Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 7 – Brands, Grades, and Inspection

		Sections
Part I	Brands and Marks	3:731 – 3:751
Part II	Egg Grading	3:821 – 3:832
Part II-A	Louisiana Egg Commission	3:835 – 3:846
Part III	Sampling and Analysis of Agricultural Products	3:851 – 3:855
Part IV	State Grade of Farm Products and Mislabeling of Fruits and Vegetables	3:901 – 3:904
Part V	Produce Safety	3:921 – 3:928

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 7 - Brands, Grades, and Inspection

Abandoned cemetery: shall mean any cemetery which is no longer being used for interments, is not being maintained in good condition, and has fallen into a state of disrepair, including tombs and headstones that have collapsed or been destroyed, walls and fences that have fallen apart, and trees and bushes that have grown amongst and within grave spaces. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to his individual account in the annuity savings fund, together with regular interest thereon. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
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 upon the basis of such interest and mortality assumptions as are adopted in accordance with the provisions of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
Adjusted for inflation: means increased in accordance with the formula for inflation adjustment set forth in Exhibit C to the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Adjusted gross income: means gross income, minus:
(a) Amounts for preexisting child support or spousal support obligations owed under an order of support to another who is not a party to the proceedings and
(b) At the court's discretion, amounts paid on behalf of a party's minor child who is not the subject of the action of the court. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
Administrator: means the administrator of the child support enforcement section, office of children and family services, Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
Adoption date: means the date as of which the board of directors of the reorganizing mutual initially approves and adopts the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Adoption date: means the date as of which the board of directors of the reorganizing mutual initially approves and adopts the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Adult: means an individual with a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 42 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:4261.102
Adult residential care home: means a publicly or privately operated residence that provides personal assistance, lodging, and meals for compensation to two or more adults who are unrelated to the residence licensee, operator, or administrator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2166.3
Adult residential care provider: means a facility, agency, institution, society, corporation, partnership, company, entity, residence, person or persons, or any other group which provides adult residential care for compensation to two or more adults who are unrelated to the licensee or operator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2166.3
Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
Affiliate: means a person who directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Affiliate: means a person who directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the person specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Affiliate: means a person who directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the person specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
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 governing body employing persons in the public school system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Agreement: means any agreement between a wholesaler and a supplier, whether oral or written, whereby a wholesaler is granted the right to purchase and sell a brand or brands of beer sold by a supplier. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Allegation: something that someone says happened.
Allocable share: means allocable share as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Alternative rates of payment: shall mean the rate at which or sum for which the provider agrees to perform specified services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2202
Ambulance service: means any person who through the use of one or more ambulances and certified emergency medical technicians as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4751
Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
Ancillary business: means a business owned by the wholesaler, by a substantial stockholder of a wholesaler, or by a substantial partner of a wholesaler the primary business of which is directly related to the transporting, storing, or marketing of the brand or brands of beer of a supplier with whom the wholesaler has an agreement; or a business owned by a wholesaler, a substantial stockholder of a wholesaler, or a substantial partner of a wholesaler which recycles empty beverage containers of the supplier. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Annuity: means payments for life derived from the accumulated contributions of a member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
Applicant: means an entity applying for a community-based care facility license from the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2162.3
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
Appointive office: means any office in any branch of government or other position on an agency, board, or commission or any executive office of any agency, board, commission, or department which is specifically established or specifically authorized by the constitution or laws of this state or by the charter or ordinances of any political subdivision thereof and which is filled by appointment or election by an elected or appointed public official or by a governmental body composed of such officials of this state or of a political subdivision thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:62
Appraisal: A determination of property value.
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
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.
Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
association: means a nonprofit corporation, unincorporated association, or other legal entity, which is created pursuant to a declaration, whose members consist primarily of lot owners, and which is created to manage or regulate, or both, the residential planned community. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1141.2
Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
Autonomous: refers to a separate and distinct operational entity which functions under its own administration and bylaws, either within or independently of a parent organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
average salary: as used in this Chapter for the purpose of determining pension payments and retirement is the average salary including any additional pay or salary provided by the legislature over and above that set by the Civil Service Commission, received for the year ending on the last day of the month immediately preceding the date of retirement or date of death or for any one-year period, whichever is the greatest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1310
Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
Basic health care services: means emergency care, inpatient hospital and physician care, outpatient medical and chiropractic services, and laboratory and x-ray services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
Beer: means a beverage obtained by alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or concoction of barley or other grain, malt, and hops in water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Beneficiary: means any person in receipt of a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance or other benefit provided by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Benefit contract: means the agreement for provision of benefits authorized by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
Benefit member: means an adult member who is designated by the laws or rules of the society to be a benefit member under a benefit contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
Board: shall mean the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2198.11
Board: means any agency, board, commission, or office, public or private, that issues any license for activity specified in Paragraph (6) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Board: means the State Board of Election Supervisors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:567.1
Board: means the Louisiana State Police Retirement System Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1301
Board of Trustees: means the board provided to administer the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
bonds: means any bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of participation or other written contracts, agreements, or instruments evidencing the obligation of a governmental entity to repay borrowed money, regardless of the designation thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
Brand: means an identification mark hot or cold branded into or onto the hide of a live animal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:731
Brand family: has the meaning as set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Brand family: means all styles of cigarettes sold under the same trade mark and differentiated from one another by means of additional modifiers or descriptors, including but not limited to "menthol" "lights" "kings" and "100s" and includes any brand name (alone or in conjunction with any other word), trademark, logo, symbol, motto, selling message, recognizable pattern of colors, or any other indicia of product identification identical or similar to, or identifiable with, a previously known brand of cigarettes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Budget request: means the document with its accompanying explanations, in which a budget unit states its financial requirements and requests appropriations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Budget unit: means any spending agency of the state which is declared to be a budget unit by the division of administration and which is identified for accounting purposes by a five-digit number code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Burden: means that the government, directly or indirectly, does any of the following:
(a) Constrains or inhibits conduct or expression mandated by a person's sincerely held religious tenet or belief. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234
Case: means a standard thirty dozen egg case. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Certificate: means the document issued as written evidence of the benefit contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
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.
Cigar: includes any roll of tobacco for smoking, irrespective of size or shape, and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredients, where such roll has a wrapper made chiefly of tobacco. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Cigarette: includes any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper, or any other material except where such wrapper is wholly or in greater part made of tobacco. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
cigarette: includes "roll-your-own" i. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
Client: means any person who has been accepted for treatment or services, including rehabilitation services, furnished by a facility licensed pursuant to this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2162.3
Combined adjusted gross income: means the combined adjusted gross income of both parties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
Commission: means the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:663
Commission: means the Livestock Brand Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:731
Commission: means the Louisiana Egg Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Commission: means the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1
Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Commissioner: means the commissioner of the office of alcohol and tobacco control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of Louisiana or the commissioner, director, or superintendent of insurance in any other state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Commissioner: means the commissioner of alcohol and tobacco control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:731
Commissioner: means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Commissioner: means the Louisiana commissioner of agriculture and forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:921
Commissioner: means the commissioner of alcohol and tobacco control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance, or his deputy, or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance, or his deputy, or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
Communication: means the acquiring, recording or transmittal, of any information, in any manner whatsoever, concerning any facts, opinions or statements necessary to enable the health care provider to diagnose, treat, prescribe or to act for the patients; said communications may include, but are not limited to any and all medical records, office records, hospital records, charts, correspondence, memoranda, laboratory tests and results, x-rays, photographs, financial statements, diagnoses and prognoses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
Community documents: means the articles of incorporation, bylaws, plat, declarations, covenants, conditions, restrictions, rules and regulations, or other written instruments, including any amendment thereto, by which the association has the authority to exercise any of its powers to manage, maintain, or otherwise affect the association property or which otherwise govern the use of association property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1141.2
Community-based care facility: means a facility where five or more adults with a primary diagnosis of mental illness who are not related to the operator or administrator and who do not require care above intermediate-level nursing care reside and receive care, treatment, or services that are above the level of room and board and include no more than three hours of nursing care per week per resident. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2162.3
Community-based care services: means services provided in a community-based care facility licensed pursuant to the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2162.3
Complainant: means the person who files a complaint with the board under this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:567.1
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Completed operations liability: means liability arising out of the installation, maintenance, or repair of any product at a site which is not owned or controlled by:
(a) Any person who performs that work. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Compliance with an order of support: means that the support obligor is no more than ninety days in arrears in making payments in full for current support or in making periodic payments as set forth in a court order of support, and has obtained or maintained health insurance coverage if required by an order of support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Compliance with an order of support: means that the support obligor is no more than ninety days in arrears in making payments in full for current support, or in making periodic payments on a support arrearage pursuant to a court order or written agreement with the department, or in making periodic payments as set forth in a court order of support, and has obtained or maintained health insurance coverage if required by an order of support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation.
