Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 36 > Chapter 5 > Part 31 - Enforcement Without Transfer of Jurisdiction

• Aesthetics: means any of the following practices:
  (A) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or similar work with hands or mechanical or electrical apparatus or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Board: means the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners created by §. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Clerk: means the clerk of the original or registering court, or the clerk of any court who has been designated by either of those courts to collect support payments for such court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Cosmetology: means any of the following practices:
  (A) Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring or similar work on the hair of any person by any means. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Cosmetology shop: means any place of business where any person engages or offers to engage in any practice of cosmetology for a fee or other form of compensation, but does not include a manicure shop, skin care shop, natural hair styling shop, or eyelash services shop. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Court: means a juvenile, circuit, or chancery court or other court of this state with jurisdiction to enter support or custody orders. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Department: means the department of human services or its contractor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Dual shop: means any shop licensed by the board where services are performed or offered to be performed in more than one (1) field of cosmetology, including aesthetics, natural hair styling, manicuring, and eyelash services, or in both cosmetology, or a field of cosmetology, and barbering. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• 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.
• Eyelash services: means applying and removing a semi-permanent, thread-like, natural or synthetic single fiber to an eyelash, including cleansing of the eye area and lashes prior to applying and after removing extensions. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Eyelash services shop: means a place of business where a person licensed pursuant to this chapter performs or offers to perform only eyelash services for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Issuing court: means the court that entered the order sought to be enforced in the registering court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• 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.
• Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Manager: means a person licensed under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer, who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity in the shop, and whose information is filed with the board. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Manager: means a person licensed under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity in the shop whose information is filed with the board. See Tennessee Code 62-3-109
• Manicure shop: means any place of business where any person performs or offers to perform only manicuring services for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Manicuring: means manicuring or pedicuring the nails of any person or performing nail artistry. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Natural hair styling: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking or braiding of the hair by hand or mechanical appliances, which work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl or alter the structure of the hair. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Natural hair styling shop: means a place of business where a person licensed pursuant to this chapter performs or offers to perform only natural hair styling for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Natural hair stylist: means a person licensed to practice natural hair styling. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Nonrequesting party: means the party against whom a registered order is sought to be enforced. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• 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.
• Obligee: means an individual or agency to whom a support obligation is owed by an obligor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Obligor: means an individual against whom a support order has been entered. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Registering court: means the court in which a support order is registered for enforcement only. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
• Safety razor: means a razor that is fitted with a guard close to the cutting edge of the razor that is intended to:
  (A) Prevent the razor from cutting too deeply. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• School: means a school of cosmetology. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Shampooing: means any brushing, combing, shampooing, rinsing or conditioning upon the hair and scalp. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Shop: means a cosmetology shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, natural hair styling shop, or eyelash services shop. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• Skin care shop: means any place of business where any person performs or offers to perform exclusively aesthetics services for a fee or other form of compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession under the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• 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
• Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105