Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 24 > Chapter 1 > Part I - General Provisions

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• 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.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Association: means the Louisiana Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3003
• bid: means any offer or proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor for the right to exhibit a motion picture or which states terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• blind bidding: means the bidding for, negotiating for, or offering or agreeing to terms for the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture at any time before such motion picture has either been trade screened within the state or before such motion picture, at the option of the distributor, otherwise has been made available for viewing within the state by all exhibitors from whom the distributor is soliciting bids or with whom the distributor is negotiating for the right to exhibit such motion picture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3003
• distributor: means any person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale or licensing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• exhibition: means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• exhibitor: means any person engaged in the business of operating one or more theatres. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• invitation to bid: means any solicitation or invitation by a distributor to one or more exhibitors to bid, negotiate or otherwise attempt to secure the right to exhibit a motion picture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• license agreement: means any contract, agreement, understanding or condition between a distributor and an exhibitor relating to the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture by the exhibitor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Occupational therapy: means the application of any activity in which one engages for the purposes of evaluation, interpretation, treatment planning, and treatment of problems interfering with functional performance in persons impaired by physical illness or injury, emotional disorders, congenital or developmental disabilities, or the aging process, in order to achieve optimum functioning and prevention and health maintenance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3003
• person: includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, societies, trusts, organizations, or corporations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• Person: means any individual, partnership, unincorporated association, or corporate body, except that only an individual may be licensed under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3003
• 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.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• run: means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• theatre: means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• trade screening: means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor at some location within the state which is open to any exhibitor from whom the distributor intends to solicit bids or with whom the distributor intends to negotiate for the right to exhibit the motion picture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2902
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• 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.