Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 37 > Chapter 1 - Juvenile Courts and Proceedings

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Adult: means any person eighteen (18) years of age or older. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Affiliate auctioneer: means an individual who, for compensation or valuable consideration, or otherwise, is employed, directly or indirectly, by a principal auctioneer to deal or engage in any activity described in subdivision (9). See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Age of majority: means eighteen (18) years of age or older. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• AMC National Registry: means the registry of state-registered AMCs and federally regulated AMCs maintained by the appraisal subcommittee. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Analysis assignment: means an analysis, opinion or conclusion prepared by a real estate appraiser that relates to the nature, quality or utility of identified real estate or identified real property. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Antibacterial solution: means any solution used to retard the growth of bacteria approved for application to human skin and includes all products so labeled. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Applicant: means a person seeking an initial or renewal registration pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Applicant: means a customer who applies for a refund anticipation loan through a facilitator. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• Appraisal: means the act or process of developing an opinion of value of identified real estate. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Appraisal: means the act or process of developing an opinion of value of identified real estate. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Appraisal assignment: means an engagement for which an appraiser is employed or retained to act, or would be perceived by third parties or the public as acting, as a disinterested third party in rendering an unbiased analysis, opinion or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real estate. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Appraisal foundation: means the appraisal foundation incorporated as an Illinois not for profit corporation on November 30, 1987. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Appraisal management services: means one (1) or more of the following:
  (A) Recruiting, selecting, and retaining appraisers. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Appraisal report: means any communication, written or oral, of an opinion of value of identified real estate. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Appraiser: means an individual who holds a license under part 1 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Appraiser panel: means a network, list, or roster of appraisers approved by an AMC to perform appraisals as independent contractors for the AMC. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Approval: means written approval from the department of health indicating that the body piercing establishment has been inspected and meets all the terms of this part and the applicable rules. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Auction: means a sales transaction conducted by oral, written, or electronic exchange between an auctioneer and members of the audience, consisting of a series of invitations by the auctioneer for offers to members of the audience to purchase goods or real estate, culminating in the acceptance by the auctioneer of the highest or most favorable offer made by a member of the participating audience. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Auctioneer: means a principal auctioneer, bid caller auctioneer, or public automobile auctioneer. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Audit: means an engagement performed in accordance with the Statements on Auditing Standards (SAS). See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Average daily balance: means the sum of the average daily demand deposits, the average daily time deposits, and the average daily savings deposits of public depositors held during the calendar month immediately preceding the current month. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Average monthly balance: means the average monthly balance of public deposits held by the depository during any twelve (12) calendar months. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bid caller auctioneer: means an individual who, for compensation or valuable consideration, or otherwise, is hired by a principal auctioneer, public automobile auction, or public automobile auctioneer to solicit bids for the purchase of goods at an auction. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Board: means the Tennessee collection service board. See Tennessee Code 62-20-102
• Board: means the collateral pool board created pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Body piercing: includes ear piercing except when the ear piercing procedure is performed on the ear with an ear piercing gun. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing establishment: means any place, whether temporary or permanent, stationary or mobile, wherever situated, where body piercing is performed, including any area under the control of the operator. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing paraphernalia: means equipment, needles, body ornaments, or other instruments used or intended for use in piercing a part of the body for nonmedical purposes. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• body piercing procedure: means the service performed or the procedure utilized for body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Borrower: means an applicant who receives a refund anticipation loan through a facilitator. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• Branch office: means any office of a contract security company within this state other than its principal place of business within this state. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Branch office: means any location other than the principal base of operation from which a pest control firm carries out its pest control activities. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Branch office: means any office of an investigations company within this state other than its principal place of business within this state. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• Business: means any entity that provides body piercing services or procedures for compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Business entity: means each location from which alarm systems are sold, installed or serviced. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Caregiver: means any relative or other person living, visiting, or working in the child's home who supervises or otherwise provides care or assistance for the child, such as a babysitter, or who is an employee or volunteer with the responsibility for any child at an educational, recreational, medical, religious, therapeutic, or other setting where children are present. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Category: means an area of licensing or certification for which commercial pest control operators or restricted use applicators are qualified. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Certification: means the authorization by the commissioner to use, supervise the use of, buy or sell restricted use pesticides or to issue a wood destroying insect infestation inspection report. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Certification: means the authority granted by the commissioner to do business as an alarm systems contractor. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Certified applicator: means any individual who is certified by the commissioner as authorized to use, buy, sell or supervise the use of restricted use pesticides. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Certified trainer: means any individual certified by the commissioner as qualified to administer and certify to successful completion of the minimum training requirements prescribed by this chapter for a security guard/officer. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Charter: means an instrument issued by the department, authorizing a person, firm or corporation to engage in the business of commercial pest control operations. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Child: means :
