2020 Tennessee Code
Title 62 - Professions, Businesses and Trades
Chapter 9 - Scrap Metal Dealers
§ 62-9-101. Chapter Definitions

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

1. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner's designee or, in the event of the commissioner's or designee's absence or vacancy in the office of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner;
2. “Department” means the department of commerce and insurance;
3. “Licensed HVAC contractor” means a person holding a license from the state board for licensing contractors with a CMC, MC, CMC-C, or MC-C classification;
4. “Person” means an individual, association, partnership, corporation, or any other legally cognizable organization or entity;
5. “Scrap metal” means any ferrous or nonferrous metal that is no longer used for its original purpose and is capable of being processed for reuse by a metal recycling facility, including, but not limited to, iron, brass, wire, cable, copper, bronze, aluminum, platinum, lead, solder, steel, stainless steel, catalytic converters or other similar obsolete ferrous or nonferrous metals, but shall not include recyclable aluminum cans; and
6. “Scrap metal dealer” means a person who buys, exchanges or deals in scrap metal or an employee or agent of that dealer who has the express or implied authority to buy, exchange or deal in scrap metal on behalf of the dealer.