Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 28 > Chapter 9 - Interstate Compact On Mental Health

• Adjusted risk-based capital report: means a risk-based capital report which has been adjusted by the commissioner in accordance with La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• administrator: means a person in charge of a treatment facility or his deputy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Authorized-control level risk-based capital: means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the risk-based capital instructions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Corrective order: means an order issued by the commissioner specifying corrective actions which the commissioner has determined are required. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Court: means any duly constituted district court or court having family or juvenile jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Discharge: means the full or conditional release from a treatment facility of any person admitted or otherwise detained under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health organization: means a health maintenance organization licensed under Subpart I of Part I of this Chapter, a limited health service organization which bears risk, dental or vision plan which bears risk, hospital, medical and dental indemnity or service corporation which bears risk, provider-sponsored organization which bears risk, or other risk-bearing managed care organization licensed under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Mandatory-control level risk-based capital: means the product of seventy hundredths and the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the risk-based capital instructions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Patient: means any person detained and taken care of as a person who has a mental illness or person who is suffering from a substance-related or addictive disorder. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• 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.
• Risk-based capital plan: means a comprehensive financial plan containing the elements specified in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Risk-based capital report: means the report required in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• 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.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Total adjusted capital: means the sum of the following:

  (a)  A health organization's statutory capital and surplus as determined in accordance with the statutory accounting applicable to the annual financial statements required to be filed under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631

• Transfer: means the removal of a patient from one mental institution to another without any procedure for admission other than is prescribed by the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Treatment: means an active effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental condition or behavior of a patient or to prevent deterioration in his condition or behavior. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.