implied, among the partners concerning the partnership, including amendments to the partnership agreement. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Partnership agreement: means any agreement, written or oral, of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Partnership at will: means a partnership in which the partners have not agreed to remain partners until the expiration of a definite term or the completion of a particular undertaking. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Partnership interest: means a partner's share of the profits and losses of a limited partnership and the right to receive distributions of partnership assets. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Peer review: means a study, appraisal or review of one (1) or more aspects of the professional work of a CPA firm that performs attest services by a qualified person or persons who hold certificates and who are not affiliated with the CPA firm being reviewed. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Pension plan: means the defined benefit pension plan established and maintained by a political subdivision for its employees, excluding a political subdivision's participation in the Tennessee consolidated retirement system pursuant to title 8, chapters 34-37. See Tennessee Code 9-3-503
• Permit: means a permit to practice as a CPA firm issued under §. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Permit: means a permit to conduct surface coal mining and reclamation operations issued by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Permit area: means the area of land indicated on the approved map submitted by the operator with the operator's application, which area of land is covered by the operator's bond as required by §. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Permittee: means a person holding, or required by this part or rules promulgated by the commissioner to hold, a permit. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, and association. See Tennessee Code 59-13-103
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Person: means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, fiduciary or representative of any kind. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, estate, trust, partnership (whether general or limited), association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity in its own or any representative capacity, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Person: means a natural person, a foreign or domestic partnership (whether general or limited), trust, estate, association, corporation, custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity in its own or any representative capacity. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, cooperative association, unincorporated nonprofit association, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Person: means an individual, partnership, association, society, governmental agency or entity, joint stock company, firm, company, corporation, or other business organization. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation or any other association of individuals. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Person: means any individual, corporation, company, association, joint venture, partnership, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, personal representative or private organization of any kind. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Person: means any and all persons, including individuals, firms, partnerships, associations, public or private institutions, state and federal agencies, municipalities or political subdivisions, or officers thereof, departments, agencies or instrumentalities, or public or private corporations or officers thereof, organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or country. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Person: means any and all persons, natural or artificial, including any individual, firm or association and any municipal or private corporation organized or existing under the laws of this or any other state or country. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Petitioner: means a person or governmental entity seeking to be awarded or to enforce support for a child, or seeking to modify a previous child support order. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
• Petroleum: means crude oil or any fraction of crude oil which is a liquid at standard temperature and pressure (sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60°. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Petroleum site: means any site or area where a petroleum underground storage tank is located. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Petroleum underground storage tank: means any one (1) or combination of tanks (including the underground lines connected thereto) which are used or have been used to contain an accumulation of petroleum substances, and the volume of which (including the volume of the underground pipes connected thereto) is ten percent (10%) or more beneath the surface of the ground. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Petroleum underground storage tank fund: means the fund established by this chapter to provide for the cleanup of releases from petroleum underground storage tanks and assist with the financial responsibilities of owners/operators of petroleum underground storage tanks. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan: means a plan of merger, plan of conversion, or plan of domestication. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Plan of conversion: means a plan under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Plan of merger: means a plan under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Political subdivision: means any local governmental entity, including, but not limited to any municipality, metropolitan government, county, utility district, school district, public building authority, housing authority, emergency communications district, and development district created and existing pursuant to the laws of this state, or any instrumentality of government created by any one (1) or more of the named local governmental entities. See Tennessee Code 9-3-503
• Political subdivision employee: means any person in the employ of a political subdivision who participates in the political subdivision's pension plan. See Tennessee Code 9-3-503
• Pollution: means such alteration of the physical, chemical, biological, bacteriological, or radiological properties of the waters, soils, animal, fish and aquatic life or surface property of this state as will:
  (A) Result or will likely result in harm, potential harm, or detriment to the public health, safety, or welfare. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Pool: means an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Potable water supply: means any public or other water supply, the quality of which is approved by the department for human consumption. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Primarily to protect a security interest: means that the holder's indicia of ownership are held primarily for the purpose of securing payment or performance of an obligation, but does not include indicia of ownership held primarily for investment purposes, nor ownership indicia held primarily for purposes other than as a protection of a security interest. See Tennessee Code 68-215-201
