4-3-4902 - Part definitions.

4-3-4902. Part definitions.

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

     (1)  “Commission” means the Tennessee film, entertainment and music commission;

     (2)  “Commissioner” means the commissioner of economic and community development;

     (3)  “Department” means the department of economic and community development;

     (4)  “Executive director” means the director of the commission;

     (5)  “Film/TV fund” means the Tennessee film/television incentive fund;

     (6)  “Minority participant” means an individual who is impeded from normal entry into the economic mainstream because of race, religion, sex or national origin;

     (7)  “Production activities” means activities related to the production of entertainment properties;

     (8)  “Production company” means any person or entity that produces a film, movie, pilot or show in Tennessee;

     (9)  “State-certified production” means a film, movie, pilot or show that meets the criteria established by the commission to receive an incentive grant; and

     (10)  “Tennessee motion picture and television incentive grant” or “incentive grant” means a grant for a state-certified production that is approved by the department to receive a grant based upon the recommendation of the executive director.

[Acts 2006, ch. 916, § 3.]