Part Definitions

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Prevention and Detection of Crime
  4. Miscellaneous Provisions
  5. Cross Reporting of Animal Cruelty
  6. Part Definitions

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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. “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; and
  4. “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.


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