  (A) A person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Child: means :
  (A) A person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Child: means a person who is under eighteen (18) years of age or who is reasonably presumed to be under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-1-401
• Church-related school: means a school as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Client: means any person who retains the services of a collection service and for such services directly provides the fee, commission or other compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-20-102
• Client: means any person who enters into a professional employer agreement with a professional employer organization. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Client: means any person desiring to receive a tattoo. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Co-employer: means either a professional employer organization or a client. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Co-employment relationship: means a relationship which is intended to be an ongoing relationship rather than a temporary or project specific one, wherein the rights, duties, and obligations of an employer which arise out of an employment relationship have been shared and allocated between co-employers pursuant to a professional employer agreement and this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Collateral pool: means an arrangement whereby the repayment of public deposits deposited with any qualified public depository is secured through the sum total of eligible collateral pledged by all qualified public depositories, and contingent liability agreements as provided by the collateral pool board. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Collection service: includes , but is not limited to:
  (A) Any deputy sheriff, constable or other individual who, in the course of that person's duties, accepts any compensation other than that fixed by statute in connection with the collection of an account. See Tennessee Code 62-20-102
• Collection service license: means a license granted to a collection service. See Tennessee Code 62-20-102
• Commercial pest control operator: means a person or business entity who engages in the custom application of pesticides or inspection of real property for the purpose of issuing a wood destroying insect infestation inspection report and who has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commissioner the person's qualifications to design and direct pest control and inspection operations. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Commission: means the Tennessee auctioneer commission. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Commission: means the real estate appraiser commission established pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Commission: means the real estate appraiser commission created by §. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-27-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• Commissioner: means commissioner of children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Commissioner: means commissioner of children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of health or the designee of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Consumer credit: means credit offered or extended to a consumer primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract security company: means any person engaging in the business of providing or undertaking to provide a security guard and patrol service on a contractual basis for another person. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Controlling person: means :
  (A) An owner, officer or director of a corporation, partnership, or other business entity seeking to offer appraisal management services in this state. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• 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
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Court order: means any order or decree of a judge, magistrate or court of competent jurisdiction. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Court order: means any order or decree of a judge, magistrate or court of competent jurisdiction. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Custodian: means a person, other than a parent or legal guardian, who stands in loco parentis to the child or a person to whom temporary legal custody of the child has been given by order of a court. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Custodian: means a person, other than a parent or legal guardian, who stands in loco parentis to the child or a person to whom temporary legal custody of the child has been given by order of a court. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Custody: means the control of actual physical care of the child and includes the right and responsibility to provide for the physical, mental, moral and emotional well-being of the child. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Custody: means the control of actual physical care of the child and includes the right and responsibility to provide for the physical, mental, moral and emotional well-being of the child. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Custom application of pesticides: means the application of pesticides for a fee. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Customer: means an individual for whom tax preparation services are performed. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• Delinquent act: means an act designated a crime under the law, including local ordinances of this state, or of another state if the act occurred in that state, or under federal law, and the crime is not a status offense under subdivision (b)(32)(C) and the crime is not a traffic offense as defined in the traffic code of the state other than failing to stop when involved in an accident pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Delinquent child: means a child who has committed a delinquent act and is in need of treatment or rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Department: means the department of children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Department: means the department of children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Department: means the department of children's services. See Tennessee Code 37-1-401
• 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
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Deposit insurance: means the insurance provided by the federal deposit insurance corporation. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Depository pledge agreement: means the contract between the state treasurer, a qualified public depository, and a trustee custodian providing for the pledge and deposit of collateral, and other provisions determined by the state treasurer. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Descendent: One who is directly descended from another such as a child, grandchild, or great grandchild.
