Tennessee § 40-28-102 - Chapter definitions.

§ 40-28-102. Chapter definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Board” means the board of parole; “Commissioner” means the commissioner of correction; “Department” means the department of correction; “Executive director” means the officer employed by the board as the chief administrative officer of the agency; “Notification,” as used in this part, may include telephone, facsimile and internet communications; “Parole” means the release of a prisoner to the community by the board prior to the expiration of the prisoner's term subject to conditions imposed by the board and to supervision by the department, or when a court or other authority has issued a warrant against the prisoner and the board, in its discretion, has released the prisoner to answer the warrant of the court or authority; and “Probation and parole officer” means a probation and parole officer employed by the department. Acts 1937, ch. 276, §§ 1, 2; 1949, ch. 18, §§ 1-3; mod. C. Supp. 1950, §§ 11818.1, 11818.2 (Williams, §§ 11843.1, 11843.2); Acts 1961, ch. 93, § 1; 1963, ch. 288, § 1; 1970, ch. 488, § 1; 1972, ch. 636, §§ 1-8; 1976, ch. 806, § 1(82); 1978, ch. 929, § 6; 1979, ch. 359, §§ 2-5, 7; impl. am. Acts 1979, ch. 359, §§ 5, 26; Acts 1980, ch. 584, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3601(2); Acts 1989, ch. 227, §§ 1, 2; 1998, ch. 1049, §§ 23-25, 66; 1999, ch. 516, § 1; 2012, ch. 727, § 13. Compiler's Notes. For the preamble to the act concerning transfers of certain functions relating to probation and parole services and the community correction grant program from the board of probation and parole to the department of correction, please refer to Acts 2012, ch. 727. Acts 2012, ch. 727, § 63 provided that the implementation of the act, which amended this section, shall be fully accomplished on or before January 1, 2013.