4-51-202 - Part definitions. - Tennessee Statutes

4-51-202. Part definitions.

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

     (1)  “Claimant agency” means any state agency, department, board, bureau, commission, or authority to which an individual owes a debt or that acts on behalf of an individual to collect a debt;

     (2)  “Debt” means any liquidated sum due and owing any claimant agency, which sum has accrued through contract, subrogation, tort, or operation of law, regardless of whether there is an outstanding judgment for the sum or any sum that is due and owing any person and is enforceable by the state or any of the claimant agencies of the state. “Debt” specifically includes, but is not limited to, uncollected amounts owed by any person due to judgments for overdue child support as provided by title 36, chapter 5;

     (3)  “Debtor” means any individual owing money or having a delinquent account with any claimant agency, which obligation has not been adjudicated as satisfied by court order, set aside by court order, or discharged in bankruptcy. “Debtor” specifically includes, but is not limited to, all persons who are required by any order to pay child support and whose payments are overdue as provided by title 36, chapter 5, and which payments have become judgments by operation of law pursuant to § 36-5-101(a)(5), or by law in any other state or territory, or by judgment of a court in this or any other state or territory; and

     (4)  “Prize” means the proceeds of any lottery prize awarded under part 1 of this chapter.

[Acts 2003, ch. 297, § 2.]