§ 36:251 A. The Louisiana Department of Health is created and shall be a body corporate with the power to sue and be sued. The domicile of the department shall be in Baton Rouge where it shal
§ 36:252 Officers of the department; compensation for one office only
§ 36:253 There shall be a secretary of health and hospitals, who shall be appointed by the governor with consent of the Senate and who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor at a salary fixed
§ 36:254 A. In addition to the functions, powers, and duties otherwise vested in the secretary by law, he shall:
§ 36:254.1 A. The secretary of the department is authorized and empowered to administer, maintain, and operate the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund as created and provided in R.S. 40:2821 et
§ 36:254.2 All rights, title, and interest in the Hot Wells Rehabilitation Center, including all property, rights to mineral waters, equipment, and facilities, are vested in the office of the secreta
§ 36:254.3 The Louisiana Department of Health, Medicaid eligibility section, is authorized to perform criminal history records checks of current and prospective employees, contractors, and subc
§ 36:255 Deputy secretary
§ 36:256 A. There shall be an undersecretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, who shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate and who shall serve at the pleasure of the
§ 36:257 A. Each office within the Louisiana Department of Health, except the office of management and finance, shall be under the immediate supervision and direction of an assistant secretary, who
§ 36:258 A. The purposes for which the offices of the Louisiana Department of Health are created shall be set forth in this Section.
§ 36:259 A. The following agencies are transferred to and hereafter shall be within the Louisiana Department of Health as provided in R.S. 36:803:

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 36 > Chapter 6 - Louisiana Department of Health

  • Agency: means and includes the boards, commissions, departments, agencies, offices, officers, and other instrumentalities, or any or all of these, within the executive branch of state government which are abolished by this Title or which are transferred and placed within departments of the state government created and established or continued by this Title or transferred to and placed within the office of the governor as provided by this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 36:3
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • 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
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Business entity: shall mean a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Controlling person: shall mean any person who directly or indirectly has the power to direct or cause to be directed, the management, control, or activities of the reinsurance intermediary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • 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.
  • Home state: means the District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States in which the public adjuster's principal place of residence or principal place of business is located. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1692
  • Individual: shall mean a natural person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Insurer: shall mean any authorized insurer as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Licensed producer: shall mean a person licensed as an insurance producer pursuant to the provisions of Subpart A of Part I of this Chapter, La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Person: means an individual or a business entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1692
  • Person: shall mean an individual or business entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Public adjuster: means any person who, for any compensation, direct or indirect, engages in public adjusting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1692
  • Public adjusting: means either of the following:

    (a)  Investigating, appraising, or evaluating and reporting to an insured in relation to a first-party claim for which coverage is provided by an insurance contract that insures the property of the insured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1692

  • Reinsurance intermediary: shall mean a reinsurance intermediary-broker or a reinsurance intermediary-manager. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Reinsurance intermediary-broker: shall mean any person, other than an officer or employee of the ceding insurer, who solicits, negotiates, or places reinsurance cessions or retrocessions on behalf of a ceding insurer without the authority or power to bind reinsurance on behalf of such insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Reinsurance intermediary-manager: shall mean any person who has authority to bind or manages all or part of the assumed reinsurance business of a reinsurer, including the management of a separate division, department, or underwriting office, and acts as an agent for such reinsurer, whether known as a reinsurance intermediary-manager, manager, or other similar term. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Reinsurer: shall mean any person duly licensed in this state, pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Code, as an insurer with the authority to assume reinsurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1722
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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.