Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 4 > Chapter 6 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Acceptable petitioner: means :
  (A) Any nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Acquiring entity: means the person who gains ownership or control of a public benefit hospital entity as a result of a public benefit hospital conveyance transaction. See Tennessee Code 48-68-202
• Adventure tourism activities: means outdoor recreational opportunities such as equine and motorized trail riding, rappelling, road biking, rock climbing, hang gliding, spelunking, shooting sports, mountain biking, canoeing, paragliding, zip lining and other such activities. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agency: means the housing development agency, created pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Agriculture: means :
  (i) The land, buildings and machinery used in the commercial production of farm products and nursery stock. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means any person planning or proposing a project which has been designated a major energy project. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• 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
• Approval: means any permit, license, lease, certificate, right-of-way, or other grant, rate, ruling, or decision authorized or issued by an agency of state or local government. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles of conversion: means the form of articles provided for in chapter 204 of this title creating a new LLC and evidencing the conversion of an existing partnership or corporation to the new LLC which shall have all of the assets and liabilities of the former partnership. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• articles of organization: means in the case of an LLC organized under chapters 201-248 of this title, articles of organization, articles of amendment, articles of correction, certificates of merger, and all similar documents required to be filed with any of the foregoing as part of the formation and continuation of an LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Assembly building: means a building where a number of persons congregate for amusement, civic, educational, recreational, religious or social purposes. See Tennessee Code 7-62-101
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Authority: means the Doe Mountain recreation authority. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Authority: means a governing body identified in §. See Tennessee Code 13-8-102
• Authority: means a metropolitan port authority created pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Authority: means a metropolitan celebration authority created pursuant to the authority of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
• 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.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Base personnel policies: means the policies that are required to be adopted under this chapter and that are enumerated in §. See Tennessee Code 5-23-102
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Board: means the board of commissioners of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Board: means the board of commissioners of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
• Board: means the mayor and the aldermen. See Tennessee Code 6-1-101
• board of directors: means the governing board of a corporation, whether denominated the board of directors or otherwise, except that no person or group of persons is the board of directors because of powers delegated to that person or group pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Board of directors: means the board of directors of a corporation created under this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-102
• Bona fide religious institutions: include :
  (A) Ecclesiastical or denominational organizations, churches, or established physical places for worship in this state, at which nonprofit religious services and activities are regularly conducted and carried on. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
• Bonds: includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Bonds: includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
• Bonds: means bonds, notes, interim certificates, or other obligations of a corporation issued pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Building: means any building or structure that is located on the subject parcel. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Business: means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily:
  (A) For the purchase, sale, lease and rental of personal and real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• Business: includes every trade, occupation, profession, investment activity and other lawful purpose for gain or the preservation of assets whether or not carried on for profits. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Bylaws: means the code or codes of rules (other than the charter) adopted pursuant to chapters 51-68 of this title for the regulation or management of the affairs of the corporation irrespective of the name or names by which such rules are designated. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Calendar quarter: means any one (1) of the following time periods during a given year: January 1 through March 31, April 1 through June 30, July 1 through September 30, or October 1 through December 31. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• Certified person: means any person determined by the court pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Charitable organization: means a group which is or holds itself out to be a benevolent, educational, voluntary health, philanthropic, humane, patriotic, religious or eleemosynary organization, or for the benefit of law enforcement personnel, firefighters, or other persons who protect the public safety, or any person who solicits or obtains contributions solicited from the public for charitable purposes. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Charitable purpose: means a purpose that:
  (A) Would make a corporation operated exclusively for that purpose eligible to be exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Charitable sales promotion: means an advertising or sale conducted by a person who represents that the purchase or use of goods or services offered by the person will benefit, in whole or in part, a charitable organization or charitable purpose. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Charter: includes amended and restated charters and articles of merger. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• charter commission: means a commission established to propose to the voters for adoption the charter for a metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• City: means any city or territory to be incorporated that may adopt chapters 30-36 of this title. See Tennessee Code 6-30-102
• Class: when used with reference to membership interests, means a category of membership interests that differs in one (1) or more rights or preferences from another category of membership interests of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• 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
• Collector: includes any person entrusted with the collection of public revenue. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Commercial co-venturer: means any person who:
  (A) Is organized for profit. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Committee: means the county financial management committee. See Tennessee Code 5-21-102
• Committee: means the local government planning advisory committee established by §. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• 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.