Consumer: means a natural person who is a resident of this state and whose nonpublic information is in a licensee's possession, custody, or control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Contempt of court: means that a person has been found guilty of a direct contempt of court for a contumacious failure to comply with a subpoena, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Article 222(5), or a constructive contempt of court for willful disobedience of a lawful order of the court, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Article 224(2), in or ancillary to a child support or paternity proceeding. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
Control: has the meaning set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Control: means the same as that set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
Costs of issuance: means all items of expense related to the authorization, sale and issuance of bonds, including but not limited to printing costs, costs of preparation and reproduction of documents, filing and recording fees, fees and charges of any fiduciary, legal fees and charges of any counsels necessary in connection with the issuance of bonds, costs of preparation, printing, and distribution of official statements or other disclosure documents, fees and disbursements of consultants and professionals in connection with the issuance of bonds, costs of credit ratings, fees and charges for preparation, execution, transportation, and safekeeping of bonds, costs and expenses of refunding, underwriters discount or placement fees, costs of any credit enhancement, costs of any financial products agreement, and any other cost, charge, or fee in connection with the issuance of bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
Court: means any court exercising jurisdiction over the determination of child support, paternity, or criminal neglect of family proceedings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Covered produce farm: means any farm engaged in the growing, harvesting, packing, or holding of produce for human consumption which is subject to the requirements of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, but shall not include farms that have twenty-five thousand dollars or less of gross income from sales of produce in a year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:921
Credit disability insurance: means insurance on a debtor to provide indemnity for payment becoming due on a specified loan or other credit transaction while the debtor is disabled as defined in the insurance policy or certificate issued to the debtor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Credit enhancement: means any letter of credit, insurance policy, surety bond, standby bond purchase agreement, reserve fund surety bond, or similar facility as used for the purpose of enhancing the security or credit quality of bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
Creditable service: means "prior service" plus "in service" plus "membership service" for which credit is allowable as provided in Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Crisis receiving centers: means an agency, business, institution, society, corporation, person or persons, or any other group, licensed by the Louisiana Department of Health to provide crisis identification, intervention, and stabilization services for people in behavioral crisis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2180.12
Cybersecurity event: means an event resulting in unauthorized access to or disruption or misuse of an information system or nonpublic information stored on an information system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Damage: shall mean the intentional or inadvertent hurt, harm, or injury to a component of a historic cemetery or to an isolated grave so as to lessen or destroy its historic, cultural, or scientific value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Days: means calendar days unless otherwise specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Dealer: includes every person who manufactures or purchases cigars, cigarettes, or other tobacco products for distribution or resale in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
Delivered by electronic means: means either of the following:
(a) Delivery to an electronic mail address at which a party has consented to receive notices or documents. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2461
Demonstrates: means meeting the burdens of going forward with evidence and persuasion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234
Department: shall mean the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2162.3
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2166.3
Department: shall mean the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:1270.2
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2171
Department: means the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:1271.2
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2180
Department: means the Louisiana Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2180.12
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2198.11
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:921
Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services when rendering child support enforcement services in TANF or non-TANF cases. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services, office of children and family services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
Depository: means an institution which contracts with the state librarian to participate in the public document depository system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
Designated member: means the spouse, child, grandchild, parent, brother, or sister of a deceased individual who owned an interest, including a controlling interest, in a wholesaler, or any person who inherits under the deceased individual's will, or under the laws of intestate succession of this state; or any person who or entity which has otherwise, through a valid testamentary device by the deceased individual, succeeded the deceased individual in the wholesaler's business, or has succeeded to the deceased individual's ownership interest in the wholesaler pursuant to a written contract or instrument which has been previously approved by the supplier; and also includes the appointed and qualified personal representative and the testamentary trustee of a deceased individual owning an ownership interest in a wholesaler. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Destruction: shall mean intentionally or inadvertently destroying components of a historic cemetery by violent disintegration of its fabric so as to reduce the components to ruin. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Devise: To gift property by will.
