Tennessee Code > Title 7 > Metropolitan Government


Chapter 1	Metropolitan Government-General Provisions	7-1-101 – 7-1-113
Chapter 2	Metropolitan Government-Adoption and Provisions of Charter	7-2-101 – 7-2-109
Chapter 3	Metropolitan Government-Operation and Powers	7-3-101 – 7-3-508
Chapter 4	Metropolitan Government-Tourist Accommodation Tax	7-4-101 – 7-4-206
Chapter 5	Metropolitan Governments’ Port Authority Act	7-5-101 – 7-5-113
Chapter 6	Metropolitan Celebration Authority Act	7-6-101 – 7-6-112
Chapter 7	Metropolitan Hearing Officer Act of 1983	7-7-101 – 7-7-105
Chapter 8	Metropolitan Government-Housing Trust Fund	7-8-101 – 7-8-106
Chapter 21	Charter Government Unification Act	7-21-101 – 7-21-408

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Act of terrorism: means an act or acts constituting a violation of this part, any other offense under the laws of Tennessee, or an act or acts constituting an offense in any other jurisdiction within or outside the territorial boundaries of the United States that contains all of the elements constituting a violation of this part or is otherwise an offense under the laws of such jurisdiction, that is intended, directly or indirectly, to:
(A) Intimidate or coerce a civilian population. See Tennessee Code 39-13-803
Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
Aesthetic plan: means a publicly available written resolution, regulation, policy, site plan, or approved plat that:
(A) Establishes generally applicable aesthetic requirements within the authority or designated area within the authority. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
Agency: means the housing development agency, created pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Agency: means the Tennessee housing development agency created by this part. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
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
Agritourism activity: includes an activity involving any animal exhibition at an agricultural fair, regardless of the location of the fair. See Tennessee Code 43-39-101
Agritourism professional: means any person who is engaged in the business of providing one (1) or more agritourism activities, whether or not for compensation. See Tennessee Code 43-39-101
Alternative livestock: means non-traditional livestock that are hoofed and captive-farmed for purposes of agricultural or recreational use, as defined by §. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
Apiary: means a collection of one (1) or more colonies of bees in beehives at a location. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Apiary inspectors: means those persons with relevant qualifications and beekeeping training who are employed by or working under contract with the department of agriculture for the purpose of implementing regulatory programs as directed by the state apiarist. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
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.
Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
Appliances: means any apparatus, tools, machines or other devices used in handling and manipulating bees, honey, and wax that may be used in an apiary, or in transporting bees and their products and apiary supplies. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Applicant: means any person planning or proposing a project which has been designated a major energy project. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Applicant: means any person who submits an application pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Application: means a request submitted by an applicant to an authority:
(A) For a permit to deploy or colocate small wireless facilities in the ROW. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Appraisal: A determination of property value.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Approval: means any permit, license, lease, certificate, right-of-way, or other grant, rate, ruling, or decision authorized or issued by an agency of state or local government. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
Articles of conversion: means the form of articles provided for in chapter 204 of this title creating a new LLC and evidencing the conversion of an existing partnership or corporation to the new LLC which shall have all of the assets and liabilities of the former partnership. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Articles of incorporation: as used in this chapter , includes the articles of conversion of a converted corporation. See Tennessee Code 65-29-117
articles of organization: means in the case of an LLC organized under chapters 201-248 of this title, articles of organization, articles of amendment, articles of correction, certificates of merger, and all similar documents required to be filed with any of the foregoing as part of the formation and continuation of an LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Association: means any association or corporation organized under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 44-14-102
Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
Authority: means a metropolitan port authority created pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Authority: means a metropolitan celebration authority created pursuant to the authority of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
Authority: means :
(i) Within a municipal boundary, the municipality, regardless of whether such municipality is a metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Bee disease or pest: means a condition in which a colony is infested/infected with a bacterial, fungal, viral, or parasitic condition or an organism that can or will affect the well-being of a colony. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
beehive: means that container or structure used by a beekeeper to provide a cavity in which a colony of bees is expected to establish a permanent nest. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Beekeeper: means any individual, association, corporation, or other entity who deliberately provides nesting sites for colonies of honeybees and attempts to establish and maintain colonies of honeybees at any location. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
Benefit: means anything reasonably regarded as economic gain, enhancement or advantage, including benefit to any other person in whose welfare the beneficiary is interested. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Bequest: Property gifted by will.
Blasting: means the use of an explosive device for the excavation of earth, rock, or other material or the demolition of a structure. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
blighted: as used in this part , except in this section and in the definitions in §. See Tennessee Code 13-20-212
Board: means the underground utility damage enforcement board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Board: means the board of commissioners of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Board: means the board of commissioners of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
Board: means the sex offender treatment board created in §. See Tennessee Code 39-13-703
board of directors: means the governing board of a corporation, whether denominated the board of directors or otherwise, except that no person or group of persons is the board of directors because of powers delegated to that person or group pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
Bodily injury: includes a cut, abrasion, bruise, burn or disfigurement, and physical pain or temporary illness or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Bonds: includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Bonds: includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
Bonds: means any bonds, interim certificates, notes, debentures, or other obligations of the authority issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Bovine activity: means any activity involving one (1) or more bovine, including, but not limited to:
(A) Grazing, herding, feeding, branding, milking or any other activity that involves the care or maintenance of bovine. See Tennessee Code 44-21-101
Bovine owner: means any person with ownership rights to bovine. See Tennessee Code 44-21-101
Brand name: means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination thereof, identifying the commercial feed of a distributor or registrant and distinguishing it from that of others. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Breed association: means a bona fide livestock breed association which conducts sales of livestock breeds recognized by the department in which such association assumes responsibility for conducting the sales, assumes title to any livestock sold, and accrues a majority of profits from the sales. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Business: includes every trade, occupation, profession, investment activity and other lawful purpose for gain or the preservation of assets whether or not carried on for profits. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Business: means any lawful activity conducted primarily:
(A) For the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacturing, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Bylaws: means the code or codes of rules (other than the charter) adopted pursuant to chapters 51-68 of this title for the regulation or management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name or names by which such rules are designated. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
Bylaws: means the code or codes of rules, other than the charter, adopted pursuant to chapters 51-68 of this title for the regulation or management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name or names by which such rules are designated. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
Calendar day: means a twenty-four (24) hour period beginning with the date and time that a notification to excavate or demolish is to begin, including Monday through Sunday and all holidays. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
carrier: includes any person, firm, corporation, company, association or partnership owning, operating or managing a business of providing radio services to the public on a for-hire basis and under such circumstances as would require a license by the federal communications commission as a miscellaneous common carrier in the domestic public land mobile radio service. See Tennessee Code 65-30-103
Certification: means a voluntary training program approved by the department that when successfully completed authorizes the beekeeper to detect, identify, and control regulated bee diseases and pests in colonies under the management of that beekeeper. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Certified beekeeper: means any person who has successfully met the requirements of a voluntary certification program for beekeepers as approved by the state apiarist. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Charitable organization: means a group which is or holds itself out to be a benevolent, educational, voluntary health, philanthropic, humane, patriotic, religious or eleemosynary organization, or for the benefit of law enforcement personnel, firefighters, or other persons who protect the public safety, or any person who solicits or obtains contributions solicited from the public for charitable purposes. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Charitable purpose: means a purpose that:
(A) Would make a corporation operated exclusively for that purpose eligible to be exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
Charitable sales promotion: means an advertising or sale conducted by a person who represents that the purchase or use of goods or services offered by the person will benefit, in whole or in part, a charitable organization or charitable purpose. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
Charter: includes amended and restated charters and articles of merger. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Charter: means a document containing a unified government structure, pursuant to this chapter, that constitutes the fundamental law of the unified government. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
charter commission: means a commission established to propose to the voters for adoption the charter for a metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
