Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 17 > Chapter 3 - Conferences

• Affiliate: means a legal entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another legal entity or shares common branding with another legal entity. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Agency: means each state board, commission, committee, department, officer, or any other unit of state government authorized or required by any statute or constitutional provision to make rules or to determine contested cases. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• 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.
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• Applicable law: means state or federal statutes of the United States. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attorney general: means the office of the Tennessee attorney general and reporter. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Authenticate: means to verify using reasonable means that a consumer who is entitled to exercise the rights in §. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Authorized dealer: means an individual, corporation, or limited liability company authorized by a manufacturer or distributor to sell, barter, or exchange a particular make of new farm machinery. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Biological sample: means a human material known to contain DNA, including tissue, blood, urine, or saliva. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• Board: means the board of trustees of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Business: means every trade, occupation, profession, investment activity, and other lawful purpose for gain or the preservation of assets, whether or not carried on for profit. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Caller identification information: means information provided by a caller identification service regarding the telephone number, or other origination information, of a call or facsimile transmission made using a telecommunications service or an interconnected VoIP service, or of a text message sent using a text messaging service. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2301
• Child: means a natural person younger than thirteen (13) years of age. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Clear title: means legal ownership free from a perfected security interest or other perfected lien. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• 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
• 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.
• Comparable farm machinery: means an identical or substantially similar replacement piece of farm machinery. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Computer network: means a set of related, remotely connected devices and any communications facilities, including more than one (1) computer with the capability to transmit data among them through the communications facilities. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2502
• Consumer: means :
  (A) A person who purchases or leases a piece of new farm machinery for purposes other than resale. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Consumer: means an individual who is a resident of the state. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• Consumer report: has the meaning ascribed to that term by Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Consumer reporting agency: has the meaning ascribed to that term by Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Contested case: means a proceeding, including a declaratory proceeding, in which the legal rights, duties or privileges of a party are required by any statute or constitutional provision to be determined by an agency after an opportunity for a hearing. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• controlled: means :
  (A) Ownership of, or the power to vote, more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding shares of a class of voting security of a company. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Controller: means the natural or legal person that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purpose and means of processing personal information. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• 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.
• 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 metropolitan government having a population of not less than two hundred thousand (200,000), according to the 1970 federal census or any subsequent federal census, or any county in which any such city shall be situated, that shall create an authority pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• De-identified data: means data that cannot reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable natural person, or a device linked to that individual. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning the consumer: means decisions made by the controller that result in the provision or denial by the controller of financial or lending services, housing, insurance, education enrollment or opportunity, criminal justice, employment opportunities, healthcare services, or access to basic necessities, such as food and water. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Deidentified data: means data that:
  (A)

  (i) Cannot reasonably be linked to an identifiable individual. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• Dependents: includes a payee's spouse and minor children and all other family members and other persons for whom the payee is legally obligated to provide support, including alimony. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discounted present value: means the present value of future payments, as determined by discounting such payments to the present using the most recently published applicable federal rate for determining the present value of an annuity, as issued by the internal revenue service, and the present value of the payments to be transferred by the payee using the actual discount rate applied to the transfer, stated as an annual percentage rate. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Dissolution: means that the LLC has incurred an event under §. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Distributor: means any person who sells or distributes new and unused farm machinery to authorized dealers. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• DNA: means deoxyribonucleic acid. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• Engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices: means installing or removing vehicle immobilization devices on motor vehicles in exchange for monetary payment or other valuable consideration, whether such payment or consideration is received for the installation or the removal of the vehicle immobilization device. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3202
• Entity: means , whether foreign or domestic and whether for profit or not-for-profit, limited liability companies, corporations, unincorporated associations, real estate investment trusts, statutory or business trusts or associations, estates, general partnerships, limited partnerships, registered or unregistered limited liability partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships or similar organizations, trusts, joint ventures, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, and local, municipal, state, United States and foreign governments. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• 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 or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Express consent: means a consumer's affirmative response to a clear, meaningful, and prominent notice regarding the collection, use, or disclosure of genetic data for a specific purpose. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal government: includes the United States or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• First-party relationship: means the relationship between a company and a consumer from which the company has collected genetic data. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Full purchase price: means the cost paid by a consumer, including any collateral charge. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Genetic data: means data, excluding deidentified data, regardless of format, concerning a consumer's genetic characteristics, including:
  (A) Raw sequence data that results from sequencing all or a portion of a consumer's extracted DNA. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• Genetic testing: means :
