Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 47 > Chapter 26 > Part 9 - Weights and Measures

• Accurate: means a piece of equipment when its performance or value-that is, its indications, its deliveries, its recorded representations, or its capacity or actual value, etc. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• 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
• 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.
• Commercial weighing and measuring equipment: means weights and measures and weighing and measuring devices commercially used or employed in establishing the size, quantity, extent, area, or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles for distribution or consumption, purchased, offered, or submitted for sale, hire, or award, or in computing any basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight or measure. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• Department: means the Tennessee department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• 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.
• 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.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Net weight: means the weight of a commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• NIST: means the National Institute of Standards and Technology which is an agency of the United States department of commerce. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• Person: means both plural and the singular, as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• Primary standards: means the physical standards of the state that serve as the legal reference from which all other standards and weights are derived. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• ranked and well stowed: means that pieces of wood are placed in a line or row, with individual pieces touching and parallel to each other, and stacked in a compact manner. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• 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
• Secondary standards: means the physical standards that are traceable to the primary standards through comparisons, using acceptable laboratory procedures, and used in the enforcement of weights and measures laws and regulations. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• State: means state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• state sealer: means the commissioner of agriculture or the commissioner's duly appointed representative. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• 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
• weight: means net drained weight. See Tennessee Code 47-26-902
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105