Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 38 > Chapter 1 - Miscellaneous Provisions

• Adult: means a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older or otherwise emancipated. See Tennessee Code 38-1-902
• 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
• Animal: means a domesticated living creature or a wild creature previously captured. See Tennessee Code 38-1-401
• assistant: means any person certified as such pursuant to this chapter, who has:
  (A) Received on-the-job training equivalent to at least one thousand (1,000) hours of clinical training in respiratory care, during an eighteen (18) consecutive month period. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Authority: means a water and wastewater treatment authority created pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• Board: means the board of commissioners of an authority. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• Board: means the board of respiratory care. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Board: means the board of medical examiners, created by chapter 6 of this title. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Bonds: includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• Certified respiratory therapist: means any person who has obtained the credential "certified respiratory therapist" (CRT) or the credential "certified respiratory therapy technician" (CRTT) from the National Board for Respiratory Care. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of health and includes designees of the commissioner of health. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
• Committee: means the committee for clinical perfusion. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Creating governmental entity: means any city, metropolitan government or county which creates an authority pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 38-1-601
• Division: means the division of health related boards. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Division: means the division of health related boards as defined by §. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Electrologist: means any person practicing electrolysis for the permanent removal of hair. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
• Electrology: means the art and practice relating to the removal of hair from the normal skin of the human body by application of an electric current to the hair papilla by means of a needle or needles so as to cause growth inactivity of the hair papilla and thus permanently remove the hair. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
• Electrology instructor: means an electrologist who is licensed by the commissioner to practice and teach electrology. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
• Electrolysis: means the process by which the hair is removed from the normal skin by the application of an electric current to the hair root by means of a needle or needles, whether the process employs direct electric current or short wave alternating electric current or combination of both, or by FDA approved laser beam process designated for permanent hair removal. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
• Extracorporeal circulation: means the diversion of a patient's blood through a heart-lung machine or a similar device that assumes the functions of the patient's heart, lungs, kidneys, liver or other organs. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Governing body: means the chief legislative body of any creating or participating governmental entity. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• Licensed clinical perfusionist: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• 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
• Owner: includes corporations as well as individuals. See Tennessee Code 38-1-401
• Participating governmental entity: means any utility district, metropolitan government, city, town or county. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• 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.
• 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
• Perfusion protocols: means perfusion-related policies and protocols developed or approved by a licensed health care facility or a physician through collaboration with administrators, licensed clinical perfusionists and other health care professionals. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Practice of respiratory care: includes , under the supervision, control and responsibility of a licensed physician:
  (a) The administration of pharmacologic agents and medical gasses necessary to diagnose, implement treatment, promote disease prevention, and provide rehabilitation to the cardiorespiratory system. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• 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.
• Provisional licensed clinical perfusionist: means a person provisionally licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Racial profiling: means the detention or interdiction of an individual in traffic contacts, field contacts, or asset seizure and forfeiture efforts solely on the basis of the individual's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, or national origin. See Tennessee Code 38-1-502
• Registered respiratory therapist: means any person who has obtained the credential "registered respiratory therapist" (RRT) from the National Board for Respiratory Care. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Respiratory care practitioner: means a registered respiratory therapist, a certified respiratory therapist, or a respiratory assistant licensed under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• School: means an electrology school teaching the art of electrology. See Tennessee Code 63-26-102
• 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
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Treatment works: means any devices and systems used in the storage, treatment, recycling and reclamation of sewage or industrial wastes of a liquid nature to restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the state's waters, or any devices and systems used in the treatment and distribution of water, including intercepting sewers, outfall sewers, sewage collection systems, water storage facilities, water transmission lines, pumping, power and other equipment, and their appurtenances, extensions, improvements, remodeling, additions and alterations thereof. See Tennessee Code 68-221-603
• Wireless telecommunications service provider: means a provider of commercial mobile radio service as defined by 47 C. See Tennessee Code 38-1-601