Terms Used In Tennessee Code 12-1-103

  • Property: includes both personal and real property. 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).
  • 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

There is appointed a commission to be composed of the governor, state treasurer and attorney general and reporter, which commission is clothed with authority to purchase from the federal government such property as the federal government may offer for sale and which may be used advantageously, in the discretion of the commission, by any department or agency of the state.