Sections
Part I General Provisions 37:1161 – 37:1164
Part II Board of Pharmacy 37:1171 – 37:1184
Part III Licensing, Registration, and Certification of Persons 37:1201 – 37:1219
Part IV Permit Requirements 37:1221 – 37:1232
Part V Discipline 37:1241 – 37:1250
Part VI Disclosure of Prescription Drug Price Information 37:1251
Part VII Pharmacy Benefit Managers 37:1256 – 37:1258

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 37 > Chapter 14 - Louisiana Pharmacy Practice Act

  • Accredited school: means a school of practical nursing approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:961
  • Active licensee: means an individual that holds a funeral director or embalmer and funeral director license issued by the board and who has complied with all requirements of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Acupuncture: means treatment by means of mechanical, thermal or electrical stimulation effected by the insertion of needles at a point or combination of points on the surface of the body predetermined on the basis of the theory of the physiological interrelationship of body organs with an associated point or combination of points, or the application of heat or electrical stimulation to such point or points, for the purpose of inducing anesthesia, relieving pain, or healing diseases, disorders and dysfunctions of the body, or achieving a therapeutic or prophylactic effect with respect thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1356
  • Addiction: means the physiological or psychological dependency on drugs or alcohol. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • administration: means the direct application of a drug to the body of a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Advanced practice registered nursing: means nursing by a certified registered nurse anesthetist, certified nurse midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or nurse practitioner which is based on knowledge and skills acquired in a basic nursing education program, licensure as a registered nurse, and a minimum of a master's degree with a concentration in the respective advanced practice nursing specialty which includes both didactic and clinical components, advanced knowledge in nursing theory, physical and psychosocial assessment, nursing interventions, and management of health care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Adverse determination: means any of the following relative to a claim by a provider for payment for a healthcare service rendered by the provider to an enrollee of the Medicaid managed care organization:

                (a) A decision by a managed care organization that denies a claim in whole or in part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51

  • Adverse determination: means any decision rendered by the recovery audit contractor that results in a payment to a provider for a claim or service being reduced either partially or completely. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:440.12
  • Advertise: means but is not limited to the issuing or causing to be distributed any card, sign, or device to any person, or the causing, permitting, or allowing any sign or marking on or in any building, or by advertising on radio or television, or any other means designed to secure public attention. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Advisory committee: means the Marriage and Family Therapy Advisory Committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Advisory committee: means the Louisiana Genetic Counselor Advisory Committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.101
  • 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.
  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • 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.
  • 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: shall mean payments for life derived from the accumulated contributions of a member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Annuity reserve: shall mean the present value of all payments to be made on account of any annuity, or benefit in lieu of any annuity computed upon the basis of such mortality tables as shall be adopted by the board of trustees, and regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Antique dealer: means any owner of an antique shop, or agent of the antique shop, and any person engaged in the business of buying, selling, trading in, or otherwise acquiring, disposing or exhibiting antiques, including but not limited to antique property, such as antique jewelry, antique silverware, antique pictures and paintings, antique objects of art, cemetery artifacts, used building components, antique furniture, antique collectibles and other such antique property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1871
  • 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.
  • Applicant: means a healthcare provider seeking to be approved or credentialed by a managed care organization to provide healthcare services to Medicaid enrollees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appraisal: which means the use or administration of tests of language, educational and achievement tests, adaptive behavioral tests, and symptoms screening checklists or instruments, as well as tests of abilities, interests, and aptitudes for the purpose of counseling persons in coping with or adapting to, changing life situations that are due to problems in living. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • 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
  • Approved college of pharmacy: means an educational institution approved by the board which meets one of the following additional criteria:

                (a) A college or school of pharmacy which is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164

  • Approved program: means a nursing education program approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Approved provider: means any continuing education provider approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Approved school: means any school of nursing preparing registered nurse applicants, approved by the board and including Charity Hospital School of Nursing, which is approved by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1012
  • Approved school: means an accredited school which offers instruction in any area of the practice of clinical laboratory science approved by the committee and the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • APRN: means a licensed registered nurse who is certified by a nationally recognized certifying body, such as the American Nurses Credentialing Center, as having an advanced nursing specialty as described in this Part and who meets the criteria for an advanced practice registered nurse as established by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Association: means a partnership, a combination or group of individuals, or an unincorporated organization of persons having a common interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Authorized prescriber: means a licensed physician, dentist, or other health care provider authorized by law to prescribe drugs, medications, medical devices or appliances, and health care regimens. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Authorized prescriber: means a licensed physician, dentist, or other health care provider authorized by law to prescribe drugs, medications, medical devices or appliances, and health care regimens. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1026.3
  • Authorizing agent: means a person legally entitled to authorize the cremation of human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Automated medication system: includes , but is not limited to, a mechanical system that performs operations or activities, other than compounding or administration, relative to the storage, packaging, or delivery of medications, and which collects, controls, and maintains all transaction information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Average compensation: shall mean the average annual earned compensation of an employee for any period of sixty successive or joined months of service as an employee during which earned compensation was the highest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • 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.
  • Biological product: has the meaning assigned by Section 351 of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Board: means the State Licensing Board for Contractors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2352
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Practical Nurse Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:961
  • Board: means the Board of Regents. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1012
  • Board: means the Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1262
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, as established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1356
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners within the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.22
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners as established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.52
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.101
  • Board: means the board of commissioners of the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
  • Board: means the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Board of trustees: shall mean the board provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Boat trailer: means a noncommercial vehicle of the trailer or semitrailer type used solely and exclusively for transporting pleasure watercraft and having a loaded gross weight of not more than one thousand five hundred pounds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Branch establishment: means a licensed funeral establishment devoted to or used in the care of the body of a deceased person, or maintained or held out to the public, by advertising or otherwise, as the office or place for the practice of funeral directing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Burial: means the act or process of disposing of a human body by depositing it in the earth, at sea, or by any other accepted disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Burial-transit permit: means the permit for disposition of a dead human body as required by state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Buyer: means the person entering into a preneed funeral contract with a licensed funeral establishment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Candidate: means any person whose application and related materials have been approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2352
  • Casket: means a rigid container which is designed for the encasement of human remains usually constructed of wood, metal, fiberglass, or other similar material and ornamented and lined with fabric, which may or may not be combustible, for transportation, or for other disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Cemetery artifact: means any object produced or shaped by human workmanship or tools, including ornaments of archaeological, historical, cultural, or sentimental significance or interest, which may be used to memorialize the dead and shall include but not be limited to all cemetery items, objects, and properties, including but not limited to any type of religious or sentimental addition or adornment, inside or outside of a tomb, gravesite, plot, mausoleum, vault or interment location, whether placed privately or by assignment, regardless of monetary worth, age, size, shape or condition, including but not limited to statues, bricks, signage, plaques, tablets, urns, pots, planters, benches, chairs, crosses or other religious symbols, vases, gates, fences, or any portions thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1871
  • Certificate: means a license issued by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Certificate of documentation: means a certificate issued by the United States Coast Guard for a vessel documented under 46 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Certificate of origin: means a document establishing the initial chain of ownership, such as a manufacturer's certificate of origin (MCO) or statement of origin (MSO), or an importer's certificate of origin (ICO) or statement of origin (ISO), or a builder's certification (Form CG-1261, under 46 C. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • 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.
  • Chart order: is a lawful order entered on the electronic or paper chart or medical record of an inpatient or resident of an institutional facility by a practitioner or his licensed healthcare designee for a drug or device and shall be considered a prescription drug order provided it contains the following:

                (a) Full name of the patient. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164

  • Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
  • Claim: means any request or demand, whether under a contract or otherwise, for money or property, whether or not the state or department has title to the money or property, that is drawn in whole or in part on medical assistance programs funds that are either of the following:

                (a) Presented to an officer, employee, or agent of the state or department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3

  • 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.
  • Clinical laboratory: means any building, place, or facility in which an operation and procedure for the biological, microbiological, serological, immunological, chemical, immunohematological, hematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, or other examinations of materials derived from the human body is performed to provide information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of any disease or impairment of, or the assessment of the health of human beings or for forensic testing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Clinical laboratory personnel: means any and all individuals engaged in the practice of clinical laboratory science. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Clinical phase of nursing education: means those nursing courses that require a student to provide nursing care, under faculty supervision, to individuals, families, and communities in diverse health care settings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Closed container: means any container in which cremated human remains can be placed and closed in a manner so as to prevent leakage or spillage of remains or the entrance of foreign material. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Collaborating physician: means a physician who has entered into a collaborative practice agreement with a genetic counselor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.101
  • Collaboration: means a cooperative working relationship with licensed physicians, dentists, or other health care providers to jointly contribute to providing patient care and may include but not be limited to discussion of a patient's diagnosis and cooperation in the management and delivery of health care with each provider performing those activities that he is legally authorized to perform. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Collaborative practice: means the joint management of the health care of a patient by an advanced practice registered nurse performing advanced practice registered nursing and one or more consulting physicians or dentists. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Collaborative practice agreement: means a formal written statement addressing the parameters of the collaborative practice which are mutually agreed upon by the advanced practice registered nurse and one or more licensed physicians or dentists which shall include but not be limited to the following provisions:

                (a) Availability of the collaborating physician or dentist for consultation or referral, or both. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913

  • Collaborative practice agreement: means a document established by a genetic counselor and a collaborating physician which governs the professional relationship between the genetic counselor and the physician. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.101
  • college: means any regional accredited university or other institution of higher learning offering a full-time doctoral course of study in psychology that is approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2352
  • Commercial purposes: means any construction project except residential structures intended to be primarily occupied as a residence with no more than four separate dwelling units incorporated into one structure. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Commercial use: means every use of a vehicle on the highway, except its private use unrelated to any business function, or its use as a common carrier or a contract or charter carrier. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Commercial vehicle: means every vehicle used or operated upon the public highways in connection with any business function except that of a common carrier or a contract or charter carrier, and except vehicles owned and used by churches, church schools, and religious orders for their purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Commercially reasonable terms and conditions: means those terms and conditions that would be reasonable to a prudent individual operating a business of similar type and size as a rural hospital even in the absence of referrals to the rural hospital or healthcare facility by a physician who owns, or whose immediate family member owns, an interest in the healthcare facility in which the rural hospital has been offered the opportunity to participate as an owner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1307
  • Commission: means the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
  • Commission: means the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Commissioner: means the secretary of the Department of Public Safety as provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Office of Financial Institutions within the office of the governor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Committee: means the committee of deans, directors, and department heads of the approved schools and programs of nursing which prepare registered nurse applicants and a nonvoting representative of the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1012
  • Committee: means the Clinical Laboratory Personnel Committee to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners established by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Compounding: means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device by a pharmacist for his patient as the result of a practitioner's prescription drug order or initiative based on the practitioner/patient/pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice, or including the preparation of drugs or devices in anticipation of prescription drug orders to be received by the compounding pharmacist based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Confidential information: means information accessed, maintained by, or transmitted to a pharmacist in the patient's records or which is communicated to the patient as part of patient counseling, which is privileged and may be released only to the patient or to those practitioners, other authorized healthcare professionals, and other pharmacists when, in a pharmacist's professional judgment, such release is necessary to protect the patient's health and well being; and to such other persons or agencies authorized by law to receive such confidential information regardless of whether such information is in the form of paper, preserved on microfilm, or is stored on electronic media. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Consulting: which means interpreting or reporting scientific fact or theory to provide assistance in solving current or potential problems of individuals, groups, or organizations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Continuing education: means that education which is obtained by a licensee through education processes in order to develop, maintain, improve, or expand skills and knowledge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Contract: means an agreement to perform a scope of work that is regulated by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • contractor: includes persons who receive an additional fee for the employment or direction of labor, or any other work beyond the normal architectural or engineering services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Corporation: means a body formed and authorized by law to act as a single person although constituted by one or more persons and legally endowed with various rights and duties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Costs: is a monetary amount assessed to cover administrative expenses, including but not limited to licensure, permitting, certification, registration, and the investigation and prosecution of a disciplinary action. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Creditable service: shall mean service for which credit is allowable as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Cremated human remains: means all the remains of the human body recovered after the completion of the cremation process, including processing, pulverization, or processing and pulverization which leaves only bone fragments reduced to unidentifiable dimensions and may possibly include the residue of any foreign material that was cremated with the human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Cremation: means the technical process, using direct flame and heat, that reduces human remains to bone fragments through heat and evaporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Cremation container: means the container in which the human remains are transported to the crematory and placed in the cremation retort for cremation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Cremation retort: means the enclosed space within which the cremation process takes place. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Crematory: means the building or portion of a building that houses the cremation retort for the reduction of bodies of deceased persons to cremated human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Crematory authority: means the legal entity which is licensed by the board to operate a crematory. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Crematory retort operator: means the individual who is authorized and licensed by the board to operate the retort and perform the cremation process. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Current assets: include an investment made in cash, bank deposits, merchandise inventory and loans due from customers, excluding the pawn service charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Cytotechnologist: means an individual responsible for examining cytopathological preparations which require the exercise of independent judgment and responsibility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Dealer: means any person who engages wholly or in part in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging for value new or used vessels or outboard motors, or both, either outright or on conditional sale, bailment, lease, chattel mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Dealer: means every person engaged regularly in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, trucks, tractors, or other character of commercial or industrial motor vehicles in this state, and having an established place of business in this state, and using a special license plate issued hereunder solely for or in the bona fide transaction of such business and not otherwise, howsoever, or by whomsoever. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deceptive: means tending or having power to impose a false idea or belief or causing one to believe an untruth. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • delivery: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer of a drug or device from one person to another, whether or not for a consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Department: means the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and its duly authorized representatives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, acting directly through its duly authorized officers and agents, or whatever state board, official, or body may hereafter be authorized by law to exercise the functions now devolving upon it under the law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1026.3
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1307
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:440.12
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Device: means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, or other similar or related article, including any component part or accessory, which is required under federal law to bear the label, "Caution: Federal or State law requires dispensing by or on the order of a physician" the label "Rx Only" or both, or any other designation required under federal law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • direct service worker: is a n unlicensed person who provides personal care or other services and supports to persons with disabilities or to the elderly in order to enhance their well-being and which involves face-to-face direct contact with the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1031
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dishonest conduct: means a standard of personal behavior by a funeral director, or embalmer, or both, characterized by a willful distortion of the truth in an attempt to deceive, cheat or defraud. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Disinterment: means the act or ceremony of extracting a dead human body from the earth or tomb. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • dispensing: means the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a prescription drug order, including the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient's agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to, or use by, a patient. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Disposition: means the shipment, interment, burial, cremation, or anatomical donation of a dead human body or parts of a dead human body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • distribution: means the delivery of a drug or device other than by administering or dispensing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • District: means the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Drug: means the same as the term "drug" as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.52
  • Drug: means :