• Principal office: means the principal executive office of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, whether or not the office is located in this state. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional: means arising out of or related to the specialized knowledge or skills associated with CPAs. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Property: means all property, whether real, personal, mixed, or tangible or intangible, or any right or interest in such property. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protected agreement: means :
  (A) A record evidencing indebtedness and any related agreement in effect on the date the entity becomes subject to this chapter pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Provisions of this part: means the rules, regulations and orders issued by the commissioner pursuant to this part as well as the words of the sections themselves. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Public accountant: means a person holding a registration issued under §. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public sewerage system: means the conduits, sewers, and all devices and appurtenances by means of which sewage is collected, pumped, treated or disposed of finally. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• Public water supply: means any waterworks system as defined in subdivision (12), whether privately or publicly owned, where water is furnished to any community, collection or number of individuals for a fee or charge or any other waterworks system which, on account of the people who are or may be affected by the quality of the water, is classified as a public water supply by the department. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Reclamation: means the process of backfilling, grading and shaping of the disturbed land in the affected area, constructing water control facilities, the taking of measures to control current or future air, water or soil pollution, and the planting of vegetation, and other measures. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Reclamation plan: means a plan submitted by an applicant for a permit under §. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Record: when used as a noun, means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Register: means to file in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Registered foreign entity: means a foreign entity that is registered to do business in this state pursuant to a record filed by the secretary of state. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Registered foreign limited partnership: means a foreign limited partnership that is registered to do business in this state pursuant to a statement of registration filed by the secretary of state. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Registered interior designer: means a person registered to use the title "registered interior designer" under this part. See Tennessee Code 62-2-902
• Registering court: means the court in which a support order is registered for enforcement only. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Registering tribunal: means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Registration: means the registration issued to a public accountant under §. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Release: means any spilling, overfilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching or disposing of a petroleum substance from a petroleum underground storage tank or its associated piping into groundwater, surface water, or subsurface soils. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Report: when used with reference to attest services, means an opinion, report or other form of language that states or implies assurance as to the reliability of any financial statements or assertion. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Request: means a statement of a requesting party seeking transfer of a custody or child support case to the court of another county. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Requesting party: means custodial parent, noncustodial parent or, in Title IV-D child support cases, the department or its contractor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Required information: means the information that a limited partnership is required to maintain under §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Respondent: means a person from whom child support is sought or a person in opposition to modification of a prior order. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
• Responding state: means a state in which a petition or comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded for filing from another state or a foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Responding tribunal: means the authorized tribunal in a responding state or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Responsible party: means :
  (i) The owner and/or operator of a petroleum site. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restricted license: means a license that allows a person to operate a motor vehicle for the limited purposes of going to and from and working at the person's regular place of employment and going to and from the person's school and does not include a commercial driver license of any kind. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
• review committee: means any person or persons carrying out, administering or overseeing peer review. See Tennessee Code 62-1-201
• right of contribution: means property or a benefit described in §. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Right of offset: Banks' legal right to seize funds that a guarantor or debtor may have on deposit to cover a loan in default. It is also known as the right of set-off. ^{Source: OCC}
• Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Rule: means any rule, regulation or other written directive of general application duly adopted by the board in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Safety razor: means a razor that is fitted with a guard close to the cutting edge of the razor that is intended to:
  (A) Prevent the razor from cutting too deeply. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Savings and loan association: includes a building and loan association, a federal or state savings and loan association, a federal savings bank, and any other financial institution, the accounts of which are insured by the [former] federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor [repealed] of such corporation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• School: means a school of cosmetology. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Secretary: means the secretary of the interior. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Secretary of state: means the secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Security interest: includes , but is not limited to, mortgages, deeds of trust, liens and title pursuant to lease financing transaction. See Tennessee Code 68-215-201
