Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 15 > CODE TITLE XIV - Right to Counsel

• ABLE account: means a special savings account for financing of certain qualified expenses of persons with disabilities as specifically provided for in this Chapter that conforms with all applicable standards and requirements set forth for ABLE accounts in the ABLE Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• ABLE Act: means the Stephen Beck, Jr. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Advisory Council: means the ABLE Account Advisory Council. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• advisory evacuation: means an evacuation that may be ordered when a disaster or emergency has been declared and evacuation is recommended due to the potential for rapidly changing conditions to develop into a serious threat and all persons in designated evacuation areas are recommended to consider relocating to safer locations for their own safety. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Affiliate: means , in relation to a person, a subsidiary of the person or an entity which owns beneficially or of record a majority of the outstanding equity interests of the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Affiliate: means a person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• Articles of organization: means documents filed under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Authority: means the Louisiana Tuition Trust Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Basic health care services: means emergency care, inpatient hospital and physician care, outpatient medical and chiropractic services, and laboratory and x-ray services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Beneficiary: means a person designated in an education savings account owner's agreement, or by the authority when authorized by an account owner meeting the classification requirements of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Benefit enforcement proceeding: means any claim or action for one or both of the following:

  (a)  Failure of a benefit corporation to pursue or create general public benefit or a specific public benefit set forth in its articles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Benefit officer: means the individual designated as the benefit officer of a benefit corporation pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Bioterrorism: means the intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product that may be engineered as a result of biotechnology, or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of any such microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product, to cause death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or other living organism in order to influence the conduct of government or to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Board: means the Louisiana Public Defender Board authorized to regulate public defender services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Board: means the Louisiana Public Defender Board, or any successor to that board, which is authorized to regulate the providing of legal services to indigent persons in criminal proceedings in which the right to counsel attaches under the United States and Louisiana constitutions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Business: means any trade, occupation, profession, or other commercial activity, including but not limited to professions licensed by a state or other governmental agency whether or not engaged in for profit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• chief indigent defender: means an attorney employed by or under contract with the board to supervise service providers and enforce standards and guidelines within a judicial district or multiple judicial districts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance, the commissioner's deputies, or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• 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.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Constituent entity: means each limited liability company, partnership, partnership in commendam, limited partnership, or corporation which is party to an agreement of merger or consolidation pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Contagious disease: means an infectious disease that can be transmitted from person to person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Contingent beneficiary: Receiver of property or benefits if the first named beneficiary fails to receive any or all of the property or benefits in question before his (her) death.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Corporation: means a corporation formed under the laws of this state or a foreign corporation as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Costs: includes any expense or expenditure directly or indirectly related to the sale of a good or provision of a service or the operation of the person's business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• critical workforce: means public safety officials, disaster response personnel, and other such employees of federal, state, and local governmental agencies, or contractors of such agencies and specific private sector employees, possessing important skills and training in emergency mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery as designated by the parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agency or in the absence of such designation by the parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agency, such designation by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Declared emergency: means an event or condition that constitutes an emergency as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• Designated beneficiary: has the meaning ascribed in 26 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Designated emergency area: means the specific area, which shall be limited to the actual affected local area or parish or parishes or such areas as designated in an executive order or proclamation of the governor or parish president. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Disaster: means the result of a natural or man-made event which causes loss of life, injury, and property damage, including but not limited to natural disasters such as hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high winds, and other weather related events, forest and marsh fires, and man-made disasters, including but not limited to nuclear power plant incidents, hazardous materials incidents, oil spills, explosion, civil disturbances, public calamity, acts of terrorism, hostile military action, and other events related thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Disaster preparedness or relief organization: means an entity that provides emergency preparedness services or disaster relief services that include health services provided by volunteer health practitioners, and that meets either of the following:

              (a) Is designated or recognized as a provider of those services pursuant to a disaster response and recovery plan adopted by an agency of the federal government or by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782

