41-21-902 - Part definitions.
41-21-902. Part definitions.
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) Assets means property, tangible or intangible, real or personal, belonging to or due an inmate or former inmate including income or payments to the inmate from social security, workers' compensation, veteran's compensation, pension benefits, previously earned salary or wages, bonuses, annuities, retirement benefits, insurance benefits, or from any other source whatsoever, but does not include any of the following:
(A) The homestead of the inmate;
(B) Money received by the inmate from the state as settlement of a claim against the department by the inmate;
(C) A money judgment received by the inmate from the state as the result of a civil action in which the department was a named defendant and found to be liable; and
(D) Money saved by the inmate from wages and bonuses paid the inmate while the inmate was confined to a state correctional facility;
(2) Commissioner means the commissioner of correction, or the commissioner's designee;
(3) Cost of care means the cost to the department of correction for providing transportation, room, board, clothing, security, medical, and other normal living expenses of inmates under the jurisdiction of the department, as determined by the commissioner of correction;
(4) Department means the department of correction;
(5) Inmate means any person who is confined in a correctional facility under the jurisdiction of the department;
(6) State means the state of Tennessee; and
(7) State correctional facility means a facility or institution which houses an inmate population under the jurisdiction of the department.
[Acts 1998, ch. 992, § 3.]