{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-8-30-103","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 8-30-103","heading":"Chapter definitions","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) \"Appointing authority\" means a commissioner, department, officer or agency having power to make appointments to, and separations from, positions in state service; (2) \"Board of appeals\" means the state employees' appeals board established by § 8-30-108 of this chapter; (3) \"Class\" or \"class of positions\" means a group of positions in state service determined by the commissioner to have sufficiently similar duties, authority, and responsibility such that: (A) The same qualifications may be reasonably required for; and (B) The same schedule of pay may be equitably applied to; all positions in the group; (4) \"Commissioner\" means the commissioner of human resources appointed under § 8-30-104 ; (5) \"Department\" means the department of human resources pursuant to § 8-30-104 . The term includes the commissioner; (6) \"Executive service\" means all other positions that have not been placed under the preferred service and as are described in § 8-30-202 ; (7) \"Official station\" means the town or city where the employee performs a majority of the employee's duties; (8) \"Preferred service\" means all offices and positions of employment in the state service that have been placed under the preferred service provisions of this chapter; (9) \"State agency\" means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality in state service that is subject to this chapter; and (10) \"State service\" shall have the same meaning assigned in § 8-30-102(a) . Amended by 2022 Tenn. Acts, ch. 655, s 28, eff. 7/1/2022. Acts 2012 , ch. 800, § 4.\nAs used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n(1) \"Appointing authority\" means a commissioner, department, officer or agency having power to make appointments to, and separations from, positions in state service;\n(2) \"Board of appeals\" means the state employees' appeals board established by § 8-30-108 of this chapter;\n(3) \"Class\" or \"class of positions\" means a group of positions in state service determined by the commissioner to have sufficiently similar duties, authority, and responsibility such that: (A) The same qualifications may be reasonably required for; and (B) The same schedule of pay may be equitably applied to; all positions in the group;\n(A) The same qualifications may be reasonably required for; and\n(B) The same schedule of pay may be equitably applied to; all positions in the group;\nall positions in the group;\n(4) \"Commissioner\" means the commissioner of human resources appointed under § 8-30-104 ;\n(5) \"Department\" means the department of human resources pursuant to § 8-30-104 . The term includes the commissioner;\n(6) \"Executive service\" means all other positions that have not been placed under the preferred service and as are described in § 8-30-202 ;\n(7) \"Official station\" means the town or city where the employee performs a majority of the employee's duties;\n(8) \"Preferred service\" means all offices and positions of employment in the state service that have been placed under the preferred service provisions of this chapter;\n(9) \"State agency\" means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality in state service that is subject to this chapter; and\n(10) \"State service\" shall have the same meaning assigned in § 8-30-102(a) .","path":["TN Code","Title 8","Chapter 30"],"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 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:26Z","sha256":"ce24ec7b3fff9a169e6cf0162bbf96053410125ae39d38dbe5cccf5d601da036","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-8-30-102","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-8-30-104"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}