§ 56-31-101 Short title
§ 56-31-102 Chapter definitions
§ 56-31-103 Nonprofit vision service corporation – Creation
§ 56-31-104 Articles of incorporation – Approval by commissioner
§ 56-31-105 Board of directors
§ 56-31-106 Restrictions on right to establish and operate plan
§ 56-31-107 Participating optometrists – Right to become – Method of diagnosis and treatment unrestricted – Private optometrist-patient relationship – Maintenance
§ 56-31-108 Agreements with participating optometrists
§ 56-31-109 License required
§ 56-31-110 Application for license – Form – Accompanying documents – Filing fee
§ 56-31-111 Issuance of license – Prerequisites
§ 56-31-112 Investment of funds
§ 56-31-113 Expenses – Limitation
§ 56-31-114 Purchase of liability insurance authorized
§ 56-31-115 Financial and statistical records
§ 56-31-116 Annual statement – Form – Filing fee
§ 56-31-117 Examination – Rehabilitation or liquidation
§ 56-31-118 Fees and taxes
§ 56-31-119 License renewal – Agent’s certificate of authority
§ 56-31-120 Orders of commissioner – Publication of regulations – Subscription contracts – Rates
§ 56-31-121 Suspension or cancellation of license – Withdrawal of approval of documents – Revocation and amendment of certificate, order, authority or consent
§ 56-31-122 Revocation of license for violation of chapter
§ 56-31-123 Review of order of commissioner – Writ of certiorari
§ 56-31-124 Subscription contracts – Right to enter – Rates – Professional relationship
§ 56-31-125 Subscription contract – Duration – Renewal – Termination – Forfeiture of membership – Deferment of inception coverage
§ 56-31-126 Subscription contract – Form – Certificate furnished subscriber – Provisions
§ 56-31-127 Form of subscription certificate
§ 56-31-128 Subscriptions for vision care for needy – Governmental or private contributions authorized
§ 56-31-129 Settlement of dispute or controversy by commissioner – Review of decision
§ 56-31-130 Construction of chapter
§ 56-31-131 Laws relating to practice of medicine or surgery or optometry or other insurance not affected
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 56 > Chapter 31 - Vision Service Plan Law

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Chief officer: means the person with overall authority for a public or private hospital or treatment resource, or the person's designee. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Child: means a person who is under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
  • Community mental health center: includes for profit corporations and private entities qualified as tax exempt organizations under Internal Revenue Code, §. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Consent: means voluntary agreement to what is reasonably well understood regardless of how the agreement is expressed. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • Department: means the department of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Hospital: means a public or private hospital or facility or part of a hospital or facility equipped to provide inpatient care and treatment for persons with mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Indigent person: means a service recipient whose resources, including property, assets, and income, are insufficient, under chapter 2, part 11 of this title, to pay for the cost of providing services and supports and who does not have a responsible relative or other legally responsible person who is able to pay for the cost of providing the services and supports. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Licensed physician: means a graduate of an accredited medical school authorized to confer upon graduates the degree of doctor of medicine (M. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Mental illness: means a psychiatric disorder, alcohol dependence, or drug dependence, but does not include intellectual disability or other developmental disabilities as defined in title 52. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Nonprofit vision service corporation: means any corporation organized pursuant to this chapter for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and operating a nonprofit vision service plan. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
  • Nonprofit vision service plan: means a plan whereby specified vision service is provided by a nonprofit vision service corporation to subscribers to the plan. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
  • Participating optometrist: means an optometrist duly licensed to practice optometry in this state who contracts in writing with a vision service plan corporation to perform the vision services specified in the subscription certificates issued by the corporation, and at rates of compensation determined by the board of directors of the corporation, and who agrees to abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations of the corporation applicable to participating optometrists. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
  • Person: includes a natural person, a corporation, an association, a common-law trust or corporation. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Qualified mental health professional: means a person who is licensed in the state, if required for the profession, and who is a psychiatrist. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Serious emotional disturbance: means a condition in a child who currently or at any time during the past year has had a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder of sufficient duration to meet psychiatric diagnostic criteria that results in functional impairment that substantially interferes with or limits the child's role or functioning in family, school, or community activities and includes any mental disorder, regardless of whether it is of biological etiology. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Service recipient: means a person who is receiving service, has applied for service, or for whom someone has applied for or proposed service because the person has mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Sex crime: means any offense involving the unlawful sexual abuse, molestation, fondling, or carnal knowledge of a child of fourteen (14) years of age or under or incest, a crime against nature, assault with intent to commit rape or rape. See Tennessee Code 33-6-801
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subscriber: means a person to whom a subscription certificate is issued by a vision care service plan corporation, which sets forth the beneficiaries and the kind and extent of vision service for which the corporation is liable to make payment. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
  • Subscription: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Support: means any activity or resource that enables a service recipient to participate in a service for mental illness or serious emotional disturbance or in community life. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Treatment resource: means any public or private facility, service, or program providing treatment or rehabilitation services for mental illness or serious emotional disturbance, including, but not limited to, detoxification centers, hospitals, community mental health centers, clinics or programs, halfway houses, and rehabilitation centers. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Vision service: means the usual and general professional services rendered by persons duly licensed under the laws of this state to practice optometry. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
  • Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.