Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 23 > Chapter 10 - Workers' Compensation

• Absentee by mail and early voting counting equipment: means a device capable of counting and producing results of votes cast on paper absentee by mail and early voting ballots. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Abused parent: means the parent who has not committed family violence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Accepted risk: means an employer, other than one eligible for a preferred risk policy, who in good faith attempts to procure or retain workers' compensation insurance but is unable to do so through ordinary methods in the voluntary market from an admitted insurer with a minimum "A-" A. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392
• 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
• Account: means any of the four accounts created by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Account: means the Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority Dedicated Fund Account administered by the board of directors as a dedicated fund account in the state treasury. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2131
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Activity: means a distinct subset of functions or services within a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• administrator: means the administrator of the fraud section of the office of workers' compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1295
• 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.
• Affiliate: means a person who directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agency: means and includes the boards, commissions, departments, agencies, offices, officers, and other instrumentalities, or any or all of these, within the executive branch of state government which are abolished by this Title or which are transferred and placed within departments of the state government created and established or continued by this Title or transferred to and placed within the office of the governor as provided by this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Agency: means and includes any office, department, board, commission, institution, division, office, instrumentality, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions in the executive branch of state government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Aggregating period: means :

              (a) For a political committee, except a political committee which supports only one candidate, the period from January first of the calendar year through December thirty-first of the same calendar year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Animal: means any animal other than man and includes fowl, birds, fish, and reptiles, wild or domestic, living or dead. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a person who seeks to be examined for licensure or registration by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Applicant: means a person who seeks to be examined for licensure by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1473
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Apprentice permit: means a permit issued by the Louisiana Department of Health to authorize a person desiring to become a licensed midwife to obtain clinical experience under supervision of a physician, certified nurse midwife, certified nurse practitioner specially qualified by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing, or licensed midwife. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Appropriate governing authority: shall mean the governing authority of East Baton Rouge Parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• Appropriate jurisdiction: shall mean East Baton Rouge Parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• 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
• Architect: means a person who is technically and legally qualified to practice architecture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:141
• Armed security officer: is a n individual who provides security services and who at any time wears, carries, possesses, or has access to a firearm or any other weapon defined by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• 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
• Assessable insureds: means insureds who procure a policy of insurance for one or more subject lines of business in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Assessable insurers: means insurers authorized to write one or more subject lines of business in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Assistant Secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of environmental affairs of the Department of Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:731
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Association: means the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association created under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Association: means the Louisiana Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association created by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Association similar to the association: means any guaranty association, security fund or other insolvency mechanism that affords protection similar to that of the association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Athlete: means an individual designated as such by the board, an educational institution, a professional athletic organization, or other board-approved organization who participates in an athletic activity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Athletic injury: means any injury, illness, or medical condition sustained by an athlete as a result of his participation in exercises, sports, games, or recreational activities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Athletic trainer: means an individual licensed by the board as an athletic trainer with the specific qualifications set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Attack: means any action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this state, whether through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological or biological means or other weapons or methods. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:63
• Authority: means the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2131
• Authorized emergency vehicle: means a vehicle of a fire department, a vehicle of the department's weights and standards police force, a police vehicle, a private vehicle, a privately owned vehicle belonging to members of an organized volunteer fire department or fire district when so designated or authorized by the fire chief of that fire department or fire district, an industrial-owned vehicle assigned to members of a fire department or fire district when so designated or authorized by the fire chief of that fire department or fire district, a vehicle parked or stopped by elevator repair or construction personnel while responding to an elevator emergency, such as ambulances and emergency medical response vehicles certified by the Louisiana Department of Health that are operated by certified ambulance services, and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development or by the chief of police of any incorporated municipality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• authorized representative: includes one or more of the following:

              (a) A title insurance company or agent licensed to conduct business in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.301

• authorized representative: includes one or more of the following:

              (a) A title insurance company or agent licensed to conduct business in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151

• authorized representative: includes one or more of the following:

  (a)  A title insurance company or agent licensed to conduct business in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.181

• Autocycle: means a three-wheeled motorcycle on which the driver and all passengers ride in either a partially or completely enclosed seating area or in a side-by-side seating area that is equipped with a rollbar or roll cage, safety belts for all occupants, and is designed to be controlled with a steering mechanism and pedals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Autonomous technology: means technology installed on a motor vehicle that has the capability to drive the vehicle on which the technology is installed in high-or full-automation mode, without any supervision by a human operator, with specific driving mode performance by the automated driving system of all aspects of the dynamic driving task that can be managed by a human driver, including the ability to automatically bring the motor vehicle into a minimal-risk condition in the event of a critical vehicle or system failure, or other emergency event. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Axle: means the common axis of rotation of one or more wheels whether power-driven or freely rotating, and whether in one or more segments, and regardless of the number of wheels carried thereon. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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.
• 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.
• barber college: shall include a school of barbering, college of barbering, barber school, barber college, and any other place or institution for the instruction or training of persons to engage in the practice of barbering. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:355
• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Bicycle: means every device upon which any person or persons, if the design accommodates passengers, may ride, propelled exclusively by human power, or an electric-assisted bicycle as defined in this Section, having a saddle or seat for each rider, and having two tandem wheels, either of which is sixteen inches or more in diameter, or three wheels, any one of which is twenty inches or more in diameter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Board: means the Board of Certification and Training for solid waste disposal system operators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Board: means the Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Board: means the board of directors of the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Board: means the ethics body which has jurisdiction over elected officials under Chapter 15 of Title 42 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:51
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Private Security Examiners, an agency in the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Board: means the State Board of Architectural Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:141
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Board: means the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Home Inspectors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1473
• Board: means the Louisiana Board of Veterinary Medicine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513
• Board: means the Louisiana Board of Veterinary Medicine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1542
• Board: means the board of directors of the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2131
• Board-approved organization: means one of the following:

              (a) Approved organization, including but not limited to the Amateur Athletic Union, the International Olympic Committee and its affiliates, the Pan American Sports Organization, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, college and university intramural sports, and sports events of the National Federation of State High School Associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302

• BOC: means the Board of Certification, Inc. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Bonds: means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debenture, or other obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• Bonds: means any bonds, notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debenture, or other obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.181
• Branch office: means a separate office which is part of a company licensed by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• CAATE: means the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education or its successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Candidate: means a person who seeks nomination or election to public office, except the office of president or vice president of the United States, presidential elector, delegate to a political party convention, United States senator, United States congressman, or political party office. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• 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
• Capital stock: means the sum of the par value of the shares outstanding plus any amounts in excess of par value transferred from surplus to capital stock in respect of such shares less any part of such amounts transferred from capital stock to surplus as permitted by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Cargo: means the items or freight to be moved, including items placed on or in a vehicle, towed by a vehicle, or a vehicle itself. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Certificate: means the document or documents issued by the board which attest to the competency of the operator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• certificate: means any contract of insurance, indemnity, medical, health or hospital service, suretyship, or annuity issued, proposed for issuance, or intended for issuance by any insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1962
• Certificate of approval: means a certificate issued by the Louisiana Board of Veterinary Medicine to a registered veterinary technician. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1542
• Certification: means the process or act whereby an operator meets the requirements for obtaining a certificate of competency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Certified: means holding a currently valid certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Certified nurse midwife: means a nurse authorized by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing to practice as a certified nurse midwife in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Chairman: means the principal executive officer of a political committee regardless of his title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• 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
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Classify: means the process and act of the board that designates a specific type of solid waste management system which is required to employ certified operators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Closing date: means the date through which the report is complete. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Coastal Plan: means the successor to that program established by Act 35 of the 1970 Regular Session to provide a residual market for adequate insurance on property in the coastal areas of the state, now available as a program of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Combination of vehicles: means every group of two or more vehicles howsoever joined together which are drawn or propelled by a single motor vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Commercial solid waste: means garbage, trash, and refuse generated by businesses involved in the exchange or distribution of goods or commodities, but does not include or mean recognizable industrial byproducts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Commission: means the Streamlining Government Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Commissioner: means the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of conservation of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of insurance of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1942
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1962
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• committee: means two or more persons, other than a husband and wife, and any legal entity organized for the primary purpose of supporting or opposing one or more candidates, propositions, recalls of a public officer, or political parties, which accepts contributions in the name of the committee, or makes expenditures from committee funds or in the name of the committee, or makes a transfer of funds to or receives a transfer of funds from another committee, or receives or makes loans in an aggregate amount in excess of five hundred dollars within any calendar year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• 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.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation.
• Construction or development project: means a program of construction or development, either new or continuing, that will be planned and implemented with the primary goal of improving ports and harbors in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• Continuing education: means participation in an organized learning experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction and approved by the board for the purpose of meeting requirements for renewal of registration under these regulations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Continuing training: means the process whereby a certified operator obtains required formal training in the area of solid waste management. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract security company: means any person engaging in the business of providing, or which undertakes to provide, a security officer on a contractual basis for another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Contractual obligation: means any obligation under a policy or contract or certificate under a group policy or contract, or portion thereof, for which coverage is provided by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Contribution: except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, means a gift, conveyance, payment, or deposit of money or anything of value, or the forgiveness of a loan or of a debt, made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination or election of a person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Control: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or non-management services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Controlled-access highway: means every highway, street, or roadway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such highway, street, or roadway. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Corporation: means the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corporation: means the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, and includes the residual market insurance programs known as the "Coastal Plan" and the "FAIR Plan". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Court: means any district court, juvenile court, or family court having jurisdiction over the parents and/or child at issue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Court-monitored domestic abuse intervention program: means a program, comprised of a minimum of twenty-six in-person sessions, that follows a model designed specifically for perpetrators of domestic abuse. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Coverage area: means the parish, parishes, or other geographical area within the jurisdiction of a local early learning enrollment coordinator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• Covered claim: means the following:

              (a) An unpaid claim, including one for unearned premiums that arises out of and is within the coverage and not in excess of the applicable limits of an insurance policy to which this Part applies issued by an insurer, if such insurer becomes an insolvent insurer after September 1, 1970, and the policy was issued by such insurer and any of the following:

              (i) The claimant or insured is a resident of this state at the time of the insured event, provided that, for entities, the residence of a claimant or insured is the state in which its principal place of business is located at the time of the insured event. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055

• covered policy: means any policy or contract within the scope of this Part as set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Creditable service: means prior service plus membership service for which credit is allowable as provided in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Department: means the Department of Occupational Standards; and

  (2)  "Director" means the Director of Occupational Standards. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1

• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:27
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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 17:407.82
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• 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: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• Deputy secretary: means the officer authorized to be appointed by the secretary to serve as his principal administrative assistant. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Designated representative: is a person in a position of authority within the company he represents, such as a partner of a partnership, an officer or director of a corporation, the proprietor of a proprietorship, or anyone who acts in a managerial capacity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1176
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct supervision: means instruction and directions requiring the physical presence of a licensed veterinarian on the premises. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1542
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• district court: shall mean the Sixteenth Judicial District Court. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.181
• district court: shall mean the First Judicial District Court. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.301
• district court: shall mean the Nineteenth Judicial District Court. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• District office: means the following offices but shall not include any major office:

              (a) The office of a member of the Louisiana Legislature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483

• Divided highway: means any highway divided into roadways by a median, physical barrier, or clearly indicated dividing section so constructed as to impede vehicular traffic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Document: means any written or otherwise tangible material intended to be or actually used as a part of or any evidence of the work history of any school employee including but not limited to any and all reports, comments, reprimands, correspondence, memoranda, evaluations, observations, and grievances relative to a particular school employee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1233
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Driver: means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Early learning staff: means a person employed as a full-time staff member in a licensed early learning center or a registered family child day care home. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.82
• 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 institution: means a university, college, junior college, high school, junior high school, or grammar school, whether public or private. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Election: means and includes all elections held in Louisiana, whether primary, general, or special. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Election: means any primary, general, or special election held, pursuant to the laws of this state or a parish or municipal charter or ordinance or a court order, to choose a public officer or nominee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• 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}
• Emergency management: means the immediate care given to an injured athlete under the general supervision of the team or consulting physician. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Employee: means any person legally occupying a position in the state service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Employer: means any entity who is required to pay and has paid into the fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1371.1
• Employer: means the state of Louisiana or any of its boards, commissions, departments, agencies, and courts which are contributing members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• En banc: In the bench or "full bench." Refers to court sessions with the entire membership of a court participating rather than the usual quorum. U.S. courts of appeals usually sit in panels of three judges, but may expand to a larger number in certain cases. They are then said to be sitting en banc.
• 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.
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Essential property insurance: means any of the following coverages against direct loss to property as defined by the plan of operation approved by the commissioner of insurance:

  (a)  Fire, with or without extended coverage and vandalism and malicious mischief. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292

• Examination: means a written examination taken by applicants in order to measure their knowledge of solid waste management. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Executive secretary: means the chief administrative officer of the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• 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
• Expenditure: means the gift or payment of money or any thing of value for the purchase of food, drink, or refreshment for a legislator, for the spouse or minor child of a legislator, or for a public servant, other than a legislator, in the legislative branch of state government and any gift or payment as permitted by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:51
• Expenditure: means a purchase, payment, advance, deposit, or gift, of money or anything of value made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination or election of a person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Explosives: means any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities, or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion, or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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.
• FAIR Plan: means the successor to that program established by Act 424 of the 1992 Regular Session, and designated as the "Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan" to provide a residual market for adequate insurance on property in the state, now available as a program of the Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• 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
• Family violence: includes but is not limited to physical or sexual abuse and any offense against the person as defined in the Criminal Code of Louisiana, except negligent injuring and defamation, committed by one parent against the other parent or against any of the children. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Farm tractor: means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement, for drawing plows, mowing machines, and other implements of husbandry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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 government: means any department, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.181
• Federal government: means any department, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.301
• Federal government: means any department, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• 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}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Flammable liquid: means any liquid which has a flash point of seventy degrees F. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Floor amendment: An amendment offered by an individual legisator from the floor during consideration of a bill or other measure, in contrast to a committee amendment.
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Functions: means duties, jurisdiction, powers, rights, and obligations, conferred or imposed upon, or vested in, any agency by law, or exercised, performed, or discharged by any agency without contravention of any provision of law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Fusion technologist: means a person, other than a licensed practitioner, who under the direction and supervision of a licensed practitioner applies radiation while operating fusion technology imaging equipment or uses radioactive materials on humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes upon prescription of a licensed practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Fusion technology: means the operation of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) imaging equipment or any other hybrid imaging equipment identified and recognized by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Gas: means any gas derived from or composed of hydrocarbons, including synthetic gas which is produced from coal, lignite, or petroleum coke and the heat content of which synthetic gas does not exceed 800 BTUs per standard cubic foot. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• General supervision: means the service is furnished under a physician's overall direction and control, but the physician's presence shall not be required during the provision of service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Good faith: means honesty in fact in any conduct of a transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392
• Governing board: means that board of directors which is established under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Governmental entity: means the state or any political subdivision and the federal government as a cost share partner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Gross weight: means the weight of a vehicle and/or combination of vehicles without load on all axles including the steering axle plus the weight of any load thereon. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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.
• Hazardous liquid: means :

              (a) Petroleum or any petroleum product, except as specifically excluded in this Paragraph, and

              (b) Any substance or material which is in liquid state, excluding liquefied natural gas and hydro-carbons incidental thereto, when transported by pipeline facilities and which, as determined by the assistant secretary by rule or regulation in accordance with La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702

• Health care provider: means a hospital, a person, corporation, facility, or institution licensed by the state to provide health care or professional services as a physician, hospital, dentist, registered or licensed practical nurse, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, occupational therapist, psychologist, graduate social worker or licensed clinical social worker, psychiatrist, or licensed professional counselor, and any officer, employee, or agent thereby acting in the course and scope of his employment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Height: means the total vertical dimension of any vehicle above the ground surface including any load and load-holding devices thereon. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Highway: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel, including bridges, causeways, tunnels and ferries; synonymous with the word "street". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Hire and fire authority: shall mean the authority of the representative of the employer who plays an integral part in fulfilling the business of the employer with the responsibility to have closely controlled the injured employee regarding his physical conduct and time, as well as providing significant input into the hiring, retention, and firing decisions regarding that employee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1371.1
• Home inspection: means a written evaluation of two or more of the following component systems of a resale residential building:

              (a) Electrical system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1473

• Home inspector: means any person who, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, holds himself out as a home inspector to the general public or engages in the business of performing home inspections on resale residential buildings for compensation and who examines any component of a building, through visual means and through normal user controls, without the use of mathematical sciences. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1473
• immovable property: means any and all right, title, and interest in a tract of land, including its component parts and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.181
• immovable property: means any and all right, title, and interest in a tract of land, including its component parts and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.301
• immovable property: means any and all right, title, and interest in a tract of land, including its component parts and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• Impaired insurer: means a member insurer which is not an insolvent insurer and is placed under an order of rehabilitation or conservation by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• 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
• 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.
• Industrial solid waste: means solid waste produced in the course of and resulting from any industrial, manufacturing, or mining process, and which is not subject to regulation under the Louisiana Hazardous Waste Control Law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Injunction: means a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or a permanent court ordered injunction, as defined in the Code of Civil Procedure, which prohibits the violent parent from in any way contacting the abused parent or the children except for specific purposes set forth in the injunction, which shall be limited to communications expressly dealing with the education, health, and welfare of the children, or for any other purpose expressly agreed to by the abused parent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insolvent insurer: means an insurer who meets both of the following criteria:

              (a) Is licensed and authorized to transact insurance in this state, either at the time the policy was issued or when the insured event occurred. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055

• Insolvent insurer: means a member insurer which is placed under an order by a court of competent jurisdiction with a finding of insolvency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Instructor: means any person approved and licensed by the board to administer and certify the successful completion of the required minimum training requirements for security officers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Insurable property: means real and tangible personal property at a fixed location in Louisiana when such property is in an insurable condition and basic property insurance is not obtainable in the voluntary market and as further defined by the governing board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Insurance policy: means an insurance contract as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Insured: means the party named on a policy or certificate as the individual with legal rights to the benefits provided by such policy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1962
• Insured: means any named insured, any additional insured, any vendor, lessor, or any other party identified as an insured under the policy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Insurer: means any person, reciprocal exchange, interinsurer, Lloyds insurer, fraternal benefit society, industrial and burial insurer, or any insurer that markets under the Home Service Marketing distribution method and issues a majority of its policies on a weekly or monthly basis, or any other legal entity engaged in the business of insurance, including insurance producers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1962
• Insurers: means insurance companies and group self-insurance associations, by whatever names. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1176
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• 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}
• Intersection: means : The area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines, or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of the roadways of two highways which join one another at, or approximately at, right angles, or the area within which vehicles traveling upon different highways joining at any other angle may come in conflict. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Interstate highway: means a fully controlled access highway which is a part of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Joint committee: means the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works, functioning as a joint legislative committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• Joint committee: means the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works, functioning as a joint legislative committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Length: means the total longitudinal dimension of a single vehicle, a trailer, or a semi-trailer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a certificate issued by the board authorizing the licensee to use radioactive materials or equipment emitting or detecting ionizing radiation on humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Licensed mental health professional: as used in this Chapter means a person who possesses at least a master's degree and who is licensed in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family counseling, or exempt from licensing requirements pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:331
• Licensed midwife: means a person who has completed all requirements of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Licensed midwifery: means the provision of health services in pregnancy and childbirth by a person not a licensed physician or a certified nurse midwife. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Licensed practitioner: means a person licensed to practice medicine, dentistry, podiatry, chiropractic, or osteopathy in this state, or an advanced practice registered nurse licensed to practice in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Licensed veterinarian: means a person who is validly and currently licensed to practice veterinary medicine in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513
• Licensee: means any person to whom a license is granted in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Licensee: means any person who has been issued a license by the board in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1473
• Licensing period: means a two-year period running from April 1 of any year through March 31 of the second successive year; registration or permits may be issued at any time but shall expire on March 31 of the second successive year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Load: means a weight or quantity of anything resting upon something else regarded as its support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Loan: means a transfer of money, property, or anything of value in exchange for an obligation to repay in whole or in part, made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination for election, or election, of any person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Lobbyist: means either of the following:

  (i)  Any person who is employed or engaged for compensation to act in a representative capacity for the purpose of lobbying if lobbying constitutes one of the principal duties of such employment or engagement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:51

• Local early learning enrollment coordinator: means an approved entity that conducts a process for informing families about publicly funded and Type III licensed early childhood care and education programs in the coverage area; collects family preferences; develops and uses a common application process; annually determines demand for publicly funded early childhood care and education within the coverage area; and makes recommendations to the department for the distribution of available publicly funded early childhood care and education slots for children who are economically disadvantaged as defined by the state board within its coverage area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• 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
• major office: means offices voted on throughout the state or a congressional district, the offices of justice of the supreme court or judge of a court of appeal, the offices of members on a state board or commission, or offices which require election from a territorial jurisdiction having a population exceeding two hundred fifty thousand. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1409
• Major office: means the following offices: governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, commissioner of agriculture, commissioner of insurance, the superintendent of education, public service commissioner, justice of the supreme court, court of appeal judge, district court judge in a judicial district comprised of a single parish with a population in excess of four hundred fifty thousand persons as determined by the most recently published decennial federal census where the election district is parishwide, as long as these offices are elective offices, and any candidate for office with an election district containing a population in excess of two hundred fifty thousand persons as determined by the most recently published decennial federal census. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Manager: means the person appointed to the position of manager by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392
• Meeting: means the cost containment meeting approved by the office of worker's compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1176
• Member: means any person included in the membership of the system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Member insurer: means any person who meets both of the following criteria:

              (i) Is licensed and authorized to transact insurance in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055

• Member insurer: means any insurer or health maintenance organization licensed or which holds a certificate of authority to transact in this state any kind of insurance or health maintenance organization business for which coverage is provided by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Metal tire: means every tire, the surface of which is in contact with the highway, is wholly or partly of metal or other hard, nonresilient material. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Midwifery instructor: means a person who has a formal training and supervisory relationship with an apprentice midwife. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Military surplus motor vehicle: means a wheeled, multipurpose or tactical motor vehicle manufactured for, and sold directly to, the Armed Forces of the United States in conformity with contractual specifications and subsequently authorized for sale to civilians. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Minor child: means an unmarried child under the age of eighteen years or an unmarried student under the age of twenty-three years who is the issue of a marriage of a member of this system, the legally adopted child of a member of this system, a child born outside of marriage of a female member of this system, or the child of a male member of this system if acknowledged or filiated pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Mobile home: means : (a) a trailer or semitrailer which is designed, constructed and equipped as a dwelling place, living abode, or sleeping place, either permanently or temporarily, and is equipped for use as a conveyance on highways; or, (b) a trailer or semitrailer whose chassis and exterior shell is designed and constructed for use as a mobile home, as defined in (a), but which is used instead permanently or temporarily for the advertising, sales, display, or promotion of merchandise or services, or for any other commercial purpose except the transportation of property for hire or the transportation of property for distribution by a private carrier. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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.
• Motor driven cycle: means every motorcycle, including every motor scooter, with a motor of not to exceed five horsepower. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle which is self-propelled, and every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails, but excluding a motorized bicycle and an electric-assisted bicycle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Motor vehicle: means every automobile or other motor vehicle which is self-propelled, other than trains and those propelled by electric power from overhead wires. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2131
• Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor, a motorized bicycle, and an electric-assisted bicycle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Municipality: means an incorporated village, town, or city created under the authority of the constitution or laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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}
• Natural gas company: means a person engaged in the production or sale of intrastate natural gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:591
• Net direct premiums: means gross direct premiums, excluding reinsurance assumed, written for subject lines of business, less return premiums, dividends paid or credited to policyholders, or the unused or unabsorbed portions of premium deposits. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Net direct written premiums: means direct gross premiums written in this state on insurance policies to which this Part applies, including policy and membership fees, less return premiums thereon, premiums on policies not taken, and dividends paid or credited to policyholders on such direct business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Nuclear medicine technologist: means a person, other than a licensed practitioner, who under the direction and supervision of a licensed practitioner uses radioactive materials on humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes upon prescription of a licensed practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Objective: is a specific and measurable target for achievement which describes the exact results sought, which is expressed in an outcome-oriented statement that may reflect effectiveness, efficiency, or quality of work, and which may be either numeric or non-numeric. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Office: means each principal operational unit within a department, except the executive office of the secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Office: means the office of multimodal commerce within the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Office: means the office of workers' compensation administration established pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Operational: means steering, braking, accelerating, or monitoring the vehicle and roadway. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Operator: means any person employed in responsible charge of operating all or a portion of a solid waste disposal system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Operator: means every person, other than a chauffeur, who drives or is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway or who is exercising control over or steering a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means a person who holds a legal title to a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale, lease, or transfer of possession thereof with the right of purchase upon the performance of the conditions stated in the agreement, with the right of immediate possession in the vendee, lessee, possessor, or in the event such similar transaction is had by means of mortgage and the mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee, lessee, possessor, or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purposes of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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
• Owners of a property interest: means anyone with a corporeal or incorporeal interest in immovable property filed for record in the conveyance records or mortgage records of the clerk of court and ex officio recorder of mortgages for the parish of Iberia where the property is located, including a naked owner, a usufructuary, a mortgagee, a judgment creditor, or a holder of a personal or predial servitude. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.181
• Owners of a property interest: means anyone with a corporeal or incorporeal interest in immovable property filed for record in the conveyance records or mortgage records of the clerk of court and ex officio recorder of mortgages for the parish where the property is located, including a naked owner, a usufructuary, a mortgagee, a judgment creditor, or a holder of a personal or predial servitude. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.301
• Owners of a property interest: means anyone with a corporeal or incorporeal interest in immovable property filed for record in the conveyance records or mortgage records of the clerk of court and ex officio recorder of mortgages for the parish where the property is located, including a naked owner, a usufructuary, a mortgagee, a judgment creditor, or a holder of a personal or predial servitude. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• Parish custodian: refers to the parish custodian of voting machines and means the persons designated as such by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• parking: means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Parking area: means an area used by the public as a means of access to and egress from, and for the free parking of motor vehicles by patrons of a shopping center, business, factory, hospital, institution, or similar building or location. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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
• parties: means the employee or his dependent and the employer or his insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1271
• 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.
• Passenger car: means any passenger car required to be equipped with safety belts by Federal Motor Vehicle Standard No. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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
• Pedestrian: means any person afoot or utilizing a mobility aid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Performance indicator: means a statement identifying an activity, input, output, outcome, achievement, ratio, efficiency, or quality to be measured relative to a particular goal or objective in order to assess an agency's performance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Permanent partial disability: shall mean any permanent condition, whether congenital or due to injury or disease, of such seriousness as to constitute a hindrance or obstacle to obtaining employment, to retention by an employer, or to obtaining re-employment, if the employee becomes unemployed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1371.1
• Person: means any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, any political subdivision of this state, municipality, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, and any other organization or group of persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:51
• Person: means an individual, firm, association, company, partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, joint venture, cooperative and corporation, or any other group or combination acting in concert; and whether or not acting as a principal, trustee, fiduciary, receiver, or as any other kind of legal or personal representative, or as the successor in interest, assignee, agent, factor, servant, employee, director, officer, or any other representative of such person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513
• Person: means any individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation, association, labor union, political committee, corporation, or other legal entity, including their subsidiaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Person: means any natural person, corporation, political subdivision, association, partnership, limited liability company, receiver, tutor, curator, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Person: means any natural or artificial entity, including but not limited to individuals, partnerships, associations, trusts, or corporations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1962
• Person: means any natural or juridical person, company, insurer, association, organization, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, partnership, business, trust, corporation, or other entity, including governmental entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, or voluntary organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personnel file: means the file or files which contain the cumulative collection of any and all documents maintained by the school system with respect to each individual school employee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1233
• Personnel file custodian: means those persons employed by the school system charged with the duty of maintaining and preserving the personnel files. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1233
• Physical rehabilitation: means the care given to athletes following an athletic injury and recovery. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Physician: means a person who is currently practicing obstetrics and is licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine by the board in the state who is qualified by training and experience to supervise an athletic trainer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302
• Pipeline facility: means and shall include, without limitation, new and existing pipe, right of way, and any equipment, facility, or building used or intended for use in the transportation of hazardous liquids; but, rights of way as used in this Chapter does not authorize the assistant secretary to prescribe the location or the routing of any pipeline facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Pipeline facility: means and shall include, without limitation, new and existing pipe, right of way, and any equipment, facility, or building used or intended for use in the transportation of hazardous liquids; but, rights of way as used in this Chapter does not authorize the assistant secretary to prescribe the location or the routing of any pipeline facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Plan of operation: means the document setting the rules of operation of the corporation, as promulgated by the governing board and approved by the Louisiana Senate Committee on Insurance and the Louisiana House Committee on Insurance pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• 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.
• Police officer: means every officer authorized to direct or regulate traffic or to make arrests for violations of traffic regulations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Policyholder: means a natural or artificial person named as the insured in a current policy issued by the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392
• Port authority: means the governing authority of any port area or port, harbor, and terminal district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• Position: means any office or any employment in the state service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• 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}
• Practice of prevention: shall include but is not limited to the following:

              (a) Working cooperatively with supervisors and coaches in establishing and implementing a program of physical conditioning for athletes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3302

• Practice of veterinary medicine: means :

              (a) To diagnose, treat, correct, change, relieve, or prevent animal disease, deformity, defect, injury, or other physical or mental conditions; including the prescription or administration of any drug, medicine, biologic apparatus, application, anesthetic, or other therapeutic or diagnostic substance or technique, and the use of any manual or mechanical procedure for testing for pregnancy, or for correcting sterility, or infertility, or to render advice or recommendation with regard to any of the above. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513

• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preferred risk: is a n employer who is a Louisiana resident, partnership, or corporation domiciled in this state whose workers' compensation insurance policy meets either of the following conditions:

  (a)  The prospective annual premium is less than five thousand dollars during the succeeding twelve months; the governing classifications of the policy would be in hazard group I, II, or III, as determined in retrospective rating plans approved by the commissioner of insurance; and the employer can demonstrate that its loss ratio has not exceeded seventy-hundredths during the most recent three policy years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392

• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Premiums: means amounts received on covered policies or contracts, less considerations, deposits, dividends, and experience credits thereon. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• 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.
• Principal campaign committee: means a political committee designated by a candidate pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Private road or driveway: means every way or place in private ownership and used for vehicular travel by the owner and those having express or implied permission from the owner, but not by other persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Private security business: is a ny entity that provides protection to persons and property, excluding any law enforcement agency, but including any:

  (a)  Contract security company; or

  (b)  Armored car company or armed courier company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272

• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Producer: means 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" "agent" "insurance broker" "broker" "insurance solicitor" "solicitor" or "surplus lines broker". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1962
• Profit: means income including premiums earned, investment income, and fees less expenses including claims paid and reserved, claims incurred but not reported, loss adjusting expenses, administrative and production costs, and any other expenses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1392
• Program: means a grouping of activities directed toward the accomplishment of a clearly defined objective or set of objectives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Program: means the occupational safety and health program approved by the OSHA section pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1176
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protective counter: means a counter, tabulator, or protective device that will register each time the machine is voted during the life of the machine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Psychiatrist: shall mean an individual licensed to practice medicine by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners or, in the event that the individual is practicing medicine in a jurisdiction other than Louisiana, licensed by the appropriate member board of the Federation of State Medical Boards to practice psychiatry, who has completed a residency in psychiatry, been in clinical practice for at least three years and has training in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of intellectual disabilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1371.1
• Psychologist: shall mean an individual licensed to practice psychology by the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists or licensed to practice medical psychology by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, or, in the event an individual is practicing psychology in a jurisdiction other than Louisiana, licensed by the appropriate member board of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards to practice psychology, who has registered specialty in a relevant clinical area of practice, who has been in clinical practice for at least three years and has training and experience in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of intellectual disabilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1371.1
• Public body: means the state and any parish and any board, authority, agency, district, subdivision, department, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the state or any parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.181
• Public body: means the state, any parish and any city and any board, authority, agency, district, subdivision, department, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the state, parish, or city. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.301
• Public body: means the state and any parish and any board, authority, agency, district, subdivision, department, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the state or any parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.151
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• 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 office: means any state, parish, municipal, ward, district, or other office or position that is filled by election of the voters, except those specifically excepted in Paragraph (3) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Qualifying agent: means a responsible officer or executive employee meeting the experience qualifications set forth herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Quality: means degree or grade of excellence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:102
• Question: means an amendment, proposition, or like matter to be voted on in an election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Radiation therapy technologist: means a person, other than a licensed practitioner, who under the direction and supervision of a licensed practitioner applies radiation to humans for therapeutic purposes upon prescription of a licensed practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Radiographer: means a person, other than a licensed practitioner, who under the direction and supervision of a licensed practitioner applies radiation to humans for diagnostic purposes upon prescription of a licensed practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Radiologic technologist: means any person who is a radiographer, a radiation therapy technologist, a fusion technologist, or a nuclear medicine technologist licensed under this Chapter who under the direction and supervision of a licensed practitioner applies radiation to humans upon prescription of a licensed practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Radiologic technology: means the use of a radioactive substance or equipment emitting or detecting ionizing radiation on humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes upon prescription of a licensed practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Radiologist: means a physician certified by the American Board of Radiology or the American Osteopathic Board of Radiology, the British Royal College of Radiology, or certified as a radiologist by the Canadian College of Physicians and Surgeons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3200
• Railroad: means a carrier of persons or property upon cars, other than streetcars, operated upon stationary rails. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Receiver: means liquidator, rehabilitator, conservator or ancillary receiver, as the context requires. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Receivership court: means the court in the insolvent or impaired insurer's state having jurisdiction over the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of the member insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Recertification: means the process whereby an operator renews an expiring certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• 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}
• Registered veterinary technician: means a skilled person registered by the board as being qualified by academic and practical training to provide veterinary services under the direct supervision and direction of the licensed veterinarian who is responsible for the performance of that veterinary technician. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1542
• Registrant: means an individual who holds a valid registration card issued by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• Registration card: means the identification card issued by the board to a registrant as evidence that the registrant has met the required minimum qualifications. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272
• 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
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• 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).
• Reporting period: shall mean those periods established by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Representative: shall include , but not be limited to, third party administrators, attorneys, or adjusting firms of the party filing the claim on behalf of the employer, insurer or group self-insurance fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1371.1
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Resident: means a person who resides in this state on the date of entry of a court order that determines a member insurer to be an impaired insurer or a court order that determines a member insurer to be an insolvent insurer and to whom a contractual obligation is owed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Residents: shall mean and include persons, partnerships, or corporations, domestic, alien, or foreign. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1942
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retirement: means termination of active service, with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Right of way: means the privilege of the immediate use of the highway. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Road tractor: means every motor vehicle designed, constructed, or used either by itself or for drawing other vehicles used in the construction and maintenance of roads, highways, or streets, and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon, either independently or as a part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Roadway: means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• safety glass: as used in this Chapter shall mean glass so treated or combined with other materials as to reduce, in comparison with ordinary sheet glass or plate glass, the likelihood of injuries to persons by objects from external sources or by glass, when the glass is cracked or broken. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:360
• Safety zone: means the area or space officially set apart within a highway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is protected or is so marked or indicated by adequate signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• 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 bus: means every motor vehicle that is used to transport students to and from school or in connection with school activities, but not including a charter bus or transit bus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• School of veterinary medicine: means any veterinary college or division of a university or college that offers the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine or its equivalent and that conforms to the standards required for accreditation by the American Veterinary Medical Association and approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513
• School system: means a parish or city school system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1233
• Seat belt: means the manual restraint system installed by the manufacturer as required by Federal Motor Vehicle Standard No. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Secretary: means the officer appointed by the governor as the executive head and chief administrative officer of certain departments created and provided for by this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Transportation and Development or his delegated or authorized representative. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Security officer: means an individual who is employed by a contract security company whether armed or unarmed, to protect a person or persons or property or both, and whose duties include but are not limited to the following:

  (a)  Prevention of unlawful intrusion or entry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272

• Security operations manager: means any individual whose duties include but are not limited to the following:

  (i)  Scheduling and assignment of work shifts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3272