                (a) Any substance recognized as a drug in the official compendium, or supplement thereto, designated by the board for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of diseases in humans or other animals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164

  • Electrical contractor: means any person who undertakes to, attempts to, or submits a price or bid or offers to construct, supervise, superintend, oversee, direct, or in any manner assume charge of the construction, alteration, repair, improvement, movement, demolition, putting up, tearing down, or furnishing labor together with material and equipment, or installing the same for the wiring, fixtures, or appliances for the supply of electricity to any residential, commercial, or other project, when the cost of the undertaking exceeds the sum of ten thousand dollars. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Electronic transmission: means transmission of information in electronic form or the transmission of the exact visual image of a document by way of electronic equipment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Embalmer: means a person who disinfects or preserves, or both, a dead human body or bodies, entirely or in part, by the use of chemical substances, fluids, or gases ordinarily used, prepared, or intended for such purposes, either by outward application of such chemical substances, fluids, or gases on the body, or by the introduction of same into the body by vascular or hypodermic injection, or by direct application into the organs or cavities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Embalmer and funeral director: means a person to whom a valid license has been issued by the board to perform the duties of embalming and funeral directing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Embalming: means preparing, disinfecting, and preserving, either hypodermically, arterially, or by any other recognized means, the body of a deceased person for burial, cremation, or other disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Employee: shall mean any registrar of voters of the state of Louisiana or any deputy or permanent employee of the office of registrar of voters in any parish of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Employer: shall mean the registrar of voters of any parish in the state of Louisiana, the state of Louisiana, or the police jury or any other governing body of a parish which employs and pays persons as registrars of voters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Endorsement: means certification of an applicant who is duly licensed as a registered nurse or advanced practice registered nurse in another state, territory, or country for licensure to practice as a registered nurse or advanced practice registered nurse in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
  • Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in the Medicaid program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • 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
  • Equivalent drug product: means either of the following:

                (a) A drug product that has been rated as a pharmaceutical equivalent by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and has the same established name, active ingredients, strength or concentration, dosage form, and route of administration and which is formulated to contain the same amount of active ingredients in the same dosage form and to meet the same compendial or other applicable standards such as strength, quality, purity, and identity, but which may differ in characteristics such as shape, scoring, configuration, packaging, excipients including colors, flavors, preservatives, and expiration time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164

  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Essential parts: means all integral parts and body parts, the removal, alteration or substitution of which will tend to conceal the identity or substantially alter the appearance of the vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Executive director: means the person appointed by the board to serve as the chief operating officer in connection with the day-to-day operation of the board's business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Extracorporeal circulation: means the diversion of a patient's blood through a heart-lung machine or a similar device that assumes the functions of the patient's heart, lungs, kidney, liver, or other organs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333
  • Facility: means any juvenile detention facility, shelter care facility, or any other similar juvenile justice facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
  • 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.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. Source: OCC
  • Financial institution: means a state or national bank, savings bank or savings association located in the state of Louisiana and whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, including homesteads, building and loan associations and savings and loan associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Firm: means a business unit or enterprise or a partnership of two or more persons not recognized as a legal person distinct from the members composing it. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Floor stock or first dose cabinet: is a medication storage device, which shall be used by personnel, authorized by a protocol established by the pharmacist-in-charge, to gain access to doses as needed and first doses in patient-care areas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Formal hearing: means a hearing as provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Funeral: means the observances held for a dead person usually before burial or cremation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral directing: means the operation of a funeral home, or, by way of illustration and not limitation, any service whatsoever connected with the management of funerals, or the supervision of hearses or funeral cars, the purchase of caskets or other funeral merchandise, and retail sale and display thereof, the cleaning or dressing of dead human bodies for burial, and the performance or supervision of any service or act connected with the management of funerals from time of death until the body or bodies are delivered to the cemetery, crematory, or other agent for the purpose of disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral director: means a person to whom a valid license has been issued by the board to perform the duties of funeral directing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral establishment: means any place or premises duly licensed by the board and devoted to or used in the care and preparation for disposition of the body of a deceased person or maintained or held out to the public by advertising or otherwise as the office or place for the practice of funeral directing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral goods and services: means any one or more of the following goods or services:

                (a) Goods which are sold or offered for sale directly to the public for use in connection with funeral services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831

