Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 62 > Chapter 5 > Part 6 - Continuing Education

• 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.
• Board: means the board of funeral directors and embalmers. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Embalming: means the preservation and disinfection, restoration or attempted preservation or disinfection of dead human bodies by the application of chemicals externally or internally, or both. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• 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.
• Funeral directing: means the:
  (i) Practice of directing or supervising funerals or the practice of preparing dead human bodies for burial by any means, other than by embalming, or the disposition of dead human bodies. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Licensee: means an embalmer or funeral director who holds a license issued by the board. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Licensing period: means the period of time that a funeral director's or embalmer's license is in effect in this state. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• 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
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105