Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 62 > Chapter 5 > Part 2 - Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers

• Board: means the board of funeral directors and embalmers. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Crematory: includes crematorium. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Funeral establishment: means any business, whether a proprietorship, partnership, firm, association or corporation, engaged in arranging, directing or supervising funerals for profit or other benefit, the preparing of dead human bodies for burial, the disposition of dead human bodies, the provision or maintenance of place for the preparation for disposition, or for the care or disposition of human bodies. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Licensee: means an embalmer or funeral director who holds a license issued by the board. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. 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