Sections
Part I Communications Districts Generally 33:9101 – 33:9110
Part II Jefferson Parish Communication District 33:9121 – 33:9129

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 33 > Chapter 31 - Communications Districts

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • 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 a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Agency head: means the chief executive or administrative officer of an agency or any member of a board or commission who exercises supervision over the agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Aggrieved person: includes any person who:

                (a) Claims to have been injured by a discriminatory housing practice; or

                (b) Believes that he will be injured by a discriminatory housing practice that is about to occur. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603

  • 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.
  • ANSI: means the American National Standards Institute. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Apprentice: means a person who is licensed to work under the direct supervision and accompaniment of a technician who is licensed to the same firm and holding a valid license to perform the same acts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Appropriate governing authority: shall mean the governing authority of the city of Lafayette. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.171
  • 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
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • ASCE: means the American Society of Civil Engineers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • ASME: means the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • 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 33:4720.171

  • Authorized user: means with respect to a computer, a person who owns or is authorized by the owner or lessee to use the computer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Benefit rate: means the following percentages:

                (a) For new direct jobs created that pay at least eighteen dollars per hour, the benefit rate shall be four percent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2453

  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Board: means the Board of Ethics. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Board: means the Louisiana Life Safety and Property Protection Education Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Bonds: shall mean any bonds, notes, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, debenture, or other obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.171
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • Cause computer software to be copied: means to distribute, transfer, or procure the copying of computer software or any component thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • Certify: means to attest to the proper functionality, inspection, installation, integration, programming, and service of life safety and property protection systems and equipment in accordance with all applicable engineered specifications, manufacturer specifications, and submitted plans and per the inspection, testing and maintenance chapters as set forth in the applicable NFPA, ASME, ANSI, and ASCE codes, standards, and manufacturer specifications. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • City: shall mean the city of Lafayette. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.171
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Closed circuit television alarm system: means a system that provides video surveillance of events, primarily by means of transmission, recording, or transmission and recording of visual signals through the use of cameras, receivers, monitors, computer, and other visual imaging systems. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Communications provider: means an entity providing communications networks or services that enable consumers to access the Internet or destinations on the public switched telephone network via a computer modem. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • Compensation: means any thing of economic value which is paid, loaned, granted, given, donated, or transferred or to be paid, loaned, granted, given, donated, or transferred for or in consideration of personal services to any person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Computer software: means a sequence of instructions written in any programming language that is executed on a computer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • Computer virus: means a computer program or other set of instructions that is designed to degrade the performance of or disable a computer or computer network and is designed to have the ability to replicate itself on other computers or computer networks without the authorization of the owners of those computers or computer networks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • Conciliation: means the attempted resolution of issues raised by a complaint, or by the investigation of such complaint, through informal negotiations involving the aggrieved person, the respondent, and the attorney general or his designee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603
  • Consumer: means :

                (a) The purchaser, other than for purposes of resale, of a new motor vehicle normally used for personal, family, or household purposes and subject to a manufacturer's express warranty. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1941

  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • conveyance device: means any of the following, except those located in one- or two-family dwellings as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Conveyance device mechanic: means any person engaged in the erecting, constructing, installing, altering, servicing, dismantling, maintaining, or testing of a conveyance device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Damage: means any material impairment to the integrity, functionality, or availability of data, software, a computer, a system, or information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dealer: means a person authorized by the manufacturer and actively engaged in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging new automobiles, new personal watercraft, or new all-terrain vehicles at retail and who has an established place of business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1941
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Designated agent: means an owner or a manager of an alarm contracting company or single station fire alarm contracting company, a locksmithing services company, or closed circuit television alarm system contracting company who has been assigned the responsibility of submitting any notice required by this Subpart to the state fire marshal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Direct supervision: means oversight of a firm's operations by a qualifier or onsite supervision by a licensed technician or specialist of an apprentice or consultant. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Disability: means , with respect to a person:

                (i) A physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person's major life activities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603