  (A) A laboratory test of a consumer's complete DNA, regions of DNA, chromosomes, genes, or gene products to determine the presence of genetic characteristics of the consumer. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• 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 or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• HIPAA: means the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (42 U. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• hospital authority: means a public body and a body corporate and public organized in accordance with this chapter for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions set forth in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• hospital project: means and includes any one (1) or more hospitals and related facilities, including, but not limited to, land and interests in land, facilities and equipment for the treatment of all classes of patients, laboratories, clinics, treatment centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, extended care facilities, dormitories, training facilities for medical students, doctors, nurses and all other medical or paramedical personnel, administration and office buildings, garages, parking lots and such other structures, facilities and improvements necessary or convenient to the development and maintenance of hospitals, and for the provision of health care. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Identity theft: means :
  (A) Obtaining, possessing, transferring, using or attempting to obtain, possess, transfer or use, for unlawful economic benefit, one (1) or more identification documents or personal identification numbers of another person. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Independent professional advice: means advice of an attorney, certified public accountant, actuary or other licensed professional adviser. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Institution of higher education: means a public or private institution of higher education. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Interested parties: means , with respect to any structured settlement, the payee, the annuity issuer, the structured settlement obligor, and any other party to the structured settlement that has continuing rights or obligations to receive or make payments under such structured settlement. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• 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
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Legal advertisement: means a solicitation of legal services through television. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3001
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: includes the whole or part of any agency, permit, certificate, approval, registration, charter or similar form of permission required by law. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• LLC: means a limited liability company, organized under chapters 201-248 of this title. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• LLC documents: means either, or both:
  (A) An LLC's articles. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Manufacturer: means a person who manufactures, assembles, or imports new farm machinery. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Member: means a person that has been admitted to an LLC as a member, as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nonconformity: means any defect or condition affecting a piece of farm machinery that:
  (A) Does not conform with the terms of an express warranty issued by a manufacturer to a consumer. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Nonprofit organization: means :
  (A) A corporation organized under the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act, compiled in title 48, chapter 51. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• 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.
• operator: means a person authorized by a political subdivision of this state to be engaged in the business of installing vehicle immobilization devices within the jurisdictional area of the political subdivision. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3202
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Order: means an agency action of particular applicability that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities or other legal interests of a specific person or persons. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Ordinance: means any ordinance adopted by governing bodies pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Other governing body: means only that body having the taxing authority. See Tennessee Code 5-16-101
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Participating municipality: means any city, town or county, which city, town or county, pursuant to a resolution of its governing body and an agreement with the creating municipality, shall have sold, leased, dedicated, donated or otherwise conveyed its hospitals to the authority for operation by the authority in order to make such hospital an operational part of its health care system. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• 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.
• Party: means each person or agency named or admitted as a party, or properly seeking and entitled as of right to be admitted as a party. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Payee: means an individual who is receiving tax-free damage payments under a structured settlement and proposes to make a transfer of payment rights thereunder. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Person: means a natural person, consumer, individual, governmental agency, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, incorporated or unincorporated association, and any other legal or commercial entity however organized. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private organization of any character, including another agency. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Person: means an individual or legal entity that advertises legal services or that identifies potential clients for attorneys or law firms. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3001
• Person: means a natural person, partnership, corporation, association, trust, estate, or other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Person: means an individual, sole proprietor, independent contractor, partnership, corporation, or similar business entity. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3202
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business, partnership, limited liability company, or other business entity. See Tennessee Code 47-18-4902
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Place of primary use: means the street address where a subscriber's use of a telecommunications service or interconnected VoIP service primarily occurs, which shall be:
  (A) The residential street address or the primary business street address of the subscriber or, in the case of a subscriber of interconnected VoIP service, the subscriber's registered location. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2301
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Policy: means any statement, document, or guideline prepared or issued by any agency pursuant to its delegated authority that merely defines or explains the meaning of a statute or a rule. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Political subdivision: means a municipality, public corporation, body politic, authority, district, metropolitan government, county, or an agency, department, or board of such entities. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3202
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Principal executive office: means the office, in or out of this state, that is designated as the principal executive office of a domestic or foreign LLC in its articles or in an application for a certificate of authority, as applicable, as thereafter changed from time to time in accordance with this chapter. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Probate: Proving a will
