Sections
Part I General 3:4601 – 3:4624
Part II Particular Products 3:4631 – 3:4738
Part III Truth in Labeling of Food Products 3:4741 – 3:4746

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 30 - Louisiana Weights and Measures Law

  • Academic course: means a subject designed for transfer of credit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3140.1
  • Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all amounts paid by a member, excluding interest paid on the repayment of a refund, and credited to his individual account in the employee's savings account, together with regular interest credited prior to July 1969. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Acquittal:
    1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
    2. A verdict of "not guilty."
     
  • Activity: means a distinct subset of functions or services within a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Actuarial equivalent: means a benefit of equivalent value to the accumulated contributions, annuity, or benefits, as the case may be, computed on the basis of interest and mortality assumptions adopted in accordance with the provisions of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Actuarial equivalent: means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted by the board of trustees plus regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Addiction counselor: means any person who is licensed, certified, or registered in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and procedures established by the board and who, by means of his special knowledge acquired through formal education or practical experience, is qualified to provide addiction counseling services to those individuals afflicted with or suffering from an addictive disorder or certain co-occurring disorders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Addictive disorder: means the repeated pathological use of substances including but not limited to alcohol, drugs, or tobacco, or repeated pathological compulsive behaviors including but not limited to gambling, which cause physical, psychological, emotional, economic, legal, social, or other harms to the individual afflicted with the addiction or to others affected by the individual's affliction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Adult: means an individual who has attained the age of eighteen years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Affiliate: means any person who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with a developer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Agency: means any governmental body employing persons and includes departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and courts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Agreement: means the agreement or agreements, as authorized under this Subpart, between the state of Louisiana, as the seller, and the corporation, as the purchaser, of the tobacco assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.3
  • Agreement: means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances and from rules, regulations, and procedures given the effect of agreements under laws otherwise applicable to a particular transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Agreement: means the agreement or agreements, as authorized under this Subpart, between the state of Louisiana, as the seller, and the corporation, as the purchaser, of the revenue assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Agricultural product: means any beef, pork, poultry, crawfish, shrimp, meat, sugar, or rice product that is edible by humans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Agricultural products: shall include aquacultural, horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, and farm and range products, and furbearing animals raised or produced on a defined acreage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4712
  • Allocation fund: shall mean the Coronavirus Local Recovery Allocation Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Allocation program: shall mean the Local Recovery Allocation Program administered by the commissioner of administration and GOHSEP. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Ancillary contracts: means contracts described in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Annuity: means payments for life derived from the "accumulated contributions" of a member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Annuity: means annual payments for life, payable in equal monthly installments, derived from the accumulated contributions placed to the credit of the participant in the annuity reserve account. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Applicant: means a person who applies for licensure as a legend drug or legend device distributor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Applicant: means a person or place of business that makes a formal application for a license, permit, certification, registration, or certificate issued pursuant to this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
  • Appraisal: means the act or process of developing an opinion of value of real property following the appraisal process defined by the Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2
  • Appraisal assignment: means an engagement for which an appraiser is employed or retained to act, or would be perceived by third parties or the public as acting, as a disinterested third party in rendering an unbiased analysis, opinion, or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value, or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real estate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Appraisal management company: means , in connection with valuing properties collateralizing mortgage loans or mortgages incorporated into a securitization, any third party that annually oversees a network panel of more than fifteen licensed appraisers in the state or twenty-five or more licensed appraisers in two or more states and is authorized either by a creditor of a consumer credit transaction secured by a consumer's principal dwelling or by an underwriter of, or other principal in, the secondary mortgage markets to do both of the following:

                (a) Recruit, select, contract with, or otherwise retain an appraiser for the purpose of performing an appraisal and to verify any work performed by the appraiser for compliance with applicable state and federal requirements. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2

