Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 16-A - Immobilization of Motor Vehicles by Booting

• booting: means the act of placing on a parked motor vehicle a mechanical device that is designed to be attached to the wheel or tire or other part of such vehicle so as to prohibit its usual manner of movement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1741
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contracted health care provider: means a health care provider that has entered into a contract or agreement directly with a health insurance issuer or through a network of providers for the provision of covered health care services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• 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.
• Covered health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease that are either covered and payable under the terms of the health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Health care facility: means a facility or institution providing health care services including but not limited to a hospital or other licensed inpatient center, ambulatory surgical or treatment center, skilled nursing facility, inpatient hospice facility, residential treatment center, diagnostic, laboratory, or imaging center, or rehabilitation or other therapeutic health setting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• Health care professional: means a physician or other health care practitioner licensed, certified, or registered to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• Health care services: means services, items, supplies, or drugs for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• Health insurance coverage: means benefits consisting of medical care provided or arranged for directly, through insurance or reimbursement, or otherwise, and includes health care services paid for under any plan, policy, or certificate of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• Health insurance issuer: means any entity that offers health insurance coverage through a policy or certificate of insurance subject to state law that regulates the business of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• insured: means a person, including a spouse or dependent, who is enrolled in or insured by a health insurance issuer for health insurance coverage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• network: means an entity other than a health insurance issuer that, through contracts with health care providers, provides or arranges for access by groups of enrollees or insureds to health care services by health care providers who are not otherwise or individually contracted directly with a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242
• 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.
• Persons: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, firm, or other business entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1741
• Private property: means any privately owned parking facility at any location or any parking lot or street which is privately owned and is located near or contiguous to premises having one or more stores or business establishments which is used for the parking of motor vehicles or for vehicular travel by the owner or customers of such establishments and those having express or implied permission of the owner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1741
• provider: means a health care professional or a health care facility or the agent or assignee of such professional or facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1242