Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1416

  • 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
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.

The board shall, upon the request of any party to a matter before it or may upon its own motion, order that the hearing before it shall be reported by a stenographer, or be otherwise recorded and transcribed pursuant to regulation or rule of the board, and the expense thereof shall be paid by the board out of the appropriation for the board.  The board may contract for the report of such proceedings or designate the reporter of the board to report such proceedings.  The board may supply copies of the transcript of the proceedings to anyone requesting the same and may fix the fee for purchasing such copies.

Acts 2014, No. 198, §1, eff. July 1, 2014.