• District indigent defender fund: means the judicial district indigent defender fund as provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• District office: means the office of a district public defender as provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• domestic limited liability company: means an entity that is an unincorporated association having one or more members that is organized and existing under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Earnings enhancement: is a payment credited to an education savings account, on behalf of the beneficiary of the account, to help offset the beneficiary's qualified higher education expenses at a college or university. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Education savings account: is a savings account established by an individual, a group of individuals, or an organization pursuant to the program created by this Chapter for a beneficiary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Eligible individual: means a person with a disability who meets the criteria necessary to qualify as an eligible individual as provided in 26 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Emergency: means :

              (a) The actual or threatened condition which has been or may be created by a disaster; or

              (b)(i) Any natural or man-made event which results in an interruption in the delivery of utility services to any consumer of such services and which affects the safety, health, or welfare of a Louisiana resident; or

              (ii) Any instance in which a utility's property is damaged and such damage creates a dangerous condition to the public. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723

• Emergency declaration: means a declaration of emergency issued by the governor under the authority of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Emergency Management Assistance Compact: means the interstate compact approved by the United States Congress by Public Law No. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Emergency preparedness: means the mitigation of, preparation for, response to, and the recovery from emergencies or disasters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in a health maintenance organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Enterprise risk: means any activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving one or more affiliates of an insurer that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect upon the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or its insurance holding company system as a whole, including but not limited to anything that would cause the insurer's risk-based capital to fall into company action level as set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Entity: means a person other than an individual. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Evacuation: means an operation whereby all or part of a particular population is temporarily relocated, whether individually or in an organized manner, from an area in which a disaster or emergency has been declared and is considered dangerous for health or safety of the public. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Evidence of coverage: means any certificate, agreement, or contract issued to an enrollee setting out the coverage to which the enrollee is entitled by reason of payment of a prepaid charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Fixed earnings: means the placement of all the deposits in an education savings account and the interest earned thereon in investments with fixed earnings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Forced evacuation: means an evacuation that may be ordered as a last resort when a disaster or emergency has been declared and danger of loss of life is imminent, and conditions exist that critically imperil or endanger the lives of those in a defined area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Foreign limited liability company: means a limited liability company formed under the laws of any state other than this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Foreign limited partnership: means a limited partnership formed under the laws of any state other than this state or under the laws of any foreign country. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• General public benefit: means a material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole, assessed against a third-party standard, from the business and operations of a benefit corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Health care provider: means a clinic, person, corporation, facility, or institution which provides health care or professional services by a physician, dentist, registered or licensed practical nurse, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist, and any officer, employee, or agent thereof acting in the course and scope of his service or employment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Health care services: means any services rendered by providers which include but are not limited to medical and surgical care; psychological, optometric, optic, chiropractic, podiatric, nursing, and pharmaceutical services; health education, rehabilitative, and home health services; physical therapy; inpatient and outpatient hospital services; dietary and nutritional services; laboratory and ambulance services; and any other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury, or physical disability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Health facility: means an entity licensed under the laws of this or another state to provide health services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Health maintenance organization: means any corporation organized as either a business corporation or a nonprofit corporation and domiciled in this state which undertakes to provide or arrange for the provision of basic health care services to enrollees in return for a prepaid charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Health practitioner: means an individual licensed under the laws of this or another state to provide health services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Health services: means the provision of treatment, care, advice or guidance, or other services, or supplies, related to the health or death of individuals or human populations, to the extent necessary to respond to a declared emergency, including:

              (a) The following, concerning the physical or mental condition or functional status of an individual or affecting the structure or function of the body:

              (i) Preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or palliative care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782

