Section 49-5-802 - Part definitionsAs used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Employee organization" means any organization with membership open to teachers in which the teachers participate and that exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of representing teachers' interest to boards of education of local public school systems;(2) "Local school system" or "system" means any local public school system, as defined in § 49-1-103;(3) "Member" or "participant" means any teacher who has joined the bank by making the initial donation of the minimum number of days necessary and has donated the subsequently assessed days;(4) "Sick leave" means a designated amount of compensation leave accumulated pursuant to § 49-5-710 that is to be granted to a member who, through personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine, is unable to perform the duties of the teaching position. Sick leave may not be granted for the period of disability when moneys are paid to the member under the Workers' Compensation Law under title 50, chapter 6, part 2;(5) "Sick leave bank" or "bank" means a local system accounting of voluntarily pooled and irrevocably donated accumulated personal sick leave that is collected for the purpose of providing sick leave to members of the program who have suffered an unplanned personal illness, injury, disability or quarantine and whose personal sick leave is exhausted;(6) "Sick leave bank trustees" or "trustees" means those persons appointed to administer a local school system sick leave bank; and(7) "Teacher" means all persons entitled to sick leave under § 49-5-710.Acts 1981, ch. 283, § 2; T.C.A., § 49-56-102.