• Detention: means temporary confinement in a secure or closed type of facility that is under the direction or supervision of the court or a facility that is designated by the court or other authority as a place of confinement for juveniles. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Detention: means temporary confinement in a secure or closed type of facility that is under the direction or supervision of the court or a facility that is designated by the court or other authority as a place of confinement for juveniles. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Disinfectant: means a solution intended to destroy or inactivate specific viruses, bacteria or fungi on inanimate surfaces. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Disinfecting: means a process that kills or destroys nearly all disease-producing microorganisms, with the exception of bacterial spores. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: means the division of fire prevention. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Dwelling: includes individual condominium units, cooperative units, mobile homes, and trailers, if used as a residence. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Eligible collateral: has the meaning set forth in §. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Evidence-based: means policies, procedures, programs, and practices demonstrated by scientific research to reliably produce reductions in recidivism or has been rated as effective by a standardized program evaluation tool. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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
• Facilitator: means a person who receives or accepts for delivery an application for a refund anticipation loan, delivers a check in payment of refund anticipation loan proceeds or in any other manner acts to allow the making of a refund anticipation loan. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a set of United States statutes added as Title VIII of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Its purpose is to ensure ethical practices in the collection of consumer debts and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy. It is often used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Financial obligations: means fines, fees, costs, surcharges, child support, or other monetary liabilities ordered or assessed by any court or state or county government, but does not include restitution. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Financially responsible: means capable, as demonstrated to the board's satisfaction, of sound financial management and fiscal discretion. See Tennessee Code 62-20-102
• 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
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foster care: means the temporary placement of a child in the custody of the department of children's services or any agency or institution, whether public or private, for care outside the home of a parent or relative, by blood or marriage, of the child, whether the placement is by court order, voluntary placement agreement, surrender of parental rights or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Foster care: means the temporary placement of a child in the custody of the department of children's services or any agency or institution, whether public or private, for care outside the home of a parent or relative, by blood or marriage, of the child, whether the placement is by court order, voluntary placement agreement, surrender of parental rights or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Foster parent: means , for purposes other than §. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• fund: means the fund created pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Geologist: means a person qualified by education and practical experience to engage in the practice of geology. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• Geology: means the science concerning the earth and its history, including:
  (A) The investigation, prediction of existence and location of:

  (i) Minerals. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• Germicidal solution: means any solution that destroys germs and is so labeled. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Good moral character: means an individual with high legal, moral and ethical values. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Goods: means chattels, merchandise, real or personal property, or commodities of any form or type that may lawfully be kept or offered for sale. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Hydrostatic testing: means pressure testing by hydrostatic methods. See Tennessee Code 62-32-203
• Identification card: means a pocket card issued by the commissioner evidencing that the holder has met the qualifications required by this part to perform the duties of a private investigator in this state. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Industrial hygiene: means the science and art devoted to anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of environmental factors or stressors arising in or from the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers. See Tennessee Code 62-40-101
• Industrial hygienist: means a person who possesses a baccalaureate degree issued by an accredited college or university in industrial hygiene engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, medicine or related physical and biological sciences and who, by virtue of special studies and training, has acquired competence in industrial hygiene. See Tennessee Code 62-40-101
• Installation: includes work throughout the entire fire protection sprinkler system. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• Installation: means the installation, maintenance, service and repair of alarm systems. See Tennessee Code 62-32-303
• Internship: means the study of polygraph techniques and of the administration of polygraph techniques by a trainee, referred to as an "intern" in this chapter, under the personal supervision and control of a local licensed polygraph examiner in accordance with a course of study prescribed by the commissioner at the commencement of the internship. See Tennessee Code 62-27-102
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Investigations company: means any person who engages in the business or accepts employment to obtain or furnish information with reference to:
  (A) Crime or wrongs done or threatened against the United States or any state or territory of the United States. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• 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
• 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
