Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 38 > Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers

• Agency: means any municipality or county. See Tennessee Code 38-8-301
• Antepartal: means occurring during pregnancy. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• assistant: means any person certified as such pursuant to this chapter, who has:
  (A) Received on-the-job training equivalent to at least one thousand (1,000) hours of clinical training in respiratory care, during an eighteen (18) consecutive month period. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• auxiliary police officer: means any person employed by any municipality or any political subdivision of the state of Tennessee whose primary responsibility is to support the full-time police officer in the prevention and detection of crime, apprehension of offenders, and assisting in the prosecution of offenders for appropriate remuneration in measure with specifically assigned duties or job description. See Tennessee Code 38-8-101
• 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}
• Board: means the board of respiratory care. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Board: means the board of medical examiners, created by chapter 6 of this title. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• 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
• Campus police officer: means a person commissioned by an employing institution and rendered an oath to provide police services, enforce law, exercise arrest authority and carry firearms in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 38-8-101
• Certified respiratory therapist: means any person who has obtained the credential "certified respiratory therapist" (CRT) or the credential "certified respiratory therapy technician" (CRTT) from the National Board for Respiratory Care. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Choke hold: means an intentional use of pressure or constriction to the neck, throat, or windpipe intended to inhibit breathing. See Tennessee Code 38-8-101
• 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
• Consultation: means exchange of information and advice regarding the client condition and indicated treatment with a physician. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
• 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
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: means the division of health related boards as defined by §. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Division: means the division of health related boards. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Division: means the division of health-related boards in the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Extracorporeal circulation: means the diversion of a patient's blood through a heart-lung machine or a similar device that assumes the functions of the patient's heart, lungs, kidneys, liver or other organs. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Full-time police officer: means any person employed by any municipality or political subdivision of the state of Tennessee whose primary responsibility is the prevention and detection of crime, and the apprehension of offenders, and whose primary source of income is derived from employment as a police officer. See Tennessee Code 38-8-101
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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}
• Intrapartal: means occurring during the process of giving birth. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
• Licensed clinical perfusionist: means a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Local government: means a county, municipality, city, or other political subdivision of this state. See Tennessee Code 9-5-102
• 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
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• 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
• Perfusion protocols: means perfusion-related policies and protocols developed or approved by a licensed health care facility or a physician through collaboration with administrators, licensed clinical perfusionists and other health care professionals. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• 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
• Police officer: means police officer as defined by law. See Tennessee Code 38-8-301
• Postpartal: means occurring subsequent to birth. See Tennessee Code 63-29-102
• Practice of respiratory care: includes , under the supervision, control and responsibility of a licensed physician:
  (a) The administration of pharmacologic agents and medical gasses necessary to diagnose, implement treatment, promote disease prevention, and provide rehabilitation to the cardiorespiratory system. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Private special deputy: means a person who is employed and compensated by a resort area owner or management company to act as security and law enforcement for the resort area and whose qualifications and training requirements are equivalent to or superior to those required for a law enforcement officer under the standards established by the peace officer standards and training commission for law enforcement officers. See Tennessee Code 38-8-101
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Provisional licensed clinical perfusionist: means a person provisionally licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-28-102
• Public safety officer: means a person who, in addition to being a commissioned campus police officer under §. See Tennessee Code 38-8-101
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• Registered respiratory therapist: means any person who has obtained the credential "registered respiratory therapist" (RRT) from the National Board for Respiratory Care. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Registration: means satisfying the requirements for registration by the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-30-102
• Respiratory care practitioner: means a registered respiratory therapist, a certified respiratory therapist, or a respiratory assistant licensed under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 63-27-102
• Special deputy: means any person who is assigned specific police functions as to the prevention and detection of crime and general laws of this state on a volunteer basis, whether working alone or with other police officers. See Tennessee Code 38-8-101