Terms Used In Tennessee Code 49-7-806

  • 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
  • beneficiary: means an individual designated under a tuition contract as the individual entitled to apply tuition units purchased under the contract to the payment of that individual's undergraduate, graduate and professional tuition, and other educational costs. See Tennessee Code 49-7-802
  • Board: means the board of trustees of the college savings trust fund program described in this part. See Tennessee Code 49-7-802
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Educational services plan: means a plan that permits individuals, associations, corporations, trusts or other organized entities to purchase a tuition unit or units under a tuition contract entered into between a purchaser and the board on behalf of a designated beneficiary that entitles the beneficiary to apply such units to the payment of that beneficiary's undergraduate, graduate and professional tuition, and other educational costs. See Tennessee Code 49-7-802
  • Purchaser: means an individual, association, corporation, trust, charitable organization or other such entity that enters into a tuition contract under this part for the purchase of a tuition unit or units on behalf of a beneficiary relative to the educational services plan. See Tennessee Code 49-7-802
  • Tuition: means the charges imposed to attend an institution of higher education as an undergraduate, graduate or professional student and all fees required as a condition of enrollment as determined by the board. See Tennessee Code 49-7-802

The board may enter into a tuition contract with a purchaser for the purchase of tuition units on behalf of a beneficiary through the educational services plan or for the creation and deposit of contributions to a savings account through the educational savings plan, or both; provided, that the total amount of contributions made to both plans on behalf of a single designated beneficiary does not exceed any limits imposed by the board pursuant to § 49-7-805.