• Comparable replacement dwelling: means any dwelling that is:
  (A) Decent, safe, and sanitary. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Confirmation of good standing: means confirmation by the commissioner of revenue issued through electronic communication to the secretary of state or a certificate of tax clearance that at the time such confirmation is issued an LLC or a foreign LLC is current on all taxes and penalties to the satisfaction of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Conspicuous: means so written that a reasonable person against whom the writing is to operate should have noticed it. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Contact agency: means the department of economic and community development. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contributions: means the promise or grant of any money or property of any kind or value, including the payment or promise to pay in consideration of a sale, performance or show of any kind which is advertised or offered in conjunction with the name of any charity. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• controlled by: means :
  (A) Having the power, directly or indirectly, to elect or remove a majority of the members of the board of directors or other governing body of an entity, whether through the ownership of voting memberships, voting rights or interests, by contract, or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Corporation: means a development credit corporation created under this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-102
• Corporation: means any corporation organized pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Corporation: means a public benefit or mutual benefit corporation which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated under or subject to chapters 51-68 of this title, and is recognized as exempt under §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
• Cost of rehabilitation: means the sum total of the costs incurred by an owner and approved by the agency as reasonable and necessary for carrying out the rehabilitation of housing accommodation or accommodations. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Council: means the joint economic and community development council established by §. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• County: means the county in this state in which Doe Mountain is located. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• County: means the county in which any such city or territory to be incorporated under chapters 30-36 of this title is located, or in which the major portion of the population of any such city or territory to be incorporated is located as indicated by the last federal census. See Tennessee Code 6-30-102
• County: means any county or any metropolitan form of government in this state having a population of two hundred thousand (200,000) or more, according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, that by resolution has made the findings and determinations required by §. See Tennessee Code 7-60-103
• County employees: means employees of the county as defined under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ( 29 U. See Tennessee Code 5-23-102
• County executive: means and includes "county mayor" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• County governing body: means that body in a particular county that is vested with the power to levy property taxes. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Court: includes every court and judge having jurisdiction in the case. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Creating municipality: means any city or county having a metropolitan form of government and having a population of not less than one hundred thousand (100,000), that creates an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Creating municipality: means any county having adopted a metropolitan form of government that creates an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• delivery: means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery, and, if authorized in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Department: means the finance department. See Tennessee Code 5-21-102
• Department head: means the city administrator, city recorder, treasurer, police chief and any other department heads appointed by the board or mayor. See Tennessee Code 6-1-101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of the finance department. See Tennessee Code 5-21-102
• Directors: means natural persons, designated in the charter or bylaws or elected or appointed by the incorporators, and their successors and natural persons elected or appointed to act as members of the board, irrespective of the names or titles by which such persons are described. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Disaster: means any natural, technological, or civil emergency that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to result in a declaration of a state of emergency by a county, the governor, or the president of the United States. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Displaced person: means , except as provided in subdivision (2)(B):
  (A) Any person who moves from real property, or moves such person's personal property from real property:

  (i) As a direct result of a written notice of intent to acquire or the acquisition of such real property in whole or in part for a program or project undertaken by a state agency or with federal financial assistance. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• Displacing agency: means any state agency undertaking a program or project with or without federal financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced, a local agency undertaking a program or project with federal or state financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced, or a person undertaking a program or project with federal financial assistance, which causes a person to be displaced. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• Disqualified person: means an individual or entity that for any reason is or becomes ineligible under this part to be issued shares by a professional corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• Dissolution: means that the LLC has incurred an event under §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Distribution: means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property (except its own membership interests) with or without consideration, or an incurrence or issuance of indebtedness, (whether directly or indirectly, including through a guaranty) by an LLC to or for the benefit of any of its members in respect of membership interests. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Division: means the department of state's division of business and charitable organizations. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Document: means :
  (A) Any tangible medium on which information is inscribed, and includes any writing or written instrument. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• domestic corporation: means a corporation for profit, which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated under or subject to the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, compiled in chapters 11-27 of this title, as amended. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Domestic professional corporation: means a professional corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Driveway: means a vehicular access roadway less than twenty-four feet (24') in width and serving no more than two (2) single-family dwellings. See Tennessee Code 13-8-102
• Dwelling unit: means a structure or the part of a structure that is used as a home, residence, or sleeping place by one (1) person who maintains a household or by two (2) or more persons who maintain a common household. See Tennessee Code 13-5-102