Director: means the director of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:731
directory: means the directory compiled by the attorney general under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
directory: means the directory compiled by the attorney general under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
Distressed neighborhood business district: shall mean a defined geographic area which includes buildings and structures which have housed businesses or other commercial activities and also includes adjacent residential areas and which defined geographic area has pervasive poverty and unemployment, a high incidence of crime, narcotics use, homelessness, abandoned housing and deteriorated infrastructure, substantial population decline, or other similar indicators of general distress. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:1270.2
Distribute: means to ship, bring, or take eggs or egg products into or out of Louisiana or to transfer eggs or egg products in Louisiana from one place to another. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Dividend protections: means provisions in a plan of reorganization designed to protect, through a closed block or other means, the reasonable dividend expectations of policyholders who own individual, dividend-paying policies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Dividend protections: means provisions in a plan of reorganization designed to protect, through a closed block or other means, the reasonable dividend expectations of policyholders who own individual, dividend-paying policies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Division: shall mean the office of cultural development, division of archaeology, within the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
Donee: The recipient of a gift.
Due notice: means notice published at least twice, with an interval of at least 7 days between the two publication dates, in a newspaper or other publication of general circulation within the appropriate area, or if no such publication of general circulation be available, by posting at a reasonable number of conspicuous places within the appropriate area, such posting to include, where possible, posting at public places where it may be customary to post notices concerning parish or municipal affairs generally. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Earnable compensation: means the full amount earned by an employee for a given pay period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Effective date: means the date upon which the reorganization of the reorganizing mutual is effective, as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Effective date: means the date upon which the reorganization of the reorganizing mutual is effective, as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Efficiency: means cost-effectiveness or productivity relative to achievement of an objective. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Egg products: means shell eggs, whether in cooked, dried, frozen, liquid, or raw form, and any product made from shell eggs, egg whites, egg yolks, or any combination thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Eggs: means pullet and hen eggs only. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Elective office: means any position which is established or authorized by the constitution or laws of this state or by the charter or ordinances of any political subdivision thereof, which is not a political party office, and which is filled by vote of the citizens of this state or of a political subdivision thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:62
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 mail: includes electronic messages that are transmitted through a local, regional, or global computer network. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
Electronic mail address: means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, to which electronic mail can be sent or delivered. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
Eligible entity: shall mean a nonprofit organization designated by a municipality to receive grants pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter and which has been designated as exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:1270.2
Eligible member: means a person who, on the adoption date, owns, or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own, a policy of a mutual insurer or a reorganized insurer that is, or that is deemed by the plan of reorganization to be, in force with such insurer on such adoption date, or a person who is deemed eligible by the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Eligible member: means a person who, on the adoption date, owns, or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own, a policy of a mutual insurer or a reorganized insurer that is, or that is deemed by the plan of reorganization to be, in force with such insurer on such adoption date, or a person who is deemed eligible by the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Employee: means any female individual who is employed to work forty or more hours a week and who is employed by the employer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:663
Employee: means any person legally occupying a position as a school bus driver who actually renders a service by driving a school bus during the full time of his employment, a school janitor, a school custodian, a school maintenance employee, school bus aide, monitor or attendant, or other regular school employee who actually works on a school bus helping with the transportation of school children, and who is a legal employee of a parish or city school board of the state of Louisiana, and shall include the employees of this system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Employer: means any department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee or other organizational unit of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:663
Employer: means the state of Louisiana or any parish or city school board from which any employee receives his compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Employment: means any job compensated on a salary or per diem basis, other than an elective or appointive office, in which a person is an employee of the state government or of a political subdivision thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:62
Encrypted: means the transformation of data into a form that has a low probability of assigning meaning without the use of a protective process or key. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in a health maintenance organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
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}
Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
Established residential neighborhood: means a defined geographic area which has consisted of buildings and structures for housing individuals and families which has existed as a residential neighborhood since before 1971. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:1271.2
Evidence of coverage: means any certificate, agreement, or contract issued to an enrollee setting out the coverage to which the enrollee is entitled by reason of payment of a prepaid charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
