Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:852

  • 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
  • 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

Upon the transfer of each agency in accordance with this Part, any pending or unfinished business of each such agency shall be taken over and be completed by the department to which transferred and its secretary, with the same power and authority as that of the agency transferred.  The department and its secretary shall be the successor in every way to each agency, and every act done by the department or its secretary in the exercise of the functions of each shall be deemed to have the same force and effect under any provisions of the constitution and laws in effect on the effective date of this Section as if done by the agency transferred.  

Acts 1976, No. 513, §1.  Amended by Acts 1977, No. 83, §1, eff. June 22, 1977.  

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