Tennessee § 65-30-103 - Chapter definitions.

§ 65-30-103. Chapter definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Commission” means the Tennessee public utility commission; “Radio common carrier” and “carrier” includes any person, firm, corporation, company, association or partnership owning, operating or managing a business of providing radio services to the public on a for-hire basis and under such circumstances as would require a license by the federal communications commission as a miscellaneous common carrier in the domestic public land mobile radio service; provided, that such definition does not include land line telephone or telegraph utilities regulated by the commission or to community antenna television systems; and “Radio common carrier system” means any facility within this state which is operated to perform for hire the service of radio communications to members of the public who subscribe to such service; and “facility,” as used in this subsection (3), includes all real property, stations, antennae, radios, receivers, transmitters, instruments, appliances, fixtures and other personal property used by a radio common carrier in providing service to its subscribers. Acts 1972, ch. 641, § 3; T.C.A., § 65-3003; Acts 1995, ch. 305, § 40; 2017, ch. 94, § 63. Amendments. The 2017 amendment substituted the definition of “commission” for the definition of “authority” and substituted “commission” for “authority” twice in the definition of “radio common carrier”. Effective Dates. Acts 2017, ch. 94, § 83. April 4, 2017.