Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 17 > Chapter 8 - Education of Students With Exceptionalities

• Accepted claim: means either of the following:

  (a)  A nonelectronic claim on a HCFA 1500 form or Uniform Billing Form 92 (UB92), properly completed according to Medicare guidelines. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

• Accident: means an unexpected or unforeseen actual, identifiable, precipitous event happening suddenly or violently, with or without human fault, and directly producing at the time objective findings of an injury which is more than simply a gradual deterioration or progressive degeneration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Activities: means marketing, promotions, sales efforts, events, and any other services that are reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Activity statement: means any written communication from a health care provider that advises an enrollee or insured of covered health care services that have been billed to a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Adjusted for inflation: means increased in accordance with the formula for inflation adjustment set forth in Exhibit C to the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Administrator: means the secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Adoption date: means the date as of which the board of directors of the reorganizing mutual initially approves and adopts the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Adoption date: means the date as of which the board of directors of the reorganizing mutual initially approves and adopts the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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 a person who directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Affiliate: means a person who directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the person specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Affiliate: means a person who directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the person specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Allocable share: means allocable share as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriate early childhood program: means a developmentally appropriate program for young children, ages three to five years, which is in compliance with regulatory guidelines to be issued by the department pursuant to this Part and which is approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles: means the original articles of incorporation and all amendments thereto including those contained in merger agreements or, if restated, the latest restatement thereof except in those instances in which the context refers expressly to the original articles of incorporation only. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Assessed business: means a business operated by a business owner who is required to pay an assessment pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Assessment: means the levy imposed pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bail enforcement: means the apprehension or surrender of a person who is released on bail or who has failed to appear at any stage of the proceedings to answer the charge before the court in which he may be prosecuted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1582
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• 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.
• Base health care facility: means a facility or institution providing health care services, including but not limited to a hospital or other licensed inpatient center, ambulatory surgical or treatment center, skilled nursing facility, inpatient hospice facility, residential treatment center, diagnostic, laboratory, or imaging center, or rehabilitation or other therapeutic health setting that has entered into a contract or agreement with a facility-based physician. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• 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}
• Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this Chapter, with respect to his unemployment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Bill: means any written or electronic communication that sets forth the amount owed by an enrollee or insured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Blind student: means an individual who is identified by a functional vision assessment as having vision loss which interferes with the ability to perform academically and which requires the use of specialized textbooks, techniques, materials, or equipment to access the same academic content as the student's sighted peers or who has one of the following:

              (a) A visual acuity of 20/70 or less, near acuity in the better eye with correcting lenses, or both, or has a limited field of vision such that the widest diameter subtends an angular distance of no greater than twenty degrees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1982