  • Funeral merchandise: means : caskets, rental caskets, rental casket inserts, alternative containers, combo/shipping caskets, and other receptacles, excluding urns, where human remains are directly placed for disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral recipient: means the individual for whom funeral goods and services are to be provided under the terms of a preneed funeral contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Funeral trust account: means an account established pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • General contractor: means a person who contracts directly with the owner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Genetic counseling: means any of the following actions by a genetic counselor that occur through and as a result of communication between the genetic counselor and a patient:

                (a) Obtaining and evaluating individual, family, and medical histories to determine genetic risk for genetic or medical conditions and diseases in a patient, his offspring, and other family members. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.101

  • Genetic counselor: means an individual who is licensed pursuant to this Part to provide genetic counseling. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.101
  • Genetic supervision: refers to the assessment by an individual who is licensed pursuant to this Part or a physician who is licensed pursuant to Part I of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.101
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Governing authority: means the governing authority of a parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
  • Gratuity: means an inducement given voluntarily or beyond obligation to gain business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Gross weight: means the weight of a vehicle or vehicle combination without load on all axles, including the steering axle plus the weight of any load thereon. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Guaranteed funeral goods and services: means funeral goods and services which a funeral establishment agrees to provide for a named funeral recipient upon death which are a specifically identified set of funeral goods and services designated as guaranteed and for which a funeral trust account has been established or a preneed insurance policy or annuity has been purchased or assigned to pay for those funeral goods and services, provided the buyer has fully funded a funeral trust account, or has fully paid for a preneed funeral policy or annuity, within a specified period of time after the preneed funeral contract is made and the funeral establishment has agreed to accept the funds available in the funeral trust account or preneed insurance policy or annuity during the term of the guarantee as payment in full for those funeral goods and services so that there will be no additional cost to the funeral recipient's family or his or her estate for those funeral goods and services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • 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 care organization or entity: means any entity or organization providing health care services which is licensed or regulated under Title 40 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or regulations promulgated by the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.22
  • Health care provider: means any person furnishing or claiming to furnish a good, service, or supply under the medical assistance programs, any other person defined as a health care provider by federal or state law or by rule, and a provider-in-fact. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Healthcare facility: means an independent diagnostic testing facility, magnetic resonance imaging equipment or facility, computerized tomography equipment or facility, Positron Emission Tomography scanner or facility, an ambulatory surgical center licensed by the department, or any outpatient surgical facility required to be licensed by the department as an ambulatory surgical center in order to obtain certification by Medicare as an ambulatory surgical center. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1307
  • Healthcare services: means magnetic resonance imaging services, computerized tomography services, Positron Emission Tomography scanner services, ultrasound services, any other imaging services that have become generally accepted methods of providing imaging services after April 17, 2006, as determined by the department, any services rendered by an ambulatory surgical center licensed by the department, or any services rendered by an outpatient surgical facility required to be licensed by the department as an ambulatory surgical center in order to obtain certification by Medicare as an ambulatory surgical center. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1307
  • Highway: includes every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public, for the purpose of vehicular travel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Home improvement contracting: means the reconstruction, alteration, renovation, repair, modernization, conversion, improvement, removal, or demolition, or the construction of an addition to any preexisting residential structure which building is used or designed to be used as a residence or dwelling unit, or to structures which are adjacent to such residence or building where the project value exceeds seven thousand five hundred dollars but is not greater than seventy-five thousand dollars. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Home improvement contractor: means any person who undertakes or attempts to undertake or submits a price or bid on any home improvement contracting project. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Hospital pharmacy: means a pharmacy department located in a hospital licensed under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Houseboat: means a vessel constructed for the primary purpose of a temporary or permanent dwelling without an effective means of propulsion for safe navigation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Hull identification number: means the number assigned to a vessel under Subpart C of 33 C. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Human remains: means the body of a deceased person, or part of a body or limb in any stage of decomposition that has been removed from a living or dead person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Immediate family member: means husband or wife; birth or adoptive parent, child, or sibling; stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother or stepsister; father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; grandparent or grandchild; and spouse of grandparent or grandchild. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1307
  • Inactive licensee: means an individual that holds a funeral director or embalmer and funeral director license issued by the board not practicing in any capacity in this state and who has not met the requirements of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Incompetency: means the lack of skills or qualities necessary to perform the duties of funeral director, or embalmer, or both. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
  • Informal meeting: means a fact gathering session of the board as provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Institutional facility: means any organization whose primary purpose is to provide a physical environment for a patient to obtain health care services, including but not limited to a:

                (a) Hospital pharmacy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164

  • Intern: means a person who is duly registered as such with the board while in the employ of a funeral establishment and who is engaged in learning the practice of funeral directing, or the practice of embalming, or both as the case may be, under the supervision of a funeral director or funeral director and embalmer duly licensed by the board and available on the same premises for consultation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
  • Joint venture: means a speculative business enterprise involving the united activity of two or more persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • Labeling: means the process of preparing and affixing a label to any drug container exclusive, however, of the labeling by a manufacturer, packer, or distributor of a non-prescription drug or commercially packaged legend drug or device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Law enforcement officer: means :

    (a)  The law enforcement officers of the office of state police and the probation and parole officers of the division of probation and parole of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782

  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Lease-purchase contract: means the financing and acquisition of property by a person pursuant to an arrangement under which such person acquires title to property, constructs a facility on the property, and enters into a lease-purchase contract with the commission providing for the leasing of the property, including a facility on the property, to the commission and the acquisition of title to the property by the commission at the end of the lease period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
  • legend drug: means a drug that is required by any applicable federal or state law or regulation to be dispensed or delivered pursuant only to a prescription drug order, or is restricted to use by practitioners only. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • 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.
  • License: means the certificate of authority to operate a pawnshop as issued by the commissioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Licensed acupuncturist: means an individual other than a physician who is certified by the board to practice acupuncture pursuant to the provisions of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1356
  • Licensed long-term care facility: means any of the following:

                (a) Nursing home as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1026.3

  • Licensed marriage and family therapist: means a person to whom a license has been issued pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter, which license is in force and not suspended or revoked. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Licensed professional counselor: means any person who holds himself out to the public for a fee or other personal gain, by any title or description of services incorporating the words "licensed professional counselor" or any similar term, and who offers to render professional mental health counseling services denoting a client-counselor relationship in which the counselor assumes responsibility for knowledge, skill, and ethical considerations needed to assist individuals, groups, organizations, or the general public, and who implies that he is licensed to practice mental health counseling pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Licensed specialist in school psychology: means any person licensed as a specialist in school psychology who applies his knowledge of both psychology and education during consultation and collaboration with others and engages in specific services for students, such as direct and indirect interventions that focus on academic skills, learning, socialization, and mental health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2352
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • lifestyle modifications: means the broad domain of traditional or homeopathic healthcare practices and other complementary health practices and services provided by a person who is not licensed, certified, or registered to perform, and who shall be prohibited from performing any of the following designated services or practices:

                (1) Practicing medicine or performing surgery as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1742.1

  • Light trailer: means every vehicle of the trailer or semitrailer type and having a loaded gross weight of not more than five hundred pounds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Long-term care facility: means a nursing home, retirement care, mental care, or other facility or institution that provides extended health care to a residential patient, including but not limited to health care facilities licensed by the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • lot of used building components: shall mean a group of like used building components. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1871
  • Malpractice: as used in this Chapter , means a negligence from professional duty or a failure to exercise an acceptable degree of skill or learning as a funeral director, or embalmer, or both that results in injury, loss, or damage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or importing new vessels or outboard motors for the purpose of sale or trade. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Manufacturer: means every person engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing, constructing or assembling new motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Manufacturer: means a person who manufactures drugs and includes a labeler, primary distributor, or person who prepares drugs in dosage form by mixing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Manufacturing: means the production, preparation, propagation, conversion, or processing of a drug or device, either directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical or biological synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, and the promotion and marketing of such drugs or devices. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Marriage and family therapy: means the professional application of psychotherapeutic and family systems theories and techniques in the prevention, diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders in an individual and relational disorders in couples and families. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • MAT: means the use of medications with counseling and behavioral therapies to treat substance use disorders and prevent opioid overdose. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Material: means having a natural tendency to influence, or be capable of influencing, the payment or receipt of money or property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Maturity date: means the last date subsequent to the pawn transaction upon which the pledgor can redeem a pledged thing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Mechanical contractor: means any person who undertakes to, attempts to, or submits a price or bid or offers to construct, supervise, superintend, oversee, direct, or in any manner assume charge of the construction, alteration, repair, improvement, movement, demolition, putting up, tearing down, or furnishing labor, or furnishing labor together with material and equipment, or installing the same for the construction, installation, maintenance, testing, and repair of air conditioning, refrigeration, heating systems, and plumbing for all residential, commercial, and industrial applications as well as ventilation systems, mechanical work controls, boilers and other pressure vessels, steam and hot water systems and piping, gas piping and fuel storage, and chilled water and condensing water systems and piping, including but not limited to any type of industrial process piping and related valves, fittings, and components, when the cost of the undertaking exceeds the sum of ten thousand dollars. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Medical assistance programs: means the Medical Assistance Program (Title XIX of the Social Security Act), commonly referred to as "Medicaid" and other programs operated by and funded in the department which provide payment to health care providers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Medical order: means a lawful order of a practitioner that may or may not include a prescription. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Medical psychology: means that profession of the health sciences which deals with the examination, diagnosis, psychological, pharmacologic, and other somatic treatment and/or management of mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral, substance abuse, or cognitive disorders, and specifically includes the authority to administer, distribute without charge, and/or prescribe drugs as defined in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.52
  • Medical Psychology Advisory Committee: means a committee, established by the board for purposes as defined in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.52
  • Medication attendant: means a person who, pursuant to this Part, has completed a medication administration course approved by the Louisiana Department of Health, passed an examination for medication attendants approved by the Louisiana Department of Health, and received a current certification from the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1026.3
  • Member: shall include any employee, as defined in Paragraph (10) of this Section, included in the membership of this system as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Mental health counseling: which means assisting an individual or group, through psychotherapy and the counseling relationship, to develop an understanding of personal problems, to define goals, and to plan actions reflecting his or their interests, abilities, aptitudes, and needs as these are related to personal and social concerns, educational progress, and occupations and careers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Mental health counseling services: means rendering or offering prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, which includes psychotherapy, of mental, emotional, behavioral, and addiction disorders to individuals, groups, organizations, or the general public by a licensed professional counselor, that is consistent with his professional training as prescribed by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Military surplus motor vehicle: means a wheeled, multipurpose or tactical motor vehicle manufactured for, and sold directly to, the Armed Forces of the United States in conformity with contractual specifications and subsequently authorized for sale to civilians. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Misrepresentation: means the act of giving a false, or misleading representation with an intent to deceive. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Mold remediation contractor: means any person who engages in removal, cleaning, sanitizing, demolition, or other treatment, including preventative activities, of mold or mold-contaminated matter that was not purposely grown at that location and where the costs for such labor and materials exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Month: means that period of time from one date in a calendar month to the corresponding date in the subsequent calendar month. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Motor carrier: as used in this Chapter shall not include and this Chapter shall not apply to motor vehicles operated exclusively within the corporate limits of incorporated municipalities or to the vehicles of private persons transporting only the property of such private persons or their family, bona fide friends, or guests and not including such vehicles as are embraced in the proviso to paragraph (7)(a)(b) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Motor fuel: means every kind and character of fuel used in the operation of a motor vehicle and embraces every such fuel contemplated by Chapter 7 of this Sub-title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Motor vehicle: means every vehicle, as herein defined, which is self propelled. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Motorboat: means any vessel equipped with or propelled by any type of machinery whether or not such machinery is the principal source of propulsion but shall not include a vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the Bureau of Customs of the United States Government or any federal agency successor thereto, unless the vessel is a recreational use vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicles as may be included within the classification "tractor" as herein defined. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • NADA: means the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1356
  • Narcotics: means those natural or synthetic opioid analgesics, and their derivatives used to relieve pain. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.52
  • Nationally recognized certification examination: means an examination approved by the board upon the recommendation of the committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Nationally recognized certifying body: means a national certification organization which certifies qualified licensed nurses as advanced practice registered nurses and which requires certain eligibility criteria related to education and practice, offers an examination in an advanced nursing area which meets current psychometric guidelines and tests, and is approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Net assets: means the book value of current assets less applicable liabilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • 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.
  • Non-prescription drug: means a drug that may be sold without a prescription and that is labeled for use by the consumer in accordance with the federal and state laws and regulations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Nursing diagnosis: means the identification of actual or potential responses to health needs or problems based on collecting, analyzing, and comparing data with appropriate nursing standards to serve as the basis for indicating nursing care or for which referral to appropriate medical or community resources is necessary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • Operate: means to navigate or otherwise use a motorboat or vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • operation: means all operations of a vessel or outboard motor when it is at the pier, idle in the water, at anchor, or being propelled through the water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Out-of-state pharmacy: means a pharmacy located outside this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Outboard motor: means a mechanical combustion engine manufactured to produce a twenty-five or more horsepower engine and designed to attach outboard of the transom of a vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means a person, other than a secured party, having property rights in, or title to, a vessel or outboard motor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Owner: means a person who holds the legal title to a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale, lease, or transfer of the possession, howsoever, thereof with right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with the right of immediate possession vested in such vendee, lessee, possessor, or in the event such similar transaction is had by means of mortgage and the mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or possessor or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Owner: means a person, other than a lien holder, having a property interest in or title to a motorboat. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Participating parish: means any parish which has entered into a participation agreement with the commission by which certain space is subleased to house juveniles from the participating parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
  • 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.
  • Patient counseling: means the communication by a pharmacist of information, as defined by the regulations of the board, to the patient or caregiver, in order to ensure proper use of drugs and devices. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Pawn transaction: means the lending of money on a deposit or pledge or taking other things into possession as security for money advanced. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Pawnbroker: means a person who lends money on a deposit or pledge or who takes other things into possession as security for money advanced or who makes a public display at his place of business of the sign generally used by pawnbrokers to denote his business, namely, three gilt or yellow balls, or who publicly exhibits a sign that money is to be loaned on things on deposit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Pawnshop: means the location at which, or premises upon which, a pawnbroker regularly conducts business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Payment: means the payment to a health care provider from medical assistance programs funds pursuant to a claim, or the attempt to seek payment for a claim. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Perfusion: means the functions necessary for the support, treatment, measurement, or supplementation of the cardiovascular, circulatory, respiratory systems or other organs, or a combination of those activities, and to ensure the safe management of physiologic functions by monitoring and analyzing the parameters:

    (a)  The use of extracorporeal circulation, long-term cardiopulmonary support techniques, including extracorporeal carbon dioxide removal and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and associated therapeutic and diagnostic techniques. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333

  • Perfusion protocols: means perfusion related policies and protocols developed or approved by a licensed health facility or a physician through collaboration with administrators, licensed perfusionists, and other health care professionals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333
  • Perfusionist: means a person, qualified by academic and clinical education, to operate the extracorporeal circulation equipment during any medical situation where it is necessary to support or replace a person's cardiopulmonary, circulatory, or respiratory function. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333
  • Permit: means the grant of authority by the board to any person authorizing the practice of pharmacy at a site. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, cooperative, corporation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or any other entity recognized by Louisiana law; and whether or not acting as a principal, trustee, fiduciary, receiver, or as any other kind of legal or personal representative, or as a successor in interest, assignee, agent, factor, servant, employee, director, officer, or any other representative of such person; or any state or local governing authority or political subdivision performing a new construction project which exceeds the contract limits provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Person: means any natural person or individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, limited liability company, or other entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Person: means every natural person, individual, firm, copartnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association or other organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization, or body politic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Person: means natural and juridical persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Person: as used in this Part includes any corporation, or partnership, or two or more persons having a joint or common interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1901
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal entity, including government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Person: means an individual or any legal or commercial entity, including a corporation, business trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
  • Persons: includes an individual, firm, partnership, association, or corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2352
  • Pest: means any insect, rodent, nematode, fungus, weed, or any other form of terrestrial or aquatic plant or animal life or virus, bacteria, or other microorganism in living humans or other living animals, which the commissioner declares to be a pest, other than mosquitos. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3382
  • Pesticide: means any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any pest and any substance or combination of substances intended for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, desiccant, or any substance the commissioner of agriculture and forestry or his duly authorized representative acting at his direction determines to be a pesticide. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3382
  • Pharmacist: means an individual currently licensed by the board to engage in the practice of pharmacy in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Pharmacist-in-charge: means a pharmacist currently licensed by the board who accepts responsibility for the operation of a pharmacy in conformance with all laws and regulations pertinent to the practice of pharmacy and the distribution of drugs, and who is personally in full and actual charge of such pharmacy and personnel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Pharmacy: means any place located within this state where drugs are dispensed and pharmacy primary care is provided, and any place outside of this state where drugs are dispensed and pharmacy primary care is provided to residents of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Pharmacy collaborative drug therapy management: means that practice whereby a pharmacist or pharmacists have, on a voluntary basis, agreed to manage the disease-specific drug therapy of a patient under written protocol, working in conjunction with a physician licensed to practice medicine by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Pharmacy intern: means an individual who is:

                (a) Engaged in the practice of pharmacy while under the direct and immediate supervision of a pharmacist for the purpose of obtaining practical experience for licensure as a pharmacist and is satisfactorily progressing in a board-approved college of pharmacy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164

