Tennessee Code Title 54. Highways, Bridges and Ferries § 54-17-103

(1) “Advertise” means to establish an outdoor display by painting, pasting, or affixing on any surface, a picture, emblem, word, figure, numeral, or lettering for the purpose of making anything known;

(2) “Directional sign” means an official sign that identifies a site, attraction, or activity and directional information useful to a traveler in locating the site, attraction, or activity, including mileage, route numbers, or exit numbers;

(3) “Facility” means a commercial or industrial facility, or other facility open to the public, that operates with regular business hours on a year-round basis within a building or defined physical space, which may include a structure other than a building, together with any immediately adjacent parking areas; provided, that activity conducted in a temporary structure or a structure operated only on a seasonal basis may be considered a facility for the purpose of allowing an on-premises device to be located on the same property, but the device is only allowed on a temporary basis during the period the facility is actually conducting activity;

(4) “On-premises device” means a sign:

(5) “Outdoor advertising device”:

(6) “Scenic highway” means any highway, road, or sections of the highway or road designated as a scenic highway from time to time by the general assembly under this part; and

(7) “Sign” means an outdoor sign, light, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other thing which is designed, intended, or used to advertise or inform any part of the advertising or informative contents of which is visible from any place on the main traveled way of an interstate system or primary system.