• Board: means the Board of Directors of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.22
• Board: means the Board of Commissioners of St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:7801
• Braille: means the system of reading and writing through touch commonly known as standard English Braille. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1982
• Brand family: means all styles of cigarettes sold under the same trade mark and differentiated from one another by means of additional modifiers or descriptors, including but not limited to "menthol" "lights" "kings" and "100s" and includes any brand name (alone or in conjunction with any other word), trademark, logo, symbol, motto, selling message, recognizable pattern of colors, or any other indicia of product identification identical or similar to, or identifiable with, a previously known brand of cigarettes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Business: means any type of tourism business, including but not limited to any tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations, recreational vehicle park, privately owned or managed campgrounds, other lodging intended for short-term occupancy, restaurant, tourism attraction, activity provider, and other tourism businesses that benefit from the visitor economy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Business entity: shall mean a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Business owner: means any person recognized by the tourist commissioners as the owner of the business subject to assessment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Capital: means the sum of capital stock, surplus, and undivided profits or, as to mutual state banks, as defined by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Center: means the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.22
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Child: means a person who has not reached age eighteen or otherwise been legally emancipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of eighteen years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Child and Adult Care Food Program: means the federal nutrition reimbursement program as funded by the United States Department of Agriculture through the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Child Care and Development Fund: means the child care programs funded through the federal Child Care and Development Fund Block Grant Act and administered by the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Child day care center: means any place or facility operated by any institution, political subdivision, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group for the purpose of providing care, supervision, and guidance of seven or more children, not including those related to the caregiver, unaccompanied by parent or legal custodian, on a regular basis for at least twelve and one-half hours in a continuous seven-day week. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• cigarette: includes "roll-your-own" i. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Claim: means a request by a health care provider for payment from a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Claim: means a request by a pharmacist for payment by a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• classification: means the process of grouping risks with similar risk characteristics so that differences in costs may be recognized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Clean claim: means an accepted claim that has no defect or impropriety including any lack of required substantiating documentation or other particular circumstance requiring special treatment that prevents timely payment from being made on the claim under this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Commission: means the St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:7801
• Commission: shall mean a fee paid to an insurance producer as a percentage of the premium generated by a sold insurance policy, or direct compensation or reward of a producer when the same is calculated as a flat fee or as a percentage of the premium or on the profit to the principal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Commission: means the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1
• commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1451
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of alcohol and tobacco control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance, or his deputy, or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance, or his deputy, or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Competitive market: means any market except those which have been found to be noncompetitive pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consolidated activity statement and bill: means any written or electronic communication from a health care provider that advises an enrollee or insured of covered health care services that have been billed to a health insurance issuer and which sets forth an amount owed by an enrollee or insured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contracted health care provider: means a health care provider that has entered into a contract or agreement directly with a health insurance issuer or with a health insurance issuer through a network of providers for the provision of covered health care services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Contracted reimbursement rate: means the aggregate maximum amount that a contracted health care provider has agreed to accept from all sources for provision of covered health care services under the health insurance coverage applicable to the enrollee or insured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Contractual obligations: means the open contract balance at the close of business on September thirtieth. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1553
• Contributions: means the money payments to the state unemployment compensation fund, required by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Control: has the meaning set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Control: means the same as that set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Correct claims address: means the address appearing on an enrollee's or insured's current identification card issued by the health insurance issuer as the current address at which claims are received, or, if no address appears on the identification card, the current address for receipt of claims provided by the health insurance issuer to the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• coverage: means benefits consisting of health care services provided directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or otherwise and including items and services paid for as health care services under any hospital or medical service policy or certificate, hospital or medical service plan contract, preferred provider organization agreement, or health maintenance organization contract offered by a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Covered health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease that are either covered and payable under the terms of health insurance coverage or required by law to be covered. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. ^{Source: OCC}
• Days: means calendar days unless otherwise specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1972
• Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1962
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.2
• Dependent: means the person or persons to whom, under the provisions of Part II of this Chapter, compensation shall be paid upon the death of the injured employee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Depository: means an institution which contracts with the state librarian to participate in the public document depository system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
• Director: means the director of the program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1989.2
• directory: means the directory compiled by the attorney general under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Discount billing: means any written or electronic communication issued by a contracted health care provider that appears to attempt to collect from an enrollee or insured an amount in excess of the contracted reimbursement rate for covered services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Districts: means , collectively, Sewer District No. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:7801
• Dividend protections: means provisions in a plan of reorganization designed to protect, through a closed block or other means, the reasonable dividend expectations of policyholders who own individual, dividend-paying policies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Dividend protections: means provisions in a plan of reorganization designed to protect, through a closed block or other means, the reasonable dividend expectations of policyholders who own individual, dividend-paying policies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug Shortage List: means a list of drug products posted on the United States Food and Drug Administration drug shortage website. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Dual billing: means any written or electronic communication issued by a contracted health care provider that sets forth any amount owed by an enrollee or insured that is a health insurance issuer liability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Dyslexia: means an unexpected difficulty in reading for an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader, most commonly caused by a difficulty in phonological processing, which affects the ability of an individual to speak, read, and spell. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:392.11
• Early learning center: means any child day care center, Early Head Start Center, Head Start Center, or stand-alone prekindergarten program not attached to a school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Education service agency: means a regional public multiservice administrative agency authorized by state law to develop, manage, and provide services or programs to local education agencies and includes any other public institution or agency having administrative control and direction over a public elementary or secondary school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1942
• Educational accountability: means the respective responsibilities and duties, under the provisions of this Part, of local school boards, administrators, principals, teachers, and other personnel; the state Department of Education and its personnel; parents, students, and any other governing authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• Effective date: means the date upon which the reorganization of the reorganizing mutual is effective, as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Effective date: means the date upon which the reorganization of the reorganizing mutual is effective, as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Electronic claim: means a claim submitted by a health care provider or its agent to a health insurance issuer in compliance with the provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (42 USC 1302d et seq. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Electronic claim: means the transmission of data for purposes of payment of covered prescription drugs, other products and supplies, and pharmacist services in an electronic data format specified by a health insurance issuer and approved by the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Eligible member: means a person who, on the adoption date, owns, or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own, a policy of a mutual insurer or a reorganized insurer that is, or that is deemed by the plan of reorganization to be, in force with such insurer on such adoption date, or a person who is deemed eligible by the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Eligible member: means a person who, on the adoption date, owns, or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own, a policy of a mutual insurer or a reorganized insurer that is, or that is deemed by the plan of reorganization to be, in force with such insurer on such adoption date, or a person who is deemed eligible by the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Employer: means :