  • Appraisal management services: means the process of receiving a request for the performance of real estate appraisal services from a client, and for a fee paid by the client, entering into an agreement with one or more independent appraisers to perform the real estate appraisal services contained in the request. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2
  • Appraisal report: means any communication, written or oral, of an analysis, opinion, or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value, or utility of specified interests in, or aspects, including energy efficiency, of, identified real estate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Appraisal review: means the act or process of developing and communicating an opinion about the quality of another appraiser's work that was performed as part of an appraisal assignment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2
  • Appraiser panel: means a group of appraisers that has been selected by an appraisal management company to perform real estate appraisal services for the appraisal management company on behalf of lenders or other clients. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2
  • Appropriation: means an authorization by the legislature to a budget unit for a program to expend from public funds a sum of money, for purposes designated, under the procedure prescribed in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • AQB: means the Appraiser Qualifications Board of TAF created in accordance with Title XI of FIRREA. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Aquaculture: means the producing, raising, managing, harvesting, transporting, or marketing of aquatic livestock in privately owned waters or ponds as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • Aquatic livestock: means domestic aquatic, nongame, native, freshwater organisms produced, raised, managed, or harvested within or from a constructed impoundment in compliance with rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • Aquatic producer: means any person engaged in producing, raising, managing, harvesting, or marketing aquatic livestock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • Articles: means the original articles of incorporation and all amendments thereto including those contained in merger agreements or, if restated, the latest restatement thereof except in those instances in which the context refers expressly to the original articles of incorporation only. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • ASB: means the Appraisal Standards Board of TAF created in accordance with Title XI of FIRREA. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Assets: means all of a state bank's property and rights of every kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Athletic program: means an intercollegiate athletic program at a postsecondary education institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3702
  • Authority: means the Louisiana Tuition Trust Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • average compensation: means his average earnable compensation for the five highest successive years of employment, or the highest five successive joined years where interruption of service occurred. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
  • bait: means any substance that is manufactured or processed into a substantially different form than the raw materials and is sold for the purpose of attracting crawfish to traps. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2
  • Balanced treatment: means providing whatever information and instruction in both creation and evolution models the classroom teacher determines is necessary and appropriate to provide insight into both theories in view of the textbooks and other instructional materials available for use in his classroom. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.3
  • Ballot: means a paper ballot or electronic ballot, where applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
  • Base pay: means prescribed compensation for a specific position on a full-time basis, but does not include overtime, per diem, differential pay, payment in kind, premium pay, or any other allowance for expense authorized and incurred as an incident to employment, except supplemental pay for certain members as provided by Article X, Section 10(A)(1) of thethe Louisiana Constitution of 1974. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Basket: means a one and one-half bushel circular container that may be used for the measurement of oysters to be sold or purchased. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Beef: means the flesh of a domesticated bovine that is edible by humans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Beef product: means a type of agricultural product that is edible by humans and produced in whole or in part from beef, including beef jerky, beef patties, chopped beef, fabricated steak, hamburger, ground beef, ribs, and roast. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Beneficiary: means any person designated by the member or legally entitled to receive a retirement allowance, an annuity, or other benefit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Beneficiary: means the eligible recipient of a pension, annuity, retirement allowance, or other benefit provided in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Beneficiary: means a person designated in an education savings account owner's agreement, or by the authority when authorized by an account owner meeting the classification requirements of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Beneficiary: means an individual for whom property has been transferred to or held under a declaration of trust by a custodial trustee for the individual's use and benefit under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Beneficiary: means any person in receipt of a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance or other benefits provided for in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Board: means the Louisiana Crawfish Promotion and Research Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2
  • Board: means the Louisiana Board of Animal Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:561
  • Board: means the board of commissioners of the French Quarter Management District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:798
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3353
  • Board: means the governing body of the Addictive Disorder Regulatory Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Board: means the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board established pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Board: means the Board of Trustees of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Board: means the Louisiana Real Estate Appraisers Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2
  • Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3422
  • Board: means the Louisiana Licensed Professional Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors Board of Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3443
  • Board: means the Louisiana Board of Drug and Device Distributors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Board: means the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:540
  • Board: means the Board of Regents. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3140.1
  • Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
  • Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
  • Board: means the parish board of election supervisors of each parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
  • Board: means the board of the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Board: means the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Board of trustees: means the board provided for in Part V of this Chapter to administer the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Board of trustees: means and includes the members of the board of trustees of the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Bonds: means tobacco bonds and refunding bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the corporation pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.3
  • Bonds: means bonds and refunding bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness issued by the corporation pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Bureau: means the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information of the office of state police within the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Burial: means the placement of human remains in a grave. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Capital: means the sum of capital stock, surplus, and undivided profits or, as to mutual state banks, as defined by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Capital stock: means the sum of the par value of the shares outstanding plus any amounts in excess of par value transferred from surplus to capital stock in respect of such shares less any part of such amounts transferred from capital stock to surplus as permitted by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • care funds: includes both general and special care funds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • CARES Act: shall mean the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, Public Law 116-136 and any guidance or regulations issued by the United States Department of the Treasury as of the date of this Act or thereafter relative to the CARES Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Catfish: means only those species within the family Ictaluridae, Ariidae or Loricariidae. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Catfish product: means any item capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any catfish or portion thereof, except products which contain catfish only in small proportions or historically have not been, in the judgment of the commissioner, considered by consumers as products of the United States commercial catfish industry and which are exempted from definition as a catfish product by the commissioner under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the catfish or portions thereof contained therein are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as catfish products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
  • Cell cultured food product: means any cultured animal tissue produced from in vitro animal cell cultures outside of the organism from which it is derived. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Cemetery: means a place used or intended to be used for the interment of the human dead and, to the extent allowed in accordance with this Title, pet remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Cemetery space: means a grave, crypt, vault, niche, tomb, lawn crypt, or any other property used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Certificate of conformance: means a document issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or any successor, based on testing in participating laboratories. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Certificate of stock: means a properly executed instrument evidencing the fact that the person therein named is the registered owner of the shares therein described. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Certified clinical supervisor: means any person holding the necessary credential of licensed, certified, or registered addiction counselor or any person who holds a specialty substance abuse credential in another professional discipline in a human services field at the master's level or higher; and who has satisfied the requirements established by the board to provide clinical supervision. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Certified general appraiser: means any person licensed by the board to appraise all types of real estate regardless of complexity or transaction value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • certified residential appraiser: includes but is not limited to the authority to appraise vacant or unimproved land utilized for the purposes of one to four family residential units or for which the highest and best use is for one to four family residential units; however, such authority shall not include the authority to appraise any subdivision for which a development analysis or development appraisal is necessary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • 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.
  • City: means the city of New Orleans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:798
  • Clerk: means the clerk of court of each parish, except that in a parish having both a civil and a criminal sheriff, the word refers to the civil sheriff. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
  • Client: means the individual, couple, family, group, organization, or community that seeks or receives addiction counseling services from the addiction professional or an addiction facility until discharged. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Client: means any person or entity that contracts with or otherwise enters into an agreement for the performance of residential real estate appraisal services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2
  • Clinical exercise physiologist: means a person who, under the direction, approval, and supervision of a licensed physician, formulates, develops, and implements exercise protocols and programs, administers graded exercise tests, and provides education regarding such exercise programs and tests in a cardio pulmonary rehabilitation program to individuals with deficiencies of the cardiovascular system, diabetes, lipid disorders, hypertension, cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arthritis, renal disease, organ transplant, peripheral vascular disease, and obesity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3422
  • Clinical supervision: means the interpersonal tutorial relationship between a certified clinical supervisor and other licensed, certified, or registered addiction counseling professionals centered on the goals of skill development and professional growth through learning and practicing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • clinician: means a physician, physician assistant providing healthcare services in accordance with La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:500
  • clinician: means a licensed physician, a physician assistant providing healthcare services in accordance with La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1200
  • Closing date: means the date of delivery of the first issue of bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
  • Commercial weighing and measuring device: means any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring device commercially used or employed in establishing the size, quantity, extent, area, time, distance, or measurement of quantities, things, produce, or articles for distribution or consumption, purchased, offered, or submitted for sale, hire, or award, or in computing any basic charge or payment for services rendered on the basis of weight or measure. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Commission: means the Commission of Weights and Measures. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Commission: means the Louisiana Real Estate Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Commission: means the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:203
  • Commission: means the Advisory Commission on Proprietary Schools. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3140.1
  • Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of the division of administration of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Commissioner: means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2
  • Commissioner: means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, or his duly authorized representatives acting at his discretion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Commissioner: means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Commodity: means any service or item, or any combination of items, forming a distinctive product, sold in commerce which is affected by any determination of weight, measure, or count. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Common disaster: A sudden and extraordinary misfortune that brings about the simultaneous or near-simultaneous deaths of two or more associated persons, such as husband and wife.
  • Common elements: means all portions of timeshare property other than units. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Company: means any foreign domiciled or based entity, real or juridical, which is not a subsidiary of nor owned in whole or in part by any domestic company, and which is engaged in an enterprise for financial gain. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:312
  • Completion of construction: means :

    (a)(i)  That a certificate of occupancy has been issued for the entire building in which the timeshare interest being sold is located, or for the improvement, or that the equivalent authorization has been issued, by the governmental body having jurisdiction; or

    (ii)  In a jurisdiction in which no certificate of occupancy or equivalent authorization is issued, that the construction, finishing, and equipping of the building or improvements according to the plans and specifications have been substantially completed; and

    (b)  That all accommodations of the timeshare unit and facilities of the timeshare plan are available for use in a manner identical in all material respects to the manner portrayed by the promotional material, advertising, and public offering statements filed with the Louisiana Real Estate Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2

  • Compulsive gambling counselor: means any person holding a necessary credential as a licensed, certified, or registered addiction counselor, or a necessary credential as a qualified mental health professional, who is certified by the board, in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, as possessing special knowledge acquired through formal education and clinical experience and thus is qualified to provide gambling addiction counseling to persons who have a gambling addiction disorder or who exhibit gambling addictive behaviors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Computer program: means a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in an information processing system in  order to bring about a certain result. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Conduit individual retirement account: means an account which is covered by the provisions of Section 408(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, provided the account only contains assets rolled over to the account as an eligible rollover distribution from a qualified plan, plus earnings on those assets, but does not contain any other assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Consent decree: means the settlement agreement and related documents between the state of Louisiana and other gulf coast states, the United States, and BP Exploration & Production Inc. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Conservator: means the commissioner or his designee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:381
  • Conspicuous type: means type in boldfaced capital letters no smaller than the largest type, exclusive of headings, on the page on which it appears and, in all cases, at least 10-point type. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Contract: includes any agreement conferring the rights and obligations of a timeshare ownership on the purchaser. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Contract: means the total legal obligation resulting from the agreement of the parties as affected by this Chapter and other applicable law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • control: means exercising the power to make policy decisions and "operate" means being actively involved in the day-to-day management of the business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Controlling person: means any of the following:

                (a) An owner, officer, or director of a corporation, partnership, or other business entity seeking to offer appraisal management services in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2

  • Core functions: means the screening, intake, orientation, assessment, treatment planning, counseling, case management, crisis intervention, client education, referral, reports, and record-keeping activities associated with counseling and consultation with other credentialed professionals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Corporation: means the Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation created pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.3
  • Corporation: means the Coastal Protection and Restoration Financing Corporation created pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Corporation: means any corporation or limited liability company which is authorized by its articles or an operating agreement to conduct any one or more of the businesses of a cemetery. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Council: means the Quality Science and Mathematics Council. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:372
  • Counselor-in-training: means any person who has not yet met the qualification to become a licensed, certified, or registered counselor, but who has made application to the board in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and procedures established by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Court: means a court of competent jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • 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.
  • Crawfish farmer: means a person who farms or cultivates crawfish in ponds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2
  • Creation-science: means the scientific evidences for creation and inferences from those scientific evidences. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.3
  • Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) Source: OCC
  • Creditable service: means prior service plus membership service for which credit is allowable as provided in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Creditable service: means "Prior Service" plus "Membership Service" for which credit is allowable as provided in Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Criminal history record information: means information collected by state and federal criminal justice agencies on persons consisting of identifiable descriptions and notations of arrests, detentions, indictments, bills of information, or any formal criminal charges, and any disposition arising therefrom, including sentencing, criminal correctional supervision, and release, but does not include intelligence for investigatory purposes, nor does it include any identification information which does not indicate involvement of the person in the criminal justice system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
  • Curator: means a person appointed or qualified by a court to manage the estate of an individual or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Custodial environment: means a setting created by a court system in which a person has been deprived of freedom of action in any significant way. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Custodial trust property: means an interest in property transferred to or held under a declaration of trust by a custodial trustee under this Chapter and the income from and proceeds of that interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Custodial trustee: means a person designated as trustee of a custodial trust under this Chapter or a substitute or successor to the person designated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deceptively similar: means misleading to a reasonable person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • declaration: means the instrument by which the timeshare property is made subject to a timeshare plan. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:203
  • Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
  • Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
  • Deploying parent: means a parent of a minor child whose parental rights have not been terminated and whose custody or visitation rights have not been restricted by court order to supervised visitation only, by a court of competent jurisdiction who is deployed or has received written orders to deploy with the United States military or any reserve component thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:359.1
  • Deployment: means military service in compliance with mandatory written orders, unaccompanied by any family member, for combat operations, contingency operations, peacekeeping operations, temporary duty, a remote tour of duty, or other active service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:359.1
  • Derivative instrument: means a contract whose value is based on the performance of an underlying financial asset, index, or other investment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • 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 37:3462
  • Developer: means the person, or any successor or assignee of such person, who creates the timeshare plan or who is in the business of making sales of timeshare interests which it owns or purports to own. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Direct retail sale: means the sale of catfish, catfish products, siluriformes, or siluriforme products individually or in small quantities directly to the consumer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Director: means the director of weights and measures appointed by the commissioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • disability: means unable to or the inability to perform the essential functions of the job the member of the teaching staff or employee was performing at the time of his injury. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1200
  • disciplinary action: shall include only suspension without pay, reduction in pay, or involuntary demotion or dismissal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:441
  • Disposition: means the interment, burial, cremation, or anatomical donation of the body of a deceased person or parts of the body of a deceased person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Distribution: means the sale or facilitation of delivery of legend drugs or legend devices to a person other than the consumer or patient, including but not limited to distribution by manufacturers, repackagers, own-label distributors, jobbers, third-party logistics providers, retail pharmacy warehouses, pharmacies, brokers, agents, and wholesale distributors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Distributor: means a Louisiana manufacturer of crawfish bags or a person who brings crawfish bags into Louisiana which were manufactured outside of Louisiana or a person who brings crawfish tail meat into Louisiana or who distributes crawfish tail meat in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2
  • Distributor: means any person offering for sale, exchange, or barter any catfish, catfish products, siluriformes, or siluriforme products destined for direct retail sale in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Distributor: means any person engaged in distribution, including but not limited to manufacturers, repackagers, own-label distributors, jobbers, third-party logistics providers, retail pharmacy warehouses, pharmacies, brokers, agents, and wholesale distributors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • District: means the French Quarter Management District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:798
  • District: means any city, parish, or other local public school district, the Recovery School District, and the Special School District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • DWH NRD assets: means all rights, title, and interest in and to the portion of the state allocation of DWH natural resource damages as set forth in the consent decree that may be sold to the corporation from time to time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • DWH NRD bonds: means the bonds, notes, and other obligations issued by the corporation, exclusive of bonds that the corporation may issue to refund bonds, the net proceeds, after financing costs, of the first issue of which shall be used by the corporation to pay a portion of the purchase price to the state of Louisiana to purchase the DWH NRD assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • DWH NRD payments: means the monies paid or payable for natural resource damages, pursuant to the consent decree, to the corporation and the agreement as in effect from time to time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Early voting: means the period of time prior to any scheduled election when any person who is qualified to vote may vote in person at a place designated by the registrar as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
  • Earnable compensation: means the compensation earned by a member during the full normal working time as a teacher. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Earned compensation: means the base pay earned by an employee for a given pay period as reported to the system on a monthly basis by the agency which shall include the cash value of any emolument of office in the form of paid compensation in lieu of salary which is subject to federal and state payroll taxes and includes the full amount earned by an employee, overtime, and per diem earned by an employee of the House of Representatives, the Senate, or an agency of the legislature, and expense allowances and per diem paid to members of the legislature, the clerk, or sergeant at arms of the House of Representatives and president and secretary or sergeant at arms of the Senate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Education savings account: is a savings account established by an individual, a group of individuals, or an organization pursuant to the program created by this Chapter for a beneficiary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Election official: means the parish board of election supervisors; clerks and their employees who perform duties in the election process; registrars of voters and their employees; the secretary of state and employees of his office who perform duties in the election process; and the poll commissioners, including the commissioner-in-charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
  • Election official: means :

    (a)  The parish board of election supervisors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1466

  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • 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 record: means a record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Elementary or secondary school: means a public or approved nonpublic elementary or secondary school in Louisiana that contains any of the grades kindergarten through twelve. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Eligible business: means a for-profit corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, or a sole proprietorship that meets all of the following criteria:

                (a) Was domiciled in Louisiana as of March 1, 2020. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42

