Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 46 > Chapter 3 - Public Assistance

• Administrative adjudication: means adjudication and the adjudication process contained in the Administrative Procedure Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Administrator: means the person who is responsible for the administration of the home service contract or the home service contract plan or who is responsible for any submission required by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3142
• Administrator: means the person who is responsible for the administration of the motor vehicle service contract or the motor vehicle service contract plan or who is responsible for any submission required by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Adult paraphernalia store: means an establishment that has as a substantial or significant portion of its stock clothing, objects, tools, toys, or any other items distinguished or characterized by their association with sexual activity, including sexual conduct or sexual excitement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Adverse determination: means any of the following relative to a claim by a provider for payment for a healthcare service rendered by the provider to an enrollee of the Medicaid managed care organization:

              (a) A decision by a managed care organization that denies a claim in whole or in part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51

• Adverse determination: means any decision rendered by the recovery audit contractor that results in a payment to a provider for a claim or service being reduced either partially or completely. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:440.12
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agency: means and includes the boards, commissions, departments, agencies, offices, officers, and other instrumentalities, or any or all of these, within the executive branch of state government which are abolished by this Title or which are transferred and placed within departments of the state government created and established or continued by this Title or transferred to and placed within the office of the governor as provided by this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Agency: as used in this Chapter shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Agent: means a person who is employed by or has a contractual relationship with a health care provider or who acts on behalf of the health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Agreement: means a written contractual agreement between the merchant and the third-party delivery service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amusement attraction: means a movie theater, video arcade, or any other building, structure, or place principally devoted to activities providing amusement, pleasure, thrills, or excitement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Amusement ride: includes inflatables. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Applicant: means a healthcare provider seeking to be approved or credentialed by a managed care organization to provide healthcare services to Medicaid enrollees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Applicant: means a natural person or any individual who applies on behalf of a partnership, corporation, cooperative association, limited liability company, joint stock association, sole proprietorship, joint venture, business association, professional corporation, or any other legal entity or organization through which business is conducted for a grower, processor, handler, or industrial hemp seed producer license. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Applicant: means a parent or relative of the parent who applies for FITAP on behalf of a child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Assistant secretary: means the officer designated by law or by the secretary of each department to carry out the duties and functions of an office within certain departments, except an office of management and finance and the office of state police of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Attest: means providing the following services, subject to the exceptions provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Automated teller machine: means an electronic hardware device that is capable of dispensing currency and responding to balance inquiries through the use of a magnetic stripe card issued by or on behalf of the state for distribution of assistance through an electronic benefits transfer system as described in this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Bar: means a business that holds a Class A-General retail permit and the primary purpose of such business is to serve alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the premises and in which the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of those beverages. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Billing agent: means an agent who performs any or all of the health care provider's billing functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Board: means the State Board of Certified Public Accountants of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Board: means the Louisiana Board of International Commerce. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Board: means the board of trustees of the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• board of examiners: means the Board of River Port Pilot Commissioners and Examiners, established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:1071
• Business: means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other legal entity through which business is conducted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Cash assistance: means funds that the department provides through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program and the Kinship Care Subsidy Program to eligible beneficiaries for the purpose of assisting those persons in meeting ongoing basic needs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Central purchasing agency: means the office of state procurement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Certificate: means a certificate as a certified public accountant issued pursuant to the provisions of this Part, as follows:

              (a) An "active certificate" is granted to or renewed by an individual who has met all requirements pursuant to the provisions of this Part, including the experience requirement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73

• Certificate of documentation: means a certificate issued by the United States Coast Guard for a vessel documented under 46 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Certificate of origin: means a document establishing the initial chain of ownership, such as a manufacturer's certificate of origin (MCO) or statement of origin (MSO), or an importer's certificate of origin (ICO) or statement of origin (ISO), or a builder's certification (Form CG-1261, under 46 C. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• 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.
• Chief procurement officer: means the person holding the position created in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Civil proceeding: means any civil judicial action, arbitration, administrative proceeding, review panel pursuant to this Chapter, or proceeding before the State Board of Certified Public Accountants of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Claim: means any cause of action against a certified public accountant or firm, regardless of the legal basis of the claim, including but not limited to tort, fraud, breach of contract, or any other legal basis, arising out of any engagement to provide professional services, including but not limited to the following:

  (a)  The providing of attest services as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:101

• Claim: means any request or demand, whether under a contract or otherwise, for money or property, whether or not the state or department has title to the money or property, that is drawn in whole or in part on medical assistance programs funds that are either of the following:

              (a) Presented to an officer, employee, or agent of the state or department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3

• Claimant: means any person having an interest or right to assert a claim, whether for himself or on behalf of another. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:101
• Client: means a person or entity that agrees with a licensee to receive any professional service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• commerce: means the advertising, offering for sale, sale, or distribution of any services, including educational services, and any property, corporeal or incorporeal, immovable or movable, and any other article, commodity, or thing of value wherever situated, and includes any trade or commerce directly or indirectly affecting the people of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Commercial body art facility: means any location, place, area, or business, whether permanent or temporary, that provides consumers access to personal services workers who for remuneration perform any of the following procedures:

  (a)  Tattooing or inserting pigment under the surface of the skin of a human being, by pricking with a needle or otherwise, to produce an indelible mark or figure visible under the skin. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231

• Commercial recording or audiovisual work: means a recording or audiovisual work whose owner, assignee, authorized agent, or licensee has disseminated or intends to disseminate for sale, rental, performance, or exhibition to the public, including under license, but does not include an excerpt consisting of less than substantially all of a recording or audiovisual work. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3232
• Commission: means the Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Commission: means the governing authority of St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
• Commission: means the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Commissioner: means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the office of alcohol and tobacco control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1481
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Competitive sealed bidding: means the receipt of bids protected from inspection prior to bid opening. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Consumable hemp product: means any product derived from industrial hemp that contains any cannabinoid, including cannabidiol, and is intended for consumption or topical use. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1481
• Consumer: means a natural person who buys, other than for purposes of resale, any corporeal movable property, including a motor vehicle, that is distributed in commerce and that is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes and not for business or research purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Consumer: means a person, business, or other entity who places an order for merchant products through the third-party delivery platform. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Consumer: means any individual who uses, purchases, or leases goods or services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Consumer product: means any tangible personal property that is distributed in commerce and used for personal, family, or household purposes, including any property intended to be attached to or installed in any real property without regard to whether it is attached or installed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• Contract: means all types of state agreements, regardless of what they may be called, including orders and documents purporting to represent grants, which are for the purchase or disposal of supplies, services, major repairs, or any other item. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• contract holder: means a person who is the purchaser or holder of a home service contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3142
• contract holder: means a person who is the purchaser or holder of a motor vehicle service contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Court: means the court that exercised juvenile jurisdiction over the child in need of care proceedings involving the youth prior to his eighteenth birthday. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:288.2
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• CPA firm: means any sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership, registered limited liability partnership, limited liability company, or other form of organization issued a permit to practice in accordance with the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• CPA-Retired: means either of the following:

              (i) A licensee holding an active certificate for a minimum of twenty consecutive years, who has reached the age of fifty-five years, and is no longer an owner, partner, shareholder, member, contractor, contractee, or employee of a CPA firm. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73