• processing: means an operation or set of operations performed, whether by manual or automated means, on personal information or on sets of personal information, such as the collection, use, storage, disclosure, analysis, deletion, or modification of personal information. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Processor: means a natural or legal entity that processes personal information on behalf of a controller. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Profiling: means a form of solely automated processing performed on personal information to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects related to an identified or identifiable natural person's economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protected health information: has the meaning given that term in 45 C. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3001
• Provider: means a person or entity that offers telecommunications service or interconnected VoIP service. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2301
• Pseudonymous data: means personal information that cannot be attributed to a specific natural person without the use of additional information, so long as the additional information is kept separately and is subject to appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal information is not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Publication: means a posting of materials on the appropriate website by the secretary of state that have been submitted in accordance with this chapter or any other information for which the secretary of state is responsible. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• Publicly available information: means information that is lawfully made available through federal, state, or local government records, or information that a business has a reasonable basis to believe is lawfully made available to the general public through widely distributed media, by the consumer, or by a person to whom the consumer has disclosed the information, unless the consumer has restricted the information to a specific audience. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Qualified assignment agreement: means an agreement providing for a qualified assignment within the meaning of 26 U. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Quality assurance period: means the earliest of the following:
  (A) Twelve (12) months after the date of delivery of new farm machinery to a consumer. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• 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
• Reasonable allowance for use: means an amount attributable to use by a consumer:
  (A) Before the consumer's first report of a nonconformity to a manufacturer, distributor, or authorized dealer. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• Reasonable number of repair attempts: means :
  (A) Three (3) attempts to repair the same nonconformity, the total cost of which equals at least thirty percent (30%) of the full purchase price of the farm machinery. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3101
• 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
• Registered location: means the most recent information obtained by an interconnected VoIP service provider that identifies the physical location of an end user. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2301
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• 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
• Resolution: means any resolution adopted by governing bodies pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• Responsible administrative authority: means , with respect to a structured settlement, any government authority vested by law with exclusive jurisdiction over the settled claim resolved by such structured settlement. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Rule: includes the establishment of a fee and the amendment or repeal of a prior rule. See Tennessee Code 4-5-102
• 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 individual who holds the office of secretary of state of this state. See Tennessee Code 48-249-102
• Sensitive data: means a category of personal information that includes:
  (A) Personal information revealing racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual orientation, or citizenship or immigration status. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Settled claim: means the original tort claim. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• 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.
• Solicit: means offering to provide legal services by print. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3001
• 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 7-57-103
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Structured settlement: means an arrangement for periodic payment of damages for personal injuries established by settlement or judgment in resolution of a tort claim. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Structured settlement agreement: means the agreement, judgment, stipulation, or release embodying the terms of a structured settlement, including the rights of the payee to receive periodic payments. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Structured settlement obligor: means , with respect to any structured settlement, the party that has the continuing periodic payment obligation to the payee under a structured settlement agreement or a qualified assignment agreement. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Structured settlement payment rights: means rights to receive periodic payments (including lump sum payments) under a structured settlement, whether from the settlement obligor or the annuity issuer where:
  (A) The payee is domiciled in this state. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subscriber: means a person:
  (A) Who subscribes to a caller identification service in connection with a telecommunications service or an interconnected VoIP service. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2301
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Telecommunications service: means the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to classes of users so as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2301
• Tennessee Consumer Protection Act: means the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act of 1977, as amended, compiled in part 1 of this chapter and related statutes. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2102
• 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
• Terms of the structured settlement: includes , with respect to any structured settlement, the terms of the structured settlement agreement, the annuity contract, any qualified assignment agreement and any order or approval of any court or responsible administrative authority or other government authority authorizing or approving such structured settlement. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Text messaging service: means a service that permits the transmission or receipt of a text message, including a service provided as part of or in connection with a telecommunications service or an interconnected VoIP service. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2301
• Third party: means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or body other than the consumer, controller, processor, or an affiliate of the processor or the controller. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3302
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transfer: means any sale, assignment, pledge, hypothecation, commutation, advance or other form of alienation or encumbrance made by a payee for consideration. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Transfer agreement: means the agreement providing for transfer of structured settlement payment rights from a payee to a transferee. See Tennessee Code 47-18-2602
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustee: means one (1) of the members of the board of an authority appointed in accordance with this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Urban type public facilities: means and includes sanitary and storm sewer lines and facilities, plants for the collection, treatment and disposal of sewage and waste matter, facilities and plants for the incineration or other disposal of garbage, trash, ashes and other waste matter, or water supply and distribution lines, facilities and plants, chemical pipelines and docks, or all of these things, and fire protection and emergency medical services. See Tennessee Code 5-16-101
• Vehicle immobilization device: means a mechanical device that is designed or adapted to be attached to a wheel, tire, or other part of a parked motor vehicle to prohibit the motor vehicle's usual manner of movement or operation. See Tennessee Code 47-18-3202
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• 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