Section 38-8-301 - Part definitionsAs used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Committee" means a police advisory and review committee;(2) "Head of a law enforcement agency" means a chief of police of a municipal police force or a county sheriff, as applicable;(3) "Internal affairs unit" means a division of a local law enforcement agency that investigates allegations of misconduct by law enforcement officers employed by the agency;(4) "Law enforcement officer" means any person employed by any law enforcement agency of a local government entity, excluding a head of a law enforcement agency, who has a duty imposed by law to:(A) Maintain public order;(B) Make arrests for offenses, whether that duty extends to all offenses or is limited to specific offenses; and(C) Investigate the commission or suspected commission of offenses;(5) "Local governing body" means the city council, city commission, county commission, metropolitan council, or board of mayor and aldermen of a city;(6) "Local government entity" means any city, town, municipality, county, including any county having a metropolitan form of government in this state;(7) "Local law enforcement agency" means: (A) Within the territory of a municipality, the municipal police force;(B) Within the territory of a county having a metropolitan form of government, the metropolitan police force; or(C) Within the unincorporated territory of a county, the sheriff's office; and(8) "Mayor" means the officer vested by either the city or county charter or general law with the executive powers of a local government entity.Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 454, s 1, eff. 7/1/2023.