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Employee: includes an officer but not a director. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Enterprise: means the manufacturing, processing, assembling, and commercial service operations to be carried on with or otherwise using the facilities of a project. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Enterprise: means the health, educational or housing operations to be carried on with the facilities of a project. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Entity: includes the following, whether foreign or domestic: LLCs. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive officer: means the mayor, county mayor, or other chief executive officer of any creating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Executive officer: means the mayor, county mayor or other chief executive officer of any creating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fair to the corporation: means , for purposes of §. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Farm operation: means any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one (1) or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale or home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• farm products: means forage and sod crops. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Federal government authorization: means approval in writing, whether in the form of statute, regulation, bulletin, manual, or letter signed by an authorized person, approving certain activities under a federal-state program. See Tennessee Code 12-11-102
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financial institution: means the term as used in Section 14 of the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 (Public Law 104- 172. See Tennessee Code 12-12-103
• Financial institution: means any banking corporation or institution, trust company, savings bank, cooperative bank, savings and loan association, insurance company, or related corporation, partnership, foundation, or other institution engaged primarily in lending or investing funds. See Tennessee Code 48-101-102
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation for profit incorporated under a law other than the laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Foreign corporation: means a nonprofit corporation incorporated under a law other than the law of this state, which would be a nonprofit corporation if formed under the laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
• Foreign professional corporation: means a corporation or association for profit incorporated for the purpose of rendering professional services under a law other than the law of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• Gated facility or community: means a multifamily residential property or commercial or industrial development or compound that has a security gate or barrier to block the entrance to the facility or community from a public street to a private street, parking lot or driveway of the facility or community. See Tennessee Code 13-8-102
• General services district: means a service district within a metropolitan government whose geographical limits are coextensive with the total area in which the government functions. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• Generally accepted auditing standards: means the auditing standards issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the conduct and reporting of financial audits. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means the legislative body of a county as defined in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Governing body: means the body in which the general legislative powers of a municipal corporation are vested, and in the case of counties means the legislative body of the respective counties. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Governing body: means the board of governors in the case of a board-managed LLC, the members in the case of a member-managed LLC, and the board of directors in the case of a corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Governing body: means the chief legislative body of any creating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Governing body: means the legislative body of a county or the board or other body in which the general legislative powers of a city or town are vested. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Governmental authority: means any court or governmental, administrative, legislative, regulatory, adjudicatory, or arbitrational body, agency, commission, department, board, bureau, tribunal, or instrumentality of the United States or of any state, commonwealth, nation, territory, possession, county, parish, or municipality, whether now or hereafter constituted or existing, having or claiming jurisdiction over the subject parcel. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Governor: means a natural person or entity serving on the board of governors of a board-managed LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Growth plan: means the plan each county must file with the committee by July 1, 2001, as required by §. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Home: means residential housing, including real property and improvements on real property, consisting of one (1) or more dwelling units, including, but not limited to, condominium units, owned by one (1) person or family of lower or moderate income that occupies or intends to occupy one (1) of such units. See Tennessee Code 7-60-103
• Hospital institution: means any city, county, metropolitan government, or other local governmental entity, or any institution organized for-profit or not for profit authorized by law to provide congregate elderly facilities or extended care, hospital, or nursing home facilities in this state, or any finance subsidiary of such hospital institution. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Housing: means any multi-family housing facilities to be occupied by persons of low and/or moderate income, and/or elderly, and/or handicapped persons as may be determined by the board of directors, which determination shall be conclusive. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Housing accommodation: means any building or structure, or portion thereof, and facilities incidental thereto, which is occupied or used, or is intended to be occupied or used, as the residence or home of one (1) or more persons or families. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Housing trust fund: means appropriations, reserves or dedications of any funds by the county. See Tennessee Code 7-8-102
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Individual: includes the estate of an incompetent or deceased individual. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institution for higher education: means any institution organized for-profit or not for profit authorized by law to provide a program of education at the primary level, secondary level or beyond the secondary level in this state. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• insurable mortgage: means a mortgage loan and deed of trust, or other instrument, which constitutes a first lien on improvements and real property in this state held in fee simple or on a leasehold under a lease having a remaining term, at the time a mortgage is insured under this chapter, of at least twenty percent (20%) greater duration than the remaining term of the loan obligation secured by such mortgage deed of trust. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Interest: means either or both of the following rights under the organic law of an unincorporated entity:
  (A) The right to receive distributions from the entity either in the ordinary course or upon liquidation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interested person: means , with respect to a subject parcel, any owner, named trustee, or other person that:
  (A) Holds, or is the assignee of the holder of, a lien against that subject parcel. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Investment: means a commitment or contribution of funds or property, whatever the source, a loan or other extension of credit, and the entry into or renewal of a contract for goods or services. See Tennessee Code 12-12-103
• Iran: includes the government of Iran and any agency or instrumentality of Iran. See Tennessee Code 12-12-103
• Joint federal-state program: means any program authorized by the statutes and/or regulations of the United States and the state of Tennessee where both governments supervise, authorize, and/or fund a program to provide money, goods, or assistance to residents of the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 12-11-102
• Joint review process: means the process provided by §. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Joint review staff: means those persons from involved agencies who are designated to staff the joint review team. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• 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.
