Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 70 > Chapter 4 > Part 4 - Exotic Animals

• Agency: means the Tennessee wildlife resources agency. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• 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
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Big game: means deer, bear, wild turkey, and all species of large mammals that may be introduced or transplanted into this state for hunting. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Cage: means the primary enclosure in which an animal is held. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• 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
• Commercial propagator: means any person or entity that may sell, barter, trade, propagate or transfer Class I wildlife, excluding transfers to other commercial propagators located within the boundaries of Tennessee, and that meets all other applicable license, permit, zoning and other requirements necessary to conduct business in the city, county and state where located. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• Commission: means the Tennessee fish and wildlife commission. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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.
• Executive director: means the executive director of the wildlife resources agency. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Falconry: means hunting by means of a trained raptor. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Fish: means all species of trout, salmon, walleye, northern pike, bass, crappie, bluegill, catfish, perch, sunfish, drum, carp, sucker, shad, minnow, and such other species of fish that are presently found in the state or may be introduced or transplanted into this state for consumptive or nonconsumptive use. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Game birds: means all species of grouse, pheasant, woodcock, wilson snipe, crow, quail, waterfowl, gallinules, rails, mourning dove, and all species of birds that may be introduced into this state for hunting. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Hours: means the hours of the day or night when wildlife may be taken lawfully. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Hunting: means chasing, driving, flushing, attracting, pursuing, worrying, following after or on the trail of, searching for, trapping, shooting at, stalking, or lying in wait for, any wildlife, whether or not such wildlife is then or subsequently captured, killed, taken, or wounded and every act of assistance to any other person, but "hunting" does not include stalking, attracting, searching for, or lying in wait for, wildlife by an unarmed person solely for the purpose of watching wildlife or taking pictures of wildlife. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• 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.
• Mobile facility: means a facility designed for the transporting of animals or for the holding of animals on a temporary basis. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• Nonresident: means any person who is not a resident. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Perimeter fence: means a secondary fence that prevents the public from touching the cage in which the animal is held. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• Person: means an individual, association, partnership, or corporation. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Personal possession permit: means a noncommercial type permit issued to private citizens for ownership or possession of nonbreeding animals in small numbers. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• Poisonous: means any toxic substance secreted from the skin of an animal and that causes injury or death when absorbed or ingested. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402 v2
• Possession: means both actual and constructive possession, and any control of the object or objects referred to. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Resident: means any person who resides in this state for a period of ninety (90) consecutive days with the genuine intent of making this state that person's place of permanent abode, and who, when absent, intends to return to this state. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Sell: includes the offering or possessing for sale, bartering, exchanging or trading. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Small game: means fur bearers, game birds, swamp rabbits, bullfrogs, cottontail rabbits, fox squirrels, gray squirrels, red squirrels, and all species of small mammals and birds that may be introduced into this state for hunting. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• 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
• Temporary exhibitors: means those transient animal acts not permanently located within the boundaries of this state. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402
• Transport: means to carry or convey from one place to another, and includes an offer to transport, or receipt or possession for transportation. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Venomous: means any toxic substance that is actively injected by an animal through a bite or sting and that causes injury or death. See Tennessee Code 70-4-402 v2
• Wildlife: means wild vertebrates, mollusks, crustaceans, and fish. See Tennessee Code 70-1-101
• 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