Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 48 > Miscellaneous Corporation Provisions > Chapter 101 > Part 6 - Tennessee Professional Corporation Act

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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
• 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 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
• Bonds: includes notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Commission: means the state building commission. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
• 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.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consideration: means the consideration charged, whether or not received, for the occupancy in a hotel valued in money whether to be received in money, goods, labor or otherwise, including all receipts, cash, credits, property and services of any kind or nature without any deduction therefrom whatsoever. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• 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.
• Convention center: means any land, improvement, structure, building or part of a building comprised of facilities for conventions, public assemblies, conferences, trade exhibitions or other business, social, cultural, scientific and public interest events, along with any associated hotel accommodations. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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}
• 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
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• 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
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• 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
• 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 chief legislative body of any creating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• 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
• Hotel: means any structure, or any portion of any structure, that is occupied or intended or designed for occupancy by transients for dwelling, lodging or sleeping purposes, and includes any hotel, inn, tourist court, tourist camp, tourist cabin, motel, short-term rental unit or any place in which rooms, lodgings or accommodations are furnished to transients for a consideration. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• 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
• Improvement to real property: means :
  (A) The construction or erection of new buildings or structures in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest, whether financed by public or private funds or both. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
• 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.
• 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
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• 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.
• 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: 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: 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}
• 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.
• 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
• Local law: means the rules, regulations, resolutions, ordinances, codes, case law, and other laws of any local government. See Tennessee Code 13-18-102
• 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
• Major maintenance: means the repair or renovation of a building or structure or a portion thereof in which this state or a department, institution, or agency thereof has an interest and that:
  (A) Is being funded by direct appropriations for major maintenance. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
• 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
• 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
• Metropolitan council: means the council of a county having a metropolitan form of government that has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
• 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 any county having a metropolitan form of government that has a population in excess of five hundred thousand (500,000), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
• 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
• Minority-owned business: means a business that is solely owned, or at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the assets or outstanding stock of which is owned, by an individual who personally manages and controls the daily operations of the business and who is impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of:
  (A) Past practices of discrimination based on race, religion, ethnic background, or sex. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
• 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 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}
• 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 an incorporated city or town. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
• Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Occupancy: means the use or possession, or the right to the use or possession, of any room, lodgings or accommodations in a hotel for a period of less than thirty (30) continuous days. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• Operator: means the person operating the hotel, whether as owner, lessee or otherwise. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• other contracting party: means any party to a sale contract, lease, or loan agreement except the authority. See Tennessee Code 7-5-103
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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
• 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: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, business organization, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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
• 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 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.
• 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
• 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
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Renovation: means the change in the functional use or operation of space in existing buildings or structures in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
• 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
• Residential dwelling: means a cabin, house, or structure used or designed to be used as an abode or home of a person, family, or household, and includes a single-family dwelling, a portion of a single-family dwelling, or an individual residential dwelling in a multi-dwelling building, such as an apartment building, condominium, cooperative, or timeshare. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• 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
• 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 of state: means the person who holds the office of secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• 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
• Short-term rental unit: means a residential dwelling that is rented wholly or partially for a fee for a period of less than thirty (30) continuous days and does not include a hotel as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• Short-term rental unit marketplace: means a person or entity, excluding a vacation lodging service, that provides a platform for compensation, through which a third party offers to rent a short-term rental unit to an occupant. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• 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
• 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: 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 13-22-101
• State procurement agency: means , as appropriate, the department of general services, state of Tennessee real estate asset management. See Tennessee Code 4-15-107
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tax collection official: means the department of finance of the county or municipality, as applicable, or the county clerk, if so designated by ordinance of the legislative body of any municipality having a metropolitan form of government and a population of more than four hundred fifty thousand (450,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• Tax collection official: means the department of finance of the county or municipality, as applicable, or the county clerk, if so designated by ordinance of the legislative body of any municipality having a metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 7-4-201
• 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.
• Tourism: means the planning and conducting of programs of information and publicity designed to attract to the county tourists, visitors and other interested persons from outside the area and also to encourage and coordinate the efforts of other public and private organizations or groups of citizens to publicize the facilities and attractions of the area for the same purposes. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• Tourist commission: means a seven-person body established subject to the same local organic law as other boards and commissions established by the charter of the metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• Transient: means any person who exercises occupancy or is entitled to occupancy for any rooms, lodgings or accommodations in a hotel for a period of less than thirty (30) days. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• 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.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• Vacation lodging service: means a person or entity that is engaged in the business of providing the services of management, marketing, booking, and rental of short-term rental units. See Tennessee Code 7-4-101
• 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