Tennessee Code Title 68. Health, Safety and Environmental Protection § 68-211-902

(1) “Authority” or “solid waste authority” means any public instrumentality organized pursuant to this part;

(2) “Bonds” or “revenue bonds” means bonds, notes, interim certificates or other obligations of an authority issued pursuant to this part, or pursuant to any other law, as supplemented by, or in conjunction with, this part;

(3) “Contracting party” or “other contracting party” means any party to a sale contract or loan agreement except the authority;

(4) “Governing body” means the body in which the general legislative powers of a municipal corporation are vested and, in the case of counties, means the legislative body of the respective counties;

(5) “Person” means person as defined in § 68-211-103;

(6) “Project” means any solid waste disposal facility or resource recovery facility, or any combination thereof;

(7) “Resource recovery facility” means land, rights in land, buildings, facilities and equipment suitable or necessary for the recovery or production of energy or energy producing materials in any form resulting from the controlled processing or disposal of solid waste or the systematic separation, extraction and recovery of recyclable materials from the solid waste stream, including facilities or systems for the storage, conversion or transportation thereof;

(8) “Revenue” means all rents, fees and other charges received by the authority for use of its projects, facilities and services including, without limitation, all amounts received for the collection, transportation, disposal or processing of solid waste, the operation of any project, or the sale, storage, distribution or transportation of energy, energy producing materials or other materials or commodities by the authority;

(9) “Solid waste” means solid waste as defined in § 68-211-103;

(10) “Solid waste facility” means land, rights in land, buildings, facilities and equipment suitable or necessary for collecting, receiving, transferring, placing, confining, compacting, treating or covering solid waste or for processing solid waste by, without limitation, incinerating, composting, separating, grinding, shredding, reducing or otherwise modifying the characteristics or properties thereof, including all property, real and personal, appurtenant thereto or connected with such work; and

(11) “State of Tennessee” means the state of Tennessee and, unless otherwise indicated by the context, any agency, authority, branch, bureau, commission, corporation, department or instrumentality thereof now or hereafter existing.