  • Pharmacy primary care: means bringing health care as close as possible to where people live and work and may constitute a portal of entry into the continuing health care process in an effort to enhance optimum therapeutic outcomes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Pharmacy technician: means an individual who assists in the practice of pharmacy under the direct and immediate supervision of a licensed pharmacist and is certified to do so by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Phlebotomist: means an individual performing an invasive procedure to withdraw blood from the human body to collect samples for the practice of clinical laboratory science, including but not limited to clinical laboratory testing for analysis, typing and cross-matching of blood for medical examination and human transfusion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Physician: means a natural person who is the holder of an allopathic (M. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1262
  • Physician: means an individual licensed to practice medicine in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1356
  • Physician: means a person who is licensed to practice medicine in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.22
  • Physician: means an individual licensed by the board to engage in the practice of medicine in the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.52
  • Physician assistant: means a health professional qualified by academic and clinical education and licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners to provide health care services at the direction and under the supervision of a physician or a group of physicians approved by the board as a supervising physician. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.22
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Plumbing contractor: means any person who installs, maintains, and repairs potable and nonpotable tap water or sewer systems within a building structure or residential structure when the cost of the undertaking exceeds the sum of ten thousand dollars. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Pneumatic tires: means all tires inflated with compressed air. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Policy or procedure: shall mean a requirement governing the administration of managed care organizations specific to billing guidelines, medical management and utilization review guidelines, case management guidelines, claims processing guidelines and edits, grievance and appeals procedures and process, other guidelines or manuals containing pertinent information related to operations and pre-processing claims, and core benefits and services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Political subdivision: means a parish, municipality, and any other unit of local government, including a school board and a special district, authorized by law to levy and collect a sales and use tax. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:337.6
  • Possesses: means the person has acquired rights in or title to a vessel or outboard motor by virtue of a gift, donation, raffle, or exchange or the person built the vessel or outboard motor themselves. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • 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
  • Practical nurse: means a person who practices practical nursing and who is licensed to practice under this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:961
  • Practice of clinical laboratory science: means the performance by any individual, other than a physician licensed by the board, of laboratory testing, analysis, or examination of human specimens. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1312
  • Practice of marriage and family therapy: means the rendering of professional marriage and family therapy and psychotherapy services, limited to prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional, behavioral, relational, and addiction disorders to individuals, couples, and families, singly or in groups, whether such services are offered directly to the general public or through either public or private organizations for a fee, monetary or otherwise, in accordance with professional training as prescribed by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Practice of mental health counseling: means rendering or offering prevention, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, which includes psychotherapy, of mental, emotional, behavioral, and addiction disorders to individuals, groups, organizations, or the general public by a licensed professional counselor, which is consistent with his professional training as prescribed by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Practice of nursing: means the performance, with or without compensation, by an individual licensed by the board as a registered nurse, of functions requiring specialized knowledge and skills derived from the biological, physical, and behavioral sciences. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Practitioner: means an individual currently licensed, registered, or otherwise authorized by the appropriate licensing board to prescribe and administer drugs in the course of professional practice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • 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.
  • Preceptor: means an individual who is currently licensed as a pharmacist by the board, meets certain qualifications as a preceptor as established by the board, and participates in the instructional training of pharmacy interns. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Preneed funeral contract: means any written agreement between a buyer and a funeral establishment in which a funeral establishment agrees, prior to the death of a named funeral recipient, to furnish funeral goods and services for the funeral recipient upon death, and the buyer, pursuant to that agreement, transfers or tenders funds, or assigns an insurance policy or annuity to the funeral establishment for the purpose of paying all or part of the cost of those funeral goods and services at the time they are actually provided. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Preneed insurance policy or annuity: means any policy or contract of insurance issued by an insurance company in accordance with Title 22 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, and used to fund a preneed funeral contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Prepaid Coordinated Care Network: means a private entity that contracts with the department to provide Medicaid benefits and services to Louisiana Medicaid managed care program enrollees in exchange for a monthly prepaid capitated amount per member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Preparation: means the actions or processes necessary to make a dead body ready for disposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • prescription drug order: means an order from a practitioner authorized by law to prescribe for a drug or device that is patient-specific and is communicated by any means to a pharmacist in a permitted pharmacy, and is to be preserved on file as required by law or regulation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Primary care case management: means a system under which an entity contracts with the state to furnish case management services that include but are not limited to the location, coordination, and monitoring of primary healthcare services to Medicaid beneficiaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Primary service area: means the smaller of either a radius of twenty-five miles from the rural hospital main campus or the number of postal zip codes, commencing with the rural hospital's zip code, in which seventy-five percent of a rural hospital's patients reside, as determined by using data derived from the hospital's most recent twelve month Medicare cost reporting period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1307
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Program instructor: means an organization or person who conducts or presents continuing education to licensees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Prohibited zone: means an area paralleling each side of the entire length of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge and extending outward for a distance of one mile from both the most easterly and westerly outboard sides of the causeway bridge twin spans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Proposing party: means a person or entity that offers to enter into a joint venture with a rural hospital as well as any person or entity related to the proposing party by common ownership or control as such terms are defined for purposes of 42 C. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1307
  • Proprietary: shall mean specific and specialized equipment installation, manufacturing processes, uses, or components that are protected from disclosure to third parties by the owner or manufacturer of the equipment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • provider: means a person, partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, corporation, facility, or institution that provides healthcare or professional services to individuals enrolled in the Medicaid program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Provider: means any healthcare entity enrolled with the department as a provider in the Medicaid program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:440.12
  • Provisional licensed marriage and family therapist: means any person who has completed the requirements provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Provisional licensed perfusionist: means a person provisionally licensed under this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1333
  • Provisional licensed professional counselor: means any person who has completed the requirements provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Provisional licensed psychologist: means a person provisionally licensed in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2352
  • Psychologist: means any person licensed as a psychologist in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2352
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Qualified supervision: means the supervision for a licensed marriage and family therapist of clinical services, in accordance with standards developed by the advisory committee, and approved by the board by an individual who has been recognized by the advisory committee as an approved supervisor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1103
  • Qualifying party: means a natural person designated by the contractor to represent the contractor for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this Chapter including without limitation meeting the requirements for the initial license and any continuation thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Reburial: means to transfer or transport a body from one place to another for reinterment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
  • Recipient: means an individual who is eligible to receive health care through the medical assistance programs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Reciprocity: means the acknowledgment and licensure of a pharmacist from another state or jurisdiction pursuant to procedures established by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Recoupment: means recovery through the reduction, in whole or in part, of payment to a health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Recovery: means the recovery of overpayments, damages, fines, penalties, costs, expenses, restitution, attorney fees, or interest or settlement amounts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Refund designee: means the person designated in a preneed funeral contract by the buyer to receive any surplus of funds as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Registered nurse: means any individual licensed under this Part to engage in the practice of nursing as defined in Paragraph (14) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Registered nursing: means the practice of the scope of nursing which is appropriate to the individual's educational level, knowledge, skills, and abilities, including:

                (a) Assessing the health status of an individual or group of individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913