  • Eligible rollover distribution: means a distribution as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. Source: OCC
  • Employee: means any person legally occupying a position in the state service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • employee: means any person in the employ of the Iberville Parish School Board who is a member of or is eligible for membership in the State Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana and who is not covered by the provisions of the State Teachers' Tenure Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:531
  • Employee: means any full-time teacher or instructional personnel of a vocational-technical school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:540
  • Employee: means any person regularly employed in any capacity under the control of the Orleans Parish School Board who is not a teacher or whose legal employment does not require the holding of a teacher's certificate, including employees of the public school lunch department, all skilled and unskilled employees of the maintenance department, managers, custodians, subcustodians, and others who are not temporarily employed, and are paid out of funds under the control of the Orleans Parish School Board, who are not now eligible for membership in any other retirement system created or established by the State of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Employer: means the state of Louisiana or any of its boards, commissions, departments, agencies, and courts which are contributing members of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Employer: means the state of Louisiana, any city, parish, or other local school board, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, any board created by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • 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.
  • Encumbrance: means any lien, privilege, judgment, mortgage, pledge, pawn, claim, charge, or any other encumbrance of like nature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
  • endowed care cemetery: means a cemetery wherein lots and other interment spaces are sold or transferred under the representation that the cemetery will receive perpetual or endowed care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • 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.
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Evolution-science: means the scientific evidences for evolution and inferences from those scientific evidences. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.3
  • Exchange company: means the person operating a program providing any opportunity or procedure for the assignment or exchange of timeshare interests among owners and purchasers in the same or other timeshare plans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Exercise protocols and programs: means the intensity, duration, frequency, and mode of activity to improve the cardiovascular system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3422
  • Expenses: means amounts represented by cash paid out or by obligations to pay cash or partly by each for maintaining and operating government services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Facility: means any piece of property that contains a constructed impoundment or other area where aquatic livestock are produced, raised, managed, harvested, or marketed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • Family burial ground: means a cemetery in which no lots are sold to the public and in which interments are restricted to a group of persons related to each other by blood or marriage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Farm-raised catfish: means a catfish that has been specifically produced in fresh water according to the usual and customary techniques of commercial aquaculture and includes fillets, steaks, nuggets, and any other flesh from a "farm-raised catfish". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • FBI: means the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Department of Justice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • FDIC: means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and includes any successor to the corporation or other agency or instrumentality of the United States which may undertake to discharge the purposes of the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:381
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
  • Federal financial institutions regulatory agency: means :

                (a) The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392

  • Federal postcard application: means an application for absentee by mail ballot as permitted by 50 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
  • Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. Source: OCC
  • Fiduciary: means any person, firm, partnership, association, or state bank, including a usufructuary, who or which occupies a position of peculiar confidence toward any person, firm, association, partnership, trust, or estate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Financing costs: means all capitalized interest, costs, fees, reserves, and credit and liquidity enhancements as the corporation determines to be desirable in issuing, securing and marketing the bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • FIRREA: means the Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as enacted under federal law, and specifically includes but is not limited to Title XI, requiring real estate appraisals used in connection with federally related transactions to comply with uniform standards and to be prepared by credentialed real property appraisers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Fiscal year: means the period beginning July first of any year and ending June thirtieth of the next succeeding year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Fiscal year: means the period beginning July first of any year and ending June thirtieth of the next succeeding year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Fixed earnings: means the placement of all the deposits in an education savings account and the interest earned thereon in investments with fixed earnings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
    • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
    • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
    • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
  • Food product: means any edible product sold or offered for retail sale that is intended for human consumption. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Food service establishment: means a restaurant, cafeteria, lunch room, food stand, saloon, tavern, bar, lounge, or other similar facility operated as an enterprise engaged in the business of selling food to the public. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Force majeure: means any of the following circumstances:

                (a) A major storm, major flood, or other similar natural disaster. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1

  • foreign trust: shall mean any of the following:

    (1)  A trust which by the terms of the trust instrument is governed by the law of a jurisdiction other than Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2262.1

  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • Functions: means duties, jurisdiction, powers, rights, and obligations, conferred or imposed upon, or vested in, any agency by law, or exercised, performed, or discharged by any agency without contravention of any provision of law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with regulations, restrictions, and limitations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • 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
  • GOHSEP: shall mean the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Governing authority: means the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as relates to the power and authority of that body to govern the affairs of that university, and means the Louisiana State Board of Education, as relates to the power and authority of that board to govern all other state owned and operated colleges and universities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3102
  • Governing authority: means the governing authority of any public elementary or secondary school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
  • Governing authority of a nutrition program provider: means any authority which has executed an agreement or contract with the state Department of Education to participate in a nutrition program authorized by this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:191
  • Governing body: means the board or body in which the bond issuing power of a governmental unit is vested. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5121
  • Governmental agency: means an executive, legislative, or judicial agency, department, board, commission, authority, institution, unit, or instrumentality of the federal government or of a state or of a county or parish, municipality, or other political subdivision of a state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Grant: means an award by the treasurer to an eligible business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Grave: means a space of ground in a cemetery, used or intended to be used, for burial. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
  • Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
  • Impoundment: means any private, constructed pond, lake, reservoir, tank, cage, or other means of containment that has no inlet from or outlet to any public waters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
  • In good standing: means the status of a licensee who has complied with all explicit license obligations thereby having unabated authority to conduct license activities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Incapacitated: means lacking the ability to manage property and business affairs effectively by reason of mental illness, mental deficiency, physical illness or disability, chronic use of drugs, chronic intoxication, confinement, detention by a foreign power, disappearance, minority, or other disabling cause. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Income: means the payments and all fees, charges, payments, and other income and receipts paid or payable to the corporation or a trustee or other party for the account of the corporation or the holders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Indenture trustee: means the trust company or bank at the time serving as trustee under the trust indenture referred to in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • 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.
  • Information: includes data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, and databases, or the like. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Insolvency: means that the assets of a state bank are insufficient to satisfy its obligations to its creditors and depositors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Institution of higher learning: means any state owned and operated college or university now or hereafter established, and includes all state owned and operated junior colleges and branches of such colleges and universities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3102
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
  • Intercollegiate athlete: means a student enrolled in a postsecondary education institution who participates in an athletic program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3702
  • Interment: means the disposition of human remains by inurnment, scattering, entombment, or burial in a place used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Internal Revenue Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • 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.
  • Interruption of business: means business interruption caused by forced or voluntary closures or restricted operations, including but not limited to social distancing measures, decreased customer demand, cleaning or disinfection expenses, and providing personal protective equipment, related to COVID-19. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Issued shares: means outstanding shares. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • KSA: means the knowledge, skills, and attitudes designated by the board as being necessary for effective addiction counseling and required by the board to be utilized by addictive disorders counselors in providing addiction counseling services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container or wrapper in which a food product is offered for direct retail sale. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container or wrapper in which catfish, catfish products, siluriformes, or siluriforme products are offered for direct retail sale. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Labeling: means the act of identifying, describing, or advertising a food product by means of a label or through other means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter upon a catfish, catfish product, siluriforme, or siluriforme product or any of its containers or wrappers, offered for direct retail sale. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Law clerk: Assist judges with research and drafting of opinions.
  • Lawn crypts: means space for interment in preplaced chambers or burial vaults, either side by side or multiple depth, covered by earth or sod and known also as below-ground crypts, Westminster crypts, or turf top crypts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Lease timeshare interest: means an interest in which a person receives the right to use or occupy, however evidenced or documented, immovable property for a period of time or intervals of time which can be less than a full year during each year, over a period of more than three years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Legal representative: means a personal representative, tutor, or curator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Legend device: means any device intended for use by humans that carries on its label "Rx" "Rx only" a designation for physician use only, or a statement that federal law restricts the device to sale by or on the order of a licensed health care practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Legend drug: means any drug intended for use by humans that carries on its label any of the following: "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription" "Rx" or "Rx Only". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Liability: means a debt arising out of a transaction where goods or services have been received or rendered which must be liquidated, renewed, or refunded at some future date. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Licensed physician: means a person who is licensed by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners to practice medicine in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3422
  • Licensed professional vocational rehabilitation 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 vocational rehabilitation counselor" or any similar term, and who offers to render professional rehabilitation 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 engage in the practice of rehabilitation counseling pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3443
  • Licensed residential appraiser: means any person licensed by the board whose authority to appraise real property is limited to the appraisal of noncomplex one to four residential units having a transaction value of less than one million dollars and of complex one to four residential units having a transaction value of less than four hundred thousand dollars in accordance with the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Licensee: means any person who has been issued a license by the board to participate in any appraisal activity described in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Licensure: means any license, permit, or registration that the board is authorized by law to issue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Life Insurance Company: means an insurance company engaged in the business of issuing life insurance and annuity contracts (including contracts of combined life, health, and accident insurance), the reserve funds of which held for the fulfillment of such contracts comprise more than fifty per centum (50%) of its total reserve funds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:221
  • Livestock: means cattle, buffalo, bison, oxen, and other bovine; horses, mules, donkeys, and other equine; sheep; goats; swine; domestic rabbits; fish, turtles, and other animals identified with aquaculture that are located in artificial reservoirs or enclosures that are both on privately owned property and constructed so as to prevent, at all times, the ingress and egress of fish life from public waters; imported exotic deer and antelope, elk, farm-raised white-tailed deer, farm-raised ratites, and other farm-raised exotic animals; chickens, turkeys, and other poultry; and animals placed under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of agriculture and forestry and any hybrid, mixture, or mutation of any such animal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:561
  • Livestock dealer: means any person, not a market agency, engaged in the business of buying or selling livestock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:561
  • Local government unit: means a parish, municipality, town, township, village or other unit of general government below the state level with parishwide jurisdiction including but not limited to sheriffs, coroners, and district attorneys. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Local superintendent: means the appropriate city or parish school superintendent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3831
  • Local system: means the appropriate city or parish school board or system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3831
  • Louisiana taxes: means all taxes administered by the secretary of the Department of Revenue pursuant to Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Low-performing school: means an academically unacceptable school as determined by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
  • Managing entity: means an entity with the duty to manage and operate the timeshare plan and/or the timeshare property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Manufacturer: means any of the following:

                (a) A person who manufactures legend drugs or legend devices and includes a labeler or distributor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462

  • Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
  • Market agency: means any persons, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling livestock in commerce on a commission basis, either at a public stockyard or at a privately owned and operated sales pen or concentration point, or any persons engaged in the furnishing of services for the conduct of such business, including but not limited to livestock video auctions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:561
  • Market value: means a value stated as an opinion, which presumes the transfer of real property as of a certain date and subject to specific conditions set forth in the value definition identified by an appraiser as applicable to an appraisal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Maximum benefit: means the retirement benefit a member is entitled to receive from the system set forth in Part IV of this Chapter in any month after giving effect to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Meat: means a portion of a beef, pork, poultry, alligator, farm-raised deer, turtle, domestic rabbit, crawfish, or shrimp carcass that is edible by humans but does not include a:

                (a) Synthetic product derived from a plant, insect, or other source. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743

  • Meat product: means a type of agricultural product that is edible by humans and made wholly or in part from meat or another portion of a beef, pork, poultry, alligator, farm-raised deer, turtle, domestic rabbit, crawfish, or shrimp carcass. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Medical board: shall mean the State Medical Disability Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Medical emergency: means the existence of any physical condition, not including any emotional, psychological, or mental condition, within the reasonable medical judgment of a reasonably prudent physician, with knowledge of the case and treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved, would determine necessitates the immediate abortion of the pregnancy to avert the pregnant woman's death or to avert substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function arising from continued pregnancy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
  • Member: means any person included in the membership of the system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Member: means any teacher included in the membership of the system as provided in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Member of the faculty: means any person employed by the institution of higher learning to instruct students. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3102
  • Member of the family: means , with respect to any designated beneficiary:

                (a) An individual who bears one of the following relationships to such beneficiary:

                (i) Brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2

  • member of the fire department: as used in this Part is defined as an employee of the Fire Department of the City of Alexandria who has been regularly appointed and confirmed as such. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3113
  • Mentor: means any teacher qualified and selected pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
  • Menu: means any listing of food and beverage options for a diner or customer to select from regardless of its form. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Minor child: means an unmarried child under the age of eighteen years or an unmarried student under the age of twenty-three years who is the issue of a marriage of a member of this system, the legally adopted child of a member of this system, a child born outside of marriage of a female member of this system, or the child of a male member of this system if acknowledged or filiated pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Minor child: means an unmarried child under the age of twenty-one years or an unmarried student under the age of twenty-three years who is the issue of a marriage of a member of this system, the legally adopted child of a member of this system, a child born outside of marriage of a female member of this system, or the child of a male member of this system if a court of competent jurisdiction has, pursuant to the provisions of the Civil Code rendered a judgment of filiation declaring the paternity of such member for the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Misbrand: means to intentionally identify or label a food product in a false or misleading way. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Misrepresent: means to intentionally use any untrue, misleading, or deceptive oral or written statement, advertisement, label, display, picture, illustration, or sample. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Natural person: means a human being. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Net weight: means the weight of the commodity excluding any materials, substances, or items not considered to be part of the commodity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • New teacher: means any full time employee of a city or parish school board who is engaged to and does directly provide instruction to students, who holds a valid regular Louisiana teaching certificate, and who is engaged in his first year of teaching. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
  • Normal educational process: includes , but is not necessarily limited to, the privilege and ability of students, faculty, administrators and other personnel to study, teach, administer and perform their duties at the institution of higher learning as well as to do all things necessary and incidental to these pursuits. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3102
  • Nutrition program: means a program under which meals or snacks are served by any governing authority of a nutrition program provider in this state on a nonprofit basis to individuals in attendance, including any such program under which a nutrition program provider receives assistance out of the funds appropriated by the Congress of the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:191
  • Obligation: means an amount which a government may be required legally to meet out of its resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Offshore Royalty Revenue: means all monies constituting the state of Louisiana's allocable share pursuant to the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Offshore Royalty Revenue assets: means all right, title and interest in and to the portion of the state allocation that may be sold to the corporation from time to time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Offshore Royalty Revenue bonds: means the bonds, notes and other obligations issued by the corporation, exclusive of bonds that the corporation may issue to refund bonds, the net proceeds (after financing costs) of the first issue of which shall be used by the corporation to pay a portion of the purchase price to the state of Louisiana to purchase the Offshore Royalty Revenue assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Offshore Royalty Revenue payments: means the monies paid or payable to the corporation pursuant to the agreement as in effect from time to time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Order: means any custody or visitation judgment, decree, or order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction in this state or any judgment of another state which has been made executory in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:359.1
  • Outstanding: when used with respect to bonds, shall exclude bonds that shall have been paid in full at maturity, or shall have otherwise been refunded, redeemed, defeased or discharged, or that may be deemed not outstanding pursuant to agreements with the holders thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Owner: means a person to whom the cemetery authority has transferred full title to or the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space and who appears as the title holder in the official records of the cemetery authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Owner: means any person who owns or is a co-owner of a timeshare interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Owner: means a natural person who owns greater than a ten percent interest in the distributor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Ownership timeshare interest: means an interest in which a person receives the right to use or occupy, however evidenced or documented, immovable property for a period of less than a full year during each year, over a period of more than three years, coupled with an ownership interest in immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Package: means any commodity packed or packaged in any manner in advance of sale in units suitable for either wholesale or retail sale. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • PAREA: means or refers to any Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal training program created or implemented in accordance with the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria developed and approved by the AQB, to provide an alternate pathway for applicants to obtain licensure as a licensed residential appraiser or as a certified residential appraiser without training as a trainee appraiser, subject to the direct control and supervision of a supervisory appraiser. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Part-time employee: means any employee who is a part-time, seasonal, or temporary employee as defined in 26 CFR 31:3121(b)(7)-2, or in any successor regulations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Participant: means any employee who is entitled to the beneficial provisions of this retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • past due spousal support: means the amount of a delinquency determined under a court order under state law for support and maintenance of a spouse. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:325
  • Pension: means annual payments for life, payable in equal monthly installments, derived from money provided by the Orleans Parish School Board and other amounts accumulated in the pension accumulation account as provided for in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Pension reserve: means the present value of all payments to be made on account of any pension or benefit in lieu of any pension computed upon the basis of mortality tables adopted by the board of trustees, plus regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Pensions: means payments for life. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • perpetual care: means the maintenance, repair, and care of all places where interments have been or are to be made, including the improvements made upon the places, in keeping with a well-maintained cemetery, and general overhead expense necessary for such purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, trust, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, company, association, corporation, limited liability company, and any other legal entity or group of persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:559.3
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, or association of such persons acting as a unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:561
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, corporation, trust, firm, company, or other entity doing business in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Person: means both plural and singular, as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations

                (14)(a) Except as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph, "petroleum product" means any refined hydrocarbon mixture including motor oil, kerosene, gasoline, gasohol, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, heating kerosene, and any blend of two or more refined hydrocarbon mixtures except liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602

  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Person: includes any individual, partnership, corporation, and association, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Person: means a natural or juridical person, including a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, business firm, association, franchise arrangement, combination of any of these entities, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, governmental agency, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Personal representative: means an executor, administrator, or representative of a decedent's estate, a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions, or a successor to any of them. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • petroleum product: shall include compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas as those terms are defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Physician: means a person who is licensed by the board to practice medicine in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3353
  • Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
  • Place of business: means a permanent location or a portion of a permanent location from which business, in a regulated profession or occupation, is transacted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
  • Plan year: means the fiscal year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. Source:
  • 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.
  • 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 perform governmental functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:581
  • Pork: means the flesh of a domesticated swine that is edible by humans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Pork product: means a type of agricultural product that is edible by humans and produced in whole or in part from pork, including bacon, bratwurst, ground pork, ham, pork chops, ribs, roast, and sausage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Position: means any office or any employment in the state service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Position holder: means the person who holds the inventory position in motor fuel in a terminal as reflected on the records of the terminal operator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Postsecondary education institution: means a Louisiana public postsecondary education institution or nonpublic postsecondary institution that receives or disburses any form of state student financial assistance, including scholarships and grants. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3702
  • Poultry: means domesticated birds that are edible by humans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Practice of rehabilitation counseling: means rendering or offering to individuals, groups, organizations, or the general public rehabilitation services in private practice for compensation involving the application of principles, methods, or procedures of the rehabilitation counseling profession which include but are not limited to:

    (a)  "Rehabilitation counseling" which means assisting an individual or group, through the counseling relationship, to define vocational goals, and to plan actions reflecting his or their interests, abilities, aptitudes, and needs as these are related to rehabilitation concerns, educational progress, and occupations and careers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3443

  • 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.
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Prescription drug: means a drug for human use which, because of its toxicity or other potentiality for harmful effects, the method of its use, or the collateral measures necessary to its use, is not safe for use except under the supervision of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug; or a drug which is limited by a United States Food and Drug Administration new drug application to use under the professional supervision of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • 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.
  • Prevention: means those activities and services that prevent, reduce, or stabilize the incidence of addictive disorders and thereby prevent, reduce, or stabilize the prevalence of addictive disorders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Prevention specialist-in-training: means any person who has not yet met the qualifications to become a licensed, certified, or registered prevention professional, but who has made application to the board in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and procedures established by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1
  • Primary standards: means the physical standards of the state that serve as the legal reference from which all other standards and weights and measures are derived. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Principal residence of a child: means :

    (a)  The location designated by a court to be the primary residence of the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:355.1

  • Prior service: means service rendered prior to the date of establishment of the retirement system for which credit is allowable under Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
  • Processor: means any person engaged in handling, storing, preparing, manufacturing, packing, or holding catfish, catfish products, siluriformes, or siluriforme products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • product: as used in this Chapter , does not include any of the following:

                (a) Blood or blood components intended for transfusion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462

  • Program: means a grouping of activities directed toward the accomplishment of a clearly defined objective or set of objectives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
  • Program: means the Quality Science and Mathematics Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:372
  • Program: means the Professional Growth Program created in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
  • Program: means a program limited to providing incentive pay to teachers for not using sick leave days. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3831
  • Prohibited nation: means Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:312
  • Project: includes but is not limited to condominiums and cooperative housing corporations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • property: means immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:1
  • property: means immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property, and any electric light, gas or waterworks plants. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:101
  • property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property, where there are no buildings or structures for support or shelter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:121
  • property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property, and the term "governing authority" means the governing authority of the parish of East Baton Rouge and the city of Baton Rouge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:131
  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Public school: means any school conducted within the state under the authority and supervision of a city, parish, or other local school board and any educational institution supported by and under the control of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Purchaser: means any person to whom a timeshare interest is offered or who has contracted to purchase a timeshare interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Qualified mental health professional: means :

                (a) A psychiatrist licensed pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3386.1

  • Quarter: means a calendar quarter more specifically defined as follows:

    (a)  First quarter: January, February, and March. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:556.2

