{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-38-1-401","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-1-401","heading":"Part definitions","body":"As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:\n(1) \"Animal\" means a domesticated living creature or a wild creature previously captured;\n(2) \"Cruelty,\" \"abuse,\" and \"neglect\" mean every act, omission, or neglect whereby unreasonable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted;\n(3) \"Owner\" means any person who is the legal owner, keeper, harborer, possessor, or the actual custodian of an animal. \"Owner\" includes corporations as well as individuals; and\n(4) \"Reasonable suspicion\" means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion, based upon facts, that could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on the person's training and experience, to suspect animal cruelty, abuse, or neglect.","path":["TN Code","Title 38","Chapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"0c0459a666b746b16a4723bc8443855cd12b556e724e99f5ff56a80df96062e3","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-38-1-306","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-38-1-402","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}