Charter commission: means a commission established to propose the charter to the voters for adoption as provided in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Chemical warfare agents: include , but are not limited to, the following agents, or any analog of these agents, intended for use in war or other attack to cause disease or death in humans, animals, or plants:
(A) Nerve agents, including, but not limited to:
(i) Ethyl NN- dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate (Tabun, or GA). See Tennessee Code 39-13-803
Chief executive officer of the county: means the officer vested by either the county charter or general law with the executive powers of the county government. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
City: means the city or town which is, or is about to be, included in the territorial boundaries of an authority when created hereunder. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
City clerk: means county clerk. See Tennessee Code 13-20-501
City legislative body: means the city council, board of mayor and aldermen or other body possessing the legislative power and authority of the government of a municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Class: when used with reference to membership interests, means a category of membership interests that differs in one (1) or more rights or preferences from another category of membership interests of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
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
Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
Coercion: means a threat, however communicated, to:
(A) Commit any offense. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Collector: includes any person entrusted with the collection of public revenue. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Colony: means all of the bees living together as one (1) social unit and may include the bee equipment in which the bees are living. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Commercial co-venturer: means any person who:
(A) Is organized for profit. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Commercial feed: means all materials except unmixed seed, whole and unprocessed, when not adulterated within the meaning of this chapter, that are offered for sale as feed or mixing for feed. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Commission: means the state building commission. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
Commission: means the Tennessee public utility commission. See Tennessee Code 65-30-103
Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 43-40-103
Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture, or the commissioner's authorized agent. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's designated agent. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Commissioner: means one (1) of the members of an authority appointed in accordance with this chapter. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
Communications facility: means the set of equipment and network components, including wires and cables and associated facilities, used by a communications service provider to provide communications service. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Communications service: means cable service as defined in 47 U. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Communications service provider: means a cable operator as defined in 47 U. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Community facilities: includes real and personal property, and buildings and equipment for recreation or social assemblies, for educational, health or welfare purposes and necessary utilities when designed primarily for the benefit and use of the housing authority and/or the occupants of the dwelling accommodations. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Consideration: means the consideration charged, whether or not received, for the occupancy in a hotel valued in money whether to be received in money, goods, labor or otherwise, including all receipts, cash, credits, property and services of any kind or nature without any deduction therefrom whatsoever. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Consignor: means any person consigning, shipping, or delivering livestock to a livestock market for sale, resale, or exchange. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Conspicuous: means so written that a reasonable person against whom the writing is to operate should have noticed it. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Contact agency: means the department of economic and community development. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Contract: means any agreement of an authority with or for the benefit of an obligee whether contained in a resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, bond or other instrument. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Contributions: means the promise or grant of any money or property of any kind or value, including the payment or promise to pay in consideration of a sale, performance or show of any kind which is advertised or offered in conjunction with the name of any charity. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Convention center: means any land, improvement, structure, building or part of a building comprised of facilities for conventions, public assemblies, conferences, trade exhibitions or other business, social, cultural, scientific and public interest events, along with any associated hotel accommodations. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
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.
Corporation: means a public benefit or mutual benefit corporation which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated under or subject to chapters 51-68 of this title, and is recognized as exempt under §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
Cost of rehabilitation: means the sum total of the costs incurred by an owner and approved by the agency as reasonable and necessary for carrying out the rehabilitation of housing accommodation or accommodations. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Cost of relocation: means the entire amount paid properly attributable to such relocation, after deducting therefrom any increase in the value of the new facility and any salvage value derived from the old facility. See Tennessee Code 13-20-302
Council: means the legislative body, council, board of commissioners, board of trustees, or other body charged with governing the city. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
County: means any county whose voters have adopted a county charter government. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
County governing body: means that body in a particular county that is vested with the power to levy property taxes. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
County legislative body: means that body vested by either the county charter or general law with the legislative powers of the county government. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Court: includes every court and judge having jurisdiction in the case. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Creating municipality: means any city or county having a metropolitan form of government and having a population of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000), that creates an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Creating municipality: means any county having adopted a metropolitan form of government that creates an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
Credit card: means any real or forged instrument, writing or other evidence, whether known as a credit card, credit plate, charge plate or by any other name, which purports to evidence an understanding to pay for property or services delivered or rendered to or upon the order of a designated person or bearer. See Tennessee Code 39-14-102
Current geographic territory: means the parcels of land, as such parcels are defined or designated by the assessor of property of the county in which the parcels are located, to which a public electric system was providing electric service on February 16, 1989. See Tennessee Code 65-34-102
Customer-formula feed: means commercial feed that consists of a mixture of two (2) or more commercial feeds or a mixture of one (1) or more commercial feeds and one (1) or more feed ingredients or a mixture of two (2) or more feed ingredients, each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Dairy farm: means any place or premises where one (1) or more cows are kept and from which a part or all of the milk or milk products is provided, sold or offered for sale to a milk plant, transfer station or receiving station. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Damage: includes the substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of an underground utility, penetration or destruction of any protective coating, housing or other protective device of an underground utility, the partial or complete severance of an underground utility and rendering any underground utility inaccessible. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Damage notice: means a notification made to the one-call service by a person who has caused damage to an underground facility. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
dealer: means any person, including any distributor, processor, bulk handler, or operator of a store, who purchases or receives on consignment or otherwise, milk or milk products of every kind and description, within the state, for sale, shipment, storage, processing or manufacture. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Debit card: means any real or forged instrument, writing or other evidence known by any name issued with or without a fee by an issuer for the use of a depositor in obtaining money, goods, services or anything else of value, payment of which is made against funds previously deposited in an account with the issuer. See Tennessee Code 39-14-102
Deception: means that a person knowingly:
(i) Creates or reinforces a false impression by words or conduct, including false impressions of fact, law, value or intention or other state of mind that the person does not believe to be true. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
Defendant: means a person accused of an offense under this title and includes any person who aids or abets the commission of such offense. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
delivery: means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery, and, if authorized in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
demolition: means any operation by which a structure or mass of material is wrecked, razed, rendered, moved or removed by means of any tools, equipment, or discharge of explosives. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Department: means the department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Department: means the Tennessee department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Department: means the department of environment and conservation, and includes any officer, agency or designee of that department. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Department: means the department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
Deprive: means to:
(A) Withhold property from the owner permanently or for such a period of time as to substantially diminish the value or enjoyment of the property to the owner. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Design locate request: means a communication to the one-call service in which a request for locating existing utility facilities for predesign or advance planning purposes is made. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Designated entity: means any entity designated by the United States department of state as a foreign terrorist organization in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 39-13-803
Deteriorated: means any structure or vacant or unimproved lot or parcel in a predominantly built-up neighborhood:
(A) That, because of physical condition or use, is regarded as a public nuisance at common law or has been declared a public nuisance in accordance with local housing, building, plumbing, electrical, fire, health or related codes. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Devise: To gift property by will.
