Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 39 > Chapter 17 > Part 17 - Child Curfew

• account: means a trust or custodian established pursuant to a health savings account program exclusively to pay the qualified medical expenses of an eligible individual or the individual's dependents, but only if the written governing instrument creating the account meets the following requirements:
  (A) Except in the case of a rollover contribution, no contribution shall be accepted:

  (i) Unless it is in cash. See Tennessee Code 67-10-102
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of revenue. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Donor: means any person responsible for the payment of transfer taxes to the state, including, but not limited to, a personal representative, executor, administrator, individual taxpayer, joint tenant, heir, legatee, devisee, grantee, transferee, trustee, tenant in common, conservator, guardian, custodian, or person interested in an estate or trust. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• In-kind payment: means a payment of transfer taxes or a portion thereof by the transfer to a receiving entity of qualified property. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• Interest in real property having state use value: means any interest in real property that is of unique value to the receiving entity to carry out its stated purposes. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• Law enforcement officer: means an officer, employee or agent of government who has a duty imposed by law to:
  (A) Maintain public order. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Minor: means any person under eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Object of significant artistic or historical value: means any object of art, collection, painting, portrait, mural, photograph, statue, tablet, carving, bas-relief, engraving, relic, coin, furniture, textile, basketry, artifact, natural specimen, rare book, author's papers, or other object of artistic, historical, or technical interest or of intrinsic cultural value. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• Owner: means a person, other than the defendant, who has possession of or any interest other than a mortgage, deed of trust or security interest in property, even though that possession or interest is unlawful and without whose consent the defendant has no authority to exert control over the property. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Person: includes the singular and the plural and means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, governmental subdivision or agency, or other organization or other legal entity, or any agent or servant thereof. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal 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
• Property: means anything of value, including, but not limited to, money, real estate, tangible or intangible personal property, including anything severed from land, library material, contract rights, choses-in-action, interests in or claims to wealth, credit, admission or transportation tickets, captured or domestic animals, food and drink, electric or other power. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Public place: means a place to which the public or a group of persons has access and includes, but is not limited to, highways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks, places of business, playgrounds and hallways, lobbies and other portions of apartment houses and hotels not constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence. See Tennessee Code 39-11-106
• Qualified property: means an object of significant artistic or historical value, a site of significant historical interest, an interest in real property having recreational, conservational or wildlife value, or an interest in real property having state use value. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• 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
• Receiving entity: means the state of Tennessee, any department or agency thereof, any county, city, or other political subdivision of the state, or any state museum or state institution of health or education. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• 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
• 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
• Site of significant historical interest: means any real property, building, or fixture, or any combination thereof, of unique and peculiar historical significance. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• 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
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Transfer taxes: means all the taxes imposed by this chapter, including the inheritance, estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes, and interest and penalties thereon. See Tennessee Code 67-8-702
• 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
• 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