• Cruise ship: means any commercial ship used for the domestic or international carriage of passengers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• current status: includes valid, expired, cancelled, suspended, disqualified, active, inactive, member, nonmember, eligible, or ineligible. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Dealer: means any person who engages wholly or in part in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging for value new or used vessels or outboard motors, or both, either outright or on conditional sale, bailment, lease, chattel mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Dental coordinated care network: means a managed care organization or prepaid coordinated care network, as defined in this Section, that provides or administers only dental benefits for Medicaid recipients. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Department: means the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and its duly authorized representatives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Department: means the Department of Economic Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.31
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.41
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1481
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:288.2
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:322
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:440.12
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Deputy secretary: means the officer authorized to be appointed by the secretary to serve as his principal administrative assistant. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Designated responsible party: means a natural person designated by the applicant or licensee as responsible for facility operations of the applicant or licensee facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Designee: means a duly authorized representative of a person holding a superior position. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Digitized identification card: means a data file available on any mobile device which has connectivity to the internet through a state-approved application that allows the mobile device to download the data file from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections or an authorized representative of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections that contains all of the data elements visible on the face and back of a license or identification card and displays the current status of the license or identification card. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• distrain: as used in this Chapter shall be construed to mean the right to levy upon and seize and sell, or the levying upon or seizing and selling, of any property or rights to property of the taxpayer including goods, chattels, effects, stocks, securities, bank accounts, evidences of debt, wages, real estate and other forms of property, by the collector or his authorized assistants, for the purpose of satisfying any assessment of tax, penalty or interest due. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:337.57
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Electronic: means electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnet, or any other similar technology. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Electronic dissemination: means initiating a transmission of, making available, or otherwise offering a commercial recording or audiovisual work for distribution, display, or performance through the internet or other digital network, regardless of whether another person has previously electronically disseminated the same commercial recording or audiovisual work. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3232
• 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}
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
• Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in the Medicaid program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• estate: means a trust or estate, or fiduciary thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:300.10
• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a set of United States statutes added as Title VIII of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Its purpose is to ensure ethical practices in the collection of consumer debts and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy. It is often used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• False or fraudulent claim: means a claim which the health care provider or his billing agent submits knowing the claim to be false, fictitious, untrue, or misleading in regard to any material information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Family Success Agreement: means the mutually developed contract between a FITAP recipient, on behalf of their family, and the department that sets forth mutual and time-bound responsibilities, expectations, activities, and goals designed to transition a participant from welfare to self-sufficiency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Federal Welfare Reform Act: means the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, Public Law 104-193, and applicable changes due to its reauthorization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• FITAP: means the cash assistance program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• FNS: means the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the office of the federal government that administers SNAP. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:322
• Fund: means the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Gaming establishment: means a gambling casino and any other establishment which provides gaming activities that are subject to regulation by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good moral character: means the propensity to provide professional services in a fair, honest, and open manner and the lack of history of any dishonest or felonious acts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Governing authority: means the governing authority of a parish or parishes having a youth center or a juvenile detention center authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
• Governmental body: means any department, office, division, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or official of the executive branch of state government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grower: means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that is licensed by the department to cultivate industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• 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.
• Handler: means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that handles industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• handling: means any of the following:

              (a) Transporting or delivering industrial hemp material in intrastate commerce for compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462

