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  • Activities: means marketing, promotions, sales efforts, events, and any other services that are reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • 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
  • Assessment: means the levy imposed pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Board: means the board of commissioners of the Tri-Parish Juvenile Justice Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1096
  • Business: means any type of tourism business, including but not limited to any tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations, recreational vehicle park, privately owned or managed campgrounds, other lodging intended for short-term occupancy, restaurant, tourism attraction, activity provider, and other tourism businesses that benefit from the visitor economy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Business owner: means any person recognized by the tourist commissioners as the owner of the business subject to assessment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Dyslexia: means an unexpected difficulty in reading for an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader, most commonly caused by a difficulty in phonological processing, which affects the ability of an individual to speak, read, and spell. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:392.11
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Facility: means any juvenile detention facility, shelter care facility, or such other juvenile justice facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1096
  • Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
    • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
    • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
    • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Governing authority: means the governing authority of a parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1096
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Improvement: means the acquisition, construction, installation, or maintenance of any corporeal property with an estimated useful life of five years or more that is reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Management plan: means a plan adopted or amended pursuant to this Chapter for the development, redevelopment, maintenance, operation, and promotion of a tourism recovery and improvement district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • 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.
  • Participating parish: means any parish which has entered into a participation agreement with the commission by which certain space within the facility is subleased to house juveniles from the participating parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1096
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means an individual, public entity, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, association, or any other business entity or juridical person, whether operating on a for-profit or nonprofit basis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Phonological processing: means the appreciation of the individual sounds of spoken and written language. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:392.11
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Tourist commission: means a political subdivision created pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Tourist commissioners: means the members of the governing body of a tourist commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3

Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 2 – State Administration

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Part I Secretary of State; Registration; Voting Machines 18:18 – 18:21
Part II State Board of Election Supervisors 18:23 – 18:27
Part III State Voter Registration Computer System 18:31
Part IV Louisiana Elections Integrity 18:41 – 18:47
Part V Elections Compliance Unit 18:49.1

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 2 - State Administration

  • Accepted claim: means either of the following:

    (a)  A nonelectronic claim on a HCFA 1500 form or Uniform Billing Form 92 (UB92), properly completed according to Medicare guidelines. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

  • Activities: means marketing, promotions, sales efforts, events, and any other services that are reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Activity statement: means any written communication from a health care provider that advises an enrollee or insured of covered health care services that have been billed to a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appropriate early childhood program: means a developmentally appropriate program for young children, ages three to five years, which is in compliance with regulatory guidelines to be issued by the department pursuant to this Part and which is approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
  • 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
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assessed business: means a business operated by a business owner who is required to pay an assessment pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Assessment: means the levy imposed pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Base health care facility: means a facility or institution providing health care services, including but not limited to a hospital or other licensed inpatient center, ambulatory surgical or treatment center, skilled nursing facility, inpatient hospice facility, residential treatment center, diagnostic, laboratory, or imaging center, or rehabilitation or other therapeutic health setting that has entered into a contract or agreement with a facility-based physician. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Bill: means any written or electronic communication that sets forth the amount owed by an enrollee or insured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Board: means the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3394.2
  • boards: means the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System, and the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges, or any of these boards. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3202
  • Business: means any type of tourism business, including but not limited to any tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations, recreational vehicle park, privately owned or managed campgrounds, other lodging intended for short-term occupancy, restaurant, tourism attraction, activity provider, and other tourism businesses that benefit from the visitor economy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Business owner: means any person recognized by the tourist commissioners as the owner of the business subject to assessment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Chancellor: means the chief executive officer of a public postsecondary education institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Child: means a person who has not reached age eighteen or otherwise been legally emancipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
  • Child day care center: means any place or facility operated by any institution, political subdivision, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group for the purpose of providing care, supervision, and guidance of seven or more children, not including those related to the caregiver, unaccompanied by parent or legal custodian, on a regular basis for at least twelve and one-half hours in a continuous seven-day week. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
  • Claim: means a request by a health care provider for payment from a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Claim: means a request by a pharmacist for payment by a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Clean claim: means an accepted claim that has no defect or impropriety including any lack of required substantiating documentation or other particular circumstance requiring special treatment that prevents timely payment from being made on the claim under this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Commission: means the governing authority of St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Conservation of the State of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Community college: means any postsecondary institution which offers an associate academic degree as well as vocational-technical and other educational programs, but which is not approved to offer a baccalaureate degree. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3202
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Confidential advisor: means a person designated by an institution to provide emergency and ongoing support to students who are alleged victims of power-based violence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12
  • Consolidated activity statement and bill: means any written or electronic communication from a health care provider that advises an enrollee or insured of covered health care services that have been billed to a health insurance issuer and which sets forth an amount owed by an enrollee or insured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contracted health care provider: means a health care provider that has entered into a contract or agreement directly with a health insurance issuer or with a health insurance issuer through a network of providers for the provision of covered health care services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Contracted reimbursement rate: means the aggregate maximum amount that a contracted health care provider has agreed to accept from all sources for provision of covered health care services under the health insurance coverage applicable to the enrollee or insured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Corporation: means the nonprofit corporation which may be utilized to accomplish the purposes of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3394.2
  • Correct claims address: means the address appearing on an enrollee's or insured's current identification card issued by the health insurance issuer as the current address at which claims are received, or, if no address appears on the identification card, the current address for receipt of claims provided by the health insurance issuer to the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • coverage: means benefits consisting of health care services provided directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or otherwise and including items and services paid for as health care services under any hospital or medical service policy or certificate, hospital or medical service plan contract, preferred provider organization agreement, or health maintenance organization contract offered by a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Covered health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease that are either covered and payable under the terms of health insurance coverage or required by law to be covered. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
  • Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
  • Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Discount billing: means any written or electronic communication issued by a contracted health care provider that appears to attempt to collect from an enrollee or insured an amount in excess of the contracted reimbursement rate for covered services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Division of administration: means the division of administration created within the office of the governor by Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3394.2
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Drug Shortage List: means a list of drug products posted on the United States Food and Drug Administration drug shortage website. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • Dual billing: means any written or electronic communication issued by a contracted health care provider that sets forth any amount owed by an enrollee or insured that is a health insurance issuer liability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Early learning center: means any child day care center, Early Head Start Center, Head Start Center, or stand-alone prekindergarten program not attached to a school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
  • Electronic claim: means a claim submitted by a health care provider or its agent to a health insurance issuer in compliance with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (42 USC 1302d et seq. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Electronic claim: means the transmission of data for purposes of payment of covered prescription drugs, other products and supplies, and pharmacist services in an electronic data format specified by a health insurance issuer and approved by the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Employee: means :