• knowing: means actual awareness of the falsity or deception, but actual awareness may be inferred when objective manifestations indicate that a reasonable person would have known or would have reason to know of the falsity or deception. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Law: includes rules promulgated in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• 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}
• Lease: includes a lease containing an option to purchase the project for a nominal sum upon payment in full or provision for the purchase of all bonds issued in connection with the project and all interest on the bonds and all other expenses in connection with the project, and a lease containing an option to purchase the project at any time, as provided in the option, upon payment of the purchase price, which shall be sufficient to pay all bonds issued in connection with the project and all interest on the bonds and all other expenses incurred in connection with the project, but which payment may be made in the form of one (1) or more notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations of the lessee providing for time payments, including, without limitation, interest on the notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations sufficient for such purposes and delivered to the corporation or to the trustee under the indenture pursuant to which the bonds were issued. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Lease: includes a lease containing an option to purchase the project for a nominal sum upon payment in full, or provision therefor, of all bonds issued in connection with the project and all interest thereon and all other expenses in connection with the project, and a lease containing an option to purchase the project at any time, as provided therein, upon payment of the purchase price which shall be sufficient to pay all bonds issued in connection with the project and all interest thereon and all other expenses incurred in connection with the project, but which payment may be made in the form of one (1) or more notes, debentures, bonds, or other secured or unsecured debt obligations of the lessee providing for timely payments, including, but not limited to, interest thereon sufficient for such purposes and delivered to the corporation or to the trustee under the indenture pursuant to which the bonds were issued. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lessee: means any municipal corporation, the state of Tennessee, the United States, or any agency, authority, branch, bureau, commission, corporation, department or instrumentality thereof now or hereafter existing. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensing authority: means the officer, board, agency, court or other authority in this state empowered to license or otherwise authorize the rendition of a professional service. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• LLC: means a limited liability company, organized under chapters 201-248 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• LLC: means a limited liability company, foreign or domestic, organized under or subject to the Tennessee Limited Liability Company Act, compiled in chapters 201-248 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
• LLC: means a limited liability company, whether foreign or domestic, that is formed under, that is subject to, or that has elected to be governed by, as applicable, the Tennessee Revised Limited Liability Company Act, compiled in chapter 249 of this title, except where expressly indicated otherwise. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
• Loan agreement: means an agreement providing for an authority to loan the proceeds derived from the issuance of bonds pursuant to this chapter to one (1) or more contracting parties to be used to pay the cost of one (1) or more projects and providing for the repayment of such loan by the other contracting party or parties, and which may provide for such loans to be secured by or evidenced by one (1) or more notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations of the contracting party or parties, delivered to the authority or to the trustee under the indenture pursuant to which the bonds were issued. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Loan agreement: means an agreement providing for an authority to loan the proceeds derived from the issuance of bonds pursuant to this chapter to one (1) or more contracting parties, to be used to pay the costs of one (1) or more projects and providing for the repayment of the loan by the other contracting party or parties, and which may provide for the loans to be secured or evidenced by one (1) or more notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations of the contracting party or parties delivered to the authority or to the trustee under the indenture pursuant to which the bonds were issued. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Loan agreement: means an agreement providing for a corporation to loan the proceeds derived from the issuance of bonds pursuant to this part to one (1) or more contracting parties to be used to pay the cost of one (1) or more projects and providing for the repayment of such loan by the other contracting party or parties, and which may provide for such loans to be secured or evidenced by one (1) or more notes, debentures, bonds or other secured or unsecured debt obligations of the contracting party or parties, delivered to the corporation or to the trustee under the indenture pursuant to which the bonds were issued. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Loan limit: means , for any member, the maximum amount permitted to be outstanding at one (1) time on loans made by such member to the corporation, as determined under this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-102
• Local agency: means any political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, or instrumentality of a political subdivision of the state or any department, agency, or instrumentality of two (2) or more political subdivisions of the state when carrying out or undertaking programs or projects with federal or state financial assistance. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• Local government: means any government body, including any municipality, county, or utility district or any political subdivision of this state. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Local government joint venture entity: means any entity created pursuant to this chapter, including, but not limited to, a self-insurance pool, trust, joint venture, nonprofit organization, or any other type of organization that is sponsored, owned, operated, or governed by two (2) or more local government entities as a separate and specific activity. See Tennessee Code 12-9-103
• Local law: means the rules, regulations, resolutions, ordinances, codes, case law, and other laws of any local government. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Low income persons: means qualified persons or families who lack the amount of income that is necessary, as determined by the agency, to enable them, without low interest financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and affordable dwellings without overcrowding. See Tennessee Code 7-8-102
