Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 10-A > Part V - Industrial Hemp

• Agency: as used in this Chapter shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Applicant: means a natural person or any individual who applies on behalf of a partnership, corporation, cooperative association, limited liability company, joint stock association, sole proprietorship, joint venture, business association, professional corporation, or any other legal entity or organization through which business is conducted for a grower, processor, handler, or industrial hemp seed producer license. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• 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.
• Board: means the board of trustees of the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Business: means any corporation, partnership, individual, sole proprietorship, joint stock company, joint venture, or any other legal entity through which business is conducted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Central purchasing agency: means the office of state procurement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Chief procurement officer: means the person holding the position created in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Commission: means the Agricultural Chemistry and Seed Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Commission: means the governing authority of St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
• Commissioner: means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Competitive sealed bidding: means the receipt of bids protected from inspection prior to bid opening. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: means all types of state agreements, regardless of what they may be called, including orders and documents purporting to represent grants, which are for the purchase or disposal of supplies, services, major repairs, or any other item. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Data: means recorded information, regardless of form or characteristic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.31
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.41
• Designated responsible party: means a natural person designated by the applicant or licensee as responsible for facility operations of the applicant or licensee facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Designee: means a duly authorized representative of a person holding a superior position. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Electronic: means electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnet, or any other similar technology. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• 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
• Governing authority: means the governing authority of a parish or parishes having a youth center or a juvenile detention center authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
• Governmental body: means any department, office, division, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution, agency, government corporation, or other establishment or official of the executive branch of state government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Grower: means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that is licensed by the department to cultivate industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Handler: means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that handles industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• handling: means any of the following:

              (a) Transporting or delivering industrial hemp material in intrastate commerce for compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462

• in writing: means the product of any method of forming characters on paper, other materials, or viewable screen, which can be read, retrieved, and reproduced, including information that is electronically transmitted and stored. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Indigent: means any person who meets the state definition of indigent who would have qualified for indigent care in any general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana prior to arrest and who is housed in any parish or municipal jail or detention facility or state prison, shall be treated in the nearest general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:17
• Industrial hemp: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Industrial hemp seed: means Cannabis sativa L. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Invitation for bids: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting bids in accordance with the procedures set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Licensure: means any license that the department is authorized to issue to a grower, seed producer, processor, or handler of industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Major repairs: means those repairs payable with funds appropriated in the general appropriations act, except those funds transferred from the operating budget of one governmental body to supplement and complete a project under contract by the division of administration facility planning and control section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Negotiation: means the formulation of a contractual relationship through discussions as may be allowed under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Parish: means St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
• Parish: means a parish in which a youth center is sited. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
• Participating parish: means any parish which has entered into a participation agreement with St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1098.2
• Participating parish: means any parish which has entered into a participation agreement with a parish having a youth center by which certain space within the center is subleased to house juveniles from the participating parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1099.2
• Performance-based sampling: means an alternative sampling method utilized by the department to ensure, at confidence level of 95%, that no more than one percent of the industrial hemp plants in each lot subject to the alternative sampling method will test above a total delta-9 THC concentration of 0. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Person: means any business, individual, union, committee, club, or other organization or group of individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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.
• Primary care case management: means a system in which an entity contracts with the state to furnish case management services, which include but are not limited to the location, coordination, and monitoring of primary health care service to Medicaid beneficiaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.31
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Process: means converting industrial hemp into a marketable form. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Processor: means any individual, partnership, corporation, cooperative association, or other business entity that receives industrial hemp for processing into commodities or products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Procurement: means the buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining any supplies, services, or major repairs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Procurement officer: means any person authorized by a governmental body, in accordance with procedures prescribed by regulations, to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations and findings with respect thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• provider: means a physician licensed to practice medicine by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners or other individual health care practitioner licensed, certified, or registered to perform specified health care services consistent with state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.41
• Public assistance: means any of the following:

              (a) Cash benefits of the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program administered by the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:352

• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchasing agency: means any governmental body which is authorized by this Chapter or its implementing regulations, or by way of delegation from the state chief procurement officer, to contract on its own behalf rather than through the central contracting authority of the office of state procurement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Request for proposals: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting proposals in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:460.31
• Seed producer: means a person licensed by the department to obtain, produce, transport, and sell industrial hemp seed in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor whose primary purpose is to perform an identifiable task rather than to furnish an end item of supply. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Signature: means a manual or electronic signature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Social service: means work rendered by any person, firm, corporation, organization, governmental body, or governmental entity in furtherance of the general welfare of the citizens of Louisiana, including but not limited to the objectives provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• State chief procurement officer: means the person holding the position created in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• State partners: means the following state entities, collectively:

              (a) The Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:352

• State plan: means a plan required for approval by the United States Secretary of Agriculture to monitor and regulate the production of industrial hemp. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Supplies: means all property, including but not limited to equipment, materials, insurance, and leases on immovable property excluding land or a permanent interest in land. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Surviving spouse: means a person who is legally married to a member of the system and living with the member at the time of his death. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• THC: means a combination of tetrahydrocannabinol and tetrahydrocannabinolic acid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• transporting: means the movement of industrial hemp from the premises of a licensee to the premises of another licensee or from the premises of a licensee to the premises of a permit holder pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1462
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Using agency: means any governmental body of the state which utilizes any supplies, services, or major repairs purchased under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.