Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 45 > Chapter 9 - Provisions Applicable to More Than One Utility or Carrier

• Advertisement: means all representations, other than those on the label, disseminated in any manner or by any means, relating to seed within the scope of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• 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.
• Affiliate: means , when used with reference to a specified person, an entity that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the entity specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• 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: as used in this Chapter shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Agricultural seed: means any lawn, flower, oil, grass, forage, cereal, fiber, or other kinds of crop seed sold, offered for sale, or used in Louisiana for agricultural or other purposes, and any combinations of such seeds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Ancillary agreement: means any bond, insurance policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging arrangement, liquidity or credit support arrangement, or other financial arrangement entered into in connection with the issuance of storm recovery bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Ancillary agreement: means any bond, insurance policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging arrangement, liquidity or credit support arrangement, or other financial arrangement entered into in connection with the issuance or payment of investment recovery bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Ancillary agreement: means any bond, insurance policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging arrangement, liquidity or credit support arrangement, or other financial arrangement entered into in connection with the issuance or payment of energy transition bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Ancillary agreement: means any bond, insurance policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging arrangement, liquidity or credit support arrangement, or other financial arrangement entered into in connection with the issuance or payment of system restoration bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assignee: means any legal or commercial entity, including but not limited to a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, or other legally recognized entity to which an electric utility sells, assigns, or transfers, other than as security, all or a portion of its interest in or right to storm recovery property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Assignee: means any legal or commercial entity, including but not limited to a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, or other legally recognized entity to which an electric utility sells, assigns, or transfers, other than as security, all or a portion of its interest in or right to investment recovery property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Assignee: means any legal or commercial entity, including but not limited to a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, or other legally recognized entity to which an electric utility sells, assigns, or transfers, other than as security, all or a portion of its interest in or right to energy transition property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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.
• Basic health benefits plan: means coverage for basic hospital care, coverage for physician care, and coverage for health care which is determined by the Department of Economic Development to have a value of at least one dollar and twenty-five cents per hour and which is the same coverage as is provided to employees employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity by the employers who are exempt from the minimum wage and maximum hour requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• 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}
• Board: means the board of commissioners of the Tri-Parish Juvenile Justice Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1096
• Business: means any individual, firm, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, partnership, business trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other legal business entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• Business: means any individual, firm, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, partnership, business trust, receiver, syndicate, or any other legal business entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• 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
• Central purchasing agency: means the office of state procurement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Change order: means a written order signed by the procurement officer, directing the contractor to make changes which the contract authorizes the procurement officer to order without the consent of the contractor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Chief procurement officer: means the person holding the position created in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• 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 Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1161
• Commission: means the Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1221
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission or, solely with respect to an electric utility furnishing electric service within the city of New Orleans, the council of the city of New Orleans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Commission: means the Louisiana Public Service Commission or, solely with respect to an electric utility furnishing electric service within the city of New Orleans, the council of the city of New Orleans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Commission: means the Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Commission: means the Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission or, solely with respect to an electric or gas utility furnishing electric or natural gas service within the city of New Orleans, the council of the city of New Orleans, as applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• 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 modification: means any written alteration in specifications, delivery point, rate of delivery, period of performance, price, quantity, or other provisions of any contract accomplished by mutual action of the parties to the contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Contributed proceeds: means the monies contributed by the corporation to a trust. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Corporation: means the Louisiana Utilities Restoration Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Court: means the Nineteenth Judicial District located in Baton Rouge and, in the event of an appeal from such a court, the First Circuit Court of Appeal located in Baton Rouge. 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
• Crop: means any cultivated plants that produce agricultural produce such as grains, seeds, fruits, vegetables, or flowers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Debarment: means the disqualification of a person to receive invitations for bids or requests for proposals, or the award of any contract by any governmental body, for a specified period of time commensurate with the seriousness of the offense or the failure or the inadequacy of performance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Deferred billing program: means a program administered by a utility that allows utility customers to defer payment of a utility bill up to a twelve-month time period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1221
• 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 unless otherwise designated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• Department: means the Department of Economic Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• Department: means the Department of Economic Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• 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
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Designee: means a duly authorized representative of a person holding a superior position. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Electric utility: means an "electric public utility" as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Electronic: means electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnet, or any other similar technology. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Eligible customers: include any one of the following:

  (a)  Those persons whose income does not exceed one hundred fifty percent of the poverty level as established by the federal government and who are sixty-five years of age or older. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1221

