§ 4-15-107 — Chapter definitions

Tennessee § 4-15-107

• Jurisdiction: Tennessee
• Title: 4

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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Commission" means the state building commission; (2) "Improvement to real property" means: (A) The construction or erection of new buildings or structures in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest, whether financed by public or private funds or both; (B) The major maintenance of any building or structure in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest; or (C) The renovation of any building or structure in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest; (3) "Major maintenance" means the repair or renovation of a building or structure or a portion thereof in which this state or a department, institution, or agency thereof has an interest and that: (A) Is being funded by direct appropriations for major maintenance; (B) Will cost state departments, colleges of applied technology, and public two-year institutions of higher learning in excess of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) for a structure or one million dollars ($1,000,000) for a project excluding furniture and equipment; or (C) Will cost public four-year institutions of higher education in excess of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for a structure or three million dollars ($3,000,000) for a project excluding furniture and equipment; (4) "Renovation" means the change in the functional use or operation of space in existing buildings or structures in which the state of Tennessee or any of its departments, institutions or agencies have an interest; and (5) "State procurement agency" means, as appropriate, the department of general services, state of Tennessee real estate asset management; University of Tennessee, department of capital projects; Tennessee board of regents, department of facilities development; East Tennessee State University, office of facilities management, planning, and construction; Austin Peay State University, capital planning, design and construction; Tennessee Technological University, office of capital projects and planning; Middle Tennessee State University, department of campus planning; and University of Memphis, department of campus planning and design, or the successors-in-interest to such departments, or any additional state entities, or subdivisions thereof, as determined by the commission.

Legislative History

Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 411, s 4, eff. 7/1/2023. Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 411, s 3, eff. 7/1/2023. Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 712, s 1, eff. 3/18/2022. Acts 1980, ch. 741, § 1; 1986, ch. 631, § 1.