Tennessee Code > Title 38 > Chapter 6 – Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
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- 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.
- Antepartal: means occurring during pregnancy. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Authority: means the Tennessee local development authority as created by title 4, chapter 31. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1003
- Board: means the board of osteopathic examiners of the department of health to which the council of certified professional midwifery reports. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Board: means the Tennessee board of utility regulation established under §. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1003
- Board: means the board of medical examiners, created by chapter 6 of this title. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
- Clean Water Act: means the Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, P. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1003
- 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
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of health or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
- Committee: means the committee for clinical perfusion. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Consultation: means exchange of information and advice regarding the client condition and indicated treatment with a physician. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Council: means the council of certified professional midwifery. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- CPM-TN: means certified professional midwife in Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
- Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
- Department: means the department of environment and conservation. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1003
- Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
- Division: means the division of health-related boards in the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
- Division: means the division of health related boards. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
- 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.
- 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.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Fund: means the wastewater facility revolving loan fund. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1003
- Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
- Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
- Intrapartal: means occurring during the process of giving birth. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- 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.
- Licensed clinical perfusionist: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- Local government: means :
(i) A county, incorporated town or city, metropolitan government, state agency, water/wastewater authority, energy authority or any instrumentality of government created by any one (1) or more of these or by an act of the general assembly: (a) Which has authority to administer a wastewater facility. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1003 - Midwife: means a person who is trained to give the necessary care and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the post-birth period, to conduct normal deliveries on the midwive's own responsibility and to care for the newly born infant. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Midwifery: means the practice of attending low-risk women during pregnancy, labor and the post-birth period with the informed consent of the mother. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- NARM: means the North American Registry of Midwives. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- 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.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Perfusion: means the functions necessary for the support, treatment, measurement or supplementation of the cardiovascular, circulatory or respiratory systems, or other organs, or a combination of such activities, and to ensure the safe management of physiologic functions by monitoring and analyzing the parameters of the systems under an order and under the supervision of a licensed physician, including:
(A) The use of extracorporeal circulation, long-term cardiopulmonary support techniques including extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and associated therapeutic and diagnostic technologies. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102 - Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Physician: means a person who is duly licensed in the state of Tennessee to practice medicine by the state board of medical examiners or to practice osteopathy by the board. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Postpartal: means occurring subsequent to birth. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
- Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
- Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
- 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.
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- 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
- reflexologist: means any person who engages in the practice of reflexology for compensation and who has completed a study of the principles of reflexology, anatomy and physiology generally included in a regular course of study of reflexology. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
- Reflexology: means the application of specific pressures to reflex points in the hands and feet only. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
- Registration: means satisfying the requirements for registration by the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
- 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
- sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. 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
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
- Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Wastewater facility: means any facility, including the reserve capacity thereof, whose purpose is to collect, store, treat, neutralize, stabilize, recycle, reclaim or dispose of wastewater, including treatment or disposal plants, interceptors, outfall, and outlet sewers, pumping stations, equipment and furnishings thereof and their appurtenances which are necessary to accomplish the foregoing purposes. See Tennessee Code 68-221-1003
- 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