38-1-401 - Part definitions. - Tennessee Statutes

38-1-401. Part definitions.

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “Animal” means a domesticated living creature or a wild creature previously captured;

     (2)  “Cruelty”, “abuse”, and “neglect” mean every act, omission, or neglect whereby unreasonable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted;

     (3)  “Reasonable suspicion” means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion, based upon facts, that could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on the person's training and experience, to suspect animal cruelty, abuse, or neglect; and

     (4)  “Owner” means any person who is the legal owner, keeper, harborer, possessor, or the actual custodian of an animal. “Owner” includes corporations as well as individuals.

[Acts 2006, ch. 736, § 2.]