• Major energy project: means any project at one (1) physical location which has been determined by the contact agency to be in the state interest pursuant to its authority under §. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Majority vote: means with respect to a vote of the members, if voting on a per capita basis, a majority in number of the members entitled to vote on a specific matter, or if the voting is determined otherwise, a majority of the voting interest (which may be expressed as a percentage) entitled to vote on a specific matter, and with respect to a vote of the governors, a majority in number of the governors entitled to vote on a specific matter. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Manager: means a person elected, appointed, or otherwise designated as a manager by the governing body, and any other person considered elected as a manager pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Material financial interest: means a financial interest in a transaction that would reasonably be expected to impair the objectivity of the director's or officer's judgment when participating in action on the authorization of the transaction. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Material relationship: means a familial, financial, professional, employment or other relationship that would reasonably be expected to impair the objectivity of the director's judgment when participating in the action to be taken. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Member: means a person reflected in the required records of an LLC as the owner of some governance rights of a membership interest of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Member: means any financial institution authorized to do business within this state which shall undertake to lend money to a corporation created under this part, upon its call, and in accordance with this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-102
• Membership: means the rights and obligations a member has pursuant to a corporation's charter, bylaws and chapters 51-68 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Membership interest: means a member's interest in an LLC consisting of a member's financial rights, a member's right to assign financial rights as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Metropolitan government: means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• Metropolitan government: means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Month: means the time from any day of any month to the corresponding day of the succeeding month, if any, and if none, the last day of the succeeding month. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage insurance fund: means the mortgage insurance fund established pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Mortgage insurance fund requirement: means as of any particular date of computation, an amount of money equal to the aggregate of:
  (A) The insured amounts of mortgages in default as determined by the agency pursuant to its contracts to insure the mortgages. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• mortgage lender: includes the housing development agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagee: means the original mortgage lender under an insurable mortgage, and its successors and assigns, as approved by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Mortgagor: means the original borrower under an insurable mortgage, and such original borrower's successors and assigns, as approved by the agency. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Municipal corporation: means any county, metropolitan government, incorporated city or town, utility district, school district, power district, sanitary district or other municipal, quasi-municipal or governmental body or political subdivision in this state, and any agency, authority, branch, bureau, commission, corporation, department or instrumentality thereof now or hereafter authorized by law to be created. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Municipal corporation: means any incorporated city or any county, including any county having a metropolitan form of government, and the code enforcement department or agency or other unit responsible for enforcing building and property conditions in the territorial jurisdiction of the city or county. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Municipal corporation: means an incorporated city or town. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• Municipality: means any county, or any incorporated city or town in this state with respect to which the authority may be organized. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Municipality: means any county, incorporated city or town or utility district in this state with respect to which an authority may be organized. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Municipality: means any county or incorporated city or town in this state with respect to which a corporation may be organized. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Mutual benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which becomes by operation of law a mutual benefit corporation pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Mutual benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which becomes by operation of law a mutual benefit corporation pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
• 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.
• Nonprofit corporation: means any nonprofit corporation that has been duly organized and is in good standing under the laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation, whether foreign or domestic, incorporated pursuant to or subject to chapters 51-68 of this title and exempt from franchise and excise tax as not-for-profit as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
• nonprofit LLC: means a limited liability company:
  (A) That is disregarded as an entity for federal income tax purposes. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
• notes: means the bonds and notes respectively authorized to be issued by counties under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-60-103
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Officer: means the mayor, aldermen, city attorney and city judge. See Tennessee Code 6-1-101
• Older residential neighborhood: means an area where a majority of the residential property was constructed fifty (50) years or more prior to April 22, 2004. See Tennessee Code 13-5-102
• Operating contract: means the written undertaking whereby the authority and a municipal corporation contract respecting construction of improvements upon and/or for the operation and maintenance of property owned by or leased by other than the authority to the municipal corporation. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• other contracting party: means any party to a sale contract or loan agreement except the authority. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• other contracting party: means any party to a sale contract, lease, or loan agreement except the authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• other contracting party: means any party to a sale contract or loan agreement except the corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means one (1) or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested:
  (A) All or part of the legal title to property. See Tennessee Code 13-5-102
• Owner: means one (1) or more persons, jointly or severally, in whom is vested all or part of the legal title to, or beneficial ownership of, the subject parcel. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Owner: means any person, firm, partnership or agency, either public or private, having the legal or beneficial ownership of a housing accommodation or of a building, structure, or property containing one (1) or more housing accommodations. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Owners: means members in the case of an LLC, shareholders in the case of a corporation, partners in the case of general or limited partnerships and the equivalent with respect to other entities. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Ownership interests: means membership interests in the case of an LLC, shares in the case of a corporation, partnership interests in the case of general or limited partnerships and the equivalent with respect to other entities. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Parent nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation that is the sole member of a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
