Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 62 > Chapter 32 - Fire Protection and Alarm Systems

• Alarm system: means any electrical device, signaling device, or combination of those devices used to signal or detect a burglary, fire, robbery, or medical emergency. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Alarm systems contractor: means any person, firm, association or corporation that sells or attempts to sell, installs, services or monitors alarm systems, signal devices, fire alarms, burglar alarms, television cameras or still cameras used to detect fire, burglary, breaking or entering, intrusion, shoplifting, pilferage or theft. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Alarm verification: means an attempt by a monitoring company or its representative to contact a burglar alarm location or a burglar alarm user by telephone or other electronic means to determine whether a burglar alarm signal is valid in an attempt to avoid unnecessary police response before requesting law enforcement to be dispatched to the location. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• Business entity: means each location from which alarm systems are sold, installed or serviced. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Certification: means the authority granted by the commissioner to do business as an alarm systems contractor. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• 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
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• conviction: means and includes the entry of a plea of guilty, plea of no contest or a verdict rendered in open court by a judge or jury. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• 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.
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Division: means the division of fire prevention. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• 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.
• Extinguisher specialist: means an individual who is or is designated to be in active and responsible charge of the work of installing or servicing portable fire extinguishers or installing or servicing fixed fire extinguisher systems. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Extinguisher technician: means an individual who may perform the work of installing or servicing portable fire extinguishers or installing or servicing fixed fire extinguisher systems and who services portable extinguishers or fixed systems only under direct supervision of a licensed extinguisher specialist. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Fire protection sprinkler system: means an assembly of underground or overhead piping or conduit, including fire pumps, valves and fire hydrants, that conveys water or other agents to dispersal openings or devices to extinguish, control or contain fire and to provide protection from exposure to fire or other products of combustion. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• Fire protection sprinkler system contractor: means a person that contracts, offers to contract or represents that the person is able to contract with a general contractor, subcontractor or the general public for the undertaking of the sale, installation or service of a fire protection sprinkler system or any part of a fire protection sprinkler system or that actually installs or services a fire protection sprinkler system. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• Firm: means any person, partnership, corporation or association offering service and servicing of portable fire extinguishers or fixed fire extinguisher systems, including installation. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Fixed fire extinguisher system: means a device mounted to a permanent structure and containing powder, liquid or gases that can be expelled under pressure for the purpose of suppressing or extinguishing a fire. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Good moral character: means an individual with high legal, moral and ethical values. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Hydrostatic testing: means pressure testing by hydrostatic methods. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Installation: means the installation, maintenance, service and repair of alarm systems. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Installation: includes work throughout the entire fire protection sprinkler system. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• 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.
• Juvenile court: means the general sessions court in all counties of this state, except in those counties and municipalities in which special juvenile courts are provided by law, and "judge" means judge of the juvenile court. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• 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}
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Monitoring: means any off-site central monitoring station or location that receives electronic burglar alarm, closed circuit television or fire alarm signals from multiple locations and notifies or dispatches, or both, other persons to emergency burglaries, hold ups, thefts, vandalism, civil unrest, personal emergencies or fire alarm conditions. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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: means a natural person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, governmental entity or any other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. 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.
• Portable fire extinguisher: means a portable device containing powder, liquid or gases that can be expelled under pressure for the purpose of suppressing or extinguishing a fire. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Qualifying agent: means any individual licensed by the commissioner whose qualifications have been demonstrated to the commissioner for overseeing and supervising alarm systems contractor operations of any classification or combination of classifications. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• 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
• Responsible managing employee: means an individual who is or is designated to be in active and responsible charge of the work of a fire protection sprinkler system contractor. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• 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
• Service and servicing: means servicing portable fire extinguishers or fixed fire extinguisher systems by charging, filling, maintaining, recharging, refilling, repairing or testing. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• 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
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Work in progress: means any work for which bids are complete and a contractual agreement has been reached among the parties but the necessary labor to fulfill the contract is not yet complete. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• 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