• Labeling: means all labels and written, printed or graphic matter accompanying the pesticide or device at any time or to which reference is made on the label and the pesticide must be used consistent with the label. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• License: means the issuance of a license to perform tattooing to any individual, partnership, firm or corporation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• License: means the issuance of a license to perform body piercing to an individual, partnership, firm, association or corporation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Licensed professional geologist: means a person who is licensed as a geologist under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• Licensee: means any contract security company licensed in accordance with this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Licensee: means any person duly licensed under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Licensee: means any investigations company and private investigator licensed in accordance with this part. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• Local governmental entity: means a governing body, board, commission, committee or department of a municipality or county. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Loss: includes , but is not limited to:
  (A) The principal amount of the public deposit. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Merchandise: means any consumer item that is or is represented to be new or not previously owned by a consumer. See Tennessee Code 62-30-101
• Minor: means an individual under the age of eighteen (18). See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• 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
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nonjudicial days: means Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Office: means point of headquarters or location of the principal operation of a pest control firm or a point or location where branch offices are supervised. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• operator: means a person who controls, operates, conducts or manages a body piercing establishment, whether or not the operator is actually engaging in body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Patron: means a person requesting and receiving body piercing services. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Permit: means the issuance of a permit to a tattoo studio or establishment. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• permit: means the issuance of a written permit by the department to a body piercing establishment stating that the establishment, after inspection, was found to be in compliance with this part. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Person: includes an individual, association, partnership, corporation, and the officers, directors, and employees of a corporation. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association or other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 62-20-102
• Person: means any natural person, corporation, partnership, firm or association. See Tennessee Code 62-25-102
• Person: means any natural person, firm, association, copartnership or corporation. See Tennessee Code 62-27-102
• Person: means any individual, firm, association, company, partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, institution or similar entity. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Person: means any individual, firm, association, company, partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, institution or similar entity. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, association, partnership or any organized group of persons. See Tennessee Code 62-29-102
• Person: means an individual, a firm, a proprietorship, an association, a corporation or another entity. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• Person: means a natural person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, governmental entity or any other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 62-32-101
• Person: means a natural person or an entity, including a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, sole proprietorship, association, cooperative, estate, trust, or government unit. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Personal 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
• Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances or chemical intended for defoliating or desiccating plants or for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any insects, rodents, fungi, bacteria, weeds or other forms of plant or animal life the commissioner declares to be a pest. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Polygraph examiner: means any person who purports to be able to detect deception or verify truth of statements through instrumentation or by means of a mechanical device. See Tennessee Code 62-27-102
• 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
• Positive behavior: means prosocial behavior or progress in a treatment program or on supervision. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Practice of geology: means providing geological services, except as specifically exempted by this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Preliminary inquiry: means the process established by the Rules of Juvenile Practice and Procedure that is used to commence proceedings and to resolve complaints by excluding certain matters from juvenile court at their inception. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Premises: means the physical location of an establishment that offers and performs body piercing services. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Preparer of tax returns: means a person who, in consideration of compensation received or to be received by the person, offers to perform or holds that person out to perform services for residents or taxpayers of this state that involve advice concerning the preparation of returns required under state law, except the tax on income. See Tennessee Code 62-29-102
• Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Prevention: means the prevention of conditions conducive to termite harborage or activity, or both, by advice of a licensed operator. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Principal auctioneer: means an individual who, for a fee, commission, or any other valuable consideration, or with the intention or expectation of receiving a fee, commission, or any other valuable consideration by the means or process of auction or sale at auction, offers and executes a listing contract, sale, purchase, or exchange of goods, and is responsible for the management and supervision of an auction company, including its wholly owned subsidiary or affiliate company. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Principal corporate officer: means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary or comptroller, as well as any other responsible officer or executive employee who performs functions for the corporation corresponding to those performed by the chief executive officer, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary or comptroller. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Principal corporate officer: means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary or comptroller, as well as any other responsible officer or executive employee who performs functions for the corporation corresponding to those performed by the chief executive officer, president, vice president, treasurer, secretary or comptroller. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• Private applicator: means an individual who uses, supervises the use of or buys any pesticide that is classified for restricted use for purposes of producing an agricultural commodity on property owned or rented by the individual or the individual's employer or if applied without compensation other than trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities on the property of another person. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Private investigator: means any person who performs one (1) or more services described in subdivision (6). See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• Private school: means a school accredited by, or a member of, an organization or association approved by the state board of education as an organization accrediting or setting academic requirements in schools, or that has been approved by the state, or is in the future approved by the commissioner in accordance with rules promulgated by the state board of education. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation: means casework service as directed by the court and pursuant to this part as a measure for the protection, guidance, and well-being of the child and child's family. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Probation: means casework service as directed by the court and pursuant to this part as a measure for the protection, guidance, and well-being of the child and child's family. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Professional employer agreement: means a written contract between a client and a professional employer organization that provides:
  (A) For the co-employment of covered employees. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Professional employer organization group: means two (2) or more professional employer organizations that are majority owned or commonly controlled by the same entity, parent or controlling person. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Professional employer services: means the service of entering into co-employment relationships under this chapter in which all or a majority of the employees providing services to a client, a division or work unit of a client are covered employees. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Professional industrial hygienist: means a person who possesses a baccalaureate degree issued by an accredited college or university in industrial hygiene, engineering, chemistry, physics, biology, medicine or related physical and biological sciences and who has a minimum of three (3) years full-time industrial hygiene experience. See Tennessee Code 62-40-101
• Proof of age: means a driver license or other generally accepted means of identification that describes the individual as eighteen (18) years of age or older, contains a photograph or other likeness of the individual and appears on its face to be valid. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Proprietary security organization: means any person or department of the organization that employs a security guard/officer solely for the person in an employer/employee relationship. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Protective supervision: means supervision ordered by the court of children found to be dependent or neglected or unruly. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Public automobile auction: means a person that offers motor vehicles for sale to the highest bidder, where buyers are members of the public, by a motor vehicle dealer licensed to sell used motor vehicles that holds a public auto auction license and uses the services of a public automobile auctioneer licensed by the commission. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Public automobile auctioneer: means an individual who, for a fee, commission, or any other valuable consideration, or with the intention or expectation of receiving a fee, commission, or any other valuable consideration at an auction or sale at auction, offers, negotiates, or attempts to negotiate a listing contract, sale, purchase, or exchange of goods, including motor vehicles. See Tennessee Code 62-19-101
• Public charter school: means a public school in this state that is established and operating under the terms of a charter agreement and in accordance with title 49, chapter 13. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public depositor: means the state of Tennessee, or any of its agencies, or any Tennessee county, Tennessee incorporated municipality and their political subdivisions, or any utility district organized under the laws of the state or any interstate compact to which the state is a party. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Public depository: means :
  (i) Any savings and loan association, or savings bank (collectively referred to as savings institutions), or any bank chartered by the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public school: means an elementary or secondary school operated by a local education agency, as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Qualified public depository: means any public depository that meets all of the requirements of this part and that has been authorized by the board to secure public deposits through the collateral pool. See Tennessee Code 9-4-502
• Qualifying agent: means a principal corporate officer meeting the qualifications set forth in this chapter for operating a contract security company. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Qualifying agent: means a principal corporate officer meeting the qualifications set forth in this part for operating an investigations company. See Tennessee Code 62-26-202
• 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
