Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 56 > Chapter 40 - Indemnified Employee Welfare Benefit Plans

• Alcoholism: means alcohol abuse that results in the development of tolerance or manifestation of alcohol abstinence syndrome upon cessation of use. See Tennessee Code 33-10-102
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
• 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.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Custodial health officer: means an employee of the county health department trained in detecting intoxication or incapacitation, or both, of persons due to the consumption of alcohol or drugs, or both, and also trained in the proper handling and transport of those persons. See Tennessee Code 33-10-404
• Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
• Director: means the director of the health department of any county to which this part applies. See Tennessee Code 33-10-404
• Health professional: means a person trained and licensed in the health sciences, including medical doctors, registered nurses and licensed practical nurses. See Tennessee Code 33-10-404
• Incapacitated by alcohol: means that a person, as a result of the use of alcohol, is unconscious or that the person's judgment is otherwise so impaired that the person is incapable of realizing and making a rational decision with respect to the person's need for treatment, is unable to take care of the person's basic personal needs or safety or lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate rational decisions concerning the person's welfare. See Tennessee Code 33-10-404
• 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}
• judicial commissioner: means those officials as defined by §. See Tennessee Code 33-10-404
• 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.
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• 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
• Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological care or social service care, or both, vocational rehabilitation or career counseling, or both, that may be extended to alcoholics and intoxicated persons. See Tennessee Code 33-10-404
• 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