dilapidation: means extreme deterioration and decay due to lack of repairs to and care of the area. See Tennessee Code 13-20-201
Directors: means natural persons, designated in the charter or bylaws or elected or appointed by the incorporators, and their successors and natural persons elected or appointed to act as members of the board, irrespective of the names or titles by which such persons are described. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
Disaster: means any natural, technological, or civil emergency that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to result in a declaration of a state of emergency by a county, the governor, or the president of the United States. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
Disqualified person: means an individual or entity that for any reason is or becomes ineligible under this part to be issued shares by a professional corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Dissolution: means that the LLC has incurred an event under §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, exchange, or barter commercial feed or customer-formula feed. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Distributor: means any person who distributes. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Division: means the department of state's division of business and charitable organizations. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
Document: means :
(A) Any tangible medium on which information is inscribed, and includes any writing or written instrument. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
domestic corporation: means a corporation for profit, which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated under or subject to the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, compiled in chapters 11-27 of this title, as amended. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Domestic professional corporation: means a professional corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Donor: The person who makes a gift.
Drug: means any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals other than humans, and articles other than feed intended to affect the structure or function of any part of the animal body. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Dwelling: means any building or structure, or part thereof, used and occupied for human occupation or use or intended to be so used, and includes any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Dwelling: means any building or structure, or part thereof, used and occupied for human occupation or use or intended to be so used, and includes any outhouses and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Dwelling unit: means a building or structure used as a place of residence. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Dwelling unit: means a building or structure or part thereof that is used for a home or residence by one (1) or more persons who maintain a household. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Economic development agreement: includes , but is not limited to, leases or other agreements with private entities under the industrial development program provided in title 7, chapter 53, and redevelopment plans and agreements containing tax increment financing provisions authorized under title 13, chapter 20, including development authorities created by private act, as authorized pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 4-17-102
Effective consent: means assent in fact, whether express or apparent, including assent by one legally authorized to act for another. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Electric and community service cooperative: has the meaning set forth in §. See Tennessee Code 65-34-102
Electric cooperative: means an electric cooperative or electric membership corporation, whether organized or operating under chapter 25 of this title or similar statutes of any other state, which, as of June 19, 1997, distributes electric power purchased from the Tennessee Valley authority. See Tennessee Code 65-36-102
Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Electronic white lining: means the application of a visual indicator to a digital or virtual map marking the boundaries of the area of proposed excavation or the area of ongoing excavation. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Emancipated minor: means any minor who is or has been married, or has by court order or otherwise been freed from the care, custody and control of the minor's parents. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
Emergency: means a sudden or unforeseen occurrence involving a clear and imminent danger to life, health, or property. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102 v2
Employee: includes an officer but not a director. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Engages in an equine activity: means riding, training, assisting in medical treatment of, driving, or being a passenger upon an equine, whether mounted or unmounted or any person assisting a participant or show management. See Tennessee Code 44-20-102
Enterprise: means the manufacturing, processing, assembling, and commercial service operations to be carried on with or otherwise using the facilities of a project. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Entity: includes the following, whether foreign or domestic: LLCs. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Equine: means a horse, pony, mule, donkey, or hinny. See Tennessee Code 44-20-102
Equine activity: means :
(A) Equine shows, fairs, competitions, performances, or parades that involve any or all breeds of equines and any of the equine disciplines, including, but not limited to, dressage, hunter and jumper horse shows, grand prix jumping, three-day events, combined training, rodeos, driving, pulling, cutting, polo, steeplechasing, English and western performance riding, endurance trail riding and western games, and hunting. See Tennessee Code 44-20-102
Equine activity sponsor: means an individual, group, club, partnership, or corporation, whether or not the sponsor is operating for profit or nonprofit, that sponsors, organizes, or provides the facilities for an equine activity, including, but not limited to, pony clubs, 4-H clubs, hunt clubs, riding clubs, school and college-sponsored classes, programs and activities, therapeutic riding programs, and operators, instructors, and promoters of equine facilities, including, but not limited to, stables, clubhouses, ponyride strings, fairs, and arenas at which the activity is held. See Tennessee Code 44-20-102
Equine professional: means a person engaged for compensation:
(A) In instructing a participant or renting to a participant an equine for the purpose of riding, driving, or being a passenger upon the equine. See Tennessee Code 44-20-102
Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
Established date of operation: means the date on which a feedlot, dairy farm or poultry production house commenced operating. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
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.
Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
Excavator: means any person who engages in activities described in subdivisions (A) and (B) in the definition of "excavate" contained in this section. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Executive committee: means the executive committee created by §. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Executive officer: means the mayor, county mayor, or other chief executive officer of any creating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Executive officer: means the mayor, county mayor or other chief executive officer of any creating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
Farmers of low income: means persons or families who at the time of their admission to occupancy in a dwelling of the authority:
(A) Live under unsafe or unsanitary housing conditions. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Federal government: includes the United States, or any agency, instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Fee: means a one-time, nonrecurring charge. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Feedlot: means a lot, yard, corral or other area in which livestock are confined, primarily for the purposes of feeding, growing, raising, or birthing prior to slaughter. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
Force: means compulsion by the use of physical power or violence and shall be broadly construed to accomplish the purposes of this title. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
Foreign corporation: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under a law other than the law of this state, which would be a nonprofit corporation if formed under the laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
Foreign professional corporation: means a corporation or association for profit incorporated for the purpose of rendering professional services under a law other than the law of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Forest products: include the following:
(A) Products that are derived from woody biomass. See Tennessee Code 43-40-103
Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Fraud: means as used in normal parlance and includes, but is not limited to, deceit, trickery, misrepresentation and subterfuge, and shall be broadly construed to accomplish the purposes of this title. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
General services district: means a service district within a metropolitan government whose geographical limits are coextensive with the total area in which the government functions. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
Governing body: means the chief legislative body of any creating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Governing body: means the council of any city. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Governing body: means the council, commission, or board, or other legislative body, charged with governing a municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Governing body: means the council, commission, or board, or other legislative body, charged with governing a municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Government: means the state or any political subdivision of the state, and includes any branch or agency of the state, a county, municipality or other political subdivision. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Government: includes the state and federal governments and any subdivision, agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Governmental agency: means any department, division, public agency, political subdivision or other public instrumentality of the state, the federal government, and other state or public agency, or any two (2) or more thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
Harm: means anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage or injury, including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
High capacity transit area: means a geographic area located within one thousand three hundred twenty feet (1,320') of a street:
(A) Designated in a county's major street plan. See Tennessee Code 13-20-702
Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Historic district: means a property or area zoned as a historic district or zone pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
honeybees: means any developmental stage of any sub- species of the species Apis mellifem. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
Hotel: means any structure, or any portion of any structure, that is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by transients for dwelling, lodging or sleeping purposes, and includes any hotel, inn, tourist court, tourist camp, tourist cabin, motel, short-term rental unit or any place in which rooms, lodgings or accommodations are furnished to transients for a consideration. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Housing accommodation: means any building or structure, or portion thereof, and facilities incidental thereto, which is occupied or used, or is intended to be occupied or used, as the residence or home of one (1) or more persons or families. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
housing authority: means a public body and a body corporate and politic organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions, hereinafter set forth. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Housing cost index: means an index of specific housing cost factors to the average Tennessee household calculated monthly or at such times as the agency may require, based on the following formula:
The median gross monthly household income divided into the sum of:
(A) The monthly mortgage payment for the average Tennessee household based on a thirty-year mortgage, at the prevailing mortgage interest rate on a mortgage amount sufficient to purchase a standard housing structure that will meet minimum property standards as established by the federal housing administration, including an amount representative of the average yield in discount points and servicing fees to the lender on such mortgage, based on the average discount paid at the latest Federal National Mortgage Association mortgage auction sale. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Housing project: includes all real and personal property, buildings and improvements, stores, offices, lands for farming and gardening, and community facilities acquired or constructed or to be acquired or constructed pursuant to a single plan or undertaking, to:
(i) Demolish, clear, remove, alter or repair unsanitary or unsafe housing. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Housing trust fund: means appropriations, reserves or dedications of any funds by the county. See Tennessee Code 7-8-102
Housing trust fund: means a fund consisting of appropriations, reserves or dedications of any revenues except pension or retirement funds by a participating unit or units of local government, together with private and foundation sources of funds, all used for providing low income persons with safe and affordable housing. See Tennessee Code 13-23-502
Image: means any capturing of sound waves, thermal, infrared, ultraviolet, visible light, or other electromagnetic waves, odor, or other conditions existing on or about real property in this state or an individual located on that property. See Tennessee Code 39-13-901
Impending emergency: means circumstances potentially dangerous to life, health, property, the environment or the repair or restoration of service, which would likely develop into an emergency, as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Improvement to real property: means :
(A) The construction or erection of new buildings or structures in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest, whether financed by public or private funds or both. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
Incentives: means any tax exemption, tax credit, tax exclusion, tax deduction, rebate, investment, contract, or grant made available by the state to directly support the purchase of forest products. See Tennessee Code 43-40-103
Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
Individual: includes the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Inherent risks of bovine activities: means dangers or conditions that are an integral part of bovine activities, including, but not limited to:
(A) The propensity of a bovine to behave in ways that may result in injury, loss, damage or death to persons on or around the bovine. See Tennessee Code 44-21-101
Inherent risks of equine activities: means those dangers or conditions that are an integral part of equine activities, including, but not limited to:
(A) The propensity of an equine to behave in ways that may result in injury, harm, or death to persons on or around them. See Tennessee Code 44-20-102
Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
insurable mortgage: means a mortgage loan and deed of trust, or other instrument, which constitutes a first lien on improvements and real property in this state held in fee simple or on a leasehold under a lease having a remaining term, at the time a mortgage is insured under this chapter, of at least twenty percent (20%) greater duration than the remaining term of the loan obligation secured by such mortgage deed of trust. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Insured construction loan: means a construction loan for land development or residential housing which is secured by a federally insured mortgage or which is insured or guaranteed by the United States or an instrumentality thereof, or for which there is a commitment by the United States or instrumentality thereof to insure or guarantee such a loan, or a construction loan which is secured by a policy of insurance or guarantee issued by any private mortgage insurer qualified to issue such insurance or guarantee in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loans made by any private mortgage insurer qualified to do business in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or a construction loan insured or guaranteed by an agency or instrumentality of the state authorized by law to issue such insurance or guarantee, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loan made by such agency or instrumentality of the state. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
insured mortgage loan: means a mortgage loan for residential housing insured or guaranteed by the United States or any instrumentality thereof, or for which there is a commitment by the United States or instrumentality thereof to insure or guarantee such a mortgage, or a mortgage loan which is secured by a policy of insurance or guarantee issued by any private mortgage insurer qualified to issue such insurance or guarantee in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loan made by any private mortgage insurer qualified to do business in Tennessee and approved by the agency, or a mortgage loan insured or guaranteed by any agency or instrumentality of the state authorized by law to issue such insurance, or for which there is a commitment to insure or guarantee such loan made by such agency or instrumentality of the state. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Intentional: means that a person acts intentionally with respect to the nature of the conduct or to a result of the conduct when it is the person's conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Interest: means either or both of the following rights under the organic law of an unincorporated entity:
(A) The right to receive distributions from the entity either in the ordinary course or upon liquidation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
Issuer: means the business organization or financial institution or its duly authorized agent which issues a credit or debit card. See Tennessee Code 39-14-102
Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
Joint review process: means the process provided by §. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Joint review staff: means those persons from involved agencies who are designated to staff the joint review team. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
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.
Knowing: means that a person acts knowingly with respect to the conduct or to circumstances surrounding the conduct when the person is aware of the nature of the conduct or that the circumstances exist. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
knowing: means actual awareness of the falsity or deception, but actual awareness may be inferred when objective manifestations indicate that a reasonable person would have known or would have reason to know of the falsity or deception. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed, or on the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed is distributed. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter:
(A) Upon commercial feed or any of its containers or wrapper. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Land development: means the process of acquiring land primarily for residential housing construction for persons and families of lower and moderate income and making, installing or constructing nonresidential housing improvements, including water, sewer and other utilities, roads, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, storm drainage facilities and other installations or works, whether on or off the site, which the agency deems necessary or desirable to prepare such land primarily for residential housing construction within this state. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Law: includes rules promulgated in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Law enforcement officer: includes a sheriff, sheriff's deputy, and, only for purposes of the enhancement of a crime, a deputy jailer. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
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}
Lease: includes a lease containing an option to purchase the project for a nominal sum upon payment in full or provision for the purchase of all bonds issued in connection with the project and all interest on the bonds and all other expenses in connection with the project, and a lease containing an option to purchase the project at any time, as provided in the option, upon payment of the purchase price, which shall be sufficient to pay all bonds issued in connection with the project and all interest on the bonds and all other expenses incurred in connection with the project, but which payment may be made in the form of one (1) or more notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations of the lessee providing for time payments, including, without limitation, interest on the notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations sufficient for such purposes and delivered to the corporation or to the trustee under the indenture pursuant to which the bonds were issued. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
Library: means any:
(A) Public library. See Tennessee Code 39-14-102
Licensing authority: means the officer, board, agency, court or other authority in this state empowered to license or otherwise authorize the rendition of a professional service. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
Livestock: means cattle, calves, horses, mules, poultry, swine, sheep, goats, and alternative livestock. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
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 44-18-101
Livestock market: means any location where livestock is assembled and sold at public auction, on a commission basis, or otherwise for the compensation of the owner or operator, during regularly scheduled or special sales. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Livestock producer: means any person who sells only livestock such person has raised or such person has owned and had in possession for a minimum of sixty (60) days. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
LLC: means a limited liability company, foreign or domestic, organized under or subject to the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act, compiled in chapters 201-248 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
LLC: means a limited liability company, whether foreign or domestic, that is formed under, that is subject to, or that has elected to be governed by, as applicable, the Tennessee Revised Limited Liability Company Act, compiled in chapter 249 of this title, except where expressly indicated otherwise. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
Loan agreement: means an agreement providing for an authority to loan the proceeds derived from the issuance of bonds pursuant to this chapter to one (1) or more contracting parties, to be used to pay the costs of one (1) or more projects and providing for the repayment of the loan by the other contracting party or parties, and which may provide for the loans to be secured or evidenced by one (1) or more notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations of the contracting party or parties delivered to the authority or to the trustee under the indenture pursuant to which the bonds were issued. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Loan fund pool: means appropriations by the state and any appropriations, reserves or dedications of any funds by any county which desires to participate in the homebuyers' revolving loan fund pool. See Tennessee Code 13-23-302
Local authority: means an authority that is either a municipality, regardless of whether the municipality is a metropolitan government, or a county, and does not include an authority that is the state. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Local government: means any government body, including any municipality, county, or utility district or any political subdivision of this state. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Local law: means the rules, regulations, resolutions, ordinances, codes, case law, and other laws of any local government. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Local portion: means funds appropriated, reserved or dedicated by any county to fund its respective local portion of the loan fund pool. See Tennessee Code 13-23-302
Location: means the proposed area for which digging or excavating is scheduled within three (3) to ten (10) working days, such area not to exceed two thousand feet (2,000') in length unless an excavator and an operator or an operator's designated representative, such as a one-call service, agree to a larger area. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Low income: means qualified persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary, as determined by the approved entity, to enable them without low interest financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and affordable dwellings without overcrowding. See Tennessee Code 13-23-502
Low income persons: means qualified persons or families who lack the amount of income that is necessary, as determined by the agency, to enable them, without low interest financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and affordable dwellings without overcrowding. See Tennessee Code 7-8-102
Major energy project: means any project at one (1) physical location which has been determined by the contact agency to be in the state interest pursuant to its authority under §. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Major maintenance: means the repair or renovation of a building or structure or a portion thereof in which this state or a department, institution, or agency thereof has an interest and that:
(A) Is being funded by direct appropriations for major maintenance. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
Manager: means a person elected, appointed, or otherwise designated as a manager by the governing body, and any other person considered elected as a manager pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Manufacture: means to grind, mix or blend, or further process a commercial feed for distribution. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Materially affects: means prohibits or regulates with respect to the location, or the emission of noise, effluent, odors, sewage, waste or similar products resulting from the operation or the location or use of buildings, machinery, vehicles, equipment or other real or personal property used in the operation of a livestock feedlot, dairy farm or poultry production house. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
mayor: means the clerk and mayor, respectively, of the city, or the officers thereof, charged with the duties customarily imposed on the clerk and mayor, respectively. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Mayor: means such officer vested by either the city charter or general law with the executive powers of a municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Mechanized equipment: means equipment operated by means of mechanical power including trenchers, bulldozers, power shovels, augers, backhoes, scrapers, drills, cable and pipe plows and other equipment used for plowing-in or pulling-in cable or pipe. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Member: includes bona fide sheep producers who meet the requirements of associations organized under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 44-14-102
Member: means each incorporator of a cooperative and each person admitted to and retaining membership in the cooperative, and includes a husband and wife admitted to joint membership. See Tennessee Code 65-29-103
Member: means a person reflected in the required records of an LLC as the owner of some governance rights of a membership interest of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Membership: means the rights and obligations a member has pursuant to a corporation's charter, bylaws and chapters 51-68 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
Metropolitan council: means the council of a county having a metropolitan form of government that has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
Metropolitan government: means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
Metropolitan government: means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Metropolitan government: means any county having a metropolitan form of government that has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
Micro wireless facility: means a small wireless facility that:
(A) Does not exceed twenty-four inches (24") in length, fifteen inches (15") in width, and twelve inches (12") in height. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Milk: means milk from cows and all of its natural components, sweet cream, sour cream, skim milk, flavored milk, buttermilk, condensed or concentrated, whole, low fat, or skim milk for use in milk products of every kind and description. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Minor: means any person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Minority-owned business: means a business that is solely owned, or at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the assets or outstanding stock of which is owned, by an individual who personally manages and controls the daily operations of the business and who is impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of:
(A) Past practices of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnic background, or sex. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
Mixed-finance project: includes a project that is developed by:
(A) An authority or by an entity affiliated with an authority. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Month: means the time from any day of any month to the corresponding day of the succeeding month, if any, and if none, the last day of the succeeding month. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
Mortgage: includes deeds of trust, mortgages, building and loan contracts or other instruments conveying real or personal property as security for bonds and conferring a right to foreclose and cause a sale thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Mortgage: includes deeds of trust, mortgages, building and loan contracts or other instruments conveying real or personal property as security for bonds and conferring a right to foreclose and cause a sale thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Mortgage insurance fund: means the mortgage insurance fund established pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Mortgage insurance fund requirement: means as of any particular date of computation, an amount of money equal to the aggregate of:
(A) The insured amounts of mortgages in default as determined by the agency pursuant to its contracts to insure the mortgages. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
mortgage lender: includes the housing development agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
Mortgagee: means the original mortgage lender under an insurable mortgage, and its successors and assigns, as approved by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
Mortgagor: means the original borrower under an insurable mortgage, and such original borrower's successors and assigns, as approved by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Municipal corporation: means an incorporated city or town. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
Municipal electric system: means any electric system owned by any county, municipality, power district, or other subdivision of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 65-34-102
municipal electric utility: means any governmental entity as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 65-36-102
Municipality: means any city, town, or village or other municipality in the state. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Municipality: means any city or town. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Municipality: means any county, including any county having a metropolitan form of government, or incorporated city or town in this state. See Tennessee Code 13-21-202
Municipality: means any county, including any county having a metropolitan form of government, or incorporated city or town in this state. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Municipality: means an incorporated city or town located within the boundaries of a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Mutual benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which becomes by operation of law a mutual benefit corporation pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
new PSS: means a PSS that does not exist at the time the application is submitted, including, but not limited to, a PSS that will replace an existing pole. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
Non-consumer owned electric system: means any public electric system other than electric and community service cooperatives and municipal electric systems. See Tennessee Code 65-34-102
Nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation, whether foreign or domestic, incorporated pursuant to or subject to chapters 51-68 of this title and exempt from franchise and excise tax as not-for-profit as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
nonprofit LLC: means a limited liability company:
(A) That is disregarded as an entity for federal income tax purposes. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
notes: means the bonds and notes respectively authorized to be issued by the agency under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Nuisance: means and includes public or private nuisance as defined either by statute or by the common law. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Nuisance action or proceeding: means and includes every action, claim or proceeding, whether brought at law, in equity or as an administrative proceeding, that is based on nuisance. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
Obligations: means any bonds or notes authorized to be issued by the agency under this part. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
obligee: includes any bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, any lessor demising property to the authority used in connection with a housing project or any assignee or assignees of the lessor's interest or any part thereof, and the United States, when it is a party to any contract with the authority. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Obtain: includes , but is not limited to, the taking, carrying away or the sale, conveyance or transfer of title to or interest in or possession of property, and includes, but is not limited to, conduct known as larceny, larceny by trick, larceny by conversion, embezzlement, extortion or obtaining property by false pretenses. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Occupancy: means the use or possession, or the right to the use or possession, of any room, lodgings or accommodations in a hotel for a period of less than thirty (30) continuous days. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Official sample: means a sample of feed taken by the commissioner or the commissioner's agent in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
One-Call Service: means a telephone notification service described in §. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Operator: means any person conducting business as a livestock market. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Operator: means any person who owns or operates a utility. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Operator: means the person operating the hotel, whether as owner, lessee or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
other contracting party: means any party to a sale contract, lease, or loan agreement except the authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
Owner: means any person, firm, partnership or agency, either public or private, having the legal or beneficial ownership of a housing accommodation or of a building, structure, or property containing one (1) or more housing accommodations. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Owner: means the owner of any property, any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common, joint tenant or tenant by the entirety of the whole or a part of any structure which is capable of receiving service by a utility. See Tennessee Code 65-35-101
Owner: means a person, other than the defendant, who has possession of or any interest other than a mortgage, deed of trust or security interest in property, even though that possession or interest is unlawful and without whose consent the defendant has no authority to exert control over the property. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Owner: means the holder of the title in fee simple and every mortgagee of record. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Owner: means the holder of the title to real property and every mortgagee of record. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Owners: means members in the case of an LLC, shareholders in the case of a corporation, partners in the case of general or limited partnerships and the equivalent with respect to other entities. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Ownership interests: means membership interests in the case of an LLC, shares in the case of a corporation, partnership interests in the case of general or limited partnerships and the equivalent with respect to other entities. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Parent nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation that is the sole member of a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
Parent nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation that is the sole member of a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
Participant: means any person, other than the agritourism professional, who engages in an agritourism activity. See Tennessee Code 43-39-101
Participant: means any person, whether amateur or professional, who engages in an equine activity, whether or not a fee is paid to participate in the equine activity. See Tennessee Code 44-20-102
Participating governmental unit: means a county whose voters have adopted a county charter government or a municipality located within that county's boundaries that has elected to participate in the preparation of a charter pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Parties in interest: means all individuals, associations, corporations and others who have interests of record in a structure and any who are in possession thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Parties in interest: means all individuals, associations, corporations and others who have interests of record in a structure and any who are in possession thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
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.
