Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2319.6

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• contract: means any contract awarded by any public entity for the making of any public works or for the purchase of any materials or supplies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2211
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Equipment-lease-purchase contract: means the lease-purchase contract in the form approved by the State Bond Commission between the local governmental entity and a nonprofit lessor providing for an obligation to lease equipment approved by the governmental entity pursuant to this Part and the lease of selected equipment designated by a local governmental entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2319.2
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Lessee: means the local governmental entity which is designated as lessee under an equipment-lease-purchase contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2319.2
• lessor: means a public corporation or public trust organized pursuant to state law having for its beneficiary the state, organized as a not-for-profit entity, no portion of the net earnings or other assets of which inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, and which shall be authorized under state law to issue obligations for equipment acquisition the interest on which is exempt from calculation of gross income for federal income tax purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2319.2
• Local governmental entity: means municipalities, parishes, school boards, clerks of court, levee districts, law enforcement districts, all special service districts, port commissions, and other political subdivisions of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2319.2
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Selected equipment: means the equipment, as determined by the local governmental entity, which shall be the subject of a lease-purchase contract under the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 38:2319.2