Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 13 > Chapter 7 - Zoning

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agricultural chemical: means fertilizers or agricultural chemicals that are applied to crops or to land that is used for raising crops, including fertilizer material, plant amendment, plant food and soil amendment, and pesticide as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Agricultural production input: means crop production inputs. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Agriculture: means :
  (i) The land, buildings and machinery used in the commercial production of farm products and nursery stock. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Batch: means a single stock keeping unit with common cannabinoid input or a hemp flower of the same varietal and harvested on the same date and manufactured during a defined cycle in such a way that it could be expected to be of a uniform character and should be designated as such. See Tennessee Code 43-27-202
• Board: means the mayor and the aldermen. See Tennessee Code 6-1-101
• Business: includes every trade, occupation, profession, investment activity and other lawful purpose for gain or the preservation of assets whether or not carried on for profits. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• City: means any city or territory to be incorporated that may adopt chapters 30-36 of this title. See Tennessee Code 6-30-102
• Claimant: means :
  (A) Any producer or person, possessing warehouse receipts covering commodities owned or stored by the warehouseman. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• 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
• Collector: includes any person entrusted with the collection of public revenue. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 43-27-101
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture, or the commissioner's designated representatives. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Committee: as used in this chapter , except when more particularly provided in this chapter, includes:
  (1) A committee appointed by either the house of representatives or the senate. See Tennessee Code 3-3-101
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• commodities warehouse: means any building, structure, or other protected enclosure in this state used for the purpose of storing commodities for a consideration. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• commodities warehouseman: means any person who owns, controls or manages a public commodities warehouse in which commodities are stored for compensation and who is authorized to issue warehouse receipts, and includes any grain warehouse licensed under the United States Warehouse Act that has entered into a cooperative agreement. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Commodity: means grain. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Commodity: means beef, corn, pork, and eggs, produced on a commercial basis. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Commodity dealer: means any person engaged in the business of buying commodities from producers thereof for resale or for milling or processing. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Community garden: means a piece of real property, either on vacant public land or on private land, cultivated by residents of a neighborhood or community, or members of a homeowners or condominium owners association for the purpose of providing the following for the use of residents of the neighborhood or community, or members of the homeowners or condominium owners association:
  (A) Vegetables, nuts, herbs, fruit, or flowers, whether by means of cultivating annual, biennial or perennial plants, or trees. See Tennessee Code 43-24-102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative agreement: means any agreement made by the department with a person, local unit of government, or state or federal agency as may be reasonable and proper to carry out this chapter. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Corn: means all kinds of varieties of corn except popcorn, sweet corn, and ornamental corns. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• 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.
• County: means the county in which any such city or territory to be incorporated under chapters 30-36 of this title is located, or in which the major portion of the population of any such city or territory to be incorporated is located as indicated by the last federal census. See Tennessee Code 6-30-102
• County executive: means and includes "county mayor" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• County mayor: means and includes "county executive" unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Debtor: means a farmer who is or has requested financial assistance from a lender through a supplier. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 43-27-101
• Department: means the Tennessee department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Department: means the department of agriculture. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Egg: means a pullet egg or a hen egg and excludes all other types of eggs. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• egg dealer: means any person engaged as a wholesale distributor in the business of distributing or marketing eggs in Tennessee, regardless of where the eggs are produced. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Equal Credit Opportunity Act: Prohibits creditors from discriminating against credit applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, or because an applicant receives income from a public assistance program. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Failure: means :
  (A) An inability to financially satisfy a claimant in accordance with applicable statute or regulation and the time limits provided therein, if any. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Farm: means the land, buildings, and machinery used in the commercial production of farm products and nursery stock as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 43-26-102
• Farm operation: means a condition or activity that occurs on a farm in connection with the commercial production of farm products or nursery stock as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 43-26-102
• farm products: means forage and sod crops. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Generally applicable local law: means an ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule, or other requirement of any type other than zoning enacted, maintained, or enforced by a local governing body that applies to all property or use of all property and does not apply only to property used as a short-term rental unit. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grain: means corn, wheat, oats, rye, soybeans, rape seed, canola and grain sorghums. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grand-mentoring: means collaborative projects between persons sixty (60) years of age or older and students in kindergarten through twelfth (K-12) grade. See Tennessee Code 43-24-102
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• 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.