percentage: means percentage by weight. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Person: means any individual, cooperative, partnership, corporation, association, consortium, unincorporated organization, trust, estate, nonprofit institution or any entity organized for a common purpose, and any instrumentality of state or local government. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Person: includes individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Person: means any person, firm, or corporation. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Person: includes an individual, firm, partnership, corporation and association. See Tennessee Code 44-14-102
Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative or other business entity. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Person: means an individual, corporation or any other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 44-21-101
Person: includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state or political subdivision or agency thereof, or any body politic. See Tennessee Code 65-29-103
Person: means any individual. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Person: means an individual, corporation, firm, company, partnership, association or organization of any kind, public or private. See Tennessee Code 65-35-101
Person: includes the singular and the plural and means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency, or other organization or other legal entity, or any agent or servant thereof. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Person: includes individual and entity. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust, or other entity or organization, including an authority. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, business organization, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
Person: means any individual, organization, trust, foundation, group, association, partnership, corporation, society or any combination of them. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Personal property: All property that is not real property.
Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Persons and families of lower and moderate income: means persons and families irrespective of race, creed, national origin, age or sex deemed by the agency to require such assistance as is made available by this chapter on account of insufficient personal or family income based upon the income limits established by the board of directors. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Persons of low income: means persons or families who lack the amount of income which is necessary, as determined by the authority undertaking the housing project, to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, without overcrowding. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Pet: means any domesticated animal normally maintained in or near the household of its owner. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Place of public accommodation: means any building or structure in which goods are supplied or services performed, or in which the trade of the general public is solicited. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
Pollution: means the placing of any noxious or deleterious substances, including noise, in any air or water of or adjacent to the state of Tennessee or affecting the physical, chemical or biological properties of any air or waters of or adjacent to the state of Tennessee in a manner and to an extent that renders or is likely to render the air or waters inimical or harmful to the public health, safety or welfare, or to any animal, bird or aquatic life, or to the use of the air or waters for domestic, industrial, agricultural or recreational purposes. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Pollution control facilities: means any equipment, structure or facility or any land and any building, structure, and facility or other improvement of any kind, or any combination thereof, and all real and personal property deemed necessary therewith having to do with or the end purpose of which is the control, abatement or prevention of water, air, noise or general environmental pollution, including, but not limited to, any air pollution control facility, noise abatement facility, water management facility, wastewater collecting systems, wastewater treatment works, or solid waste disposal facility. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Port: means a terminal facility with all associated components necessary for the loading and unloading of goods and people involved in inland waterway transport and navigation. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Poultry production house: means any place or premises where chickens are kept for the production of eggs or broilers for resale to processors, wholesalers or retailers. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
Principal city: means :
(A) That municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
Principal city: means that municipality having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Principal office: means the office (in or out of this state) so designated in the annual report where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
Probate: Proving a will
Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Processor: means any person engaged in the business of processing milk and other materials into milk products of every kind and description. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Producer: means every person in the state of Tennessee who produces milk or cream from cows and thereafter causes the same to be marketed as milk, cream or other milk and dairy products who has been issued and possesses a valid current producer's permit or certification, issued by the department. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Product name: means the name of the commercial feed that identifies it as to kind, class, or specific use. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Professional corporation: means a corporation for profit, other than a foreign professional corporation, subject to this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Professional service: means a service that may be lawfully rendered only by a person licensed or otherwise authorized by a licensing authority in this state to render the service, and that may not be lawfully rendered by a corporation under the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, compiled in chapters 11-27 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Professional solicitor: means any person who, for a financial or other consideration, solicits contributions for, or on behalf of, a charitable organization, whether such solicitation is performed personally or through such person's agents, servants or employees or through agents, servants or employees specially employed by or for a charitable organization, who are engaged in the solicitation of contributions under the direction of such person, or a person who plans, conducts, manages, carries on or advises a charitable organization in connection with the solicitation of contributions. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Project: means all or any part of, or any interest in:
(i) Any land and building, including office building, and facility or other improvement on land, and all real and personal properties deemed necessary in connection therewith, whether or not now in existence, that shall be suitable for the following or by any combination of two (2) or more thereof:
(a) Any industry for the manufacturing, processing or assembling of any agricultural, mining, or manufactured products. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Property: means anything of value, including, but not limited to, money, real estate, tangible or intangible personal property, including anything severed from land, library material, contract rights, choses-in-action, interests in or claims to wealth, credit, admission or transportation tickets, captured or domestic animals, food and drink, electric or other power. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Proposed area of excavation: means a general surface location which excavators are to furnish to operators of underground utilities or to a one-call service as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
PSS: means a pole or other structure used for wireline communications, electric distribution, lighting, traffic control, signage, or a similar function, including poles installed solely for the colocation of a small wireless facility. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Public authority: means any housing authority or any officer who is in charge of any department or branch of the government of the municipality or state relating to health, fire, building regulations, or other activities concerning structures in the municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Public authority: means any department, agency or branch of the government of the municipality or state relating to health, fire, building regulations, or other activities concerning structures in the municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Public benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which becomes by operation of law a public benefit corporation pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
Public electric system: includes electric and community service cooperatives, municipal electric systems, and every individual, co-partnership, association, corporation or joint stock company, their lessees, trustees or receivers, appointed by any court whatsoever, that own, operate, manage, or control any electric power system, plant, or equipment within Tennessee affected by and dedicated to public use. See Tennessee Code 65-34-102
Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
Public officer: means any officer or officers of a municipality or the executive director or other chief executive officer of any commission or authority established by such municipality or jointly with any other municipality who is authorized by ordinance adopted hereunder to exercise the power prescribed by such ordinances and by this part. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Public officer: means any officer or officers of a municipality or the executive director or other chief executive officer of any commission or authority established by the municipality or jointly with any other municipality who are authorized by ordinance adopted hereunder to exercise the power prescribed by the ordinances and by this part. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Public place: means a place to which the public or a group of persons has access and includes, but is not limited to, highways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks, places of business, playgrounds and hallways, lobbies and other portions of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Public service facility: means any sewer, pipe, main, conduit, manhole, cable, wire, pole, tower, building, or utility appliance owned or operated by a utility. See Tennessee Code 13-20-302
Purchaser: means any handler, dealer or processor who purchases or receives milk and milk products from producers on a commercial basis. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