  • Rack: means a mechanism for delivering motor fuel from a refinery, terminal, marine vessel, or bulk plant into a transport vehicle, railroad tank car, or other means of transfer that is outside the bulk transfer/terminal system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • real estate: means immovable property as defined by Civil Code Article 462 et seq. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • real estate appraisal: means an analysis, opinion, or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value, or utility of specified interests in, or aspects, including energy efficiency, of, identified real estate, for or in expectation of compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Real estate appraisal services: means residential valuation services performed by an individual acting as an appraiser, including but not limited to appraisal, appraisal review, or appraisal consulting, as these services are defined under the Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3415.2
  • Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria: means the qualifying criteria regarding the minimum education, experience, and examination requirements for real estate appraisers, as established by the AQB. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Receiver: means the person liquidating a state bank pursuant to Part II of this Subchapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:381
  • Receivership court: means the district court for the parish in which the state bank is domiciled. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:381
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Recovery program: means the Louisiana Main Street Recovery Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Redemption value: means the cash value of the education savings account attributable to the sum of the principal invested and the interest earned on principal and authorized to be credited to the account by the authority less any fees due and imposed by rule of the authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Refund: means the withdrawal of all accumulated contributions at least thirty days after termination from the state service, or with respect to members having the option of belonging to the system, withdrawal of all accumulated contributions at least thirty days after receipt by the system of written notice of withdrawal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Registrar: means the registrar of voters of each parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
  • Regular interest: means interest compounded annually at such a rate as shall be determined by the board of trustees in accordance with La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Regular interest: means interest compounded annually at such rate as shall be determined by the board of trustees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Rehabilitation counseling: which means assisting an individual or group, through the counseling relationship, to define vocational goals, and to plan actions reflecting his or their interests, abilities, aptitudes, and needs as these are related to rehabilitation concerns, educational progress, and occupations and careers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3443
  • Rehabilitation counseling services: which means those acts and behaviors coming within the "practice of rehabilitation counseling" as defined in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3443
  • Relocation: means a change in the principal residence of a child for a period of sixty days or more, but does not include a temporary absence from the principal residence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:355.1
  • Residual interests: means the income of the corporation, and bond proceeds, if any, not previously paid to the state, that are in excess of the corporation's requirements to pay its operating expenses, debt service, sinking fund and other redemption requirements, reserve fund requirements, and any other contractual obligations to the holders or that may be incurred in connection with the issuance or repayment of the bonds, the amounts of which shall be determined by the board on or before January first and July first of each year for the next twelve months, and which, within ten days after each such determination, shall be transferred and paid by the corporation to the state treasurer for deposit in and credit to the Coastal Protection and Restoration Fund pursuant to the agreement between the state and the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Respiratory care: is synonymous with the term "respiratory therapy" as defined in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3353
  • Respiratory therapy: means the allied health specialty practiced under the direction and supervision of a physician involving the assessment, treatment, testing, monitoring, and care of persons with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3353
  • Respiratory therapy education program: means a program of respiratory therapy studies accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), in collaboration with the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC), or their predecessor or successor organizations or an equivalent program approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3353
  • RESTORE Act: means the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • RESTORE assets: means all rights, title, and interest in and to the portion of the state allocation of civil penalties related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill as set forth in the RESTORE Act and the consent decree. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • RESTORE bonds: means the bonds, notes, and other obligations issued by the corporation, exclusive of bonds that the corporation may issue to refund bonds, the net proceeds, after financing costs, of the first issue of which shall be used by the corporation to pay a portion of the purchase price to the state of Louisiana to purchase the RESTORE assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • RESTORE payments: means the monies paid or payable for civil penalties, pursuant to the RESTORE Act and the consent decree, to the corporation, and the agreement as in effect from time to time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Retailer: means any person offering for sale catfish, catfish products, siluriformes, or siluriforme products to individual consumers and representing the last sale prior to human consumption and includes food service establishments unless otherwise stated herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Retained earnings: means the accumulated net income of the mutual state bank since its organization less all distributions to its members. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Retirement: means termination of active service, with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance allowable under the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Retirement allowance: means the sum of the annuity and the pensions or any optional benefit payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Retirement allowance: means the sum of the annuity and the pension, or any other benefits payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Retirement system: means the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Retirement system: means the corporation known as the Orleans Parish School Employees' Retirement System established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Rice: means the whole or broken kernels obtained from the species Oryza sativa L. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4743
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • Risk is imminent: means that the available facts, when viewed in light of surrounding circumstances, would cause a reasonable person to believe that the event stated in the threat is about to happen. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
  • River or lake catfish: means a catfish that has been produced in a freshwater lake, river, or stream but has not been produced according to the usual and customary techniques of commercial aquaculture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Sale: means the sale of the full title to any cemetery space or the sale of the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • school bus operator: means any employee of any city, parish, or other local public school board whose duty it is to transport students in any board school bus or activity bus to and from any school of suitable grade approved by the state Department of Education or to and from any school-related activity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:491
  • School employee: means all instructors, administrators, solicitors, and clerical and office personnel employed by the school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3140.1
  • Seafood products: shall include any type of species caught in privately owned waters or public waters, including streams or lakes, or any final derivative resulting from a combination or breakdown of raw seafood products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4712
  • Security device: means any lien, mortgage, pawn, pledge, privilege, or other instrument by which an interest in livestock is used to secure the performance or payment of any obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:561
  • Service: means service as a teacher within the meaning of Paragraph (33) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Service: means service rendered by an employee as herein defined. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
  • Service person: means any individual who for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, installs, services, repairs, or reconditions any commercial weighing or measuring devices and is registered under this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Shares: means the units into which the stockholders' rights to participate in the control of the state bank, in its profits, or in the distribution of corporate assets are divided. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Siluriforme: means fish in the taxonomic order Siluriformes and including those within the taxonomic families Siluridae, Clariidae, and Pangasiidae and those commonly known as basa and tra. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Siluriforme product: means any item capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any siluriforme or portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Solicitor: means a person who solicits business for a proprietary school or who offers to sell or sells in this state any instruction or course of instruction offered by a proprietary school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3140.1
  • Spouse: means a person who is legally married to a member of this system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Spouse: shall mean a person who is legally married to a member of this system and shall not include a person who is legally separated from a member of this system by a judgment of separation, unless such person has voluntarily reconciled with the member and which reconciliation is established by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • State: means this state or another state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • State allocation: means all monies to be received by the state of Louisiana as a result of the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006, the Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act as provided in the consent decree, or the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) natural resource damages as provided in the consent decree including all of the state of Louisiana's allocable share as determined thereunder, without giving effect to any sale of any portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.27
  • Stockholder: means the holder of record of one or more shares. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Student: means a person enrolled in a high school, a vocational-technical school, or a college or university, in a sufficient number of courses and classes in such institution to be classified as a full-time regular student under the criteria used by the institution in which he is enrolled. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Student: means any person registered or enrolled at a school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
  • Student: means any person who is enrolled at any institution of higher learning. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3102
  • Student: means a person who satisfies all of the provisions of this Paragraph. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Superintendent: means the superintendent of any city, parish, or other local public school district, the director of the Special School District, and the superintendent of the Recovery School District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
  • Supervisory appraiser: means a certified residential appraiser or certified general appraiser registered by the board to supervise one or more trainee appraisers and who satisfies the applicable minimum qualifications required by the Real Property Appraiser Qualification Criteria including but not limited to the following:

                (a) The supervisory appraiser shall have been licensed and in good standing with any competent appraisal licensing jurisdiction for at least three years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392

  • Surplus: means sums contributed by stockholders in excess of the par value of shares outstanding plus any amounts transferred from undivided profits pursuant to action by the board of directors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • System: means the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • System: means any or the appropriate city or parish school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
  • TAF: means The Appraisal Foundation created in accordance with Title XI of FIRREA. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Taxable year: includes , in the case of a return made for a fractional part of a year under the provisions of this Chapter or under regulations prescribed by the collector, the period for which return is made. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:98
  • Teach-out: means the time remaining in a student's course of study. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3140.1
  • teacher: as used in this Part means principal, supervisor, and superintendent of public schools, as well as classroom teachers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:901.36
  • Teacher: means :

                (a) Any employee of a local public school board, state special school, or a school or program administered by the special school district who holds a teacher's certificate and whose legal employment requires such teacher's certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:441