• Homeland: means the state of Louisiana, and where the context requires, means the parishes of the state of Louisiana, "the United States". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Host entity: means an entity operating in this state which uses volunteer health practitioners to respond to an emergency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Independent: means having no material relationship with a benefit corporation or a subsidiary of the benefit corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• indigent defender: means an attorney employed by or under contract with the board, the district public defender, regional director, where applicable, or nonprofit organization contracting with the board, district public defender, regional director, where applicable, or the board to provide legal counsel to an indigent person in a criminal proceeding. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• indigent defender: means an attorney employed by or under contract with the board, the district public defender, or a nonprofit organization contracting with the board or the district public defender to provide representation, including curatorship appointments, to indigent or absent parents in child abuse and neglect cases as required by the provisions of the Louisiana Children's Code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• indigent defender services: means the providing of legal services to indigent persons in criminal proceedings in which the right to counsel attaches under the United States and Louisiana constitutions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Infectious disease: means a disease caused by a living organism or other pathogen, including a fungus, bacteria, parasite, protozoan, or virus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Infectious waste: means :

              (a) "Biological waste" which includes blood and blood products, excretions, exudates, secretions, suctioning and other body fluids, and waste materials saturated with blood or body fluids. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762

• Institution of postsecondary education: means a state college, university, or technical college or institute or an independent college or university located in this state that is approved by the United States Secretary of Education; a public or independent college or a university located outside this state that is approved by the United States Secretary of Education; a proprietary school licensed pursuant to Chapter 24-A of this Title; or a proprietary school located outside this state that is licensed by an out-of-state public postsecondary education board, accredited by a recognized national or regional accrediting body, and eligible to participate in a program under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Insurable interest: as used in this Chapter means any lawful and substantial economic interest in the safety or preservation of the subject of the insurance free from loss, destruction, or pecuniary damage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:853
• insurance holding company system: consists of two or more affiliated persons, one or more of which is an insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• interest: means a member's rights in a limited liability company, collectively, including the member's share of the profits and losses of the limited liability company, the right to receive distributions of the limited liability company's assets, and any right to vote or participate in management. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Isolation: means the physical separation and confinement of an individual or groups of individuals who are infected or are reasonably believed to be infected with a contagious or possibly contagious disease from non-isolated individuals, to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to non-isolated individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• 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.
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• License: means authorization by a state to engage in health services that are unlawful without the authorization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• licensed and in good standing: means a current, unrestricted license or other authority issued by the professional licensing authority of another state to provide the health services sought or to be rendered in this state during a declared emergency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Limited partnership: means a partnership in commendam formed under the laws of this state or a foreign limited partnership as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• managers: means a person or persons designated by the members of a limited liability company to manage the limited liability company as provided in its articles of organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Mandatory evacuation: means an evacuation that may be ordered when a disaster or emergency has been declared and danger is imminent, conditions exist that seriously imperil or endanger the lives of those in a defined area, and government officials strongly urge and order all persons in designated evacuation areas to relocate to safer locations for their own safety. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Material relationship: means the relationship between a person and a benefit corporation or any of its subsidiaries if any of the following apply:

  (a)  The person is, or has been within the last three years, an employee, other than a benefit officer, of the benefit corporation, or an affiliate of the benefit corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Member: means a person with a membership interest in a limited liability company with the rights and obligations specified under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Member of the family: means , with respect to any designated beneficiary:

              (a) The spouse of such beneficiary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092

• Mental health support personnel: includes but is not limited to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and volunteer crisis counseling groups. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Minimum vote: means :

  (a)  In the case of a business corporation, the approval by holders of two-thirds of the shares present and voting of each class or series and any other approval or vote required under the Business Corporation Law or the articles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• New entity: means the entity into which constituent entities consolidate, as identified in the agreement or certificate of consolidation provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Operating agreement: means any agreement, written or oral, of the members as to, or in the case of a limited liability company having a single member, any written agreement between the member and the company memorializing the affairs of a limited liability company and the conduct of its business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Parish president: means the president of any parish, mayor-president, mayor of New Orleans (Orleans Parish), or police jury president. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of this state or a foreign partnership as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, domestic or foreign limited liability company, joint venture, trust including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust, or any other form of trust, estate, or association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any similar entity or any combination of the foregoing acting in concert, but shall not include any joint venture partnership exclusively engaged in owning, managing, leasing, or developing immovable or corporeal movable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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.
• 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.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• program: means the activities directed toward the accomplishment of providing indigent defender services under the Louisiana Public Defender Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• program: means the Indigent Parents' Representation Program required by the Louisiana Children's Code and administered in accordance with the provisions of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Protected health information: includes any health or medical information, document, or record designated as confidential by state or federal law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Provider: means any physician, hospital, or other person, organization, institution, or group of persons licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public health authority: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, or his designee, and the state health officer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• public health emergency: means an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition that:

              (a) Is believed to be caused by any of the following:

              (i) Bioterrorism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762

• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public school: means any school conducted within the state under the authority and supervision of a city, parish, or other local school board and any educational institution supported by and under the control of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Qualified disability expense: means an expense made for a purpose authorized in federal law and regulation relative to ABLE accounts for the benefit of a person with a disability who is a designated beneficiary participating in the program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Quarantine: means the physical separation and confinement of an individual or groups of individuals, who are or may have been exposed to a contagious or possibly contagious disease and who do not show signs or symptoms of a contagious disease, from non-quarantined individuals, to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to non-quarantined individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Regional director: means the person in the employment of the board chosen to oversee and enforce standards and guidelines within a service region created by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Regional office: means the office established for a service region as provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• School counselor: is a member of the school faculty who by training and background is qualified to engage in educational and vocational counseling and advisement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3002
• Scope of practice: means the extent of the authorization to provide health services granted to a health practitioner by a license issued to the practitioner in the state in which the principal part of the practitioner's services are rendered, including any conditions imposed by the licensing authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
• Secure registration card: means a secure form of identification which meets the following criteria:

              (a) Is built on nationally recognized standards-based security features and enrollment vetting and issuance processes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782

• self-generated revenue: means all revenue received by a judicial district including revenue received as a result of grants or donations or other forms of assistance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• self-generated revenue: means all revenue received by a judicial district except revenue received as a result of grants, donations, or other forms of assistance when the terms and conditions thereof or of agreements pertaining thereto require otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Service region: means one of the public defender service regions created by the board as authorized in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Specific public benefit: means any of the following:

  (a)  Serving low-income or underserved individuals or communities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Specimens: include but are not limited to blood, sputum, urine, stool, other bodily fluids, wastes, tissues, and cultures necessary to perform required tests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• State licensing authority: means a professional licensing board, agency, or commission with authority to license health practitioners in this state to provide the health services proposed to be provided by a volunteer health practitioner in response to a declared emergency, and which shall have administrative disciplinary jurisdictional authority over volunteer health practitioners with respect to their offering or provision of such health services in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• State Public Defender: means the person in the employment of the board chosen to administer the statewide public defender system for the delivery of public defender services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subsidiary: means , in relation to a person, an entity in which the person owns beneficially or of record fifty percent or more of the outstanding equity  interests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Surviving entity: means the constituent entity surviving a merger, as identified in the agreement or certificate of merger provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Task Force on Legal Representation in Child Protection Cases: means the task force created by House Concurrent Resolution No. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Tests: include but are not limited to any diagnostic or investigative analyses necessary to prevent the spread of disease or protect the public's health, safety, and welfare. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Third-party standard: means a recognized standard for defining, reporting, and assessing the performance of corporations in producing general public benefit and specific public benefits which is all of the following:

  (a)  Comprehensive in that it assesses the effect of the corporation and its operations in producing general public benefit and any specific public benefit specified in the articles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Tuition: means the mandatory educational charges imposed by an institution of postsecondary education and all fees required as a condition of enrollment, as delineated by the Louisiana Tuition Trust Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• 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}
• Variable earnings: means that portion of funds in an education savings account invested in equities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Volunteer health practitioner: means a health practitioner who provides health services in this state for a host entity, whether or not the practitioner receives compensation for those services so long as the person who receives the health services does not pay and is not asked to pay directly or indirectly for the health services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782