qualified lender: means any bank or trust company, federally approved mortgagee, insurance company, mortgage banking institution, federally insured savings and loan association or insured state building and loan association, which is located and authorized to do business in the state, and which is approved by the agency, or the federal national mortgage association. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Qualified person: means an individual, general partnership or professional corporation to whom shares under this part may be issued. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
Qualifying matching share: means funds from any source, other than funds appropriated, reserved or dedicated by the state or any county to specifically fund the state or any local portion, which are used to fund the amount of any loan not funded by the loan fund pool. See Tennessee Code 13-23-302
Quantity statement: means the net weight (mass), net volume (liquid or dry) or count. See Tennessee Code 44-6-103
Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
Radio common carrier system: means any facility within this state which is operated to perform for hire the service of radio communications to members of the public who subscribe to such service. See Tennessee Code 65-30-103
Rate: means a recurring charge. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
Real property: includes lands, lands under water, structures, and any and all easements, franchises and incorporeal hereditaments and every estate and right therein, legal and equitable, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Receiving: includes , but is not limited to, acquiring possession, control, title or taking a security interest in the property. See Tennessee Code 39-14-102
Reckless: means that a person acts recklessly with respect to circumstances surrounding the conduct or the result of the conduct when the person is aware of, but consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or the result will occur. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
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
redevelopment: as used in this part , except in this section and in the definition of "redevelopment project" in §. See Tennessee Code 13-20-212
Redevelopment: means the planning or replanning, design or redesign, acquisition, clearance, development and disposal, or any combination of these, of a property in the preparation of such property for residential, commercial, industrial, and related uses, as may be appropriate or necessary. See Tennessee Code 13-21-202
Referendum: means any voting procedure under which affected producers may, by secret ballot, vote for or against an assessment authorized by this chapter. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Regulations: means a resolution by the county legislative body or an ordinance by the governing body of any municipality regulating or prohibiting the normal noises of animals or fowls, the noises in the operation of the equipment, the odors normally associated with any feedlot, dairy farm, or poultry production house, or the preclusion of any animals or fowls from within the city or from within a defined area of the county. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Rehabilitation: means the alteration, improvement or repair of one (1) or more housing accommodations and facilities incidental thereto, intended to raise the housing accommodations to the design and condition required for use. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
Relocation: means any horizontal or vertical movement of utility facilities intact and any protective measures taken or the construction of new or additional facilities, with or without contemporaneous removal and salvage of old facilities, including removal, readjustment, rerouting, or changing the grade of or alternating the construction of any public service facility, either temporarily or permanently, whether or not such relocation is made necessary by the closing of any highway, street, public alley or public right-of-way or the taking of easements whether publicly or privately owned. See Tennessee Code 13-20-302
Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
Renovation: means the change in the functional use or operation of space in existing buildings or structures in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
Representative: means an employee or designee of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 44-11-101
Representative: means a governor, manager, employee or other agent of a foreign LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
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
Representative district: means any division or district of any city or municipality which is created for the purpose of electing a representative to the governing body of the city or municipality. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Residential dwelling: as used in this part , does not apply to factory-manufactured mobile homes constructed as a single self-contained unit and mounted on a single chassis, and as further defined in §. See Tennessee Code 13-24-201
Residential dwelling: means a cabin, house, or structure used or designed to be used as an abode or home of a person, family, or household, and includes a single-family dwelling, a portion of a single-family dwelling, or an individual residential dwelling in a multi-dwelling building, such as an apartment building, condominium, cooperative, or timeshare. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Residential housing: means a specific work or improvement within this state undertaken primarily to provide dwelling accommodations for persons and families of lower and moderate income, including the acquisition, construction or rehabilitation of land, buildings and improvements thereto and such other nonhousing facilities as may be incidental or appurtenant thereto. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Residential neighborhood: means an area within a local authority's geographic boundary that is zoned or otherwise designated by the local authority for general purposes as an area primarily used for single-family residences and does not include multiple commercial properties and is subject to speed limits and traffic controls consistent with residential areas. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Residential rental dwelling unit: means a dwelling unit that is leased or rented to one (1) or more tenants. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
ROW: means the space, in, upon, above, along, across, and over all public streets, highways, avenues, roads, alleys, sidewalks, tunnels, viaducts, bridges, skywalks under the control of the authority, and any unrestricted public utility easement established, dedicated, platted, improved, or devoted for utility purposes and accepted as such public utility easement by the authority, but excluding lands other than streets that are owned by the authority. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Rule of the department: means a rule as defined in the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, that materially affects the operation of a feedlot, dairy farm, or poultry production house and that has been adopted by the department. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
Sale contract: means a contract providing for the sale of one (1) or more projects to one (1) or more contracting parties and includes a contract providing for payment of the purchase price in one (1) or more installments. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
Savings and loan association: includes a building and loan association, a federal or state savings and loan association, a federal savings bank, and any other financial institution, the accounts of which are insured by the [former] federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor [repealed] of such corporation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
schedule: means the timetable set out by the joint review team in which to accomplish the joint review process, submit applications, hold hearings, and obtain approval of involved agencies. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the bylaws or the board of directors has delegated responsibility under §. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
secretary: means the secretary of state or the secretary of state's authorized representative or designee. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
Secretary of state: means the person who holds the office of secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Secretary of state: means the secretary of state or the secretary of state's authorized representative. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
Services: includes labor, skill, professional service, transportation, telephone, mail, gas, electricity, steam, water, cable television, entertainment subscription service or other public services, accommodations in hotels, restaurants or elsewhere, admissions to exhibitions, use of vehicles or other movable property, and any other activity or product considered in the ordinary course of business to be a service, regardless of whether it is listed in this subdivision (a)(38) or a specific statute exists covering the same or similar conduct. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
Servicing fees: means that sum paid for the reasonable value of services rendered to the agency for the servicing of mortgages it acquires. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Servicing of mortgages: means the collection and payment of all principal and interest and all reasonable fees and charges by the lender for mortgages acquired by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Sex offender: means any person who is convicted in this state, on or after January 1, 1996, of any sex offense, or if such person has been convicted in another state of an offense that would constitute a sex offense in this state, and who is subject to parole or probation supervision by the department of correction pursuant to an interstate compact. See Tennessee Code 39-13-703
Sex offense: means any felony or misdemeanor offense described as follows:
(A) The commission of any act that, on or after January 1, 1996, constitutes the criminal offense of:
(i) Rape of a child, as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 39-13-703
Share: means the unit into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Short-term rental unit: means a residential dwelling that is rented wholly or partially for a fee for a period of less than thirty (30) continuous days and does not include a hotel as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Short-term rental unit marketplace: means a person or entity, excluding a vacation lodging service, that provides a platform for compensation, through which a third party offers to rent a short-term rental unit to an occupant. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
signature: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a document:
(A) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol to a document, and includes any manual, facsimile, or conformed signature. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Small wireless facility: includes a micro wireless facility. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Smaller city: means any municipal corporation other than the principal city. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
Smaller city: means any municipality within a county other than the principal city. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