              (a) Any employing unit which in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year paid for services in employment wages of one thousand five hundred dollars or more for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks were consecutive, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, had in employment at least one individual regardless of whether the same individual was in employment each day. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472

• Employment: means , subject to the other provisions of this Subsection, any services including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied;

              B. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472

• Employment security administration fund: means the employment security administration fund established by this Chapter, from which administrative expenses under this Chapter shall be paid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• 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.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Exception report: means an electronic communication related to an electronic claim submission of each electronic claim transaction in that submission that is not deemed an accepted claim. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Excessive: means a rate that is likely to produce a long-term profit that is unreasonably high for the insurance provided. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• expansion project: means a project or projects for the acquisition, construction, installation, and equipping of additions or improvements to the Ernest N. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.24
• Expenses: means that portion of a rate attributable to acquisition, field supervision, collection expenses, general expenses, taxes, licenses, and fees and does not include loss adjustment expenses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Explanation of benefits: means any written communication clearly identified as issued by the health insurance issuer or its agent that contains information regarding coverage, payment, or other information regarding current status of a claim submitted to the health insurance issuer or its agent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Facility-based physician: means a physician licensed to practice medicine who is required by the base health facility to provide services in a base health care facility as an anesthesiologist, hospitalist, intensivist, neonatologist, pathologist, radiologist, emergency room physician, or other on-call physician who is required by the base health care to provide covered health care services related to an emergency medical condition as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Family child care provider: means an individual who provides child care services for fewer than twenty-four hours per day per child, as the sole caregiver, for six or fewer children, in a private residence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means any person, firm, partnership, association, or state bank, including a usufructuary, who or which occupies a position of peculiar confidence toward any person, firm, association, partnership, trust, or estate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• 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.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• food service establishment: has the meaning set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.24
• 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}
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Functional vision assessment: is a n organized plan for observing how a student uses vision to perform routine tasks within the educational environment and assesses whether a visual impairment is interfering with the student's ability to access educational content. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1982
• Fund: means the unemployment compensation fund established by this Chapter, to which all contributions required and from which all benefits provided under this Chapter shall be paid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• 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
• Governing body: means the board or body in which the bond issuing power of a governmental unit is vested. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5121
• Governmental unit: means the state of Louisiana, municipalities, parishes, parish and municipal school boards and districts, levee boards and districts, housing authorities, bridge authorities, community improvement agencies, redevelopment agencies, all other political subdivisions of the state, public trusts, corporations, districts, boards, authorities, agencies, and units of local government and nonprofit corporations created by or governed by the governing authorities of parishes or municipalities, any special service districts, such as water, sewerage, garbage, and lighting districts created by or pursuant to legislative acts and any other districts, boards, authorities, and agencies of the state of Louisiana authorized to issue bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5121
• 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}
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• 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.
• Health care clearinghouse: means a public or private entity that does  either of the following:

  (a)  Processes or facilitates the processing of information from another entity in a nonstandard format or containing nonstandard data content into standard data elements or a standard transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

