Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 50 > Chapter 3 > Part 8 - Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

• 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.
• Commission: means the occupational safety and health review commission established pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 50-3-103
• Department: means the department of labor and workforce development. See Tennessee Code 50-3-103
• Employer: means a person engaged in a business who has one (1) or more employees and includes county, metropolitan and municipal governments. See Tennessee Code 50-3-103
• 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.
• Person: means one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, business trusts, legal representatives or any organized group of persons. See Tennessee Code 50-3-103
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• 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).
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105