• Health care provider: means any person furnishing or claiming to furnish a good, service, or supply under the medical assistance programs, any other person defined as a health care provider by federal or state law or by rule, and a provider-in-fact. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• hemp: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1481
• High-volume third-party seller: means a participant on an online marketplace's platform who is a third-party seller and who has entered into two hundred or more discrete sales or transactions of new or unused consumer products in any twelve-month period during the previous twenty-four months, which result in an aggregate total of five thousand dollars or more in total gross revenue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• Home service contract: means a contract or agreement for a separately stated consideration for any duration to perform the service, repair, replacement, or maintenance of property or indemnification for service, repair, replacement, or maintenance, for the operational or structural failure of any residential property due to a defect in materials, workmanship, inherent defect, or normal wear and tear, with or without additional provisions for incidental payment or indemnity under limited circumstances. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3142
• Houseboat: means a vessel constructed for the primary purpose of a temporary or permanent dwelling without an effective means of propulsion for safe navigation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Hull identification number: means the number assigned to a vessel under Subpart C of 33 C. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• in writing: means the product of any method of forming characters on paper, other materials, or viewable screen, which can be read, retrieved, and reproduced, including information that is electronically transmitted and stored. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• 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}
• 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.
• Indigent: means any person who meets the state definition of indigent who would have qualified for indigent care in any general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana prior to arrest and who is housed in any parish or municipal jail or detention facility or state prison, shall be treated in the nearest general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:17
• Industrial hemp: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Industrial hemp seed: means Cannabis sativa L. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Initiative: means the Louisiana International Commerce Initiative. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Instrument: means any instrument, whether or not negotiable, which evidences the indebtedness of one or more persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:5321
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• International commerce: means a two-tiered, integrated economic sector concentrating upon the state's unique position in world commerce. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• International ports: means those ports, commonly known as deep draft ports, whose main function is waterborne commerce, both import and export, directly linked to world commerce. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Invitation for bids: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting bids in accordance with the procedures set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Jewelry: means an object or thing consisting of precious stones or precious metals worn as adornment or apparel, including costume jewelry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• knowingly: means that the person has actual knowledge of the information or acts in deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• License: means an active certificate of certified public accountant, pursuant to Subparagraph(3)(a) of this Section, or a CPA firm's permit to practice issued in accordance with the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Licensee: means the holder of a license. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Licensure: means any license that the department is authorized to issue to a grower, seed producer, processor, or handler of industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Lienholder: means a person holding a security interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Likeness: means the logo, motto, or any identifiable symbols attributed and easily identified as belonging to a specific merchant. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Liquor store: means any retail establishment that sells exclusively or primarily intoxicating liquor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Louisiana Colonial Trails: means a system of trails or roads identified as the migration route of the Camino Real in the western part of the state from Natchitoches to the Texas border and the Harrisonburg Road from Natchitoches through east central Louisiana to the Mississippi River. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 56:1952
• Major repairs: means those repairs payable with funds appropriated in the general appropriations act, except those funds transferred from the operating budget of one governmental body to supplement and complete a project under contract by the division of administration facility planning and control section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Manager: means a manager of a limited liability company or a limited liability partnership. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Managing employee: means a person who exercises operational or managerial control over, or who directly or indirectly conducts, the day-to-day operations of a health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or importing new vessels or outboard motors for the purpose of sale or trade. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Master plan: means the Master Plan of International Commerce. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Material: means having a natural tendency to influence, or be capable of influencing, the payment or receipt of money or property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Medical assistance programs: means the Medical Assistance Program (Title XIX of the Social Security Act), commonly referred to as "Medicaid" and other programs operated by and funded in the department which provide payment to health care providers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Member: means a member of a limited liability company or a limited liability partnership. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Merchant: means a restaurant or other retail entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Misrepresentation: means the knowing failure to truthfully or fully disclose any and all information required, or the concealment of any and all information required on a claim or a provider agreement or the making of a false or misleading statement to the department relative to the medical assistance programs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Motor vehicle manufacturer: means a person who is any of the following:

              (a) A manufacturer or producer of motor vehicles who sells motor vehicles under the manufacturer's or producer's own name or label. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162

• Motor vehicle service contract: means a contract or agreement for a separately stated consideration for any duration to perform the service, repair, replacement, or maintenance of property or indemnification for service, repair, replacement, or maintenance, for the operational or structural failure of any motor vehicle due to a defect in materials, workmanship, inherent defect, or normal wear and tear, with or without additional provisions for incidental payment or indemnity under limited circumstances, including but not limited to towing, rental, and emergency road service and road hazard protection. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Motorboat: means any vessel equipped with or propelled by any type of machinery whether or not such machinery is the principal source of propulsion but shall not include a vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the Bureau of Customs of the United States Government or any federal agency successor thereto, unless the vessel is a recreational use vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Nail salon: means a commercial establishment that provides nail services of any kind including but not limited to trimming, filing, decorating, shaping, sculpting, or in any way caring for the nails and skin of a person's hands or feet together with massaging the hands, arms, legs, and feet. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Negotiation: means the formulation of a contractual relationship through discussions as may be allowed under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Obligation: means an established duty, whether or not fixed, arising from an express or implied contractual, grantor, grantee, or licensor-licensee relationship, from a free-based or similar relationship, from statute or regulation, or from the retention of any overpayment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Office: means each principal operational unit within a department, except the executive office of the secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Office: means the office of international commerce within the Department of Economic Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Online marketplace: means any person or entity that operates a consumer-directed electronically based or accessed platform that meets all of the following criteria:

