Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 62 > Chapter 30 - Transitory Vendors

• Child: means :
  (A) A person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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 children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• 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.
• Juvenile court: means the general sessions court in all counties of this state, except in those counties and municipalities in which special juvenile courts are provided by law, and "judge" means judge of the juvenile court. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Merchandise: means any consumer item that is or is represented to be new or not previously owned by a consumer. See Tennessee Code 62-30-101
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Special juvenile court: means a court created by law with jurisdiction limited to those matters contemplated in this title and other general laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 37-1-202
• 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 premises: means any public or quasi-public place, including a hotel, rooming house, storeroom, building or part of a building, tent, vacant lot, railroad car or motor vehicle, temporarily occupied for the purpose of exhibiting stocks of merchandise to the public. See Tennessee Code 62-30-101
• Transitory vendor: means any person who brings into temporary premises and exhibits to the public stocks of merchandise for the purpose of selling or offering to sell the merchandise to the public. See Tennessee Code 62-30-101
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105