• Qualifying manager: means an individual designated by a proprietary security organization to be responsible for compliance with this chapter on behalf of the organization. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Real estate: means an identified parcel or tract of land, including improvements, if any. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Real estate appraisal activity: means the act or process of making an appraisal of real estate or real property and preparing an appraisal report. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Real estate appraiser: means a person who engages in real estate appraisal activity for a fee or other valuable consideration. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Real property: means one (1) or more defined interests, benefits and rights inherent in the ownership of real estate. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Recertification: means the reauthorization every three (3) years by the commissioner to use, supervise the use of, buy or sell restricted use pesticides. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Refund anticipation loan: means a loan, whether provided through a facilitator or by another entity such as a financial institution, in anticipation of and whose payment is secured by a customer's federal or state income tax refund, or by both. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• Refund anticipation loan fee: means any fee, charge or other consideration imposed by a lender or a facilitator for a refund anticipation loan. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• Registrant: means an individual who holds a valid registration card. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Registrant: means a professional employer organization registered under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Registration: means an instrument authorizing a person to act as solicitor, salesperson or agent for a chartered pest control business. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Registration: means license or permit, as applicable. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Registration card: means a pocket card issued by the commissioner evidencing that the holder has met the qualifications required by this chapter to perform the duties of a security guard/officer in this state. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Rental location agent: means any person who engages in or is employed in the business of locating, providing assistance in locating or furnishing information concerning the location or availability of real property, including apartment housing, that may be leased or rented as a private dwelling, abode or place of residence and who receives or solicits a fee or other valuable consideration from a prospective tenant. See Tennessee Code 62-25-102
• Report of harm: means a report filed under §. See Tennessee Code 37-1-401
• Responsible charge of work: means accountable, independent control and direction by the use of initiative, skill and independent judgment of geological work or supervision of geological work. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• 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
• Restitution: means compensation that is accomplished through actual monetary payment to the victim of the offense by the child who committed the offense, or symbolically, through unpaid community service work by the child, for property damage or loss incurred as a result of the delinquent offense. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Review assignment: means an analysis, opinion or conclusion prepared by a real estate appraiser that forms an opinion as to the adequacy and appropriateness of a valuation appraisal or an analysis assignment. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• safe baby court: means any court program created within this state that seeks to accomplish the goals stated in subsection (b) and that is established by a judge with jurisdiction over juvenile court matters. See Tennessee Code 37-1-902
• Sanitary: means clean and free of agents of infection. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• 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
• Seclusion: means the involuntary segregation of a child from the rest of the resident population regardless of the reason for the segregation, including confinement to a locked unit or ward where other children may be seen or heard but are separated from the child, but does not include:
  (A) The segregation of a child for the purpose of managing biological contagion consistent with the centers for disease control and prevention guidelines. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Security guard and patrol service: means protection of persons or property, or both, from criminal activities, including, but not limited to:
  (A) Prevention or detection, or both, of intrusion, unauthorized entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, fire or trespass on private property. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• 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
• Severe child abuse: means :
  (A)

  (i) The knowing exposure of a child to or the knowing failure to protect a child from abuse or neglect that is likely to cause serious bodily injury or death and the knowing use of force on a child that is likely to cause serious bodily injury or death. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Severe child abuse: means :
  (A)

  (i) The knowing exposure of a child to or the knowing failure to protect a child from abuse or neglect that is likely to cause serious bodily injury or death and the knowing use of force on a child that is likely to cause serious bodily injury or death. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• 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
• Sexually explicit image: means a lewd or lascivious visual depiction of a minor's genitals, pubic area, breast or buttocks, or nudity, if such nudity is depicted for the purpose of sexual stimulation or gratification of any person who might view such nudity. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Shelter care: means temporary care of a child in physically unrestricted facilities. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Significant injury: means bodily injury, including a cut, abrasion, bruise, burn, or disfigurement, and physical pain or temporary illness or impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty, involving:
  (A) A substantial risk of death. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Single use: means an item is used one (1) time on one (1) client and then is properly disposed of by appropriate measures. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Small operations: means an applicant or registrant with less than fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) in annualized wages. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Special juvenile court: means a court created by law with jurisdiction limited to those matters contemplated in this title and other general laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 37-1-202
