Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 69 > Chapter 9 > Part 5 - Personal Watercraft

• Agency: means the wildlife resources agency. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• Boat: means any vessel:
  (A) Manufactured or used primarily for noncommercial use. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• Commission: means the fish and wildlife commission. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Operate: means to navigate, be in physical control of, or otherwise use a motorboat or a vessel. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• Operator: means the person who operates or has charge of the navigation or use of a motorboat or vessel. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• Owner: includes a person entitled to the use or possession of a motorboat or vessel subject to an interest in another person, reserved or created by agreement and securing payment or performance of an obligation, but "owner" excludes a lessee under a lease not intended as security. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other entity. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• personal watercraft: means a mechanically propelled vessel that is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel rather than being operated in a conventional manner by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling inside the vessel. See Tennessee Code 69-9-501
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• Rules of the road: means statutory and regulatory rules governing navigation of vessels. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• 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
• Use: means to operate, navigate or employ. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204
• Vessel: means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Tennessee Code 69-9-204