solicitation: means any oral or written request, however communicated, whether directly or indirectly, for a contribution. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
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
State agency: means any general or special purpose executive agency of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
State apiarist: means that person employed by the department who has the qualifications prescribed by this chapter and has been designated as state apiarist by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 44-15-102
State portion: means funds appropriated by the state to fund the state portion of the loan fund pool. See Tennessee Code 13-23-302
State procurement agency: means , as appropriate, the department of general services, state of Tennessee real estate asset management. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Structure: means any dwelling or place of public accommodation or vacant building or structure suitable as a dwelling or place of public accommodation. See Tennessee Code 13-21-101
Structure: means any dwelling or place of public accommodation or vacant building or structure suitable as a dwelling or place of public accommodation. See Tennessee Code 13-21-301
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
Subsidiary: means a corporation more than fifty percent (50%) of whose outstanding voting shares are owned by its parent and/or the parent's other wholly-owned subsidiaries. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
Subsidiary nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation whose sole member is a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
Subsidiary nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation, the sole member of which is also a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
Substantial rehabilitation: means improvements made to residential real property that exceed thirty-five percent (35%) of the proposed market value of the structure after rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 7-8-102
Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
Tax collection official: means the department of finance of the county or municipality, as applicable, or the county clerk, if so designated by ordinance of the legislative body of any municipality having a metropolitan form of government and a population of more than four hundred fifty thousand (450,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Tax collection official: means the department of finance of the county or municipality, as applicable, or the county clerk, if so designated by ordinance of the legislative body of any municipality having a metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
Taxing agency: means any county, city, town or metropolitan government in the state. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
team: means a coordinating group organized to conduct the joint review process on a major energy project. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Team leader: means the state or local lead agency which is selected by the joint review team to lead the team and coordinate and supervise the joint review process. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
Telephone service: means any communication service whereby communication through the electric or electronic transmission of impulses by or through any media such as wireless technology, wires, cables, microwaves, radio waves, light waves or any combination of such media or any other future transmission technology which may become available to improve communication services, is the principal intended use thereof, and includes all telephone lines, facilities or systems used in the rendition of such service. See Tennessee Code 65-29-103
Tenant or occupant: means any person who occupies the whole or a part of any building, whether alone or with others, and includes the owner. See Tennessee Code 65-35-101
Tennessee dairy promotion committee: means a statewide committee appointed by the commissioner established pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Termination: means the end of an LLC's existence as a legal entity and occurs when the articles of termination are filed with the secretary of state under §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
Testify: Answer questions in court.
Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
Tourism: means the planning and conducting of programs of information and publicity designed to attract to the county tourists, visitors and other interested persons from outside the area and also to encourage and coordinate the efforts of other public and private organizations or groups of citizens to publicize the facilities and attractions of the area for the same purposes. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Tourist commission: means a seven-person body established subject to the same local organic law as other boards and commissions established by the charter of the metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Training: means instruction or teaching designed to impart a specific skill, as opposed to general knowledge. See Tennessee Code 39-13-803
Transient: means any person who exercises occupancy or is entitled to occupancy for any rooms, lodgings or accommodations in a hotel for a period of less than thirty (30) days. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Treatment: means therapy and supervision of any sex offender that conforms to the standards created by the board pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 39-13-703
Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
Trust indenture: includes instruments pledging the revenues of real or personal properties but not conveying such properties or conferring a right to foreclose and cause a sale thereof. See Tennessee Code 13-20-102
Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
unified: means consolidation or consolidated pursuant to this chapter and that power granted by the Constitution of Tennessee, Article XI, §. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Unified government: means the governmental entity created by the unification of the governmental and corporate functions of a charter county government with the governmental and corporate functions of one (1) or more municipalities within that county's boundaries. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Unified municipality: means a former municipality that has merged into a unified government pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-21-104
Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
Unit or units of local government: means any city or county, separately or together, that sets up a program to establish a housing trust fund. See Tennessee Code 13-23-502
United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Unmanned aircraft: means an airborne device that is operated without an individual in or on the device. See Tennessee Code 39-13-901
urban renewal plan: means a plan, as it exists from time to time, for an urban renewal project, which plan:
(1) Shall conform to the general plan for the municipality as a whole. See Tennessee Code 13-20-211
Urban services district: means a service district within a metropolitan government in which are furnished by the metropolitan government municipal services additional to those provided in the general services district. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
utility: means any utility which furnishes electricity, gas or water, or converts solid waste into heat, fuel or energy. See Tennessee Code 65-32-103
Utility: means any person, municipality, county, cooperative, board, commission, district or any entity created or authorized by public act, private act or general law to provide electricity, natural gas, water, sanitary sewer service, telephone service, or any combination thereof, for sale to consumers in any particular service area, whether or not regulated by the Tennessee public utility commission. See Tennessee Code 65-35-101
Utility: includes all utilities either public, private, or cooperatively owned which furnish utility service including, but not limited to, water, electric power, sanitary sewers, storm sewers, steam power, gas, and telephone or telegraph service, through a system of pipes, conduits, cables, or wires devoted to public utility service. See Tennessee Code 13-20-302
Utility customer: means :
(A) The person or persons listed on the records of the utility as the customer liable for charges or payment for the utility service. See Tennessee Code 65-35-101
Vacant property review commission: means a commission established by ordinance to review vacant properties to make a written determination of blight and deterioration. See Tennessee Code 13-21-202
Vacation lodging service: means a person or entity that is engaged in the business of providing the services of management, marketing, booking, and rental of short-term rental units. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
Vote: means to cast a ballot in a referendum. See Tennessee Code 44-19-103
Weapon of mass destruction: includes chemical warfare agents, biological or biologic warfare agents, weaponized agents, weaponized biological or biologic warfare agents, nuclear agents, radiological agents, or the intentional release of industrial agents as a weapon. See Tennessee Code 39-13-803
Weaponized biological or biologic warfare agents: include , but are not limited to, weaponized pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses, rickettsia, yeasts, fungi, or genetically engineered pathogens, toxins, vectors, and endogenous biological regulators (EBRs). See Tennessee Code 39-13-803
Willful noncompliance: means the intentional refusal or failure to perform, or comply with, a duty created or imposed by this chapter or by rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Wireless facility: includes small wireless facilities. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Wireless provider: means a person who provides wireless service. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Wireless services: means any service using licensed or unlicensed spectrum, including the use of WiFi, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided to the public. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Wireline backhaul facility: means a communications facility used to transport communications services by wire from a wireless facility to a network. See Tennessee Code 13-24-402
Working day: means every day, except Saturday, Sunday, and national and legal state holidays. See Tennessee Code 65-31-102
Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
Writing: includes printing or any other method of recording information, money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, and symbols of value, right, privilege or identification. See Tennessee Code 39-14-114
written: means any information in the form of a document. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
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
Zoning requirement: means a regulation or ordinance that has been adopted by a city, county, township, school district, or any special-purpose district or authority, that materially affects the operation of a feedlot, dairy farm or poultry production house. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101

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