Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 42 > Chapter 2 > Part 2 - Department of Transportation

• Aeronautics: means :
  (A) The science and art of flight, including, but not limited to, transportation by aircraft. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Aeronautics instructor: means any individual who for hire or reward engages in giving instruction or offering to give instruction in flying or ground subjects pertaining to aeronautics. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Air navigation facility: means any facility, other than one owned or operated by the United States, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in aid of air navigation, including any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, markers, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities, or devices used or useful as an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience, to the safe taking off, navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or maintenance of an airport, and any combination of any or all of these facilities. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Air school: means :
  (A) Any aeronautics instructor who advertises, represents or holds out as giving or offering to give instruction in flying or ground subjects pertaining to aeronautics. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Aircraft: means any contrivance now known, or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Airport: means any area of land or water that is used, or intended for use, for the landing and taking off of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas that are used, or intended for use, for airport buildings or other airport facilities or avigation easements or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located on such areas, easements or rights-of-way. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Airport hazard: means any structure, object of natural growth, or use of land that obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or that is otherwise hazardous to such landing or taking off. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• 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.
• Approach surface: means the imaginary sloping plane beginning at the end of a runway or landing strip and rising uniformly over the approach area at the required slope. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Avigation easement: means any easement that includes all or any part of the following:
  (A) The right to unobstructed and unrestricted flight of aircraft, in, through and across the airspace over and above certain described land, at the altitude or height above the surface of the land as determined by the department of transportation. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of transportation. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of transportation. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• 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.
• expend: means disburse or expend through the state treasurer in the manner required by law for the disbursement and expending of public moneys, except that no special legislative appropriation shall be required. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• 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}
• Municipal: means pertaining to a municipality as defined in this section. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Municipality: means any county, incorporated city, incorporated town, authority, district or other political subdivision or public corporation of this state. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Permit: means a permit issued by the department under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative of such a person. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• 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
• 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: 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
• Runway: means the paved, hard surfaced, or stabilized portion of a landing strip. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Structure: means any object constructed or installed by humans, including, but not limited to, buildings, towers, smokestacks, electronic transmission or receiving towers and antennae, and overhead transmission lines. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• this state: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transitional surface: means an imaginary sloping plane having a profile perpendicular to the extended runway or landing strip longitudinal centerlines, beginning at the outside edge of the approach surface and rising uniformly at the required slope. See Tennessee Code 42-2-101
• Trial jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.