• Health care facility: means a facility or institution providing health care services including but not limited to a hospital or other licensed inpatient center, ambulatory surgical or treatment center, skilled nursing facility, inpatient hospice facility, residential treatment center, diagnostic, laboratory, or imaging center, or rehabilitation or other therapeutic health setting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Health care professional: means a physician or other health care practitioner licensed, certified, or registered to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Health insurance coverage: means benefits consisting of prescription drugs, other products and supplies, and pharmacist services provided directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or otherwise and including items and services paid for as prescription drugs, other products and supplies, and pharmacist services under any hospital or medical service policy or certificate, hospital or medical service plan contract, preferred provider organization agreement, or health maintenance organization contract offered by a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Health insurance coverage: means benefits consisting of medical care provided or arranged for directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or otherwise, and includes health care services paid for under any plan, policy, or certificate of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Health insurance issuer: means an insurance company, including a health maintenance organization as defined and licensed pursuant to Subpart I of Part I of Chapter 2 of this Title, unless preempted as an employee benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Health insurance issuer: means any entity that offers health insurance coverage through a policy or certificate of insurance subject to state law that regulates the business of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Health insurance issuer liability: means the contractual liability of a health insurance issuer for covered health care services pursuant to the plan or policy provisions between the enrollee or insured and the health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Health insurance issuer liability: means the contractual liability of a health insurance issuer for covered health care services pursuant to the plan or policy provisions between the enrollee or insured and the health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• HIPPY: means the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
• Home state: shall mean the District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States in which an insurance producer maintains a principal place of residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as an insurance producer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• hotel: as used in this Chapter means and includes any establishment that is engaged in the business of furnishing or providing rooms intended or designed for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests and that consists of ten or more guest rooms. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.15
• Importer: means any person in the United States to whom non-tax-paid cigarettes manufactured in a foreign country are shipped or consigned, any person who removes cigarettes for sale or consumption in the United States from a customs bonded manufacturing warehouse, and any person who smuggles or otherwise unlawfully brings cigarettes into the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Improvement: means the acquisition, construction, installation, or maintenance of any corporeal property with an estimated useful life of five years or more that is reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
• In-home provider: means an individual who provides child care services in the child or children's own home. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Inadequate: means a rate which is unreasonably low for the insurance provided and either the continued use of which endangers the solvency of the insurer using it or will have the effect of substantially lessening competition or creating a monopoly in any market. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• 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}
• Independent contractor: means any person who renders service, other than manual labor, for a specified recompense for a specified result either as a unit or as a whole, under the control of his principal as to results of his work only, and not as to the means by which such result is accomplished, and are expressly excluded from the provisions of this Chapter unless a substantial part of the work time of an independent contractor is spent in manual labor by him in carrying out the terms of the contract, in which case the independent contractor is expressly covered by the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Individualized Education Program: means a written statement developed for a student eligible for special education services pursuant to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 20 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1982
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insurance: shall mean any of the lines of authority as specified in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• insured: means an individual who is enrolled or insured by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• insured: means an individual who is enrolled or insured by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• insured: means a person who is enrolled in or insured by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• 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}
• 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.