                (a)(i) An administrative officer, official, or employee of a public postsecondary education board or institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12

  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Exception report: means an electronic communication related to an electronic claim submission of each electronic claim transaction in that submission that is not deemed an accepted claim. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • expansion project: means a project or projects for the acquisition, construction, installation, and equipping of additions or improvements to the Ernest N. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.24
  • Explanation of benefits: means any written communication clearly identified as issued by the health insurance issuer or its agent that contains information regarding coverage, payment, or other information regarding current status of a claim submitted to the health insurance issuer or its agent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Expressive activities: include but are not limited to any lawful verbal or written means by which individuals or groups communicate ideas to one another, as provided by the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and by the Constitution of Louisiana, including all forms of peaceful assembly, protest, speech, distribution of literature, carrying signs, and circulating petitions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.31
  • Facility-based physician: means a physician licensed to practice medicine who is required by the base health facility to provide services in a base health care facility as an anesthesiologist, hospitalist, intensivist, neonatologist, pathologist, radiologist, emergency room physician, or other on-call physician who is required by the base health care to provide covered health care services related to an emergency medical condition as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • food service establishment: has the meaning set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.24
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Foster youth: means any individual in the care, custody, or guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services in the foster care program for any six of the seventy-two months immediately prior to his eighteenth birthday. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.21
  • Gas: means all natural gas, including casinghead gas, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in Paragraph (7) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Health care clearinghouse: means a public or private entity that does  either of the following:

    (a)  Processes or facilitates the processing of information from another entity in a nonstandard format or containing nonstandard data content into standard data elements or a standard transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

