Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 34 > Chapter 8 - Plaquemines Port, Harbor and Terminal District

• 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
• 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
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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
• 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
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Institution: means a public postsecondary education institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3399.12
• 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

• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.