• issuer: means any entity that offers health insurance coverage through a policy, contract,  or certificate of insurance subject to state law that regulates the business of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Joint underwriting: means an arrangement established to provide insurance coverage for a risk, pursuant to which two or more insurers contract with the insured for a price and policy terms agreed upon between or among the insurers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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: shall mean a document issued by this state's commissioner of insurance authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• License type: means the type of license applied for or held, which shall include Type I, Type II, and Type III. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Limited line credit insurance: includes credit life, as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Limited line credit insurance producer: shall mean an insurance producer who sells, solicits, or negotiates one or more forms of limited line credit insurance coverage to individuals through a master, corporate, group, or individual policy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Limited lines producer: shall mean an insurance producer authorized by the commissioner of insurance to sell, solicit, or negotiate limited lines insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local education agency: means a public board of education or other public authority legally constituted within Louisiana for administrative control and direction of or to perform a service function for public elementary or secondary schools in a city, parish, or other local public school district or other political subdivision. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1942
• local governmental entity: shall mean the political subdivision or political corporation authorized to execute a cooperative endeavor agreement under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:7633
• Management plan: means a plan adopted or amended pursuant to this Chapter for the development, redevelopment, maintenance, operation, and promotion of a tourism recovery and improvement district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Market: means the interaction between buyers and sellers in the procurement of a line of insurance pursuant to the provisions of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Master Settlement Agreement: means the settlement agreement, and related documents, entered into on November 23, 1998, by the state and leading United States tobacco product manufacturers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Maximum Allowable Cost List: means a listing of the National Drug Code used by a pharmacy benefit manager setting the maximum allowable cost on which reimbursement to a pharmacy or pharmacist may be based. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Member: means : (a) with respect to a mutual insurer, a policyholder who owns or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own a policy of the mutual insurer; or (b) with respect to a mutual insurance holding company, a member of such mutual insurance holding company, as defined in such company's articles of incorporation and bylaws or as defined in the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Member: means : (a) with respect to a mutual insurer, a policyholder who owns or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own a policy of the mutual insurer; or (b) with respect to a mutual insurance holding company, a member of such mutual insurance holding company, as defined in such company's articles of incorporation and bylaws or as defined in the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• NAIC: shall mean the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or its successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• NDC: means the National Drug Code, a numerical identifier assigned to all prescription drugs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Negotiate: shall mean to confer directly with or to offer advice directly to a purchaser, certificate holder, or enrollee, or prospective purchaser, certificate holder, or enrollee, of a particular contract of insurance, including certificates, riders, endorsements, or amendments, concerning any of the benefits, terms, or conditions of the contract if the person engaged in that act is an insurance producer who either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers for purchasers, certificate holders, or enrollees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• network: means an entity, including but not limited to a preferred provider organization as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• network: means an entity other than a health insurance issuer that, through contracts with health care providers, provides or arranges for access by groups of enrollees or insureds to health care services by health care providers who are not otherwise or individually contracted directly with a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• 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.
• Nonelectronic claim: means a claim submitted by a health care provider or its agent to a health insurance issuer or its agent using a HCFA 1500 form or a Uniform Billing Form 92 (UB92), as appropriate, or a successor to either of these forms adopted by the National Uniform Billing Committee or its successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Nonparticipating manufacturer: means any tobacco product manufacturer that is not a participating manufacturer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Office: means the office of workers' compensation administration established pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Office: means the office of state fire marshal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Original bill: A bill which is drafted by a committee. It is introduced by the committee or subcommittee chairman after the committee votes to report it.
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner operator: means a person who provides trucking transportation services under written contract to a common carrier, contract carrier, or exempt haulers which transportation services include the lease of equipment or a driver to the common carrier, contract carrier, or exempt hauler. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Package: means any pack or other container on which a stamp could be applied consistent with and as required by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Paid: means the transfer by the health insurance issuer or its agent of the amount of the health insurance issuer liability on either of the following dates:

  (a)  The date of mailing of a check via the United States Postal Service or a commercial carrier to the correct address. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

• Parent corporation: means a corporation, including a limited liability company, that is or has been organized for the purpose of acquiring, directly or indirectly, all of the common shares of a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Parent corporation: means a stock corporation that is or has been organized for the purpose of acquiring, directly or indirectly, all of the common shares of a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Parish: means the parish of St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:7801
• Part-time employee: means an employee who as a condition of his hiring knowingly accepts employment that (a) customarily provides for less than forty hours per work week, and (b) that is classified by the employer as a part-time position. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Participating manufacturer: has the meaning given that term in section II (jj) of the Master Settlement Agreement and all amendments thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Payor: means the entity responsible, whether by law or contract, for the payment of benefits incurred by a claimant as a result of a work related injury. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, a government or governmental agency, a state or political subdivision of a state, board, estate, trustee or fiduciary, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• person: means an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or any other organization or group of persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Person: shall mean any natural or artificial legal entity including but not limited to individuals, partnerships, associations, trusts, or corporations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Person: means any natural person, trustee, company, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Person: means an individual, public entity, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, association, or any other business entity or juridical person, whether operating on a for-profit or nonprofit basis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Person: as used in this Chapter shall have the same definition as that contained in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.15
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, a government or governmental agency, a state or political subdivision of a state, board, estate, trustee or fiduciary, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• pharmacies: means any appropriately licensed place within this state where prescription drugs are dispensed and pharmacist services are provided and any place outside of this state where prescription drugs are dispensed and pharmacist services are provided to residents of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Pharmacist: means an individual currently licensed as a pharmacist by the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy to engage in the practice of pharmacy in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Pharmacist: means a licensed pharmacist as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Pharmacist services: means the filling and dispensing of prescription drugs or providing products and supplies, drug therapy, and other patient care services provided by a licensed pharmacist with the intent of achieving outcomes related to the cure, prevention, or management of a disease, elimination or reduction of patient's symptoms, or arresting or slowing of a disease process. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Pharmacist services: means products, goods, or services provided as a part of the practice of pharmacy as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Pharmacy: means any appropriately licensed place where prescription drugs are dispensed as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Pharmacy benefit manager: means an entity that administers or manages a pharmacy benefits plan or program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Phonological processing: means the appreciation of the individual sounds of spoken and written language. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:392.11
• Plan of reorganization: means the plan of reorganization adopted by the reorganizing mutual in compliance with this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Plan of reorganization: means the plan of reorganization adopted by the reorganizing mutual in compliance with this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Policy: means an individual or group policy of insurance issued, or deemed by the plan of reorganization to have been issued, by a mutual insurer or by a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Policy: means an automobile liability, automobile physical damage, or automobile collision policy, or any combination thereof, delivered or issued for delivery in this state, or any binder based on such a policy, insuring a single individual or husband and wife resident of the same household, as named insured, and under which the insured vehicles therein designated are of the following types only:

              (a) A private passenger vehicle that is not used as a public or livery conveyance for passengers, nor rented to others. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1266

• Policy: means an individual or group policy of insurance or annuity contract issued, or deemed by the plan of reorganization to have been issued, by a mutual insurer or by a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Policyholder: means a person who, on the basis of the records and the organizational documents of the mutual insurer or reorganized insurer, is deemed to be a policyholder of such insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Policyholder: means a person who, on the basis of the records and the organizational documents of the mutual insurer or reorganized insurer, is deemed to be a policyholder of such insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• political subdivision: means :

  (1)  Any parish, municipality, special district, school board, sheriff, public board, institution, department, commission, district, corporation, agency, authority, or an agency or subdivision of any of these, and other public or governmental body of any kind which is not a state agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102

• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Pretrial conference: A meeting of the judge and lawyers to discuss which matters should be presented to the jury, to review evidence and witnesses, to set a timetable, and to discuss the settlement of the case.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• producer: shall mean a person required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance, and includes all persons or business entities otherwise referred to in this Code as "insurance agent" or "agent" or "insurance broker" or "broker" or "insurance solicitor" or "solicitor" or "surplus lines broker". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Program: means the Governor's Program for Gifted Children. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1989.2
• projects: means one or more of any combination of convention, exhibition, and tourist facilities, including a convention center hotel with a multi-story parking garage and bridge connecting the hotel and the south end of the convention center, the "Convention Center Headquarters Hotel Project" and the necessary land, acquired by lease or purchase, site improvements, infrastructure, furnishings, machinery, equipment, and appurtenances for any such facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.11
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• provider: means :

  (a)  A physician or other health care practitioner licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

• provider: means a health care professional or a health care facility or the agent or assignee of such professional or facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1872
• Public document: means informational matter, for public distribution regardless of format, method of reproduction, source, or copyright, originating in or produced with the imprint of, by the authority of, or at the total or partial expense of, any state agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
• 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 schools: means the public elementary and secondary schools governed by the parish and city school boards. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• Pupil progression plan: means the comprehensive plan developed and adopted by each city and parish school board which shall be based on student performance in the state testing program with goals and objectives which are compatible with the Louisiana competency-based education program contained within La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• Purchase: means acquisition in any manner, for any consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rate: means that cost of insurance per exposure unit, whether expressed as a single number or as a prospective loss cost, with an adjustment to account for the treatment of loss adjustment expenses, expenses, profit, and variation in expected future loss experience, prior to any application of individual risk variations based on actual past loss or expense considerations, and does not include minimum premiums. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• receipt: means :