• Parent nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation that is the sole member of a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
• Parent organization: means that part of a charitable organization that coordinates, supervises, or exercises control over policy, fundraising, and expenditures, or assists or advises one (1) or more chapters, branches, or affiliates in this state. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
• 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 any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, or combination of individuals of whatever form or character. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Person: means any of the following:
  (A) A natural person, corporation, company, limited liability company, business association, partnership, society, trust, or any other nongovernmental entity, organization, or group. See Tennessee Code 12-12-103
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, trust, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, governmental authority, or other entity. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Person: means and includes, but is not limited to, a partnership, company, corporation, association, individual, or family who is undertaking programs or projects with federal financial assistance, or such other person, business or farm operation which is entitled to any financial or other benefit as a result of federal financial assistance, or the undertaking of any program or project by a state agency. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• Person: means any individual, cooperative, partnership, corporation, association, consortium, unincorporated organization, trust, estate, nonprofit institution or any entity organized for a common purpose, and any instrumentality of state or local government. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Person: includes individual and entity. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Person: means any individual, partnership, trust, estate, corporation, association, joint venture, joint stock company or other organization. See Tennessee Code 48-68-202
• Person: means any individual, organization, trust, foundation, group, association, partnership, corporation, society or any combination of them. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Planned growth area: means an area established in conformance with §. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• 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.
• Pollution: means the placing of any noxious or deleterious substances, including noise, in any air or water of or adjacent to the state of Tennessee or affecting the physical, chemical or biological properties of any air or waters of or adjacent to the state of Tennessee in a manner and to an extent that renders or is likely to render the air or waters inimical or harmful to the public health, safety or welfare, or to any animal, bird or aquatic life, or to the use of the air or waters for domestic, industrial, agricultural or recreational purposes. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Pollution control facilities: means any equipment, structure or facility or any land and any building, structure, and facility or other improvement of any kind, or any combination thereof, and all real and personal property deemed necessary therewith having to do with or the end purpose of which is the control, abatement or prevention of water, air, noise or general environmental pollution, including, but not limited to, any air pollution control facility, noise abatement facility, water management facility, wastewater collecting systems, wastewater treatment works, or solid waste disposal facility. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Port: means a terminal facility with all associated components necessary for the loading and unloading of goods and people involved in inland waterway transport and navigation. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• 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.
• Principal city: means :
  (A) That municipal corporation having the largest population of any municipality in a particular county. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• Principal executive office: means an office, in or out of this state, where the principal office of the chief manager of the LLC or foreign LLC is located. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Principal office: means the office (in or out of this state) so designated in the annual report where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• 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.
• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Professional corporation: means a corporation for profit, other than a foreign professional corporation, subject to this part. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• Professional service: means a service that may be lawfully rendered only by a person licensed or otherwise authorized by a licensing authority in this state to render the service, and that may not be lawfully rendered by a corporation under the Tennessee Business Corporation Act, compiled in chapters 11-27 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• Professional solicitor: means any person who, for a financial or other consideration, solicits contributions for, or on behalf of, a charitable organization, whether such solicitation is performed personally or through such person's agents, servants or employees or through agents, servants or employees specially employed by or for a charitable organization, who are engaged in the solicitation of contributions under the direction of such person, or a person who plans, conducts, manages, carries on or advises a charitable organization in connection with the solicitation of contributions. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Project: means any outdoor recreational facility, or any other structure, improvement, or facility constructed, leased, equipped, renovated or acquired for any of the purposes set forth in this chapter, and also includes, but is not limited to, trails, roads, streets, bridges, towers, erosion control facilities, paths, signs, shelters, cabins, and utility services, such as water, sanitary sewer, electricity, gas and natural gas, and telecommunications that are constructed, leased, equipped, renovated or acquired as a supporting system or facility for any of the purposes set forth in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Project: includes an undertaking whereby a municipal corporation contracts with an authority respecting construction of improvements upon and/or for the operation and maintenance of property owned by or leased by other than the authority to the municipal corporation. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Project: means all or any part of, or any interest in:
  (i) Any land and building, including office building, and facility or other improvement on land, and all real and personal properties deemed necessary in connection therewith, whether or not now in existence, that shall be suitable for the following or by any combination of two (2) or more thereof:

  (a) Any industry for the manufacturing, processing or assembling of any agricultural, mining, or manufactured products. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• project: means the purchase of the accounts receivable of any hospital institution. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Public agency: means :
