Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 18 > Part III > Subpart B - Authority of Police Jury to Protect Livestock

• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Average final compensation: shall mean the average annual earned compensation of an employee for any period of thirty-six successive or joined months of service as an employee during which the said earned compensation was the highest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Beneficiary: shall mean any natural or juridical person or estate administrator designated to receive a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance, or other benefit as provided by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Board of trustees: shall mean the board provided for in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Creditable service: shall mean service for which credit is allowable as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Employee: shall mean any full-time firefighter or any person in a position as defined in the municipal fire and police civil service system who is employed by a fire department of any municipality, parish, or fire protection district of the state of Louisiana, excepting Orleans and Lafayette Parishes, and who is earning at least three hundred seventy-five dollars per month excluding state supplemental pay. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Employer: shall mean any municipality, parish, or fire protection district in the state of Louisiana, excepting Orleans and Lafayette Parishes, which employs a full-time fireman, and the Firefighters' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• En banc: In the bench or "full bench." Refers to court sessions with the entire membership of a court participating rather than the usual quorum. U.S. courts of appeals usually sit in panels of three judges, but may expand to a larger number in certain cases. They are then said to be sitting en banc.
• 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 11:2252
• 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.
• Retirement: shall mean withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Retirement allowance: shall mean any benefit paid to a member under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Retirement system: shall mean the Firefighters' Retirement System as established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Service: shall mean service rendered as an employee as described in Paragraph (10) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• years of service: shall mean the number of twelve-month periods a member has which are creditable toward receiving retirement benefits from the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:2252