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Sewage: means all water-carried human and household wastes from residences, buildings, institutions or industrial establishments, together with such ground, surface, or storm water as may be present. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Shampooing: means any brushing, combing, shampooing, rinsing or conditioning upon the hair and scalp. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Shaping: means grading, backfilling and other earth moving required by this part to be done by the operator in connection with the reclamation of the area affected. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Shop: means a cosmetology shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, natural hair styling shop, or eyelash services shop. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
  (A) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Skin care shop: means any place of business where any person performs or offers to perform exclusively aesthetics services for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Spoil bank: means the overburden as it is piled or deposited in the process of surface mining. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Spousal support: as used in this part , means a legally enforceable obligation assessed against an individual for the support of a spouse or former spouse who is living with a child or children for whom the individual also owes support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1002
• Spousal support order: means a support order for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 4-31-102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession under the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and Guam, except that "this state" means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Statement: means a statement of partnership authority under §. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Stream: means any waterway that normally exhibits water flow at least six (6) consecutive months per year. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subscription: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Substantial equivalency: is a determination by the board of accountancy or its designee that the education, examination and experience requirements contained in the statutes and administrative rules of another jurisdiction are comparable to or exceed the education, examination and experience requirements contained in this chapter or that an individual CPA's education, examination and experience qualifications are comparable to or exceed the education, examination and experience requirements contained in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-1-103
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervisor: means the commissioner of environment and conservation or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 60-1-101
• Supervisor: means the commissioner or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 60-1-503
• Support enforcement agency: means a public official, governmental entity, or private agency authorized to:
  (A) Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Surface coal mining and reclamation operations: means surface coal mining operations and all activities necessary and incident to the reclamation of surface coal mining operations occurring on and after May 26, 2021. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Surface coal mining operations: means :
  (A) Activities conducted on the surface of lands in connection with a surface coal mine or subject to §. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Surface mining: means all or any part of the process followed in the production of minerals from a natural mineral deposit by the open pit or open cut method, auger method, highwall mining method which requires a new cut or removal of overburden, or any other mining process in which the strata or overburden is removed or displaced in order to recover the mineral. See Tennessee Code 59-8-202
• Surviving entity: means the entity that continues in existence after or is created by a merger. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Tank: means a stationary device, designed to contain an accumulation of petroleum substances which is constructed primarily of non-earthen materials (e. See Tennessee Code 68-215-103
• Tax clearance for termination or withdrawal: means confirmation by the commissioner of revenue issued through electronic communication to the secretary of state or a certificate of tax clearance that a limited liability partnership or a foreign limited liability partnership has filed all applicable reports, including, but not limited to, a final report, and has paid all fees, penalties and taxes as required by the revenue laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Tax clearance for termination or withdrawal: means confirmation by the commissioner of revenue issued through electronic communication to the secretary of state or a certificate of tax clearance that a limited partnership or a foreign limited partnership has filed all applicable reports, including, but not limited to, a final report, and has paid all fees, penalties and taxes as required by the revenue laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 61-2-101
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Title IV-D agency: means the agency designated pursuant to Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act ( 42 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer: means an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See Tennessee Code 61-1-101
• Transfer: includes :
  (A) An assignment. See Tennessee Code 61-3-101
• Transfer: means the process by which the transferor court, upon request, moves the case to a court where the child resides thereby conferring jurisdiction on the transferee court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Transferee court: means the court that assumes jurisdiction upon a transfer of a case. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Transferor court: means the court from which a case is transferred to another court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Type of entity: means a generic form of entity:
  (A) Recognized at common law. See Tennessee Code 61-3-1101
• Unfunded accrued liability: means the actuarially determined accrued liabilities of the pension plan that are greater than the actuarially determined value of the pension plan assets. See Tennessee Code 9-3-503
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• UST system: means an underground storage tank, connected underground piping, underground ancillary equipment and containment system, if any. See Tennessee Code 68-215-201
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Virtual currency: means a digital representation of value that functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of discount, or a store of value, but does not have legal tender status in the United States. See Tennessee Code 9-3-602
• Waterworks system: means the source of supply and all structures and appurtenances used for the collection, treatment, storage and distribution of water delivered to the consumers. See Tennessee Code 68-221-101
• willfully: means that a person acted:
  (A) Intentionally, voluntarily, or consciously. See Tennessee Code 59-8-102
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105