Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 62 > Chapter 38 - Tattoos and Body Piercing

• 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.
• Antibacterial solution: means any solution used to retard the growth of bacteria approved for application to human skin and includes all products so labeled. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• 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.
• Approval: means written approval from the department of health indicating that the body piercing establishment has been inspected and meets all the terms of this part and the applicable rules. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing: includes ear piercing except when the ear piercing procedure is performed on the ear with an ear piercing gun. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing establishment: means any place, whether temporary or permanent, stationary or mobile, wherever situated, where body piercing is performed, including any area under the control of the operator. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Body piercing paraphernalia: means equipment, needles, body ornaments, or other instruments used or intended for use in piercing a part of the body for nonmedical purposes. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• body piercing procedure: means the service performed or the procedure utilized for body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Business: means any entity that provides body piercing services or procedures for compensation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Child: means :
  (A) A person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Client: means any person desiring to receive a tattoo. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of health or the designee of the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Custody: means the control of actual physical care of the child and includes the right and responsibility to provide for the physical, mental, moral and emotional well-being of the child. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Disinfectant: means a solution intended to destroy or inactivate specific viruses, bacteria or fungi on inanimate surfaces. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Disinfecting: means a process that kills or destroys nearly all disease-producing microorganisms, with the exception of bacterial spores. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• 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.
• 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.
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Germicidal solution: means any solution that destroys germs and is so labeled. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• 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.
• 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.
• Juvenile court: means the general sessions court in all counties of this state, except in those counties and municipalities in which special juvenile courts are provided by law, and "judge" means judge of the juvenile court. See Tennessee Code 37-1-102
• License: means the issuance of a license to perform body piercing to an individual, partnership, firm, association or corporation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• License: means the issuance of a license to perform tattooing to any individual, partnership, firm or corporation. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Minor: means an individual under the age of eighteen (18). See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• operator: means a person who controls, operates, conducts or manages a body piercing establishment, whether or not the operator is actually engaging in body piercing. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• 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.
• Patron: means a person requesting and receiving body piercing services. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• permit: means the issuance of a written permit by the department to a body piercing establishment stating that the establishment, after inspection, was found to be in compliance with this part. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Permit: means the issuance of a permit to a tattoo studio or establishment. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Premises: means the physical location of an establishment that offers and performs body piercing services. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• 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.
• Proof of age: means a driver license or other generally accepted means of identification that describes the individual as eighteen (18) years of age or older, contains a photograph or other likeness of the individual and appears on its face to be valid. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• Registration: means license or permit, as applicable. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Sanitary: means clean and free of agents of infection. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• 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
• Single use: means an item is used one (1) time on one (1) client and then is properly disposed of by appropriate measures. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• 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
• Sterilization: means holding in an autoclave for fifteen (15) minutes at fifteen (15) pounds of pressure and at a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit (250°. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Sterilization: means holding in an autoclave for fifteen (15) minutes, at fifteen pounds (15 lbs. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Sterilize: means a process by which all forms of microbial life, including bacteria, viruses, spores, and fungi, are destroyed. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Tattoo: means any method of placing designs, letters, figures, symbols, cosmetics or any other marks under the skin of a person with ink or color by the aid of needles or instruments. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Tattoo artist: means any person, regardless of age, who engages in the practice/service of tattooing regardless of the type of tattoo or area to be tattooed. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Tattoo operator: means any person who controls, operates, conducts or manages any tattoo studio, whether actually engaging in tattooing or not. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• Tattoo studio: means any room or space where tattooing is practiced or where the service of tattooing is conducted. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• technician: means a person at least eighteen (18) years of age who engages in the practice or service of body piercing, regardless of the type of body ornament utilized or the body area to be pierced. See Tennessee Code 62-38-301
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Universal precautions: means that all blood and body fluids are treated as to contain all bloodborne pathogens and taking proper precautions to prevent the spread of any bloodborne pathogens. See Tennessee Code 62-38-201
• 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