• Specialized services: means those appraisal services that do not fall within the definition of appraisal assignment. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• State certified real estate appraiser: means a person who develops and communicates real estate appraisals and who holds a current, valid certificate issued to the person for either general or residential real estate under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• State licensed real estate appraiser: means a person who holds a current, valid real estate appraiser license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• States: means the fifty (50) states, the District of Columbia and the territories of Guam, Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Sterilization: means holding in an autoclave for fifteen (15) minutes, at fifteen pounds (15 lbs. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Sterilization: means holding in an autoclave for fifteen (15) minutes at fifteen (15) pounds of pressure and at a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit (250°. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Sterilize: means a process by which all forms of microbial life, including bacteria, viruses, spores, and fungi, are destroyed. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Street patrol service: means the utilization of foot patrols, motor patrols or any other means of transportation in public areas or on public thoroughfares in order to serve multiple customers or facilities. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Subordinate: means any person who assists a licensed professional geologist in the practice of geology without assuming the responsible charge of work. See Tennessee Code 62-36-103
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Sworn peace officer: means any individual who derives plenary or special law enforcement powers, such as the power of arrest, from, and is an employee of, a federal, state, or local governmental agency or instrumentality. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Tattoo: means any method of placing designs, letters, figures, symbols, cosmetics or any other marks under the skin of a person with ink or color by the aid of needles or instruments. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Tattoo artist: means any person, regardless of age, who engages in the practice/service of tattooing regardless of the type of tattoo or area to be tattooed. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Tattoo operator: means any person who controls, operates, conducts or manages any tattoo studio, whether actually engaging in tattooing or not. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Tattoo studio: means any room or space where tattooing is practiced or where the service of tattooing is conducted. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Tax return: means a return, declaration, statement, refund claim or other document required to be made or filed in connection with state or federal income taxes. See Tennessee Code 62-29-201
• technician: means a person at least eighteen (18) years of age who engages in the practice or service of body piercing, regardless of the type of body ornament utilized or the body area to be pierced. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Temporary help services: means services consisting of a person:
  (A) Recruiting and hiring its own employees. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Temporary premises: means any public or quasi-public place, including a hotel, rooming house, storeroom, building or part of a building, tent, vacant lot, railroad car or motor vehicle, temporarily occupied for the purpose of exhibiting stocks of merchandise to the public. See Tennessee Code 62-30-101
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Transitory vendor: means any person who brings into temporary premises and exhibits to the public stocks of merchandise for the purpose of selling or offering to sell the merchandise to the public. See Tennessee Code 62-30-101
• Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
• Under the direct supervision: means any application or sale of a pesticide by a certified applicator acting under the instructions and control of a private applicator, commercial applicator or commercial pest control operator who is available if and when needed, if the applicator or operator is physically present or in direct communication by conventional means of communication. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• Undercover agent: means an individual hired by another person, through a contract security company to perform a job in or for that person, and while performing the job, to act as an undercover employee, independent contractor or operative of the person, but under the supervision of the contract security company. See Tennessee Code 62-35-102
• Universal precautions: means that all blood and body fluids are treated as to contain all bloodborne pathogens and taking proper precautions to prevent the spread of any bloodborne pathogens. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Unruly child: means a child in need of treatment and rehabilitation who:
  (A) Habitually and without justification is truant from school while subject to compulsory school attendance under §. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• USPAP: means the appraisal standards promulgated by the Appraisal Standards Board of the Appraisal Foundation. See Tennessee Code 62-39-402
• Validated risk and needs assessment: means a determination of a child's risk to reoffend and the needs that, when addressed, reduce the child's risk to reoffend through the use of an actuarial assessment tool that assesses the dynamic and static factors that predict delinquent behavior. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Valuation appraisal: refers to an analysis, opinion or conclusion prepared by a real estate appraiser that estimates the value of an identified parcel of real estate or identified real property at a particular point in time. See Tennessee Code 62-39-102
• Wood destroying insect infestation inspection report: means a report written by a chartered commercial pest control operator employing a person licensed in the category of wood destroying organisms. See Tennessee Code 62-21-102
• 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
• Working capital: means the excess of current assets over current liabilities as determined by generally accepted accounting principles. See Tennessee Code 62-43-102
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.