  (a)  For a nonelectronic claim:

  (i)  For a claim mailed via the United States Postal Service for which no return receipt is requested, the physical receipt of the claim by the health insurance issuer or its agent designated for the receipt of claims at the correct claims address, as documented in accordance with claims filing procedures filed by the health insurance issuer with the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

• 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: means the child, grandchild, niece, or nephew of the primary child care provider of a family child care provider or in-home provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• relative: means a natural or adopted child or grandchild of the caregiver or a child in the legal custody of the caregiver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Released claims: means released claims as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Releasing parties: means releasing parties as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Remedial program: means a program to assist students to overcome educational deficits identified as a result of the state's testing program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• Remittance advice: means a written or electronic communication explaining the issuer's action on each claim adjudicated by the issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831
• Remittance advice: means a written or electronic communication explaining the health insurance issuer's action on each claim adjudicated by the issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• Reorganized company: means either: (a) a reorganized insurer resulting from the reorganization of a mutual insurer under this Subpart; or (b) a reorganized insurance holding company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Reorganized company: means either: (a) a reorganized insurer resulting from the reorganization of a mutual insurer under this Subpart; or (b) a reorganized insurance holding company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Reorganized insurance holding company: means a former mutual insurance holding company reorganized as a stock insurance holding company, or a stock insurance holding company into which a mutual insurance holding company has been merged, pursuant to a plan of reorganization under this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Reorganized insurance holding company: means a former mutual insurance holding company reorganized as a stock insurance holding company, or a stock insurance holding company into which a mutual insurance holding company has been merged, pursuant to a plan of reorganization under this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• Reorganized insurer: means the following:

              (a) With respect to a conversion of a mutual insurer under this Subpart, the domestic stock insurer into which a mutual insurer is being or has been reorganized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2

• Reorganized insurer: means the following:

              (a) With respect to a conversion of a mutual insurer under this Subpart, the domestic stock insurer into which a mutual insurer is being or has been reorganized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236

• Reorganizing mutual: means a mutual insurer or mutual insurance holding company that is reorganizing pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
• Reorganizing mutual: means a mutual insurer or mutual insurance holding company that is reorganizing pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
• 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).
• Residual market mechanism: means an arrangement, either voluntary or mandated by law, involving participation by insurers in the equitable apportionment of risks among insurers for insurance which may be afforded applicants who are unable to obtain insurance through ordinary methods. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Retailer: means "retail dealer" as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Rural hospital: shall mean either:

  (a)  A hospital with sixty or fewer beds located in either:

  (i)  A parish with a population of less than fifty thousand according to the most recent federal decennial census. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1831

