Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 13 > Chapter 1 - Judicial Officers and Employees, in General

• Adult: means an individual who has attained the age of eighteen years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• average final compensation: means the average annual earned compensation of a member for the sixty highest months of successive employment, or for the highest sixty successive joined months of employment where interruption of service occurred. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2213
• Beneficiary: means an individual for whom property has been transferred to or held under a declaration of trust by a custodial trustee for the individual's use and benefit under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Board: means the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Burial: means the placement of human remains in a grave. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• care funds: includes both general and special care funds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Cemetery: means a place used or intended to be used for the interment of the human dead and, to the extent allowed in accordance with this Title, pet remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Court: means a court of competent jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Creditable service: shall mean service for which credit is allowable as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2213
• Curator: means a person appointed or qualified by a court to manage the estate of an individual or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Custodial trust property: means an interest in property transferred to or held under a declaration of trust by a custodial trustee under this Chapter and the income from and proceeds of that interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Custodial trustee: means a person designated as trustee of a custodial trust under this Chapter or a substitute or successor to the person designated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• En banc: In the bench or "full bench." Refers to court sessions with the entire membership of a court participating rather than the usual quorum. U.S. courts of appeals usually sit in panels of three judges, but may expand to a larger number in certain cases. They are then said to be sitting en banc.
• endowed care cemetery: means a cemetery wherein lots and other interment spaces are sold or transferred under the representation that the cemetery will receive perpetual or endowed care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Governing authority: means the governing authority of the city of Ruston. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:135
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Incapacitated: means lacking the ability to manage property and business affairs effectively by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, confinement, detention by a foreign power, disappearance, minority, or other disabling cause. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Interment: means the disposition of human remains by inurnment, scattering, entombment, or burial in a place used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Legal representative: means a personal representative, tutor, or curator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Member: shall include any employee, as defined in Paragraph (11) of this Section, included in the membership of this system as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2213
• Owner: means a person to whom the cemetery authority has transferred full title to or the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space and who appears as the title holder in the official records of the cemetery authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• perpetual care: means the maintenance, repair, and care of all places where interments have been or are to be made, including the improvements made upon the places, in keeping with a well-maintained cemetery, and general overhead expense necessary for such purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, trust, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Prior service: shall mean service rendered prior to the enrollment of an employee into this retirement system, as a municipal policeman, as a member of the state police, or as a sheriff or deputy sheriff in Louisiana for which credit is not given in any other retirement system; provided that notwithstanding any provision of this Chapter that may be to the contrary, no credit whatsoever shall be given in this retirement system, whether as prior service or creditable service, for any out of state service, nor shall any credit for prior service be given to any person who becomes a member after July 31, 1976, except that any person employed by any municipality and is required to pay social security contributions for such employment by the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall receive prior service credit provided he becomes a member of this retirement system prior to January 1, 1977. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2213
• Property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:135
• Retirement: shall mean withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2213
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Sale: means the sale of the full title to any cemetery space or the sale of the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Service: shall mean service rendered as an employee as described in Paragraph (11) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2213
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• system: shall mean the Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System as established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2213
• Taxable year: includes , in the case of a return made for a fractional part of a year under the provisions of this Chapter or under regulations prescribed by the collector, the period for which return is made. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:98
• Transferor: means a person who creates a custodial trust by transfer or declaration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Trust company: means a financial institution, corporation, or other legal entity, authorized to exercise general trust powers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
• Trustee: means the separate legal entity designated as trustee of a cemetery care fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Tutor: means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as guardian of a minor's property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1