2016 Tennessee Code
Title 53 - Food, Drugs and Cosmetics
Chapter 9 - Refrigerated Locker Plants
§ 53-9-101. Chapter definitions.

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

(1) "Branch locker plant" means any place, premises or establishment offering refrigerated lockers for the storage of frozen food for human consumption, the food having been previously prepared for storage at a refrigerated locker plant;

(2) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of agriculture;

(3) "Department" means the Tennessee department of agriculture;

(4) "Human food" or "food" means all articles used by humans for food, drink, confectionery or condiment, whether simple, mixed or compound, and any substance used as a constituent in the manufacture of the food;

(5) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, county, municipality, cooperative group or other entity engaged in the business of operating or owning or offering the services of refrigerated lockers;

(6) "Plant," when used without qualification, applies both to locker plants and branch locker plants with equal force;

(7) "Refrigerated locker," "cold storage locker," or "locker," means any separate or individual compartment maintained at a temperature of zero degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees F) or lower, offered to the public for the storage and preservation of frozen food for human consumption on a rental or other basis providing compensation to the person offering the service. "Locker" is further defined as those individual sections or compartments used for the storage of food where the sections or compartments have cubic capacity not to exceed twenty-five cubic feet (25 cu. ft.), and is used for the storage of food or food products at the temperature specified in this subdivision (7);

(8) "Refrigerated locker plant," "cold storage locker plant," or "locker plant" means any place, premises or establishment where facilities for the freezing of human food and its subsequent storage in refrigerated lockers is offered on a basis of compensation to the person offering the services; and

(9) "Sharp freezer" means a separate room or compartment in which food is frozen in preparation for storage in lockers.