  • Regular interest: shall mean interest compounded annually at such a rate as shall be determined by the board of trustees in accordance with La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • 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.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Reprimand: means a formal reproof of a person for violation of this Chapter or rules and regulations of the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • residential contractor: includes all persons who receive an additional fee for the employment or direction of labor, or any other work beyond the normal architectural or engineering services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Residential structure: means a building or structure that is used primarily for occupancy by a person as a residence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Retirement: shall mean withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Retirement allowance: shall mean the sum of the annuity and the pensions, or any optional benefit payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • Road tractor: means every motor vehicle designed, constructed or used either by itself or for drawing other vehicles used in the construction and maintenance of roads, highways, or streets and not so constructed as to carry any load thereon either independently or as a part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Sailboat: means any watercraft propelled by sail or canvas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • School: means any public or private day or residential school that provides pre-kindergarten, elementary, or secondary education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3382
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, or his authorized designee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Secretary or attorney general: means that either party is authorized to institute a proceeding or take other authorized action as provided in this Part pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the two so as to notify the public as to whether the secretary or the attorney general is the deciding or controlling party in the proceeding or other authorized matter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:437.3
  • Security interest: means an interest that is reserved or created by an agreement that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Semitrailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers and so designed in conjunction and used with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle and having itself one or more load-carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Service: shall mean service rendered as an employee as described in Paragraph (10) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2031
  • services: means the 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 46:460.51
  • Solicitation: means the act or practice of any licensee, or any agent, employee, or person acting on his behalf, approaching a person or a group of persons to make a request or plea, or to urge someone toward a particular cause as it may pertain to the care, custody, or disposition of a dead human body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Standardized information: means the customary universal data concerning an applicant's identity, education, and professional experience relative to a managed care organization's credentialing process including but not limited to name, address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, educational background, state licensing board number, residency program, internship, specialty, subspecialty, fellowship, or certification by a regional or national healthcare or medical specialty college, association or society, prior and current place of employment, an adverse medical review panel opinion, a pending professional liability lawsuit, final disposition of a professional liability settlement or judgment, and information mandated by health insurance issuer accrediting organizations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Student nurse: means any individual who is enrolled in an approved program preparing for licensure as a registered nurse. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:913
  • Subcontract: means an agreement to perform a portion of the scope of work contained in the principal contract including the entire cost of labor and materials of that part of the principal contract which is performed by the subcontractor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Subcontractor: means a person who contracts to perform a scope of work that is a part of the scope of work contained in the principal contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:2150.1
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Subtitle: means and includes all the Chapters in Subtitle II of this Title 47 and any other Title of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 except the provisions of Chapter 1 of Subtitle IV of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 and estate taxes for the assessment, collection, administration, and enforcement of taxes, fees, licenses, penalties, and interest due the state of Louisiana which have been delegated to the Department of Revenue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1501
  • Summary suspension: means the suspension of a license, permit, certification, or registration that requires a person to cease practice immediately pending the results of a hearing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Supervising physician: means a physician who has been approved by the board to supervise a physician assistant. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.22
  • Supervision: means responsible direction and control, with the supervising physician assuming legal liability for the services rendered by the physician assistant in the course and scope of the physician assistant's employment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1360.22
  • Suspension: means the withdrawal of the license, permit, certification, or registration to practice pharmacy in the state for a period of time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Tandem truck: means every motor propelled single vehicle designed for the conveyance of property or things for hauling purposes and having one front or steering axle and two rear or load carrying axles, even though one of said load carrying axles is not permanently affixed to the frame of the vehicle and may be removed therefrom. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Telehealth: has the meaning ascribed in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Telemedicine: means the practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, and transfer of medical data by a physician using technology that enables the physician and a patient at two locations separated by distance to interact. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1262
  • Temporary container: means a receptacle for cremated human remains usually made of cardboard, plastic, or similar material designed to hold the cremated human remains until an urn or other permanent container is acquired. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Temporary license: is a license issued for a period of not more than six months to an individual who has been licensed for a period of not less than one year and who has been active as an embalmer and funeral director or funeral director in another state, province, or jurisdiction recognized by the board and who meets all of the requirements of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Things: means any property, movable and immovable, corporeal and incorporeal, and rights therein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1782
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Tractor: means every vehicle designed, constructed, or used for drawing other vehicles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Trailer: means every single vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers wholly on its own structure and designed to be drawn by a truck, tractor, or another motor vehicle and having two or more load carrying axles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • 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.
  • Transient merchant: as used in this Part means any person engaging temporarily in a retail or wholesale sale of goods, wares or merchandise, in any place in the State of Louisiana and who, for the purpose of conducting such business, occupies any lot, building, room or structure of any kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1901
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Truck: means every motor propelled single vehicle for the conveyance of property or things for hauling purposes and having one front or steering axle and one rear or load carrying axle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Truck-tractor: means a motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load drawn. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Untrustworthiness: means the quality or state of not being worthy of confidence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Untruthful: means to be false, inaccurate, or dishonest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • Urn: means a receptacle designed to permanently encase cremated human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:831
  • used building component: shall mean any object produced or shaped by human workmanship or tools that is an element of structural, architectural, archaeological, historical, ornamental, cultural, utilitarian, decorative, or sentimental significance or interest, which has been and may be used as an adjunct to or component or ornament of any building or structure, regardless of monetary worth, age, size, shape or condition, that is immovable property or fixture, including but not limited to bricks, siding, gutters, downspouts, lightning rods, chimney roofs, lights, chandeliers, stoves, tubs, sinks, faucets, faucet handles, toilets, bidets, showers, fans, furnaces, air conditioners, water heaters, sprinkling systems, shelving, countertops, cabinets, built-in speakers, shutters, trim, rafters, roof tiles, roofing, studs, foundation, barge boards, paneling, stairs, risers, banisters, wiring, plumbing, hinges, door latches, door knobs, medallions, mantles, flooring, carpet, tiles, molding, wainscoting, pavers, doors, windows, sills, transoms, joists, mailboxes, signage, fountains, decking, gates, fences, planters, landscaping, plantings or portions thereof, or component parts of immovable property of any nature or kind whatsoever. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1871
  • Vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person, property, or thing is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; provided, that for the purpose of this Chapter, a bicycle or a ridden animal shall not be deemed a vehicle, and provided further that a trailer or semitrailer shall be held and deemed each to be and constitute a separate vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:451
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • verification supporting statement: means the documentation confirming the information submitted by an applicant for a credentialing application from a specifically named entity or a regional, national, or general data depository providing primary source verification including but not limited to a college, university, medical school, teaching hospital, healthcare facility or institution, state licensing board, federal agency or department, professional liability insurer, or the National Practitioner Data Bank. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.51
  • Vessel: means watercraft and air boats of every description, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Vessel: means every description of watercraft and air boats, including homemade boats, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, valued in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars, to be principally operated on the waters of this state, required to be numbered, not held as inventory for sale or lease, and transferred for the first time on or after July 1, 2008. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
  • Warning: means a written notice issued to a person addressing possible aberrant conduct. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Watercraft: means any contrivance used or designated for navigation on water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
  • Wholesale drug distribution: means distribution of legend drugs to a party other than the consumer or patient, including but not limited to distribution by manufacturers, repackers, own label distributors, jobbers, and wholesale drug distributors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Wholesale drug distributor: means any person who sells legend drugs to a party other than the consumer or the patient, including but not limited to manufacturers, repackers, own label distributors, jobbers, brokers, agents, and pharmacies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:1164
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.