Part definitions. [Effective until June 30, 2021.]
Known as the Vital Records Act
The act spans §§ 68–68 (57 sections).
Acts 2018, ch. 1005, § 1.
As used in this part:
(1) “Department” means the department of health;
(2) “Suicide” means a death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with any intent to die because of the result of the behavior; and
(3) “Suicide mortality” means the number of deaths within this state and the proportion of those deaths to the number of total deaths over the course of a year.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.