Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 38 > Chapter 1 > Part 9 - Sexual Assault Response Team Act

• Adult: means a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older or otherwise emancipated. See Tennessee Code 38-1-902
• Board: means the board of medical examiners, created by chapter 6 of this title. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Committee: means the committee for clinical perfusion. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Division: means the division of health related boards. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• 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.
• 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.
• Licensed clinical perfusionist: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Perfusion: means the functions necessary for the support, treatment, measurement or supplementation of the cardiovascular, circulatory or respiratory systems, or other organs, or a combination of such activities, and to ensure the safe management of physiologic functions by monitoring and analyzing the parameters of the systems under an order and under the supervision of a licensed physician, including:
  (A) The use of extracorporeal circulation, long-term cardiopulmonary support techniques including extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and associated therapeutic and diagnostic technologies. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Provisional licensed clinical perfusionist: means a person provisionally licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Sexual assault: means a criminal offense under title 39, chapter 13, part 5, involving unlawful sexual penetration or unwanted sexual contact. See Tennessee Code 38-1-902
• Sexual contact: means the same as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 38-1-902
• Sexual penetration: means the same as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 38-1-902
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. 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
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105