Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 54 > Chapter 18 > Part 2 - Plans for Street and Highway Systems

• 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.
• 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.
• Board: means the board of adjustment required by this part, a board of zoning appeals designated to act as a board of adjustment, a county board of adjustment, and a municipal board of adjustment. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• Building: means any building, structure or improvement of any kind or part of the building, structure or improvement that through erection, construction, reconstruction, addition or alteration in any manner becomes a part of the realty. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• Chief executive: means the mayor of a municipality and the county mayor. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of transportation. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• County: means , with respect to residency requirements of officers or to territorial jurisdiction, the area within the county outside municipalities. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Department: means the department of transportation. See Tennessee Code 54-5-103
• Highway: means any public way or part of the public way, including, but not limited to, a street, avenue, highway, or road. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• 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.
• Legislative body: means the board or body in which the general legislative powers of a county or municipality are vested. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Municipality: means an incorporated city or town. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• Ordinance: means the form of action of the municipal legislative body in exercising the powers under this part. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Planning commission: means the duly constituted planning commission of the county or municipality. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• 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
• Resolution: means the form of action of the county legislative body in exercising the powers under this part. See Tennessee Code 54-18-201
• 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
• 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
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105