§ 4-3-2501 Creation
§ 4-3-2502 Commissioner
§ 4-3-2503 Powers and duties
§ 4-3-2504 Youth programs – Department’s activity restricted

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 4 > Chapter 3 > Part 25 - Department of Veterans Services

  • Board: means the board of trustees of an authority. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • chief legislative body: means the county legislative body. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • 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
  • Executive officer: means the mayor, county mayor, or other chief executive officer of any creating or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • Governing body: means the chief legislative body of any creating or participating municipality. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • 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
  • Metropolitan government: means the political entity created by consolidation of all, or substantially all, of the political and corporate functions of a county and a city or cities. See Tennessee Code 7-1-101
  • Ordinance: means any ordinance adopted by governing bodies pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • 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
  • Resolution: means any resolution adopted by governing bodies pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 7-57-103
  • State: means the state of Tennessee. 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