Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 38 > Chapter 13 > Part XII - Greater Baton Rouge Water Conservation District

• Agriculture: means the commercial planting, growing, harvesting, production, storage, processing, marketing, distribution, or export of any agricultural product, including but not limited to farm products, livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, milk and dairy products, fruit and other horticultural products, and seafood and aquacultural products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• 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.
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce for Communications and Information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Broadband service: means deployed mass-market retail internet access service with a minimum of one hundred megabits per second, or Mbps, download and at least twenty megabits per second upload transmission speeds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Broadband-serviceable location: means a business or residential location in the United States at which fixed broadband internet access service is, or can be, installed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Director: means the executive director of the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Eligible costs: means costs that are eligible for BEAD program funding as specified by the assistant secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Eligible grant recipient: means a provider of broadband service, including a provider operated by a local government if the local government is compliant with the Local Government Fair Competition Act, La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Eligible parish: means any parish with unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable locations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Enforceable commitment: means any location that is already subject to a legally enforceable federal, state, or local commitment to deploy broadband. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• 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}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fund: means the Louisiana Economic Development Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2332
• Infrastructure: means existing facilities, equipment, materials, and structures that an internet service provider has installed either for its core business or public enterprise purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local government: means a parish, municipality, or school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Office: means the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Program: means the Workforce Development and Training Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2332
• Project: means an undertaking by an eligible grant recipient to construct and deploy infrastructure for the provision of broadband service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.