  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Discriminatory housing practice: means an act that is unlawful pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • District: means the Jefferson Parish Communication District as created by  Act No. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9125
  • district court: shall mean the Fifteenth Judicial District Court. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.171
  • door hardware: means stand alone electro/mechanical locks, latches, exit hardware, closures, and hinges mounted onto doors intended to operate and secure the door properly. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • DOT: means the United States Department of Transportation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Dwelling: means any building, structure, or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon at any such building, structure, or portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603
  • Educational institution: means a public or private educational institution or a separate school or department of a public or private educational institution and includes but is not limited to the following:

    (a)  A university, college, or junior college. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952

  • Elected official: means any person holding an office in a governmental entity which is filled by the vote of the appropriate electorate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Electronic communications device: means any device that uses electronic signals to create, transmit, and receive information, including a computer, telephone, personal digital assistant, or other similar device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952
  • Electronic mail: means a message, file, or other information that is transmitted through a local, regional, or global computer network, regardless of whether the message, file, or other information is viewed, stored for retrieval at a later time, printed, or filtered by a computer program that is designed or intended to filter or screen those items. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2021
  • Employee: means a person who performs services for wages or salary and receives a W-2 tax form from his employer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Employer: shall mean a legal person who executes a contract with the department pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter and who offers, or will offer within ninety days of the effective date of qualifying for the incentive rebates pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, a basic health benefits plan to the individuals it employs in new direct jobs in this state which shall be determined by the Department of Economic Development to be in compliance with federally mandated healthcare requirements or, if no federally mandated healthcare requirements exist, shall be determined to have a value of at least one dollar and twenty-five cents per hour. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2453
  • Employer: means a person, including a unit of state or local government, engaged in a business, industry, profession, trade, or other enterprise in this state and includes an agent, representative, or designee of the employer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952
  • 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.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • 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.
  • Exchange access facilities: means all lines, or their equivalent wireless service, provided for by the service supplier for the provision of local exchange service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9125
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Existing high rise buildings: means any building having floor surfaces used for human occupation located more than seventy-five feet above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access constructed before January 1, 1975. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1642
  • 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.
  • Familial status: means one or more individuals, who have not attained the age of eighteen years, being domiciled with:

                (i) A parent or another person having legal custody of such individual or individuals; or

                (ii) The designee of such parent or other person having such custody, with the written permission of such parent or other person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603

  • Federal government: shall mean any department, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.171
  • Fire detection and alarm systems: means those assemblies of wiring, electronic transmitting devices, detection devices, and related equipment for the detection of products of combustion or flammable gases, heat and for alerting occupants, including fire department personnel, of a fire emergency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Fire hose: means a flexible conduit used to convey water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Fire protection sprinkler system: means a system of overhead piping designed in accordance with fire protection engineering standards. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1642
  • Fire protection systems and equipment: means those life safety and property loss systems, whether commercial or residential, intended to protect a structure's occupants or property from the risk and dangers of fire or explosion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Fire sprinkler systems and equipment: means those life safety systems intended to protect a structure's occupants or property from the risk and dangers of fire or explosion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Firm: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or any other entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Firm license: means that document authorizing a firm to perform life safety and property protection contracting for those endorsements held. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • 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.
  • Fixed fire suppression systems: means those assemblies of piping, conduits, or containers that convey liquid, powder, or gases to dispersal openings or devices protecting one or more hazards by suppressing or extinguishing fires, but shall not include fire sprinkler systems, as defined in this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
    • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
    • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
    • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
  • 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
  • Fund the district: means pay the expenses necessary to carry out all purposes of the district, including but not limited to identification of all streets, roads, highways, and dwelling places in the district and to provide for other communication enhancements for public safety agencies to decrease response time and improve effectiveness. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9125
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governmental entity: means the state or any political subdivision which employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to which the elected official is elected, as the case may be. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Gross payroll: means wages for the new direct jobs as defined herein upon which the particular benefit rate is calculated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2453
  • his agency: when used in reference to the agency of a public servant shall mean:

                (i) For public servants in the twenty principal departments of the executive branch of state government, the office in which such public servant carries out his primary responsibilities; except that in the case of the secretary, deputy secretary, or undersecretary of any such department and officials carrying out the responsibilities of such department officers it shall mean the department in which he serves; and except that in the case of public servants who are members or employees of a board or commission or who provide staff assistance to a board or commission, it shall mean the board or commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102

