Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 38 > Chapter 2 - Self Defense

• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States environmental protection agency (EPA), or the administrator's designated representative. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Board: means the Tennessee board of water quality, oil and gas as established by §. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation, the commissioner's duly authorized representative, and, in the event of the commissioner's absence or a vacancy in the office of commissioner, the deputy commissioner. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Contaminant: means any physical, chemical, biological or radiological substance or matter in water. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Director: means the director of the division of water supply. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Division: means the division of water supply of the department. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Drinking water regulations: means regulations promulgated pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Federal act: means the Safe Drinking Water Act, P. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Maximum contaminant level: means the maximum permissible level of a contaminant in water which is delivered to any user of a public water system. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• National primary drinking water regulations: means primary drinking water regulations, as amended, promulgated by the administrator pursuant to the federal act. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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 68-221-703
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Public water system: means a system for the provision of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if such serves fifteen (15) or more connections or which regularly serves twenty-five (25) or more individuals daily at least sixty (60) days out of the year. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• 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
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Streams: includes any river, creek, slough or natural water course in which water usually flows in a defined bed or channel. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Waters: means any and all water, public or private, on or beneath the surface of the ground, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon Tennessee, or any portion thereof, except those bodies of water confined to and retained within the limits of private property in single ownership which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. See Tennessee Code 68-221-703
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105