• Self-insurer: means a person that covers its liabilities through a qualified individual or group self-insurance program created for the specific purpose of covering liabilities typically covered by insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2055
• Semitrailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property and passengers and so designed in conjunction and used with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests or is carried by another vehicle and having one or more load-carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Senior apprentice permit: means a permit issued by the board to authorize a person desiring to be a licensed midwife to continue obtaining clinical experience under general direction rather than supervision. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• 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.
• Sexual abuse: includes but is not limited to acts which are prohibited by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Shoulder: means the portion of the highway contiguous with the roadway for accommodation of stopped vehicles, for emergency use, pedestrian use, mobility aid use, bicycle use, and for lateral support of base and surface. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Sidewalk: means that portion of a highway between the curb lines, or the lateral lines of a highway, and the adjacent property lines, intended for the use of pedestrians. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• sister: includes step-brothers and step-sisters, and brothers and sisters by adoption. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Solid waste: means garbage, refuse, sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, and agricultural operations, and from community activities; but does not include or mean solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or solid or dissolved materials in irrigation return flows or industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3151
• Special class system: means a pipeline system for distributing gas to a federal, state, or local government facility or to a private facility performing a government function through which the operator receives or purchases gas from an outside source and distributes the gas through a pipeline system to more than one outlet beyond the meter or regulator, which ultimate outlet may, but need not be, individually metered or charged a fee for the gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Special permit: means a written authorization to move or operate on a highway a vehicle or combination of vehicles with indivisible load of size and/or weight exceeding the limits prescribed for vehicles in regular operation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Spouse: means a person who is legally married to a member of this system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• standing: means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• 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 17:1962
• State superintendent: means the state superintendent of education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.2
• Statement: includes but is not limited to any notice, statement, proof of loss, bill of lading, receipt for payment, invoice, account, estimate of property damages, bill for services, diagnosis, prescription, hospital or doctor records, test results, X-rays, or other evidence of loss, injury, or expense. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1200.2
• Stockholder: means the holder of record of one or more shares. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Stop: means , when required, the complete cessation from movement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• stopping: means , when prohibited, any halting, even momentarily of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer, weights and standards police officer, or traffic control sign or signal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Strategic: means determining destinations and waypoints. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Street: means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way or place of whatever nature publicly maintained and open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular travel, including bridges, causeways, tunnels, and ferries; synonymous with the word "highway". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Structured settlement annuity: means an annuity purchased in order to fund periodic payments for a plaintiff or other claimant in payment for or with respect to personal injury suffered by the plaintiff or other claimant. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Subject lines of business: means the following lines of business: fire, allied lines, homeowners' multiperil, the property insurance portion of commercial multiperil policies, and the business interruption insurance portion of commercial multiperil policies or such interruption insurance with respect to commercial properties on a monoline basis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2292
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervised visitation: means face-to-face contact between a parent and a child which occurs in the immediate presence of a supervising person approved by the court under conditions which prevent any physical abuse, threats, intimidation, abduction, or humiliation of either the abused parent or the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Supervision: means the coordination, direction, and continued evaluation at first hand of the person in training and obtaining clinical experience as an apprentice midwife within the scope of these provisions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3241
• Supervisory committee: means the Board of Ethics established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Surplus: means sums contributed by stockholders in excess of the par value of shares outstanding plus any amounts transferred from undivided profits pursuant to action by the board of directors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• System: means the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• 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.
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• Traffic: means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, and other conveyances either singly or together while using any highway for purposes of travel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Trailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure, drawn by a motor vehicle which carries no part of the weight and load of the trailer on its own wheels and having two or more load carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer of funds: means any money, regardless of amount, received by a committee from another committee or money given by a committee to another committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Transportation of hazardous liquids: means the movement of hazardous liquids by pipeline, or their storage incidental to such movement, in or affecting intrastate commerce; however, it shall not include any such movement through gathering lines in rural locations, onshore production, refining, or manufacturing facilities, or storage or in-plant piping systems associated with any of such facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Truck: means every motor propelled single vehicle for the conveyance of property or things for hauling purposes and having one front steering axle and one rear or load carrying axle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Truck-tractor: means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load drawn. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unallocated annuity contract: means any annuity contract or group annuity certificate which is not issued to and owned by an individual except to the extent of any annuity benefits guaranteed to an individual by an insurer under such contract or certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2084
• Unavailable: means absent from the place of session (other than on official business of the legislature), or unable for physical, mental or legal reasons to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a legislator, whether or not such absence or inability would give rise to a vacancy under existing constitutional or statutory provisions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 24:63
• Undersecretary: means the officer designated to direct and be responsible for the functions of the office of management and finance of certain departments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
• Unfair Trade Practice Law: shall mean the law relating to unfair methods of competition and unfair and deceptive acts and practices in the business of insurance, as set out in Part IV of this Chapter, La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1942
• 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}
• University: means the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1970.2
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Vehicle: means every device by which persons or things may be transported upon a public highway or bridge, except devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Veterinarian: means a person who has received a doctor's degree in veterinary medicine from a school of veterinary medicine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513
• Veterinary medicine: includes veterinary surgery, obstetrics, dentistry, and all other branches or specialties of veterinary medicine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1513
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Voice vote: A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of legisators voting on each side are not recorded.
• Vote-capture device: means a component of the voting system, including hardware which may include a voter-facing scanner, software, and firmware, that captures and counts voter ballot selections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Voter-facing scanner: means a vote-capture device used for in-person voting that captures a voter's selections on a secure paper ballot one sheet at a time, whether hand-marked or produced by a ballot-marking device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Voter-verified paper record: means a paper document or a secure hand-marked paper ballot produced by a voting system that the voter can review and verify before officially casting his ballot. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Voting machine: means the enclosure occupied by the voter when voting, as formed by the voter-facing vote-capture device, including its screen and privacy shield. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Voting system: means the total combination of equipment, hardware, firmware, software, materials, and documentation used to cast and count votes or to perform any of the support functions to enable the casting or counting of votes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Wages: means average weekly wage at the time of the accident. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Waterway: means any navigable bayou, canal, channel, or river, or portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Waterway dredging and deepening priority program: means the priority list of projects submitted by the office and approved by the joint committee pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Waterway project: means a program, either new or continuing, that is planned and implemented with the primary goal of dredging and deepening waterways in the state to include cost share projects with the federal government and construction and maintenance costs associated with dredging and disposing of dredged material. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Width: means the total outside transverse dimension of a vehicle including any load or load holding devices thereon but excluding approved safety devices and tire bulge due to load. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.