• Sales Entity Affiliate: means an entity that sells cigarettes that it acquires directly from a manufacturer or importer and is affiliated with that manufacturer or importer as established by documentation received directly from that manufacturer or importer to the satisfaction of the attorney general. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• School: means the Thrive Academy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1972
• School: means the Jimmy D. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1962
• School: means the Louis Armstrong High School for the Arts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.2
• School board: means a parish or city school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• School district: means the area of each parish or municipality under the jurisdiction of a school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• School personnel: means the teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and other professional personnel of the public schools of the state including members of the professional staff of the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• Secretary: means the head of the Department of Revenue, which is the agency responsible for collection of the excise tax on cigarettes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Secretary: means the secretary of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1
• Sell: shall mean to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• sell: means any transfer, exchange, or barter in any manner or by any means for any consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Shares: means the units into which the stockholders' rights to participate in the control of the state bank, in its profits, or in the distribution of corporate assets are divided. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Solicit: shall mean to attempt to sell insurance or to ask or urge a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Sponsoring organization: means a public or nonprofit private organization that is recognized by the department and that is entirely responsible for the administration of the Child and Adult Care Food Program for a provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Spread pricing: means any amount a pharmacy benefit manager charges or claims from a health plan provider or managed care organization for payment of a prescription or for pharmacy services that is different than the amount the pharmacy benefit manager paid to the pharmacist or pharmacy who filled the prescription or provided the pharmacy services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1863
• Stamping agent: means a dealer that is authorized to affix tax stamps to packages or other containers of cigarettes under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
• State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• State agency: means an office, department, board, bureau, commission, council, institution, college or university, division, officer, or other person or group within the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of state government that is authorized to exercise or that exercises any of the functions of the government of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
• state agency: means any board, commission, department, agency, special district, authority, or other entity of the state and, as used in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102
• State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.22
• State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1972
• State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• State Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1962
• State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.2
• State superintendent: means the state superintendent of education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1972
• State superintendent: means the state superintendent of education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1962
• State superintendent: means the state superintendent of education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.2
• Stockholder: means the holder of record of one or more shares. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• subscriber: means the participant or policyholder; "attorney-in-fact" means the representative of the subscribers through whom reciprocal insurance is exchanged; and "reciprocal insurer" means the organization or group of all the subscribers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:161
• suit: means civil actions as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Art. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplementary rate information: means any manual or plan of rates, classification, rating schedule, minimum premium, policy fee, rating rule, and any other similar information needed to determine an applicable rate in effect or to be in effect. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Supporting information: means the experience and judgment of the filer and the experience or data of other insurers or organizations relied upon by the filer, the interpretation of any statistical data relied upon by the filer, descriptions of methods used in making the rates, and other similar information relied upon by the filer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Surcharge: means any charge to the consumer that is required to be paid for goods and services that is passed through to the consumer as a charge on the customer's receipt or guest folio. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Surplus lines broker: shall mean an insurance producer who solicits, negotiates, or procures a policy with a surplus lines insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Terminate: shall mean to cancel the relationship between an insurance producer and the insurer or the termination of a producer's authority to transact insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tobacco product manufacturer: means an entity that after July 1, 1999, directly, and not exclusively through any affiliate:

  (a)  Manufactures cigarettes anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in the United States, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer (except where such importer is an original participating manufacturer, as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement, that will be responsible for the payments under the Master Settlement Agreement with respect to such cigarettes as a result of the provisions of subsection II(mm) of the Master Settlement Agreement and that pays the taxes specified in subsection II(z) of the Master Settlement Agreement, and provided that the manufacturer of such cigarettes does not market or advertise such cigarettes in the United States). See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062

• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Total voting power: means the entirety of the voting power. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Tourist commission: means a political subdivision created pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Tourist commissioners: means the members of the governing body of a tourist commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Travel insurance: shall mean that line of insurance defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Unfairly discriminatory: means not capable of being actuarially justified or based on race, color, creed, or national origin. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Uniform application: shall mean the current version of the NAIC Uniform Application for resident and nonresident producer licensing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Uniform Business Entity Application: shall mean the current version of the NAIC Uniform Business Entity Application for resident and nonresident business entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Uniform claim form: shall mean a form prescribed by rule by the department pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1852
• United States: when used in a geographical sense, includes the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Units sold: means the number of individual cigarettes sold in the state by the applicable tobacco product manufacturer, whether directly or through a distributor, retailer, or similar intermediary or intermediaries, during the year in question, as measured by excise taxes collected by the state on packs, or "roll-your-own" tobacco containers, bearing the excise tax stamp of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• University: means the college or university at which the program's activities are held, if any. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1989.2
• University: means the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.2
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Voting power: means the right vested by law or by the articles or the bylaws in the stockholder or in one or more classes of stockholder to vote in the determination of any particular question or matter coming before meetings of the stockholders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Voting power present: means that part of the voting power exercisable by the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting at which the stockholders take action on a particular question or matter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Wages: means all remuneration for services, including vacation pay, holiday pay, dismissal pay, commissions, bonuses, the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash, and WARN Act payments received pursuant to 29 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Wages: means average weekly wage at the time of the accident. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.