Excess benefit participant: means any member whose retirement benefit as determined on the basis of all qualified plans without regard to the limitations of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1342
Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
Exercise of religion: means the practice or observance of religion under Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution of Louisiana and the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and includes the ability to act or refuse to act in a manner substantially motivated by a sincerely-held religious belief, whether or not the exercise is compulsory or a central part or central requirement of the person's religious belief. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234
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
Exporter license: means the stamping agent designation as set forth in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Facility: means a part or portion of an establishment which is designed so as to impede a minor's access to a vending machine by walls or other separation in combination with signs designed to notify the public that persons under the age of eighteen are prohibited from the area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
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 election: means a general, special, primary, or runoff election for federal office; and a primary election held for the expression of a preference for the nomination of individuals for election to the office of president. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:567.1
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
Financial products agreement: means an interest rate swap, cap, collar, floor, other hedging agreement, arrangement, or security, however denominated, entered into by a governmental entity not for investment purposes but with respect to a series of bonds for the purpose of reducing or otherwise managing the risk of interest rate changes, or effectively converting a governmental entity's interest rate exposure, in whole or in part, from a fixed rate exposure to a variable rate exposure, or from a variable rate exposure to a fixed rate exposure. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
Financial viability: means the ability of the licensee to maintain capital, lines of credit, insurance, and other financial resources at levels deemed sufficient by the Louisiana Department of Health for operation of a community-based care facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2162.3
Financial viability: means the provider or facility seeking licensure is able to provide at least one of the following:
(a) Verification of sufficient assets equal to one hundred thousand dollars or the cost of three months of operation, whichever is less. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2166.3
First trimester: means the time period up to fourteen weeks after the first day of the last menstrual period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
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).
Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
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}
Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
Full time: means the period of time which a person normally works or is expected to work in an appointive office or employment and which is at least seven hours per day of work and at least thirty-five hours per week of work. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:62
Fund: means the Louisiana State Police Retirement System Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1301
Goal: means a general purpose toward which the efforts of an agency are directed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Good faith: means honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing in the trade. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Governing authority: means the elected or appointed body that exercises the legislative functions of a parish, municipality, school board, school district, or other political subdivision, including:
(a) A sheriff in the case of a law enforcement district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
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: includes the government of this State, the Government of the United States, or any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of either of them. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
governmental agency: means any of the following:
(a) Any board, commission, court, department, agency, special district, authority, or other entity of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234
Governmental body: means any department, commission, council, board, office, bureau, committee, institution, agency, government, corporation, or establishment of the executive branch of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2202
Governmental entity: means any parish, municipality, school board, school district, or other political subdivision of the state, other than the city of New Orleans and its agencies, boards, authorities, and commissions, and other than the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
Governmental unit: means the state of Louisiana, municipalities, parishes, parish and municipal school boards and districts, levee boards and districts, housing authorities, bridge authorities, community improvement agencies, redevelopment agencies, all other political subdivisions of the state, public trusts, corporations, districts, boards, authorities, agencies, and units of local government and nonprofit corporations created by or governed by the governing authorities of parishes or municipalities, any special service districts, such as water, sewerage, garbage, and lighting districts created by or pursuant to legislative acts and any other districts, boards, authorities, and agencies of the state of Louisiana authorized to issue bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5121
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,
Grave space: shall mean 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 25:933
Gross income: means :
(a) The income from any source, including but not limited to salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, dividends, severance pay, pensions, interest, trust income, recurring monetary gifts, annuities, capital gains, social security benefits, workers' compensation benefits, basic and variable allowances for housing and subsistence from military pay and benefits, unemployment insurance benefits, disaster unemployment assistance received from the United States Department of Labor, disability insurance benefits, and spousal support received from a preexisting spousal support obligation;
(b) Expense reimbursement or in-kind payments received by a parent in the course of employment, self-employment, or operation of a business, if the reimbursements or payments are significant and reduce the parent's personal living expenses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
Group purchaser: shall mean an organization or entity which contracts with providers for the purpose of establishing a preferred provider organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2202
Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
Guardian: means a guardian as defined by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:4261.102
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.