• Hemp: means the plant cannabis sativa L. See Tennessee Code 43-27-101
• Hemp concentrate: means a concentrate with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of not more than five percent (5%) that is derived from hemp solely for purposes of reconstitution into consumer products with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) concentration of not more than three-tenths of one percent (0. See Tennessee Code 43-27-101
• 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
• Incidental commodity dealer: means any commodities dealer who purchases commodities from producers and whose total purchases of commodities during any fiscal year do not exceed one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000). See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interest: means either or both of the following rights under the organic law of an unincorporated entity:
  (A) The right to receive distributions from the entity either in the ordinary course or upon liquidation. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lands: includes lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Lender: means a person in the business of lending money identified in a security interest notification statement. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Letter of commitment: means a binding, irrevocable and unconditional agreement by a lender to honor drafts or other demands for payment upon the supplier presenting invoices signed by the purchaser or other proof of delivery. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Local governing body: means the legislative body of a city, municipality, county, or other political subdivision of this state that has authority to enact a zoning ordinance, resolution, regulation, rule, or other requirement of any type regarding land use in its jurisdiction. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Local government: means any municipality, county or metropolitan government. See Tennessee Code 43-24-102
• Manufacture: means to compound, blend, extract, infuse, cook, or otherwise make or prepare products containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid, including the processes of extraction, infusion, packaging, repackaging, labeling, and relabeling of products containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid. See Tennessee Code 43-27-202
• Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• nursery stock: means all trees, shrubs, or other plants, or parts of such trees, shrubs or other plants, grown or kept for, or capable of, propagation, distribution or sale on a commercial basis. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Officer: means the mayor, aldermen, city attorney and city judge. See Tennessee Code 6-1-101
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, partnership and all associations of two (2) or more persons having a joint or common interest. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative or other business. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Person: means an individual or an organization and includes a corporation, firm or association. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Person: includes individual and entity. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Petroleum product: means motor fuels and special fuels that are used in the production of crops, including "petroleum products" as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Proceeds: means proceeds as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Processor: means any person engaged in the business of processing commodity products. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Producer: means the owner, tenant or operator of land in this state who has an interest in and receives all or any part of the proceeds from the sale of the commodities produced thereon. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Producer: means any person who produces a commodity and thereafter causes the commodity to be marketed. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Program: means the Tennessee commodity producer indemnity program. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Prohibit: means to forbid or ban the operation of short-term rental units, either permanently or temporarily, within a local governing body's jurisdiction, portion of the local governing body's jurisdiction, or a portion of an owner's property. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Proof of age: means a valid driver license or other government-issued identification card that contains a photograph of the person and confirms the person's age as twenty-one (21) years of age or older. See Tennessee Code 43-27-202
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Property: means a tract of land as recorded with the register of deeds office of the county where the property is located. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Provider: means any person engaged in renting a short-term rental unit and includes an owner of a residential unit that is made available through a vacation lodging service as that term is defined in §. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchaser: means any dealer or processor who purchases or receives such commodity from producers on a commercial basis. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Qualified producer organization: means any agricultural organization, federation, or association that is organized as a "not for profit" organization under the laws of the state of Tennessee, and whose membership is fairly representative of farmers who are active producers of one (1) or more agricultural commodities covered under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• 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
• Referendum: means any voting procedure under which affected producers may, by secret ballot, vote for or against an assessment authorized by this chapter. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• 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
• Residential dwelling: means a cabin, house, or structure used or designed to be used as an abode or home of a person, family, or household, and includes a single-family dwelling, a portion of a single-family dwelling, or an individual residential dwelling in a multi-dwelling building, such as an apartment building, condominium, cooperative, or timeshare. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Retailer: means a person or entity that sells products containing a hemp-derived cannabinoid for consumption and not for resale. See Tennessee Code 43-27-202
• Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Secretary of state: means the person who holds the office of secretary of state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 48-202-101
• Seed: means agricultural seeds that are used to produce crops, including "agricultural seed" as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Serving: means a quantity of a hemp-derived cannabinoid product reasonably suitable for a single person's daily use. See Tennessee Code 43-27-202
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• sex: means a person's immutable biological sex as determined by anatomy and genetics existing at the time of birth and evidence of a person's biological sex. 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
• Standing committee: means any standing committee, or subcommittee thereof, of the general assembly created by the rules of proceedings of the house of representatives or the senate. See Tennessee Code 3-4-104
• 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.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supplier: means a person or entity that manufactures hemp-derived cannabinoids or sells products containing hemp-derived cannabinoids to retailers. See Tennessee Code 43-27-202
• Supplier: means a person who furnishes agricultural production inputs. See Tennessee Code 43-31-102
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• THC: means delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol. See Tennessee Code 43-27-101
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transferred: means :
  (A) An interest in real estate was conveyed on or after May 17, 2018. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• unit: means a residential dwelling that is rented wholly or partially for a fee for a period of less than thirty (30) continuous days and does not include a hotel as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• United States: includes district, authority, bureau, commission, department, and any other agency of the United States. See Tennessee Code 48-11-201
• United States Warehouse Act: means the United States Warehouse Act, enacted August 11, 1916, as amended. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Use: means , when applied to gardening and beekeeping, to make use of, without conveyance of title or any other ownership. See Tennessee Code 43-24-102
• Used as a short-term rental unit: means the property was held out to the public for use as a short-term rental unit, and:
  (A) For property that began being held out to the public for use as a short-term rental unit within the jurisdiction of a local governing body that required a permit to be issued or an application to be approved pursuant to an ordinance specifically governing short-term rental units prior to using the property as a short-term rental unit, a permit was issued or an application was approved by the local governing body for the property. See Tennessee Code 13-7-602
• Vacant public land: means land owned by a local government that is not in use for public purposes, and includes property controlled by a parks and recreation department or similar entity that is not currently being used as park land. See Tennessee Code 43-24-102
• Valid claim: means a claim arising from a failure of a commodity dealer or warehouseman that occurs after July 1, 1989, and adjudicated valid by the commissioner, net of all credits and offsets, and in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Vote: means to cast a ballot on a referendum. See Tennessee Code 43-29-103
• Warehouse receipt: means :
  (A) A warehouse receipt issued under this chapter in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code. See Tennessee Code 43-32-102
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
• 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