Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-6-207

• Family violence: means causing or attempting to cause bodily injury to a family or household member or placing a family or household member in fear of imminent physical harm by threat of force, regardless of age or mental functioning. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
• Shelter: means a place where family violence victims and their children can seek temporary refuge twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week, including a program that develops and manages a system under which private homes or commercial lodgings are used as refuge for family violence victims and their children. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202