  • Health care facility: means a facility or institution providing health care services including but not limited to a hospital or other licensed inpatient center, ambulatory surgical or treatment center, skilled nursing facility, inpatient hospice facility, residential treatment center, diagnostic, laboratory, or imaging center, or rehabilitation or other therapeutic health setting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Health care professional: means a physician or other health care practitioner licensed, certified, or registered to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Health insurance coverage: means benefits consisting of prescription drugs, other products and supplies, and pharmacist services provided directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or otherwise and including items and services paid for as prescription drugs, other products and supplies, and pharmacist services under any hospital or medical service policy or certificate, hospital or medical service plan contract, preferred provider organization agreement, or health maintenance organization contract offered by a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Health insurance coverage: means benefits consisting of medical care provided or arranged for directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or otherwise, and includes health care services paid for under any plan, policy, or certificate of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Health insurance issuer: means an insurance company, including a health maintenance organization as defined and licensed pursuant to Subpart I of Part I of Chapter 2 of this Title, unless preempted as an employee benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Health insurance issuer: means any entity that offers health insurance coverage through a policy or certificate of insurance subject to state law that regulates the business of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Health insurance issuer liability: means the contractual liability of a health insurance issuer for covered health care services pursuant to the plan or policy provisions between the enrollee or insured and the health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Health insurance issuer liability: means the contractual liability of a health insurance issuer for covered health care services pursuant to the plan or policy provisions between the enrollee or insured and the health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • HIPPY: means the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
  • hotel: as used in this Chapter means and includes any establishment that is engaged in the business of furnishing or providing rooms intended or designed for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests and that consists of ten or more guest rooms. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.15
  • Illegal gas: means gas which has been produced within the state from any well in excess of the amount allowed by any rule, regulation, or order of the commissioner, as distinguished from gas produced within the state not in excess of the amount so allowed by any rule, regulation, or order, which is "legal gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Illegal oil: means oil which has been produced within the state from any well in excess of the amount allowed by any rule, regulation, or order of the commissioner, as distinguished from oil produced within the state not in excess of the amount so allowed by any rule, regulation, or order, which is "legal oil. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Illegal product: means any product of oil or gas, any part of which was processed or derived, in whole or in part, from illegal oil or illegal gas or from any product thereof, as distinguished from "legal product" which is a product processed or derived to no extent from illegal oil or illegal gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Improvement: means the acquisition, construction, installation, or maintenance of any corporeal property with an estimated useful life of five years or more that is reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Improvements: means the repairs, maintenance, and construction of facilities and on property, whether movable or immovable, owned, operated, leased, or administered by the port commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:1963
  • In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Institution: means a public postsecondary education institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12
  • insured: means an individual who is enrolled or insured by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • insured: means an individual who is enrolled or insured by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • insured: means a person who is enrolled in or insured by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • issuer: means any entity that offers health insurance coverage through a policy, contract,  or certificate of insurance subject to state law that regulates the business of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Maintenance expenses: means any and all expenditure of funds by the port commission appertaining in any manner to the repairs and maintenance of the facilities and property, whether immovable or movable, owned, operated, leased, or administered by the port commission, including but not limited to grounds keeping, grounds improvements, roadbed repairs, facility repairs, and other such related items. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:1963
  • Management plan: means a plan adopted or amended pursuant to this Chapter for the development, redevelopment, maintenance, operation, and promotion of a tourism recovery and improvement district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Material and substantial disruption: means when a person, with the intent and knowledge of doing so, significantly hinders expressive activity, prevents the communication of the message, or prevents the transaction of the business of a lawful meeting, gathering, or procession by either of the following:

                (a) Engaging in fighting, violence, or similar unlawful behavior. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.31

  • Maximum Allowable Cost List: means a listing of the National Drug Code used by a pharmacy benefit manager setting the maximum allowable cost on which reimbursement to a pharmacy or pharmacist may be based. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • NDC: means the National Drug Code, a numerical identifier assigned to all prescription drugs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • network: means an entity, including but not limited to a preferred provider organization as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • network: means an entity other than a health insurance issuer that, through contracts with health care providers, provides or arranges for access by groups of enrollees or insureds to health care services by health care providers who are not otherwise or individually contracted directly with a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Nonelectronic claim: means a claim submitted by a health care provider or its agent to a health insurance issuer or its agent using a HCFA 1500 form or a Uniform Billing Form 92 (UB92), as appropriate, or a successor to either of these forms adopted by the National Uniform Billing Committee or its successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Oil: means crude petroleum oil, and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well head in liquid form by ordinary production methods. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Original bill: A bill which is drafted by a committee. It is introduced by the committee or subcommittee chairman after the committee votes to report it.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means the person, including operators and producers acting on behalf of the person, who has or had the right to drill into and to produce from a pool and to appropriate the production either for himself or for others. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Paid: means the transfer by the health insurance issuer or its agent of the amount of the health insurance issuer liability on either of the following dates:

    (a)  The date of mailing of a check via the United States Postal Service or a commercial carrier to the correct address. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

  • Parish: means St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
  • Participating parish: means any parish which has entered into a participation agreement with St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, tutor, curator, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Person: means an individual, public entity, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, association, or any other business entity or juridical person, whether operating on a for-profit or nonprofit basis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Person: as used in this Chapter shall have the same definition as that contained in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.15
  • pharmacies: means any appropriately licensed place within this state where prescription drugs are dispensed and pharmacist services are provided and any place outside of this state where prescription drugs are dispensed and pharmacist services are provided to residents of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Pharmacist: means an individual currently licensed as a pharmacist by the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy to engage in the practice of pharmacy in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Pharmacist: means a licensed pharmacist as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • Pharmacist services: means the filling and dispensing of prescription drugs or providing products and supplies, drug therapy, and other patient care services provided by a licensed pharmacist with the intent of achieving outcomes related to the cure, prevention, or management of a disease, elimination or reduction of patient's symptoms, or arresting or slowing of a disease process. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Pharmacist services: means products, goods, or services provided as a part of the practice of pharmacy as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • Pharmacy: means any appropriately licensed place where prescription drugs are dispensed as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • Pharmacy benefit manager: means an entity that administers or manages a pharmacy benefits plan or program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plan: means an uncompleted professional improvement program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Power-based violence: means any form of interpersonal violence intended to control or intimidate another person through the assertion of power over the person and shall include the following:

                (a) Dating violence (La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12

  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Product: means any commodity made from oil or gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Program: means a completed five-year professional improvement program, or refers to the subject of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Project: means the acquisition, purchase, construction, renovation, improvement, or expansion of a public facility, to be financed as authorized and provided in this Part and La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3394.2
  • projects: means one or more of any combination of convention, exhibition, and tourist facilities, including a convention center hotel with a multi-story parking garage and bridge connecting the hotel and the south end of the convention center, the "Convention Center Headquarters Hotel Project" and the necessary land, acquired by lease or purchase, site improvements, infrastructure, furnishings, machinery, equipment, and appurtenances for any such facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.11
  • provider: means :

    (a)  A physician or other health care practitioner licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

  • provider: means a health care professional or a health care facility or the agent or assignee of such professional or facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
  • Public facilities: means buildings, equipment, and other permanent property or immovable property of the colleges within the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, as specifically identified in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3394.2
  • Public school: means any public elementary, middle, junior high, or high school in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Pupil progression plan: means the comprehensive plan developed and adopted by each city and parish school board which shall be based on student performance in the state testing program with goals and objectives which are compatible with the Louisiana competency-based education program contained within La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • receipt: means :

    (a)  For a nonelectronic claim:

    (i)  For a claim mailed via the United States Postal Service for which no return receipt is requested, the physical receipt of the claim by the health insurance issuer or its agent designated for the receipt of claims at the correct claims address, as documented in accordance with claims filing procedures filed by the health insurance issuer with the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

  • Remedial program: means a program to assist students to overcome educational deficits identified as a result of the state's testing program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
  • Remittance advice: means a written or electronic communication explaining the issuer's action on each claim adjudicated by the issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
  • Remittance advice: means a written or electronic communication explaining the health insurance issuer's action on each claim adjudicated by the issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Responsible employee: means an employee as defined in this Section who receives a direct statement regarding or witnesses an incident of power-based violence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Rural hospital: shall mean either:

    (a)  A hospital with sixty or fewer beds located in either:

    (i)  A parish with a population of less than fifty thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Solution mined cavern: means a cavity created within the salt stock by dissolution with water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Solution mining injection well: means a well into which fluids, other than fluids associated with active drilling operations, are injected for extraction of minerals or energy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:3
  • Spread pricing: means any amount a pharmacy benefit manager charges or claims from a health plan provider or managed care organization for payment of a prescription or for pharmacy services that is different than the amount the pharmacy benefit manager paid to the pharmacist or pharmacy who filled the prescription or provided the pharmacy services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
  • State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Student: means any person who is enrolled on a full-time or part-time basis in a public postsecondary education institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.31
  • Student organization: means an officially recognized group at a public postsecondary education institution, or a group seeking official recognition, comprised of enrolled students. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.31
  • Student-on-student discriminatory harassment: means unwelcome conduct that targets its victim on the basis of a class protected under federal, state, or local law and that is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive and so undermines and detracts from the victim's educational experience that the victim is effectively denied equal access to an institution's resources and opportunities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.31
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Surcharge: means any charge to the consumer that is required to be paid for goods and services that is passed through to the consumer as a charge on the customer's receipt or guest folio. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • system: means and refers to the programs and institutions under the jurisdiction of the respective management boards for postsecondary education created by or under authority of the Constitution of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3202
  • Teacher: means any public school classroom teacher, librarian, school counselor, secondary vocational instructor, principal, assistant principal, or other personnel for whom a valid Louisiana teaching certificate is required for employment; any teacher in an institution which offers thirteenth and fourteenth grade instruction; any speech therapist who possesses a valid Louisiana ancillary certificate issued by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; and any instructor seeking to continue in the program who has been transferred from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to vocational-technical schools under the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Teaching certificate: means a certificate issued by the department to school personnel pursuant to the requirements fixed by the department or by law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Title IX coordinator: means the individual designated by a public postsecondary education institution as the institution's official for coordinating the institution's efforts to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Tourist commission: means a political subdivision created pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Tourist commissioners: means the members of the governing body of a tourist commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Uniform claim form: shall mean a form prescribed by rule by the department pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.