Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 42 > Chapter 5 > Part 2 - Joint Operations

• Air navigation facility: means any facility, other than one owned and operated by the United States, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, markers, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities, or devices used or useful as an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience, to the safe taking off, navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or maintenance of an airport, and combination of any or all of such facilities. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
• Airport: means any area of land or water that is used, or intended for use, for the landing and take-off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas that are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or avigation easements, or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located thereon. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
• Airport hazard: means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of land that obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or is otherwise hazardous to such landing or taking off of aircraft. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Avigation easement: means any easement that includes all or any part of the following: the right to unobstructed and unrestricted flight of aircraft, in, through, and across the airspace over and above certain described land, beginning at the altitude or height above the surface of the land as determined by the municipality. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Governing body: means the governing body of a county or municipality and the head of the agency if the public agency is other than a county or municipality. See Tennessee Code 42-5-201
• 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}
• Municipality: means any county, incorporated city, or incorporated town of this state. See Tennessee Code 42-5-102
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Public agency: includes a municipality, as defined in this chapter, any agency of the state government and of the United States, and any municipality, political subdivision and agency of another state. See Tennessee Code 42-5-201
• 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
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105