              (a) Has features that allow for, facilitate, or enable third-party sellers to engage in the sale, purchase, payment, storage, shipping, or delivery of a consumer product in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261

• Operate: means to navigate or otherwise use a motorboat or vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• operation: means all operations of a vessel or outboard motor when it is at the pier, idle in the water, at anchor, or being propelled through the water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Order: means a final order imposed pursuant to an administrative adjudication. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Outboard motor: means a mechanical combustion engine manufactured to produce a twenty-five or more horsepower engine and designed to attach outboard of the transom of a vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Owner: means a person, other than a secured party, having property rights in, or title to, a vessel or outboard motor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Owner: means a person, other than a lien holder, having a property interest in or title to a motorboat. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Ownership interest: means the possession, directly or indirectly, of equity in the capital or the stock, or the right to share in the profits, of a health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Package: means a container or wrapping in which any consumer commodity is enclosed for the purpose of delivery or display of that commodity to retail purchasers and contains one or more servings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1481
• Parish: means St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
• Parish: means a parish in which a youth center is sited. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
• Participant: means a recipient of SNAP benefits who participates in the pilot initiative provided for in this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:322
• Participating parish: means any parish which has entered into a participation agreement with St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
• Participating parish: means any parish which has entered into a participation agreement with a parish having a youth center by which certain space within the center is subleased to house juveniles from the participating parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
• past due support: means the amount of a delinquency, determined under a court order under state law for support and maintenance of a child, or of a child and the parent with whom the child is living. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:236.1.2
• Payment: means the payment to a health care provider from medical assistance programs funds pursuant to a claim, or the attempt to seek payment for a claim. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Peer review: means a study, appraisal, or review of one or more aspects of the professional work of a CPA firm that performs attest services by a person or persons who hold licenses and who are not affiliated with the CPA firm being reviewed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Performance-based sampling: means an alternative sampling method utilized by the department to ensure, at confidence level of 95%, that no more than one percent of the industrial hemp plants in each lot subject to the alternative sampling method will test above a total delta-9 THC concentration of 0. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Permit: means a permit to practice as a CPA firm issued pursuant to the provisions of this Part or pursuant to corresponding provisions of law of another state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Person: means any natural person or individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, limited liability company, or other entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint stock company, reciprocal, syndicate, or any similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3142
• Person: means any business, individual, union, committee, club, or other organization or group of individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint stock company, reciprocal, syndicate, or any similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, union, public or private education institution, or other organization, including but not limited to a bar or restaurant that is engaged in trade or commerce within the geographic boundaries of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Person: means an individual or any legal or commercial entity, including a corporation, business trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• personal watercraft: means a vessel which uses an inboard motor powering a water jet pump as its primary source of motive power and which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing, or kneeling on the vessel, rather than the conventional manner of sitting or standing inside the vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:855.2
• Pilot: means a New Orleans and Baton Rouge Steamship Pilot, as designated in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:1041
• Pilot: means a River Port Pilot as designated in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:1071
• Pilot initiative: means the workforce training and education pilot initiative provided for in this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:322
• Point-of-sale terminal: means an electronic hardware device that meets all of the following criteria:

  (a)  May be utilized at a retailer's place of business where consumers pay for goods or services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231