  • Hospital: means any institution, place, building, or agency, public or private, whether for profit or not, with facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, or care of persons who are suffering from illness, injury, infirmity, or deformity or other physical condition for which obstetrical, medical, or surgical services would be available and appropriate and which operates or is affiliated with facilities for the overnight care, observation, or recovery of those persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102
  • Household fire warning system specialist: means an individual licensed to certify, inspect, install, integrate, and service household fire warning systems. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Identifying information: means information that alone or in conjunction with other information identifies an individual, including an individual's:

    (a)  Name, social security number, date of birth, and government-issued identification number. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2021

  • Immovable property: shall mean all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and any other real right therein, including terms for years and liens by way of judgment, mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4720.171
  • Individual license: means that document authorizing an individual to perform life safety and property protection contracting for those endorsements held. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Inspect: means a visual examination of life safety and property protection systems or equipment to verify that it appears to be in operating condition and is free of physical damage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Install: means the initial placement of life safety and property protection systems or equipment or an extension of such after initial placement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Integrate: means the act of utilizing accepted and approved life safety and property protection systems or equipment and components in accordance with manufacturers' direction to develop a unified and functioning system meeting applicable NFPA codes and standards. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • 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
  • Internet: means the global information system that is logically linked together by a globally unique address space based on the Internet Protocol (IP), or its subsequent extensions, and that is able to support communications using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite, or its subsequent extensions, or other IP-compatible protocols, and that provides, uses, or makes accessible, either publicly or privately, high-level services layered on the communications and related infrastructure described in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • Internet domain name: refers to a globally unique, hierarchical reference to an Internet host or service, assigned through a centralized Internet-naming authority and composed of a series of character strings separated by periods with the right-most string specifying the top of the hierarchy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2021
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • intrusion alarm system: means an alarm, alarm system, or portion of such an alarm or system intended to detect an unauthorized entry or other emergency, not including a fire, in a structure. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
  • Kitchen suppression specialist: means an individual licensed to certify, inspect, install, integrate, and service pre-engineered fire suppression systems protecting kitchen appliances. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Life safety and property protection contracting: means performing certification, inspection, installation, integration, programming, sale, or service of systems and equipment designed to protect life and property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Locksmith technician: means an individual who sells, repairs, rebuilds, recodes, services, adjusts, installs, manipulates, or bypasses a special locking system, mechanical locking device or electronic locking devices for controlled access or egress to premises, safes, vaults, safe doors, lock boxes, automatic teller machines, or other devices for safeguarding areas or certifies, inspects, installs, integrates, sells and services closed circuit television alarm systems. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Manufacturer: means any person, firm, association, corporation, or trust, resident or nonresident, who manufactures or assembles new and unused motor vehicles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1941
  • Master plan: means a specific scheme or plan detailing the number of floors, total square footage, present occupancy and a proposed completion date of each phase and completion date of total compliance with the requirement of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1642
  • Mechanical locks: means a mechanical device or door hardware intended to control access or egress to or from a structure or area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Motor vehicle: means a passenger motor vehicle or a passenger and commercial motor vehicle as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1941
  • New direct job: means employment in this state of an employee working at least the average hours per week provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2453
  • NFPA: means the National Fire Protection Association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Nonconformity: means any specific or generic defect or malfunction, or any defect or condition which substantially impairs the use, market value or both of a motor vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1941
  • 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.
  • Officer: means the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, comptroller, or any other person who performs functions for a life safety and property protection contracting firm corresponding to those performed by those officers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Operating location: means a physical address that houses an entity that performs life safety and property protection contracting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Participate: means to take part in or to have or share responsibility for action of a governmental entity or a proceeding, personally, as a public servant of the governmental entity, through approval, disapproval, decision, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or the failure to act or perform a duty. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Person: means an individual or legal entity other than a governmental entity, or an agency thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Person: includes one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, and fiduciaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603
  • Person: means a natural person or individual. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Person: means an individual, association, joint venture, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, political subdivision, municipality, or public or private organization of any character, including any agency, department, board, bureau, office, commission, district, corporation, and quasi-public corporation of the federal, state, municipal, or local government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1615
  • Person: means the state, and any political subdivision or municipal corporation thereof, an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association or joint stock association, or the legal successor thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102
  • Personal online account: means an online account that the employee, applicant for employment, student, or prospective student uses exclusively for personal communications unrelated to any business purpose of the employer or educational institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personally identifiable information: means any of the following:

    (a)  First name or first initial in combination with last name. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007

  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Political subdivision: means any unit of local government, including a special district, authorized by law to perform governmental functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Portable fire extinguisher: means any portable device that contains liquid, powder, or gases for suppressing or extinguishing fires. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Portable fire extinguisher and fire hose technician: means an individual licensed to certify, inspect, install, and service portable fire extinguishers and fire hoses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Pre-engineered fire suppression specialist: means an individual licensed to certify, inspect, install, integrate, and service pre-engineered fire suppression systems. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Pre-engineered fire suppression system: means packaged fire suppression systems which consist of system components intended to be installed according to pre-tested limitations as approved or listed by a testing laboratory. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Principal: includes a person or entity entitled to exercise the prerogatives or indicia of ownership or control of a property protection firm whether by direct action, assignment, or any other kind of substitution or subrogation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Procure the copying: means to pay or provide other consideration to or induce another person to cause software to be copied onto a computer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2007
  • Property protection systems and equipment: means those life safety and property protection systems intended to protect lives and property from the risk of theft, unauthorized entry, or other physical harm to a structure's occupants or property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Public body: shall mean 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 33:4720.171
  • Public employee: means anyone, whether compensated or not, who is:

                (i) An administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an elective office. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102

  • Public safety agency: means law enforcement, fire, emergency medical services, and emergency preparedness services as designated by the parish of Jefferson. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9125
  • Public servant: means a public employee or an elected official. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Qualifier: means a person who possesses the appropriate training or experience credentials enabling a firm to obtain a life safety and property protection license. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Respondent: means the person or other entity accused in a complaint of a discriminatory housing practice, or, any other person or entity identified in the course of an investigation and notified that they are a respondent who shall be joined in the complaint. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2603
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102
  • Security sales specialist: means an individual licensed to sell or specify security systems and equipment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Security systems and equipment: means those life safety and property protection systems intended to protect lives and property from the risk of theft, unauthorized entry, or other physical harm to a structure's occupants or property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Security technician: means an individual licensed to certify, inspect, install, integrate, sell, and service security systems and equipment or special locking systems. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Sell: means to solicit another on behalf of a property protection firm by any means, including but not limited to telephone or electronic device, public notice or advertisement, door-to-door or any other type of personal interaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Service: means the performance of work, duties, or responsibilities, or the leasing, rental, or sale of movable or immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1102
  • Service: means to repair or maintain. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Service supplier: means any person providing any of the following:

    (a)  A landline exchange telephone service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9125

  • Special locking specialist: means an individual who certifies, designs, inspects, installs, integrates, sells, or services a special locking system protecting a controlled access area or egress to premises. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Special locking systems: means an electro-mechanical lock, electronic lock, or electronic locking arrangement intended to control access or egress to a structure or area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Specialist: means an individual who is trained and certified to perform life safety and property protection contracting within a specific limited endorsement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Specialty endorsement: means a narrow category of license authorizing its holder to perform only one aspect of life safety and property protection contracting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • State fire marshal: means the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of state fire marshal, code enforcement and building safety, and its authorized representatives empowered to enforce the provisions of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Tariff rate: means the rate or rates billed by a service supplier as stated in the landline exchange telephone service supplier's tariffs and approved by the Public Service Commission, which represent the service supplier's recurring charges for landline exchange access facilities, exclusive of all taxes, fees, licenses, or similar charges whatsoever. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9125
  • Technical endorsement: means a broad category of license authorizing its holder to perform multiple aspects of life safety and property protection contracting within a certain endorsement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Technician: means an individual who is trained and certified to perform life safety and property protection contracting within a technical endorsement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1664.3
  • Testate: To die leaving a will.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Testing: means calibration testing, conformance testing, or fixed system testing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1615
  • 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.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • 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.
  • Wages: means all remuneration for services from whatever source, including commissions and bonuses and the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash, and dismissal payments which the employer is required by law or contract to make. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2453
  • Web page: means a location that has a single uniform resource locator (URL) with respect to the World Wide Web or another location that can be accessed on the Internet. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2021
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.