Section 1200-23-04-.01 - DEFINITIONS(1) "Approved" means being accepted by the Commissioner.(2) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Health or the Commissioner's duly appointed representative, and in the event of a vacancy in the office of Commissioner, the Acting Commissioner.(3) "Contractor" means a person that enters into an agreement with another person to perform specific duties and acts as a representative of the permittee or permit applicant.(4) "Employee" means the permit holder, individuals having supervisory or management duties, or any other person working in a hotel.(5) "Furnished for pay to transients or travelers" means offering sleeping accommodations by the day.(6) "Hotel" means any building or establishment kept, used, maintained, or advertised to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are furnished for pay to transients or travelers whether or not meals are served therein, regardless of what term the owner or operator uses to describe the establishment.(7) "Ice dispensing machines" means any machine which dispenses ice in bulk or package form.(8) "Law" means any provision of the State of Tennessee statutes and rules.(9) "Linens" means all sheets, pillowcases, towels, washcloths, and other reusable cloth items which come in personal contact with occupants.(10) "Owner/Operator" means the applicant, permittee, or other persons to be in charge of facilities.(11) "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm, corporation, agency, municipality, or state or political subdivisions, or the federal government and its agencies and departments.(12) "Person in charge" means the individual present in a hotel, who is the apparent supervisor at the time of inspection, or if no individual is the apparent supervisor, then any employee present.(13) "Potable water" means water that is safe for drinking.(14) "Sanitary ice-dispensing machine" means any machine which automatically dispenses ice with no manual contact with the ice.(15) "Self-service ice storage bin" means a self-service machine or storage bin in which ice is manufactured or stored in bulk form and the ice can be removed by the hotel guests through use of an ice scoop or similar device.(16) "Sewage" means human excreta, all water carried waste, and household wastes from residences, buildings, or commercial and industrial establishments.(17) "Shall" denotes a mandatory requirement.(18) "Single-service articles" means cups, lids, closures, plates, knives, forks, spoons, stirrers, paddles, straws, napkins, wrapping materials, toothpicks, and similar articles intended to be used for one-time, one-person use and then to be discarded.(19) "Solid waste" means, refuse, garbage, trash, rubbish, and any other item or items which could cause an unsanitary condition or undesirable health and safety conditions.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-23-04-.01
Original rule filed September 9, 1999; effective November 22, 1999.Authority: T.C.A. §§ 4-5-202 and 68-14-301 et seq.