Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 44 > Chapter 18 - Feedlots, Dairy Farms and Poultry Production Houses

• Agency: means the Tennessee housing development agency created by this part. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Department: means the department of environment and conservation, and includes any officer, agency or designee of that department. See Tennessee Code 44-18-101
• 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
• 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
• 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}
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 13-23-103
• 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.
• 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
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. 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
• 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
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-23-103
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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