Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 49 > Chapter 7 > Part 22 - College and University Security Information Act

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Institution of higher education: includes any college, community college or university, including the state colleges of applied technology, whether public or private, that is required to submit a copy of the statistics of certain criminal offenses to the secretary of education under Tennessee Code 49-7-2202
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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: 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
• Student housing: means all residence halls and sorority and fraternity residences owned or under the control of the institution of higher education. See Tennessee Code 49-7-2202
• 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