  • teacher: shall include any member of the teaching staff of a public school in the state and any social worker or school psychologist employed by a local school board in the state who holds a valid professional ancillary certificate in school social work or school psychology issued by the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1211
  • Teacher: means any employee of a parish or city school board who holds a teacher's certificate and whose legal employment requires such teacher's certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:372
  • teaching staff: shall include any person employed by a city, parish, or other local public school board in the state of Louisiana who holds a valid teaching certificate issued by the state Department of Education and any social worker, school counselor, school nurse, audiologist, educational diagnostician, speech-language pathologist, or school psychologist employed by a city, parish, or other local public school board in the state who holds the appropriate valid professional ancillary certificate issued by the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1170
  • teaching staff: shall include any member of the teaching staff of a public school in the state of Louisiana and any social worker, school counselor, or school psychologist employed by a city, parish, or other local public school board in the state who holds, as applicable, a valid professional ancillary certificate in school social work, school counseling, or school psychology issued by the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:1200
  • Termination: means complete cessation of employment with the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:403
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Threat is credible: means that the available facts, when viewed in light of surrounding circumstances, would cause a reasonable person to believe that the person communicating the threat actually intends to carry out the threat. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
  • Threat of terrorism: means communication, whether oral, visual, or written, including but not limited to electronic mail, letters, notes, social media posts, text messages, blogs, or posts on any social networking website, of any crime of violence that would reasonably cause any student, teacher, principal, or school employee to be in sustained fear for his safety, cause the evacuation of a building, or cause other serious disruption to the operation of a school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
  • Threat of violence: means communication, whether oral, visual, or written, including but not limited to electronic mail, letters, notes, social media posts, text messages, blogs, or posts on any social networking website, of any intent to kill, maim, or cause great bodily harm to a student, teacher, principal, or school employee on school property or at any school function. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
  • Timeshare association: means a corporation owned by the timeshare interest owners and through which the timeshare interest owners manage and regulate the timeshare property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Timeshare documents: means all of the documents, by whatever names denominated, and any amendments thereto, which establish the timeshare plan, create and govern the rights and relationships of owners, and govern the use and operation of the timeshare property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Timeshare expenses: means any expenditures, fees, charges, or other liabilities for which an owner of a timeshare interest is liable as a result of the ownership of the timeshare interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Timeshare instrument: means the legal document or documents, by whatever names denominated, that convey a timeshare interest to a purchaser. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Timeshare interest: means an ownership "timeshare interest" a lease timeshare interest, a timeshare estate, and a timeshare use unless expressly provided otherwise and includes any of the following:

    (a)  A "timeshare estate" which is the right to occupy a timeshare property, coupled with present ownership or some right to future ownership in a timeshare property or a specified portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2

  • Timeshare plan: means any arrangement, plan, scheme, or similar device, other than an exchange program, whether by membership agreement, sale, lease, license, other act of conveyance, or right-to-use agreement or by any other means, whereby a purchaser, in exchange for consideration, receives ownership rights in or the right to use accommodations for a period of time less than a full year during any given year, but not necessarily for consecutive years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Timeshare property: means one or more timeshare units subject to the same timeshare plan, together with any common elements or any other immovable property, or rights therein, appurtenant to those units. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Timeshare unit: means a unit which is the subject of a timeshare plan. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • Tobacco settlement payments: means the monies paid or payable to the corporation pursuant to the master settlement agreement and the agreement as in effect from time to time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:99.3
  • Total voting power: means the entirety of the voting power. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Trade date: means the date that a deposit to an investment option that includes variable earnings is assigned a value in units, the date a disbursement or refund from an investment option that includes variable earnings is assigned a value, or the date a change in investment options that includes variable earnings is assigned a value, whichever is applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Trainee appraiser: means any person registered by the board and authorized to appraise properties under the supervision of a licensed general real estate appraiser or residential real estate appraiser. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Transaction: means the transfer of a product between persons in which a change of ownership occurs, but does not include a transaction that is exempted from the definition by rules of the board or federal law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Transaction: means an action or set of actions occurring between two or more persons relating to the conduct of business,  commercial, or governmental affairs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2602
  • Transaction history: means a statement, in paper or electronic form, that includes the transaction information for each prior transaction going back to the manufacturer of the product. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Transaction information: means :

                (a) The proprietary or established name or names of the product. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462

  • Transaction statement: means a statement, in paper or electronic form, that the entity transferring ownership in a transaction meets all of the following conditions:

                (a) Is authorized as required under the federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462

  • transaction value: means market value for nonfederally related transaction appraisals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Transferor: means a person who creates a custodial trust by transfer or declaration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Treasurer: means the state treasurer of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
  • Treasurer: means the state treasurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3140.1
  • Trial jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
  • Trust company: means a financial institution, corporation, or other legal entity, authorized to exercise general trust powers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Trustee: means the separate legal entity designated as trustee of a cemetery care fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
  • Tuition: means the expenses for tuition in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school, as delineated by the authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Tutor: means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as guardian of a minor's property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2260.1
  • Undivided profits: means paid-in or accumulated net income less distributions to stockholders and transfers to capital stock or surplus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • 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
  • Unit: means immovable property, or a portion thereof, designated for separate occupancy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • United States Service: means the following persons, and their spouses and dependents:

                (a) A member of the armed forces while in active service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302

  • Use period: means the increments of time into which a timeshare unit or the timeshare property is divided for the purpose of allocating rights of use and occupancy to the owners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1131.2
  • USPAP: means the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, which establishes the minimum requirements applicable to appraisers for the purpose of promoting and maintaining public trust in the appraisal practice, as implemented and periodically amended by the ASB. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3392
  • Variable earnings: means that portion of funds in an education savings account invested in equities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Variable Earnings Transaction Fund: means the subaccount established by the state treasurer within the Tuition and Savings Fund to receive earnings funds as described in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
  • Vehicle tank: means any vehicle tank, tank truck, tank wagon, or any other container in which gasoline, motor fuel, or any other petroleum products are transported in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
  • vocational assessment: includes but is not limited to the administration, interpretation, and use of single scale screening tests of intelligence and tests of education, achievement, personal traits, interests, aptitudes, abilities, language, adaptive behavioral tests, and symptom screening checklist, solely to define vocational goals and plan actions as related to rehabilitation concerns, educational progress, and occupations and careers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3443
  • Vocational-technical school: means any vocational-technical school under the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors of Community and Technical Colleges. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:540
  • Voting power: means the right vested by law or by the articles or the bylaws in the stockholder or in one or more classes of stockholder to vote in the determination of any particular question or matter coming before meetings of the stockholders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Voting power present: means that part of the voting power exercisable by the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting at which the stockholders take action on a particular question or matter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
  • Waiver: means a waiver granted pursuant to and in accordance with this Chapter which exempts the recipient district from any provision of this Title or from any rule, regulation, or policy of the board that is applicable to public schools and to public school officers and employees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
  • Weighmaster: means any person who weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a certificate of weight, measure, or count, except retailers who weigh, measure, or count commodities for sale at retail directly to consumers, or a person engaged in the business of public weighing or measuring for hire. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
  • Wholesale distribution: means the distribution of legend drugs or legend devices to a person other than the consumer or patient except as exempted in the standards of the federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act as the act pertains to wholesale distribution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Wholesale distributor: means any person engaged in wholesale distribution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
  • Wholesaler: means any person offering for sale any catfish, catfish products, siluriformes, or siluriforme products destined for direct retail sale in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4733
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.