• Eligible electric generating facility: means a coal-fired or lignite-fired electric generating facility owned entirely or in indivision by an electric utility furnishing electric service to customers within the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Eligible mine: means a coal or lignite mine that services a mine-mouth eligible electric generating facility furnishing electric service to customers within this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Energy transition bonds: means bonds, notes, certificates of participation, or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued pursuant to an indenture or other contract of an electric utility or an issuer pursuant to a financing order, the proceeds of which are used directly or indirectly to provide, recover, finance, or refinance commission-approved energy transition costs and financing costs, and costs to fund energy transition reserves to such levels as the commission may authorize in a financing order, and that are secured by or payable from energy transition property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Energy transition charge: means the amounts authorized by the commission to recover, finance, or refinance energy transition costs and financing costs, and to fund any energy transition reserves to such levels as the commission may authorize in a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Energy transition costs: means , if requested by the electric utility, and as may be approved by the commission, costs incurred or to be incurred by an electric utility consisting of any of the following:

              (a) Costs caused by or associated with the following:

              (i) The retirement of an eligible electric generating facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272

• Energy transition property: means the contract right constituting incorporeal movable property newly created pursuant to this Part which consists of all of the following:

              (a) The rights and interests of an electric utility or successors or assignees of the electric utility specified as being energy transition property in a financing order, including the right to impose, bill, charge, collect, and receive energy transition charges authorized in the financing order, the right to enforce the obligations of the utility to collect and service the energy transition charges, and the right to obtain periodic adjustments to such charges as may be provided in the financing order and this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272

• Energy transition reserve: means a reserve established pursuant to an order of the commission for energy transition costs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• 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.
• 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.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• External procurement activity: means any buying organization not located in this state which, if located in this state, would qualify as a public procurement unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Facility: means any juvenile detention facility, shelter care facility, or such other juvenile justice facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1096
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financing costs: means :

  (a)  Interest and acquisition, defeasance, or redemption premiums that are payable on storm recovery bonds;

  (b)  Any payment required under an ancillary agreement and any amount required to fund or replenish reserve or other accounts established under the terms of any indenture, ancillary agreement, or other financing documents pertaining to storm recovery bonds;

  (c)  Any other cost related to issuing, supporting, repaying, and servicing storm recovery bonds, including but not limited to servicing fees, accounting and auditing fees, trustee fees, legal fees, consulting fees, administrative fees, placement and underwriting fees, capitalized interest, rating agency fees, stock exchange listing and compliance fees, and filing fees, including costs related to obtaining the financing order;

  (d)  Any income taxes and license fees imposed on the revenues generated from the collection of storm recovery charges or otherwise resulting from the collection of storm recovery charges, in any such case whether paid, payable, or accrued; or

  (e)  Any state and local taxes, franchise, gross receipts, and other taxes or similar charges including but not limited to regulatory assessment fees, in any such case whether paid, payable, or accrued. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227

• Financing costs: means any of the following:

              (a) Interest and acquisition, defeasance, or redemption premiums that are payable on investment recovery bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252

• Financing costs: means , if approved by the commission, whether incurred or paid on issuance of the energy transition bonds or ongoing over the life of the energy transition bonds, any of the following:

              (a) Interest and acquisition, defeasance, or redemption premiums that are payable on energy transition bonds and any other amounts owing in respect of energy transition bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272

• Financing costs: means any of the following:

              (a) Interest and acquisition, defeasance, or redemption premiums that are payable on system restoration bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Financing order: means an order of the commission, if granted by the commission in its sole discretion, which allows for:

  (a)  The issuance of storm recovery bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227

• Financing order: means an order of the commission, if granted by the commission in its sole discretion, which allows for all of the following:

              (a) The issuance of investment recovery bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252

• Financing order: means an order of the commission, if granted by the commission in its sole discretion, which allows for all of the following:

              (a) The issuance of energy transition bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272

• Financing order: means an order of the commission, if granted by the commission in its sole discretion, which allows for all of the following:

              (a) The assessment, imposition, and periodic adjustment of system restoration charges by the corporation and the collection thereof by a utility as an agent on behalf of the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Financing party: means any holder of storm recovery bonds and any trustee, collateral agent, or other person acting for the benefit of holders of storm recovery bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Financing party: means any holder of investment recovery bonds, any party to or beneficiary of an ancillary agreement, and any trustee, collateral agent, or other person acting for the benefit of any of the foregoing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Financing party: means any holder of energy transition bonds, any party to or beneficiary of an ancillary agreement, and any trustee, collateral agent, or other person acting for the benefit of any of the foregoing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Financing party: means any holder of system restoration bonds, any party to or beneficiary of an ancillary agreement, and any trustee, collateral agent, or other person acting for the benefit of any of the foregoing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• foreign representative: shall mean a person in a foreign country whose education and experience qualify such person to represent the state in such foreign country. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• 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
• Gas utility: means a local distributing system selling natural gas to retail customers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Governing authority: means the governing authority of a parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1096
• Governing board: means that board of directors of the corporation which is established under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• 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
• Governmental entity: means any governmental unit which is not included in the definition of "governmental body" in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grant: means the furnishing by the state of assistance, whether financial or otherwise, to any person to support a program authorized by law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Headquarters: means a principal or regional corporate office located or to be located in Louisiana, in which are based the principal or regional executive officers normally constituting a principal or regional headquarters providing corporate governance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• Headquarters jobs: means permanent full-time new executive, administrative, or professional jobs based at a headquarters and filled by residents of the state employed by a qualified business, and each job paying at least sixty thousand dollars per year or two hundred percent of the average annual wages paid by employers subject to the Louisiana Employment Security Law in the parish in which the headquarters is located, whichever is lower. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• 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}
• Inert matter: is a ll matter not seeds including pieces of broken and damaged seeds one-half or less than the original size, sterile florets, fungus bodies, stones, and all matter considered as inert by the Association of Official Seed Analysts Rules for Testing Seeds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Investment recovery bonds: means bonds, debentures, notes, certificates of participation, certificates of ownership, or other evidences of indebtedness or ownership that are issued pursuant to an indenture, contract, or other agreement of an electric utility or an assignee pursuant to a financing order, the proceeds of which are used directly or indirectly to provide, recover, finance, or refinance commission-approved investment recovery costs and financing costs, and which are secured by or payable from investment recovery property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Investment recovery charge: means the amounts authorized by the commission to recover, finance, or refinance investment recovery costs and financing costs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Investment recovery costs: means , if requested by the electric utility, and as may be approved by the commission, costs incurred or to be incurred by an electric utility consisting of any of the following:

              (a) Costs associated with the following:

              (i) The cancelled construction of electric generating or transmission facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252

• Investment recovery property: means the contract right constituting incorporeal movable property newly created pursuant to this Part which consists of any of the following:

              (a) The rights and interests of an electric utility or successor or assignee of the electric utility specified under a financing order, including the right to impose, bill, charge, collect, and receive investment recovery charges authorized in the financing order and to obtain periodic adjustments to such charges as may be provided in the financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252

• 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
• Issuance costs: means any of the following:

              (a) Any initial payment made on issuance of, and any amount required to fund any system restoration sinking fund, reserve or overcollateralization fund, or other fund or account required by the documents pertaining to, system restoration bonds authorized by a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Issuer: means any assignee that is a wholly owned subsidiary of an electric utility and that issues energy transition bonds approved by a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Issuer: means any Louisiana public corporation, public trust, or other entity that issues system restoration bonds approved by a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Labeling: includes all labels and other written, printed, or graphic representations accompanying and pertaining to any seed, whether in bulk or containers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien creditor: means any of the following:

              (a) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, sequestration, seizure, levy, or by similar means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252

• Lien creditor: means any of the following:

              (a) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, sequestration, seizure, levy, or by similar means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272

• Lien creditor: means any of the following:

              (a) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, sequestration, seizure, levy, or the like. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Local public procurement unit: means any parish, city, town, governmental body, and any other subdivision of the state or public agency thereof, public authority, public educational, health, or other institution, and to the extent provided by law, any other entity which expends public funds for the acquisition or leasing of supplies, services, major repairs, and construction, and any nonprofit corporation operating a charitable hospital. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Lot of seed: is a definite quantity of seeds identified by a lot number or mark, every portion or bag of which is uniform, within permitted tolerances, relative to the factors which appear in the labeling. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• 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
• Negotiation: means the formulation of a contractual relationship through discussions as may be allowed under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• New jobs: means permanent full-time direct new jobs based at the facilities designated in the contract and filled by residents of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• New payroll: means payment by the business to its employees for new jobs, exclusive of benefits, and defined as wages under Louisiana Employment Security Law (La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• 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.
• Office: means the office of international commerce within the Department of Economic Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3132
• Origin: means place, state, or foreign country where grown. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• 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
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, or partnership. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Person: means any business, individual, union, committee, club, or other organization or group of individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Pilot initiative: means the workforce training and education pilot initiative provided for in this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:322
• Place of business: means a permanent location or a portion of a permanent location from which business, in a regulated profession or occupation, is transacted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pledgee: means an issuer as pledgee of the corporation or an applicable financing party as pledgee of an issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• political subdivision: as used in this Part shall include all such political subdivisions or taxing districts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1131
• 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.
• Preferred interests: means preferred equity interests in a utility affiliate that pay preferred dividends to the trust that purchased those preferred equity interests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Private procurement unit: means any regionally accredited independent college or university in the state that is a member of the Louisiana Association of Independent Colleges and Universities or any early learning center as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• 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
• Program: means the Corporate Headquarters Relocation Program established pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• Program: means the Competitive Projects Payroll Incentive Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
• Public procurement unit: means either a local public procurement unit or a state public procurement unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Public utility: means any person, public or private, subject to the general jurisdiction of the commission but not including carriers by rail, water, electric or motor vehicles or pipelines, or public utilities municipally owned, or operated, or regulated, unless the electors of such municipality, and electors residing outside the municipality, who are customers of the municipally owned utility, have manifested their approval of such jurisdiction as is required by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1161
• Purchase proceeds: means the proceeds received by a utility affiliate from the sale of its preferred interests to a trust. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• 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
• Qualified business: means a business that (a) the secretary has determined meets the eligibility requirements of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• Qualified business: means a business certified by the secretary as meeting the eligibility requirements of Subsection B of this Section, approved by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget to participate in the program, and executing a contract providing the terms and conditions for its participation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• qualified capital expenditures: means amounts classified as capital expenditures for federal income tax purposes related to the project plus exclusions from capitalization provided for in Internal Revenue Code Section 263 (a)(1)(A) through (L), minus the capitalized cost of land, capitalized leases of land, capitalized interest, capitalized costs of manufacturing machinery and equipment to the extent capitalized manufacturing machinery and equipment costs are excluded from sales and use tax pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Related bonds: means , with respect to a trust, the system restoration bonds that funded the net proceeds transferred by an issuer to the corporation and then contributed by the corporation to that trust. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Related utility: means , with respect to a trust, the utility that is a beneficiary of such trust and that obtains a financing order pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Relocation costs: means actual, direct, and substantiated costs incurred by the qualified business to relocate a headquarters to the state, including capital expenditures and leasing costs for a facility and equipment, and personnel relocation costs; provided that such personnel relocation costs shall not include any real estate commission in excess of six percent, but such limit shall not prevent a real estate commission less than six percent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Request for proposals: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting proposals in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• 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 51:3111
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Economic Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• Secured party: means a financing party in favor of which an electric utility or its successors or assignees creates a security interest in all or any portion of its interest in or right to storm recovery property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Secured party: means a financing party in favor of which an electric utility or its successors or assignees creates a security interest in any or all portions of its interest in or right to investment recovery property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Secured party: means a financing party in favor of which an electric utility or an issuer creates a security interest in any or all portions of its interest in or right to energy transition property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Security: means any note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture or other evidence of interest in or indebtedness of a public utility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1161
• Security interest: means a pledge, hypothecation, or other encumbrance of or other right over any portion of storm recovery property created by contract to secure the payment or performance of an obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Security interest: means a pledge, hypothecation, or other encumbrance of or other right over any portion of investment recovery property created by contract to secure the payment or performance of an obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Security interest: means an encumbrance of and a right of preference over any portion of energy transition property created by contract to secure the payment or performance of an obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Seed: is a propagative part of a plant capable of producing a new plant, including but not limited to those parts commonly referred to as seeds, bulbs, roots, tubers, and other propagating stock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• 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
• 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.
• Signature: means a manual or electronic signature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Significant positive economic benefit: means net positive tax revenue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3121
• 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
• Specification: means any description of the physical or functional characteristics, or of the nature of a supply, service, or major repair. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3111
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• State chief procurement officer: means the person holding the position created in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• State public procurement unit: means the central purchasing agency and any other purchasing agency of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Stop order: is a ny written or printed notice given by the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry or his authorized agents, to the person with a lot of seed, directing the person not to sell or offer for sale the seed until the requirements of this Part and regulations promulgated hereunder have been complied with and a written release is issued. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Storm: means a named tropical storm or hurricane, ice or snow storm, flood, or other significant weather or natural disaster that occurred during calendar year 2005 or that occurs thereafter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Storm: means a named tropical storm or hurricane, ice or snow storm, flood, or other significant weather or natural disaster that occurred during calendar year 2005 or that occurs thereafter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Storm damage reserve: means a utility's storm reserve or such other similar reserve established pursuant to order or rule of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Storm recovery activity: means any activity or activities by or on behalf of an electric utility in connection with the restoration of service associated with electric power outages affecting customers of an electric utility as the result of a storm or storms, including but not limited to mobilization, staging, and construction, reconstruction, replacement, or repair of electric generation, transmission, or distribution facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Storm recovery bonds: means bonds, debentures, notes, certificates of participation, certificates of ownership, or other evidences of indebtedness or ownership that are issued pursuant to an indenture, contract, or other agreement of an electric utility or an assignee pursuant to a financing order, the proceeds of which are used directly or indirectly to provide, recover, finance, or refinance commission-approved storm recovery costs, financing costs, and costs to replenish or fund a storm recovery reserve to such level as the commission may authorize in a financing order, and which are secured by or payable from storm recovery property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Storm recovery charge: means the amounts authorized by the commission to recover, finance, or refinance storm recovery costs, financing costs, and costs to replenish or fund a storm recovery reserve to such level as the commission may authorize in a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Storm recovery costs: means , if requested by the electric utility, and as may be approved by the commission, costs incurred or to be incurred by an electric utility in undertaking a storm recovery activity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Storm recovery property: means the contract right constituting incorporeal movable property newly created pursuant to this Part which may consist of any of the following:

  (a)  All rights and interests of an electric utility or successor or assignee of the electric utility under a financing order, including the right to impose, bill, charge, collect, and receive storm recovery charges authorized in the financing order and to obtain periodic adjustments to such charges as may be provided in the financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227

• Storm recovery reserve: means an electric utility's storm reserve or such other similar reserve established pursuant to order or rule of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplemental agreement: means any contract modification which is accomplished by the mutual action of the parties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• 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
• Suspension: means the disqualification of a person to receive invitations for bids or requests for proposals, or the award of a contract by the state, for a temporary period pending the completion of an investigation and any legal proceedings that may ensue because a person is suspected upon probable cause of engaging in criminal, fraudulent, or seriously improper conduct or failure or inadequacy of performance which may lead to debarment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• System restoration activity: means any activity or activities by or on behalf of a utility in connection with the restoration of service associated with utility outages affecting customers of a utility as the result of a storm or storms, including but not limited to mobilization, staging, and construction, reconstruction, replacement, or repair of generation, transmission, distribution, or general plant facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration bonds: means bonds, notes, certificates of participation, or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued pursuant to this Part by an issuer at the request of the corporation and a utility, and authorized by a financing order, the net proceeds of which are transferred to the corporation and used as provided in this Part, and which are secured by and payable from system restoration property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration charge: means the nonbypassable charges, if determined appropriate by the commission and provided for in a financing order, to be assessed by the corporation on, and collected by the utility or other collection agent from, all existing and future customers of a utility, and periodically adjusted, in an amount sufficient at all times to pay the principal of and interest on particular system restoration bonds as the same shall become due and payable, all other financing costs, and any other costs as necessary to otherwise ensure the timely payment of such system restoration bonds, all as the commission may authorize in a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration costs: means , if requested by the utility, and as may be approved by the commission, those prudent incremental costs incurred or to be incurred by a utility in undertaking a system restoration activity, including associated carrying costs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration property: means all of the following:

              (a) All rights and interests of the corporation arising out of this Part, including the right to receive system restoration charges billed and collected by the utility on the behalf of the corporation as authorized in the financing order, the right to enforce the obligations of the utility to collect and service the system restoration charges, and the right to obtain periodic adjustments to such charges as provided in the financing order and this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Treated: means that the seed has received an application of a substance or that it has been subjected to a process for which a claim is made. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust: means an express special public trust created only pursuant to and in compliance with the provisions of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Trust agreement: means , with respect to a trust, the written instrument that created the trust together with all proper amendments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• under common control with: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• 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}
• Uniform Commercial Code - Secured Transactions: means Chapter 9 of Title 10 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1227
• Uniform Commercial Code--Secured Transactions: means Chapter 9 of Title 10 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• Uniform Commercial Code-Secured Transactions: means Chapter 9 of Title 10 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• 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 person, public or private, subject to the general jurisdiction of the commission pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1221
• utility: means an "electric public utility" as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1252
• utility: means an "electric public utility" as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1272
• Utility: means an electric utility or a gas utility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Utility affiliate: means an affiliate of the utility that obtains a financing order pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Variety: is a subdivision of a kind characterized by growth, plant, fruit, seed, or other characteristic by which it can be differentiated from other seeds of the same kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1431
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• 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