Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 2 > Chapter 2 > Part I - Ownership Of, and Procuring of Aid, by State

• Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all amounts paid by a member, excluding interest paid on the repayment of a refund, and credited to his individual account in the employee's savings account, together with regular interest credited prior to July 1969. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Activity: means a distinct subset of functions or services within a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Agency: means any governmental body employing persons and includes departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and courts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Agency: means the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2202
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Authorized positions: means the number of positions approved by the legislature in an appropriation bill to be funded by the salaries continuing category of the accounting system for the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Board: means the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Budget authority: Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds. Budget authority may be classified by the period of availability (one-year, multiyear, no-year), by the timing of congressional action (current or permanent), or by the manner of determining the amount available (definite or indefinite).
• Budget office: means the section of the division of administration which monitors budgeting functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Budget request: means the document with its accompanying explanations, in which a budget unit states its financial requirements and requests appropriations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Budget unit: means any spending agency of the state which is declared to be a budget unit by the division of administration and which is identified for accounting purposes by a five-digit number code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Claim: includes any request or demand, including any and all documents or information required by federal or state law or by rule, made against hurricane relief program funds for payment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2153
• Claim: includes any request or demand, including any and all documents or information required by federal or state law or by rule, made against oil spill relief program funds for payment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• Community water system: means a public water system that serves year-round residents within a residential setting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• community water systems: include systems serving municipalities, water districts, subdivisions, and mobile home parks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• Continuation budget: means that funding level for each budget unit which reflects the financial resources necessary to carry on all existing programs and functions of the budget unit at their current level of service in the ensuing fiscal year including any adjustments necessary to account for the increased cost of services or materials due to inflation and estimated increases in workload requirements resulting from demographic or other changes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• contract: shall include awards and notices of award; contracts of a fixed-price, cost, cost plus a fixed-fee, or incentive type contracts; contracts providing for the issuance of job or task orders; leases; letter contracts; and purchase orders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2202
• Contractor: means any person having a contract with a state agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• Contractor: means any person who has a contract with the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority or a political subdivision to perform a public work as defined in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2202
• Creditable service: means prior service plus membership service for which credit is allowable as provided in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• Director: means the executive director of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2202
• Efficiency: means cost-effectiveness or productivity relative to achievement of an objective. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Employee: means any person legally occupying a position in the state service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• 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
• Executive budget: means the document submitted to the legislature at each regular session, pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter and La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Existing operating budget: means the initial operating budget as adjusted for actions taken by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the Interim Emergency Board, the legislature, or the governor in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter or any other provision of law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• False or fraudulent claim: means a claim which a person submits knowing the claim to be false, fictitious, untrue, or misleading in regard to any material information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2153
• False or fraudulent claim: means a claim which a person submits knowing the claim to be false, fictitious, untrue, or misleading in regard to any material information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Fiscal year: means the period beginning July first of any year and ending June thirtieth of the next succeeding year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• 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.
• 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 39:2
• Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with regulations, restrictions, and limitations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Goal: means a general purpose toward which the efforts of an agency are directed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Goal: means a numerically expressed objective relating to state procurements and public works contracts that a state agency or contractor is encouraged to make a good faith effort to achieve. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• Hurricane relief programs: means any state or federal program or fund created for the purpose of assisting persons who incurred personal, business, or property damage or other losses due to Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Rita. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2153
• Initial operating budget: means the amount of the appropriation on July first of a particular fiscal year for that fiscal year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Input: means any resource used to implement a policy, program, or specific service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• knowingly: means that the person has actual knowledge of the information or acts in deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2153
• knowingly: means that the person has actual knowledge of the information or acts in deliberate ignorance or reckless disregard of the truth or falsity of the information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Member: means any person included in the membership of the system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Membership service: means service after July 1, 1947 as an employee while a member of the system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Misrepresentation: means the knowing failure to truthfully or fully disclose any and all information required, or the concealment of any and all information required on a claim or a provider agreement or the making of a false or misleading statement to any local, state, or federal agency for the purpose of obtaining funds, property, use of property, or other compensation from hurricane relief programs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2153
• Misrepresentation: means the knowing failure to truthfully or fully disclose any and all information required, or the concealment of any and all information required on a claim or provider agreement or the making of a false or misleading statement to any local, state, or federal agency for the purpose of obtaining funds, property, use of property, or other compensation from oil spill relief programs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Noncommunity water system: means a public water system that serves persons in a nonresidential setting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• noncommunity water systems: include systems serving schools, day care centers, hospitals, highway rest areas, restaurants, bars, and grocery stores. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• Nondiscretionary adjusted standstill budget: shall mean and shall contain the following:

              (a) The budget unit's current-year existing operating budget as of December first. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2

• 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 39:2
• Oil spill relief program: means any state or federal program or fund created for the purpose of assisting persons who incurred personal, business, or property damage or other losses due to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Operational plan: means the annual work plan of an agency and its component programs, which indicates the implementation of the agency's strategic plan for a specific fiscal year, and which describes agency and program missions, goals, objectives, activities, and performance indicators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Outcome: means evidence or demonstration of the actual impact or public benefit of a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Output: means the quantity of actual service or product delivered by an agency or program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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 39:2
• Person: means a natural person or a juridical person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Person: means an individual, a public or private corporation, an association, a partnership, a public body created by or pursuant to state law, the state of Louisiana, an agency or political subdivision of the state, a federally recognized Indian tribe, the United States government, a political subdivision of the United States government, and any officer, employee, and agent of one of those entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• 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.
• Potable water: means water having bacteriological, physical, radiological, and chemical qualities that make it safe and suitable for human drinking, cooking, and washing uses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• 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.
• Procurement: means the buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining any materials, supplies, services, or major repairs, or personal services, professional services, consulting services, or social services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• Program: means a grouping of activities directed toward the accomplishment of a clearly defined objective or set of objectives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Property: means any and all property, movable and immovable, corporeal and incorporeal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2153
• Property: means any and all property, movable and immovable, corporeal and incorporeal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• public contract: means all types of state agreements, regardless of what they may be called, for personal services, professional services, consulting services, or social services, or the purchase of materials, supplies, services, or major repairs, or for the making of any public works. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• Public water system: means a system for the provision to the public of water for potable purposes, through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves an average of at least twenty-five individuals daily at least sixty days out of the year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• Public work: means the erection, construction, alteration, improvement, or repair of any public facility or immovable property owned, used, or leased by the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority or a political subdivision which project is funded entirely or partially by monies received through the Federal Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2011, or as a result of any settlement related to the explosion on, and sinking of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, or the Comprehensive Master Plan for Coastal Protection. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2202
• Quality: means degree or grade of excellence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Recovery: means the recovery of overpayments, damages, fines, penalties, costs, expenses, restitution, attorney fees, interest, or settlement amounts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2153
• Recovery: means the recovery of overpayments, damages, fines, penalties, costs, expenses, restitution, attorney fees, interest, or settlement amounts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2165.2
• Refund: means the withdrawal of all accumulated contributions at least thirty days after termination from the state service, or with respect to members having the option of belonging to the system, withdrawal of all accumulated contributions at least thirty days after receipt by the system of written notice of withdrawal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Retirement: means termination of active service, with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Service-connected disabled veteran-owned small entrepreneurship: means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other legal entity which has not less than fifty-one percent ownership by a veteran of the United States Armed Forces with a service-connected disability, and meets the criteria for certification by the secretary of the Department of Economic Development pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• state agency: means any department, office, division, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or official of the executive or judicial branches of state government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172
• State health officer: means the legally appointed or acting state health officer as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• Strategic planning: is a process of agency self-assessment and objective setting which considers an organization's purpose, capacities and environment, and results in a strategic plan which determines a path for development of the organization's resources in order to achieve meaningful results. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Strategy: means the method used to accomplish the objectives of an agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Supporting document: means the document prepared by the budget office and composed of supporting information, data, and documentation used to develop the executive budget. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• System: means the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
• Veteran-owned small entrepreneurship: means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other legal entity which has not less than fifty-one percent ownership by a veteran of the United States Armed Forces and meets the criteria for certification by the secretary of the Department of Economic Development pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2172