  (A) Any political subdivision of this state. See Tennessee Code 12-9-103
• Public benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which becomes by operation of law a public benefit corporation pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Public benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which becomes by operation of law a public benefit corporation pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 48-101-902
• Public benefit hospital conveyance transaction: includes any transaction described in subdivision (3)(A)(i) or (3)(A)(ii) that is entered into by the public benefit hospital entity or by any entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such public benefit hospital entity. See Tennessee Code 48-68-202
• Public benefit hospital entity: means any public benefit corporation, as defined in chapter 51, part 2 of this title, or any governmental entity that is licensed as a hospital under title 68, chapter 11, part 2, or considered a hospital under title 33, chapter 1, including entities affiliated with any of these through ownership, governance, or membership, such as a holding company or subsidiary. See Tennessee Code 48-68-202
• public building authority: means any public corporation organized pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Public nuisance: means any building that is:
  (A) A menace to the public health, welfare, or safety. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Publication: includes any newsletter, stationery, greeting card, report, or printed or electronic material produced in any format for distribution outside the creating department or agency, including those published by facilities not operated by the state. See Tennessee Code 12-6-101
• Purposes of this chapter: means ameliorating the deterioration of counties by preserving and expanding employment opportunities in the construction and related industries and the tax base of counties by undertaking or assisting in the financing of home mortgages for persons and families of lower and moderate income. See Tennessee Code 7-60-103
• Qualified buyer: means any person determined by the court to be a certified person as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Qualified director: means a director who, at the time action is to be taken under §. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Qualified person: means an individual, general partnership or professional corporation to whom shares under this part may be issued. See Tennessee Code 48-101-603
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Receiver: means any certified person appointed by the court for the purpose of preserving or improving the subject parcel and all of the powers of a receiver appointed for tax enforcement pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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}
• Registered office: means the place in this state designated in the articles as the registered office of the LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Rehabilitation: means the alteration, improvement or repair of one (1) or more housing accommodations and facilities incidental thereto, intended to raise the housing accommodations to the design and condition required for use. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• Related person: means :
  (A) The director's or officer's spouse. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Relevant time: means :
  (A) The time at which directors' action respecting the transaction is taken in compliance with §. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Religious corporation: means a public benefit or mutual benefit corporation organized and operating primarily or exclusively for religious purposes. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Representative: means a governor, manager, employee or other agent of a foreign LLC. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• 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
• Required disclosure: means disclosure of:
  (A) The existence and nature of the director's or officer's conflicting interest. See Tennessee Code 48-58-701
• Residential property: means a subject parcel that includes one (1) or more dwelling units that is owner-occupied and the owner's principal place of residence, or that is otherwise intended for single-family residential use. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Residential real property: means a building located in an older residential neighborhood consisting of one (1) dwelling unit in which the owner of the real property resides as the owner's principal place of residence. See Tennessee Code 13-5-102
• Residential rental property: means a building or structure located in an older residential neighborhood containing one (1) or two (2) dwelling units that are rented. See Tennessee Code 13-5-102
• Residential rental property: means a building or structure consisting of one (1) or two (2) dwelling units. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• revenue bonds: means bonds, notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority issued pursuant to this chapter, or pursuant to any other law, as supplemented by, or in conjunction with, this chapter. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Revenues: means all revenues derived from and on account of a project, directly or indirectly, including license or admission fees, payments under a lease or sale contract and repayments under any loan agreement, or under notes, debentures, bonds and other secured or unsecured debt obligations of a lessee or contracting party delivered as provided in this chapter, and any revenues pledged by a municipality. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Rural area: means an area established in conformance with §. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• Sale contract: means a contract providing for the sale of one (1) or more projects to one (1) or more contracting parties and includes a contract providing for payment of the purchase price in one (1) or more installments. See Tennessee Code 12-10-103
• Sale contract: means a contract providing for the sale of one (1) or more projects to one (1) or more contracting parties and includes a contract providing for payment of the purchase price in one (1) or more installments. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Sale contract: means a contract providing for the sale of one (1) or more projects to one (1) or more contracting parties and includes a contract providing for payment of the purchase price in one (1) or more installments. See Tennessee Code 48-101-301
• 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
• schedule: means the timetable set out by the joint review team in which to accomplish the joint review process, submit applications, hold hearings, and obtain approval of involved agencies. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the bylaws or the board of directors has delegated responsibility under §. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• secretary: means the secretary of state or the secretary of state's authorized representative or designee. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501 v2
• Secretary of state: means the person who holds the office of secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Secretary of state: means the secretary of state or the secretary of state's authorized representative. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Security gate or barrier: means a gate or barrier, electrically operated, that controls the passage of authorized vehicles and persons from a public street to access roads, driveways or parking lots of the gated facility or community. See Tennessee Code 13-8-102
