Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 41 > Chapter 10 - Correction Volunteer Services

• 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.
• Board: means the board of parole. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• Chair: means the chair of the board of parole. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of correction. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• 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.
• Department: means the department of correction. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• Governing body: includes all bodies and boards, by whatsoever names they may be known, charged with the governing of a municipality. See Tennessee Code 12-2-301
• Institution: means an institution of the department. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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}
• Municipality: includes any county, city or town of the state. See Tennessee Code 12-2-301
• Not-for-profit corporation: means a general welfare corporation organized under §. See Tennessee Code 12-2-301
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Project: means and includes any building, structure, facility or permanent improvement, including the necessary equipment and furnishings therefor, which a municipality proceeding under this part is authorized to own, use or operate under any other provision of law. See Tennessee Code 12-2-301
• Region: means a probation region of the department of correction. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• 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
• TCRB: means the Tennessee community resource board. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• Volunteer: means any person who, after fulfilling appropriate policy requirements, is assigned to a volunteer job and provides a service without pay from the department or board except for compensation for those expenses incurred directly as the result of volunteer services as defined in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 41-10-101
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105