• Policy or procedure: shall mean a requirement governing the administration of managed care organizations specific to billing guidelines, medical management and utilization review guidelines, case management guidelines, claims processing guidelines and edits, grievance and appeals procedures and process, other guidelines or manuals containing pertinent information related to operations and pre-processing claims, and core benefits and services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Political subdivision: means a parish, municipality, and any other unit of local government, including a school board and a special district, authorized by law to levy and collect a sales and use tax. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:337.6
• Possesses: means the person has acquired rights in or title to a vessel or outboard motor by virtue of a gift, donation, raffle, or exchange or the person built the vessel or outboard motor themselves. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Prepaid Coordinated Care Network: means a private entity that contracts with the department to provide Medicaid benefits and services to Louisiana Medicaid managed care program enrollees in exchange for a monthly prepaid capitated amount per member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Preparation of financial statement: means an engagement by a licensee to prepare financial statements for an entity but not to perform a compilation, review, or audit with respect to those financial statements and as provided in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' Statement on Standards for Accounting and Review Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Primary care case management: means a system under which an entity contracts with the state to furnish case management services that include but are not limited to the location, coordination, and monitoring of primary healthcare services to Medicaid beneficiaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Primary care case management: means a system in which an entity contracts with the state to furnish case management services, which include but are not limited to the location, coordination, and monitoring of primary health care service to Medicaid beneficiaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.31
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Process: means converting industrial hemp into a marketable form. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Processor: means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that receives industrial hemp for processing into commodities or products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Procurement: means the buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining any supplies, services, or major repairs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Procurement officer: means any person authorized by a governmental body, in accordance with procedures prescribed by regulations, to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations and findings with respect thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Professional: means arising out of or related to the specialized knowledge or skills associated with CPAs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Prohibited zone: means an area paralleling each side of the entire length of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge and extending outward for a distance of one mile from both the most easterly and westerly outboard sides of the causeway bridge twin spans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Project: means but is not limited to the construction of a physical asset and associated infrastructure to be used in the course of the business of international commerce, a business activity such as a marketing effort or the development of a business relationship, or an executable strategy such as joint ventures between governmental and nongovernmental organizations or businesses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3306
• Property: means any and all property, movable and immovable, corporeal and incorporeal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• provider: means a person, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, corporation, facility, or institution that provides healthcare or professional services to individuals enrolled in the Medicaid program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Provider: means a person who is contractually obligated to provide the services or indemnification under a home service contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3142
• Provider: means a person who is contractually obligated to provide the services or indemnification under a motor vehicle service contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• provider: means a physician licensed to practice medicine by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners or other individual health care practitioner licensed, certified, or registered to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.41
• Provider: means any healthcare entity enrolled with the department as a provider in the Medicaid program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:440.12
• Provider agreement: means a document which is required as a condition of enrollment or participation as a health care provider under the medical assistance programs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Provider fee: means the consideration paid for a home service contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3142
• Provider fee: means the consideration paid for a motor vehicle service contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Provider-in-fact: means an agent who directly or indirectly participates in management decisions, has an ownership interest in the health care provider, or other persons defined as a provider-in-fact by federal or state law or by rule. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Psychic: means any person or establishment engaged in the occupation of occult science including a fortune teller, palmist, astrologist, numerologist, clairvoyant, craniologist, phrenologist, card reader, spiritual reader, tea leaf reader, prophet, or advisor who in any manner claims or pretends to tell fortunes or claims or pretends to disclose mental faculties of individuals for any form of compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Public assistance: means any of the following:

              (a) Cash benefits of the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program administered by the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:352

• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchasing agency: means any governmental body which is authorized by this Chapter or its implementing regulations, or by way of delegation from the state chief procurement officer, to contract on its own behalf rather than through the central contracting authority of the office of state procurement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Recipient: means an individual who is eligible to receive health care through the medical assistance programs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Recoupment: means recovery through the reduction, in whole or in part, of payment to a health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Recovery: means the recovery of overpayments, damages, fines, penalties, costs, expenses, restitution, attorney fees, or interest or settlement amounts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Reimbursement insurance policy: means a policy of insurance issued to a provider to do either of the following:

              (a) Provide reimbursement to the provider pursuant to the terms of the insured motor vehicle service contracts issued or sold by the provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162

• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Report: means , when used with reference to any attest services, an opinion, report, or other form of language that states or implies an assurance as to the reliability of any financial statement or assertion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Resident estate: means the estate of a decedent who at his death was domiciled in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:300.10
• Resident trust: means a trust or a portion of a trust created by last will and testament of a decedent who at his death was domiciled in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:300.10
• Residential consumer: means an individual or family eligible for utility relief under the provisions of Title III of P. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:192
• Road hazard: means a hazard that is encountered while driving a motor vehicle including but not limited to potholes, rocks, wood debris, metal parts, glass, plastic, curbs, or composite scraps. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Rule: means any rule or regulation promulgated by the department in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act and any federal rule or regulation promulgated by the federal government in accordance with federal law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Rule: means any rule, regulation, or other written directive of general application adopted by the board in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Rural Property: means a tract of land which is at least forty acres in area and from which at least seventy-five percent of the income derived is from agricultural or livestock purposes or mineral income and which is not located within the territorial limits of any incorporated municipality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:5321
• Sailboat: means any watercraft propelled by sail or canvas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• sale at retail: means the sale or any transaction in lieu of a sale of products to the public for use or consumption but does not include the sale or any transaction in lieu of a sale of products for resale. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1481
• Sanction: shall include but is not limited to any or all of the following:

              (a) Recoupment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3

• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, or his authorized designee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Secretary: means the officer appointed by the governor as the executive head and chief administrative officer of certain departments created and provided for by this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Economic Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.31
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• secretary of revenue: means the secretary of the Department of Revenue for the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:337.6
• secretary of revenue: when used in this Title, mean the secretary of the Department of Revenue for the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1501
• Secretary or attorney general: means that either party is authorized to institute a proceeding or take other authorized action as provided in this Part pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the two so as to notify the public as to whether the secretary or the attorney general is the deciding or controlling party in the proceeding or other authorized matter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Security interest: means an interest that is reserved or created by an agreement that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Seed producer: means a person licensed by the department to obtain, produce, transport, and sell industrial hemp seed in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Seller: means a person who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a consumer product through an online marketplace platform. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• services: means the 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 46:460.51
• Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor whose primary purpose is to perform an identifiable task rather than to furnish an end item of supply. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Sexually oriented business: means any commercial enterprise that has as its primary business the offering of a service or the sale, rent, or exhibit of devices or any other items intended to provide sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Signature: means a manual or electronic signature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• SNAP: means the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program administered at the federal level by the Food and Nutrition Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and at the state level by the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:322
• Social service: means work rendered by any person, firm, corporation, organization, governmental body, or governmental entity in furtherance of the general welfare of the citizens of Louisiana, including but not limited to the objectives provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Society: means the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:101
• Standardized information: means the customary universal data concerning an applicant's identity, education, and professional experience relative to a managed care organization's credentialing process including but not limited to name, address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, educational background, state licensing board number, residency program, internship, specialty, subspecialty, fellowship, or certification by a regional or national healthcare or medical specialty college, association or society, prior and current place of employment, an adverse medical review panel opinion, a pending professional liability lawsuit, final disposition of a professional liability settlement or judgment, and information mandated by health insurance issuer accrediting organizations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• State partners: means the following state entities, collectively:

              (a) The Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:352

• State plan: means a plan required for approval by the United States Secretary of Agriculture to monitor and regulate the production of industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• STEP: means the education, employment, training and related services program for families receiving cash assistance payments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• substantially equivalent: means a determination by the board, or its designee, that the education, examination, and experience requirements contained in the statutes and administrative rules of another state or jurisdiction are comparable to or exceed the education, examination, and experience requirements of this state or that an individual CPA's education, examination, and experience qualifications are comparable to or exceed the education, examination, and experience requirements of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:73
• Subtitle: means and includes all the Chapters in Subtitle II of this Title 47 and any other Title of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 except the provisions of Chapter 1 of Subtitle IV of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and estate taxes for the assessment, collection, administration, and enforcement of taxes, fees, licenses, penalties, and interest due the state of Louisiana which have been delegated to the Department of Revenue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1501
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplies: means all property, including but not limited to equipment, materials, insurance, and leases on immovable property excluding land or a permanent interest in land. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Surviving spouse: means a person who is legally married to a member of the system and living with the member at the time of his death. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• TANF: means the federal block grant program established under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Public Law 104-193, and applicable changes due to its reauthorization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• 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
• Telehealth: has the meaning ascribed in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• THC: means a combination of tetrahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• THC: means a combination of tetrahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1481
• Third-party delivery platform: means the online communication platform of the third-party delivery service on which a consumer can view and search the menus of merchants and place an order for merchant products through internet-enabled technology and digital media, including websites and consumer applications accessible through smart phones and other mobile devices. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Third-party delivery service: means a company, organization, or other entity, other than a merchant, that is licensed to do business in this state and provides limited delivery services to a consumer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Third-party seller: means any seller, independent of an online marketplace, who sells, offers to sell, or contracts to sell a consumer product in this state through an online marketplace. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• 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.
• transporting: means the movement of industrial hemp from the premises of a licensee to the premises of another licensee or from the premises of a licensee to the premises of a permit holder pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Undersecretary: means the officer designated to direct and be responsible for the functions of the office of management and finance of certain departments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Undocumented vessel: means a vessel for which a certificate of documentation has not been issued by the United States Coast Guard under 46 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Using agency: means any governmental body of the state which utilizes any supplies, services, or major repairs purchased under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Utility: means any publicly owned, investor-owned, cooperative or municipally controlled company, corporation, partnership, business, system, or person which supplies gas or electricity or both to residential consumers in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:192
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• verification supporting statement: means the documentation confirming the information submitted by an applicant for a credentialing application from a specifically named entity or a regional, national, or general data depository providing primary source verification including but not limited to a college, university, medical school, teaching hospital, healthcare facility or institution, state licensing board, federal agency or department, professional liability insurer, or the National Practitioner Data Bank. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
• Verify: means to confirm information provided to an online marketplace pursuant to this Chapter, which may include the use of one or more methods that enable the online marketplace to reliably determine that any information and documents provided are valid, corresponding to the seller or an individual acting on the seller's behalf, not misappropriated, and not falsified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3261
• Vessel: means watercraft and air boats of every description, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Vessel: means every description of watercraft and air boats, including homemade boats, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, valued in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars, to be principally operated on the waters of this state, required to be numbered, not held as inventory for sale or lease, and transferred for the first time on or after July 1, 2008. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Warranty: means a warranty made solely by the manufacturer, importer, or seller of property or services, including builders on new home construction, without consideration, that is not negotiated or separated from the sale of the product and is incidental to the sale of the product, that guarantees indemnity for defective parts, mechanical or electrical breakdown, labor, or other remedial measures, such as repair or replacement of the property, or repetition of services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3142
• Warranty: means a warranty made solely by the motor vehicle manufacturer, importer, or seller of a vehicle that is not negotiated or separated from the sale of the vehicle and is incidental to the sale of the vehicle, that guarantees indemnity for defective parts, mechanical or electrical breakdown, labor, or other remedial measures, such as repair or replacement of the vehicle, or repetition of services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Watercraft: means any contrivance used or designated for navigation on water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Waters of the state: means any waters within the territorial limits of this state and the marginal sea adjacent to this state and the high seas when navigated as a part of a journey or ride to or from the shore of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Website: means a set of related webpages served from a single web domain. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3232
• Withhold payment: means to reduce or adjust the amount, in whole or in part, to be paid to a health care provider for a pending or future claim during the time of a criminal, civil, or departmental investigation or proceeding or claims review of the health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
• Work-eligible: refers to families containing an adult under sixty years of age, or teen head of household, that is not disabled, incapacitated, or caring for a family member who is disabled or incapacitated as documented by a medical expert to which the status of disability is clearly established and explained. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Youth: means an individual who was adjudicated as a child in need of care, was in foster care in the department's custody on the day before his eighteenth birthday, and is at least eighteen years of age but less than twenty-one years of age. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:288.2