• Series: means a category of membership interests, within a class of membership interests, that have some of the same rights and preferences as other membership interests within the same class, but that differ in one (1) or more rights and preferences from another category of membership interests within that class. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• 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
• Share: means the unit into which the proprietary interests in a corporation are divided. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or the beneficial owner of shares to the extent of the rights granted by a nominee certificate on file with a corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• signature: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a document:
  (A) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol to a document, and includes any manual, facsimile, or conformed signature. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Smaller city: means any municipal corporation other than the principal city. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• solicitation: means any oral or written request, however communicated, whether directly or indirectly, for a contribution. See Tennessee Code 48-101-501
• Special flood hazard area: means the land area covered by the floodwaters of the base flood on NFIP maps. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• State: means the state of Tennessee and, unless otherwise indicated by the context, any agency, authority, branch, bureau, commission, corporation, department or instrumentality of the state, now or hereafter existing. See Tennessee Code 11-25-104
• State: means a state of the United States. See Tennessee Code 12-9-103
• State: means a state of the United States. See Tennessee Code 12-11-102
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-22-101
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-6-103
• State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 7-60-103
• 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
• State agency: means each state board, commission, department, executive department or office, institution, and instrumentality. See Tennessee Code 12-12-103
• State agency: means any department, agency, or instrumentality of the state when carrying out or undertaking programs or projects with or without federal financial assistance, or when providing state financial assistance. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• State agency: means any general or special purpose executive agency of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• State financial assistance: means a grant, loan, or contribution provided by the state, except any state guarantee or insurance, any interest reduction payment to an individual in connection with the purchase and occupancy of a residence by that individual, and any annual payment or capital loan to the state. See Tennessee Code 13-11-103
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subject parcel: means a tract or item of real or personal property that becomes subject to the jurisdiction of a court pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 13-6-102
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Subsidiary: means a corporation more than fifty percent (50%) of whose outstanding voting shares are owned by its parent and/or the parent's other wholly-owned subsidiaries. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Subsidiary nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation whose sole member is a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-702
• Subsidiary nonprofit corporation: means a nonprofit corporation, the sole member of which is also a nonprofit corporation. See Tennessee Code 48-101-802
• Substandard residential rental property: means residential rental property where the dwelling unit or improvements within the dwelling unit, which by reason of dilapidation, obsolescence, faulty arrangement or design, lack of ventilation, light and sanitary facilities, deleterious land use, or obsolete layout, or any combination of these or other factors, are detrimental to the safety, health, morals, or welfare of the community. See Tennessee Code 13-5-102
• Substantial rehabilitation: means improvements made to residential real property that exceed thirty-five percent (35%) of the proposed market value of the structure after rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 7-8-102
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Tax clearance for termination or withdrawal: means confirmation by the commissioner of revenue issued through electronic communication to the secretary of state or a certificate of tax clearance that an LLC or a foreign LLC has filed all applicable reports, including, but not limited to, a final report, and has paid all fees, penalties and taxes as required by the revenue laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• team: means a coordinating group organized to conduct the joint review process on a major energy project. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Team leader: means the state or local lead agency which is selected by the joint review team to lead the team and coordinate and supervise the joint review process. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• Termination: means the end of an LLC's existence as a legal entity and occurs when the articles of termination are filed with the secretary of state under §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unincorporated entity: means an organization or artificial legal person that either has a separate legal existence or has the power to acquire an estate in real property in its own name and that is not any of the following: a domestic or foreign business or nonprofit corporation, an estate, a trust, a state, the United States, or a foreign government. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• United States: means the federal government of the United States or any federal agency as defined under federal law. See Tennessee Code 12-11-102
• United States: includes district, authority, bureau, commission, department, and any other agency of the United States. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Urban growth boundary: means a line encompassing territory established in conformance with §. See Tennessee Code 6-58-101
• Urban services district: means a service district within a metropolitan government in which are furnished by the metropolitan government municipal services additional to those provided in the general services district. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Voice vote: A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of legisators voting on each side are not recorded.
• Voting group: means all shares of one (1) or more classes or series that under the charter or chapters 11-27 of this title are entitled to vote and be counted together collectively on a matter at a meeting of shareholders. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Voting power: means the total number of votes entitled to be cast for the election of directors at the time the determination of voting power is made, excluding a vote which is contingent upon the happening of a condition or event that has not occurred at the time. See Tennessee Code 48-51-201
• Ward: means a geographical subdivision of the municipality established for the purpose of securing representation on the board. See Tennessee Code 6-1-101
• written: means any information in the form of a document. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• 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