Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 58 > Chapter 2 > Part 1 - General Emergency Provisions

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agency: means the Tennessee emergency management agency (TEMA). See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Broadcaster: means a radio broadcasting station or a television broadcasting station primarily engaged in the business of facilitating or originating speech, pictures or both through over the air communications, both as to pure speech and commercial speech and for all purposes operating under licenses provided by the federal communications commission and which station has been selected by the federal emergency management agency as a primary entry point. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Catastrophic disaster: means a disaster that will require massive state and federal assistance, including immediate military involvement. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• CLEO: means the chief local elected official. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• 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.
• Compacts: means the emergency management compacts included in parts 4 and 7 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Disaster: means any natural, technological, or civil emergency that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to result in a declaration of a state emergency by a county, the governor, or the president of the United States. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• EMA: means a local emergency management agency of a political subdivision. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Emergency: means an occurrence, or threat thereof, whether natural, technological, or manmade, in war or in peace, that results or may result in substantial injury or harm to the population, or substantial damage to or loss of property. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Emergency management: means the preparation for, the mitigation of, the response to, and the recovery from emergencies and disasters. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Emergency response broadcaster: means a person certified pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Energy resources: includes all forms of energy or power, including without limitation, oil, gasoline, and other petroleum products. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Entity: includes a firm, business, for profit and not-for-profit corporation, profit and not-for-profit unincorporated association, partnership, and two (2) or more persons having a joint or common economic interest. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• ESC: means the person or persons selected by the head of each executive branch agency or commissioner designated by the governor and includes alternates. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Local emergency management agency: means an organization created in accordance with this chapter to discharge the emergency management responsibilities and functions of a political subdivision. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Major disaster: means a disaster that will likely exceed local capabilities and require a broad range of state and federal assistance. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes a natural person or entity organized under the laws of this state or any other state or territory of the United States or the federal government, as the case may be, and includes both the singular and plural. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Political subdivision: means any municipality or county, including any county having metropolitan form of government, created pursuant to law. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Public official: means an elected or appointed person in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of the state or any political subdivision of the state. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• TEMP: means Tennessee emergency management plan. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105