Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 49 > Chapter 11 > Part 6 - Vocational Rehabilitation Law of Tennessee

• 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.
• 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 human services. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Director: means director of the vocational rehabilitation program. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Division: means the division of rehabilitation services. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Individual with a disability: means an individual of employable age who has a disability that constitutes a substantial barrier to employment, but that is of such a nature that appropriate vocational rehabilitation services may reasonably be expected to:
  (A) Render the individual able to engage in a remunerative occupation. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Maintenance: means the provision of money to cover a handicapped individual's necessary living expenses and health maintenance essential to achieving the handicapped individual's vocational rehabilitation. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Nonprofit: when used with respect to a rehabilitation facility or a workshop, means a rehabilitation facility and a workshop, respectively, owned and operated by a corporation or association, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual and the income of which is exempt from taxation under §. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Physical restoration: includes :
  (A) Corrective surgery or therapeutic treatment necessary to correct or substantially modify a physical or mental condition that is stable or slowly progressive and:

  (i) Constitutes a substantial barrier to employment. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Rehabilitation facility: means a facility operated for the primary purpose of assisting in the rehabilitation of physically handicapped individuals:
  (A) That provides one (1) or more of the following types of services:

  (i) Testing, fitting or training in the use of prosthetic devices. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Remunerative occupation: includes employment as an employee or self-employed, practice of a profession, homemaking or farm and family work for which payment is in kind rather than cash, sheltered employment and home industry or other homebound work of a remunerative nature. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Vocational rehabilitation: means making an individual able, or increasing the individual's ability, to:
  (A) Engage in a remunerative occupation. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602
• Vocational rehabilitation services: means :
  (A) Diagnostic and related services, including transportation, incidental to the determination of whether an individual is a handicapped individual, and if so, the individual's eligibility for, and the nature and scope of, other vocational rehabilitation services to be provided. See Tennessee Code 49-11-602