Tenn. Code Ann. § 58-2-202

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As used in this part: (1) "Critical infrastructure" means real and personal property and equipment, including, but not limited to, buildings, offices, lines, poles, pipes, structures, and equipment that: (A) Is owned or used by or for telecommunications service networks, mobile telecommunications service networks, internet access service networks, video programming service networks, direct-to-home satellite television programming service facilities, electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, gas distribution systems, fuel supply systems, including such systems for gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, heating fuel, jet fuel, and propane, water pipelines, and related support facilities; and (B) Services multiple customers or citizens; (2) "Disaster" has the same meaning as defined in § 58-2-101 ; (3) "Disaster or emergency related work" means: (A) Repairing, renovating, installing, building, and rendering services or other business activities that relate to critical infrastructure that has been damaged, impaired, or destroyed during a disaster or emergency; and (B) Any activities conducted in good faith before a potential disaster or emergency to prepare for the provision of the work described in subdivision (3)(A); (4) "Disaster response period" means the period that begins ten (10) days before the date of the earliest event establishing a disaster or emergency and that ends one hundred twenty (120) days thereafter, or such later date as may be set by the governor or president of the United States; (5) "Emergency" has the same meaning as defined in § 58-2-101 ; (6) "Licensed business" means a business entity that is currently licensed to do business in this state; (7) "Responding out-of-state business" means a business entity that, except for work related to a disaster or emergency, has no presence in this state, conducts no business in this state, and whose services are requested by a licensed business or by this state or a local government for purposes of performing disaster or emergency related work in this state, including, but not limited to, a business entity that is affiliated with a licensed business solely through common ownership and otherwise meets this definition of a responding out-of-state business; and (8) "Responding out-of-state employee" means an employee of a responding out-of-state business or licensed business who does not work in this state, except for disaster or emergency related work. Acts 2019, ch. 378, § 1.
As used in this part:
(1) "Critical infrastructure" means real and personal property and equipment, including, but not limited to, buildings, offices, lines, poles, pipes, structures, and equipment that: (A) Is owned or used by or for telecommunications service networks, mobile telecommunications service networks, internet access service networks, video programming service networks, direct-to-home satellite television programming service facilities, electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, gas distribution systems, fuel supply systems, including such systems for gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, heating fuel, jet fuel, and propane, water pipelines, and related support facilities; and (B) Services multiple customers or citizens;
(A) Is owned or used by or for telecommunications service networks, mobile telecommunications service networks, internet access service networks, video programming service networks, direct-to-home satellite television programming service facilities, electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, gas distribution systems, fuel supply systems, including such systems for gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, heating fuel, jet fuel, and propane, water pipelines, and related support facilities; and
(B) Services multiple customers or citizens;
(2) "Disaster" has the same meaning as defined in § 58-2-101 ;
evision programming service facilities, electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, gas distribution systems, fuel supply systems, including such systems for gasoline, diesel, biodiesel, heating fuel, jet fuel, and propane, water pipelines, and related support facilities; and
(B) Services multiple customers or citizens;
(2) "Disaster" has the same meaning as defined in § 58-2-101 ;
(3) "Disaster or emergency related work" means: (A) Repairing, renovating, installing, building, and rendering services or other business activities that relate to critical infrastructure that has been damaged, impaired, or destroyed during a disaster or emergency; and (B) Any activities conducted in good faith before a potential disaster or emergency to prepare for the provision of the work described in subdivision (3)(A);
(A) Repairing, renovating, installing, building, and rendering services or other business activities that relate to critical infrastructure that has been damaged, impaired, or destroyed during a disaster or emergency; and
(B) Any activities conducted in good faith before a potential disaster or emergency to prepare for the provision of the work described in subdivision (3)(A);
(4) "Disaster response period" means the period that begins ten (10) days before the date of the earliest event establishing a disaster or emergency and that ends one hundred twenty (120) days thereafter, or such later date as may be set by the governor or president of the United States;
(5) "Emergency" has the same meaning as defined in § 58-2-101 ;
(6) "Licensed business" means a business entity that is currently licensed to do business in this state;
(7) "Responding out-of-state business" means a business entity that, except for work related to a disaster or emergency, has no presence in this state, conducts no business in this state, and whose services are requested by a licensed business or by this state or a local government for purposes of performing disaster or emergency related work in this state, including, but not limited to, a business entity that is affiliated with a licensed business solely through common ownership and otherwise meets this definition of a responding out-of-state business; and
(8) "Responding out-of-state employee" means an employee of a responding out-of-state business or licensed business who does not work in this state, except for disaster or emergency related work.
Acts 2019, ch. 378, § 1.

Status: in_force

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