Hazardous financial condition: means that, based on its present or reasonably anticipated financial condition, a risk retention group, although not yet financially impaired or insolvent, is unlikely to be able to:
(a) Meet obligations to policyholders with respect to known claims and reasonably anticipated claims. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Health care provider: means a person, partnership, corporation, facility, or institution licensed by this state to provide health care or professional services as a physician, dentist, chiropractor, podiatrist, optometrist, pharmacist, dietician, physical therapist, occupational therapist, or psychologist. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4751
Health care services: means any services rendered by providers which include but are not limited to medical and surgical care; psychological, optometric, optic, chiropractic, podiatric, nursing, and pharmaceutical services; health education, rehabilitative, and home health services; physical therapy; inpatient and outpatient hospital services; dietary and nutritional services; laboratory and ambulance services; and any other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury, or physical disability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
Health maintenance organization: means any corporation organized as either a business corporation or a nonprofit corporation and domiciled in this state which undertakes to provide or arrange for the provision of basic health care services to enrollees in return for a prepaid charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
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.
Historic cemetery: shall mean any abandoned cemetery located in the state that is more than fifty years old and is not subject to the laws, rules, and regulations of the board or Chapter 10-A of Title 8 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Hospice: means an autonomous, centrally administered, medically directed program providing a continuum of home, outpatient, and homelike inpatient care for the terminally ill patient and his family. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
Hospital: shall mean any institution, place, building, or agency, public or private, whether for profit or not, including a facility subject to the jurisdiction of a hospital service district, devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for ten or more individuals for the diagnosis, treatment, or care of persons admitted for overnight stay or longer who are suffering from illness, injury, infirmity, deformity, or other physical condition for which obstetrical, medical, or surgical services would be available and appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2202
Hospital: means an institution licensed as such by the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4751
Human remains: means the body or parts thereof of a deceased person and includes the body or parts thereof in any stage of decomposition, as well as cremated remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:953
Human skeletal remains: shall mean any part of the body of a deceased human being in any stage of decomposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Importer: means any person in the United States to whom non-tax-paid cigarettes manufactured in a foreign country are shipped or consigned, any person who removes cigarettes for sale or consumption in the United States from a customs bonded manufacturing warehouse, and any person who smuggles or otherwise unlawfully brings cigarettes into the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
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 service: means service rendered after June 30, 1947, for which retirement credit has not been received and for which credit is allowable under Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Income: means :
(a) Actual gross income of a party, if the party is employed to full capacity; or
(b) Potential income of a party, if the party is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
Information security program: means the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards that a licensee uses to access, collect, distribute, process, protect, store, use, transmit, dispose of, or otherwise handle nonpublic information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Information system: means a discrete set of electronic information resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of electronic nonpublic information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Insurance: means primary insurance, excess insurance, reinsurance, surplus lines insurance, and any other arrangement for shifting and distributing risk which is determined to be insurance under the laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
Interdisciplinary team: includes representatives from all of the core services as evidenced by documentation, planning, and team meetings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
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.
Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
Isolated grave: shall mean any marked grave site that is not part of a larger cemetery and is not subject to the laws, rules, and regulations of the board or Chapter 10-A of Title 8 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
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.
Last known address: means the mailing address or the electronic mail address provided by the lessee in the latest rental agreement or the mailing address or the electronic mail address provided by the lessee in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
Laws: means the society's articles of incorporation, constitution, and bylaws, however designated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
Lessee: means a person, his sublessee, successor, or assign, entitled to the use of storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
Liability: means legal liability for damages including costs of defense, legal costs and fees, and other claims expenses because of injuries to other persons, damage to their property, or other damage or loss to such other persons resulting from, or arising out of:
(i) Any business, whether profit or nonprofit, trade, product, services including professional services, premises, or operations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
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
License: means a license issued by the Louisiana Department of Health to a community-based care facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2162.3
License: means a license issued by the department to an adult residential care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2166.3
License: means any license, certification, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to or granting authority for any of the following:
(a) To engage in a profession, occupation, business, or industry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
License: means any license, certification, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to or granting authority for any of the following:
(a) To engage in a profession, occupation, business, or industry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
Licensed mental health professional: as used in this Chapter means a person who possesses at least a master's degree and who is licensed in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family counseling, or exempt from licensing requirements pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:331
Licensee: means the person, partnership, corporation, association, organization, or professional entity on whom rests the ultimate responsibility and authority for the conduct of the outpatient abortion facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
Licensee: means any individual holding a license, certificate, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in any activity specified in Paragraph (4) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
Licensee: means any person licensed, authorized to operate, or registered or required to be licensed, authorized, or registered pursuant to the insurance laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Licensing agency: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
Licensing authority: means any state board, commission, department, agency, officer, or other entity which issues, authorizes, or otherwise regulates licenses as defined in Paragraph (4) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
Lodge: means subordinate member units of the society, known as camps, courts, councils, branches, or by any other designation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
Lot: means any plot or parcel of land designated for separate ownership shown on a recorded subdivision plat for a residential development or the boundaries of which are otherwise described in a recorded instrument, other than common area, within the jurisdiction of the residential community as such area is described in the community documents. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1141.2
Mandatory reporter to law enforcement: means any abortion facility staff member or any abortion facility professional. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
Manufacturer: means anyone engaged in the manufacture, production, or foreign importation of tobacco products who sells to wholesalers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Mark: means a distinct marking or device placed on or in a live animal sufficient to distinguish the animal readily if it becomes intermixed with other animals, including a tattoo or an electronic device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:731
Master Settlement Agreement: means the settlement agreement, and related documents, entered into on November 23, 1998, by the state and leading United States tobacco product manufacturers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Maximum benefit: means the retirement benefit a member is entitled to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter in any month after giving effect to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1342
Medical board: shall mean the State Medical Disability Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Member: means : (a) with respect to a mutual insurer, a policyholder who owns or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own a policy of the mutual insurer; or (b) with respect to a mutual insurance holding company, a member of such mutual insurance holding company, as defined in such company's articles of incorporation and bylaws or as defined in the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Member: means any school employee, as defined in Paragraph (13) of this Section, as provided in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Member: means : (a) with respect to a mutual insurer, a policyholder who owns or is deemed by the plan of reorganization to own a policy of the mutual insurer; or (b) with respect to a mutual insurance holding company, a member of such mutual insurance holding company, as defined in such company's articles of incorporation and bylaws or as defined in the plan of reorganization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Membership service: means service as an employee rendered while a member of the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
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, the natural child of a female member of this system, or the child of a male member of this system if a court of competent jurisdiction has made an order of filiation declaring the paternity of such a member for the child or if the name of the father appears on the birth certificate or if the father has formally acknowledged the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Minor Child: means a child of a member of this system who is under the age of eighteen years or who is a student who is under the age of twenty-three years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1301
Modification: shall mean the altering of the original substance of a grave space. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
mother: means a female human being, whether or not she has reached the age of majority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{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}
Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
Nominating petition: means a petition filed under the provisions of Section 3:1206 to nominate candidates for the office of supervisor of a soil conservation district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Nonparticipating manufacturer: means any tobacco product manufacturer that is not a participating manufacturer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Nonpublic information: means electronic information that is not publicly available information and is any of the following:
(a) Any information concerning a consumer which because of name, number, personal mark, or other identifier can be used to identify a consumer, in combination with any one or more of the following data elements:
(i) Social Security number. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Nonrecurring revenue: means revenue received by the state from a source identified by the Revenue Estimating Conference as being of a nonrecurring nature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Obligation: means an amount which a government may be required legally to meet out of its resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
Obligee: means any person to whom an award of child support is owed and may include the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Obligor: means any individual legally obligated to support a child or children pursuant to an order of support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Obligor: means any individual legally obligated to support a child or children pursuant to an order of support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
office: means the office of state police, Department of Public Safety. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1301
Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
Order of support: means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including any judgment or order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
Order of support: means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including any judgment or order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
Outpatient abortion facility: means any outpatient facility, other than a hospital as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
Owner: means the owner, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, his agent, or any other person authorized by him to manage the facility or to receive rent from a lessee under a rental agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
owner of land: includes any person, persons, partnership, firm, or corporation who shall hold title to any lands lying within a district organized under the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Package: means any pack or other container on which a stamp could be applied consistent with and as required by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Pain management clinic: means a publicly or privately owned facility which primarily engages in the treatment of pain by prescribing narcotic medications. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2198.11
Parent corporation: means a corporation, including a limited liability company, that is or has been organized for the purpose of acquiring, directly or indirectly, all of the common shares of a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Parent corporation: means a stock corporation that is or has been organized for the purpose of acquiring, directly or indirectly, all of the common shares of a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Parliamentarian: The Parliamentarian is an advisor on the interpretation of legislative rules and procedures.
Part time: means the period of time which a person normally works or is expected to work in an appointive office or employment which is less than the number of hours of work defined in this Section as full time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:62
Participating manufacturer: has the meaning given that term in section II (jj) of the Master Settlement Agreement and all amendments thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Party: means any recipient of any notice or document required as part of an insurance transaction, including but not limited to an applicant, an insured, a policyholder, or an annuity contract holder. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2461
past due child support: means the amount of a delinquency determined under a court order under state law for support and maintenance of a child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.26
Pension plan: means the defined benefit plan created by this Chapter and administered by the board to provide monthly benefits for retirees, beneficiaries, and survivors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1301
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 such mortality tables as shall be adopted by the board of trustees, and regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Pensions: means payments for life derived from money provided by the state or the employing agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Person: means any natural person or any nongovernmental juridical person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, a government or governmental agency, a state or political subdivision of a state, board, estate, trustee or fiduciary, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Person: means any individual, company, insurer, association, organization, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, partnership, business, trust, limited liability company, or corporation which provides vehicle mechanical breakdown insurance in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Person: means any individual, company, insurer, association, organization, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, partnership, business, trust, limited liability company, or corporation which provides property residual value insurance in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
Person: means any natural person, trustee, company, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, or other association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:731
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 3:836
Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, government, political subdivision, or governmental agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4751
person: means an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or any other organization or group of persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Person: means any natural person, trustee, company, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
person: includes an individual and also includes a church, association of churches or other religious order, body or institution which qualifies for exemption from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) or (d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public law 99-514, 26 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5234
Person: means an individual or any legal or commercial entity, including a corporation, business trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or joint venture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, a government or governmental agency, a state or political subdivision of a state, board, estate, trustee or fiduciary, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Personal property: All property that is not real property.
Personal risk liability: means liability for damages because of injury to any person, damage to property, or other loss or damage resulting from any personal, familial, or household responsibilities or activities, rather than from responsibilities or activities referred to in Paragraph (6) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Petition: means a petition filed under the provisions of subsection A of Section 3:1205 for the creation of a district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Physician: means an individual who possesses a current, unrestricted license to practice medicine in Louisiana, who during the course of his practice has not been denied the privilege of prescribing, dispensing, administering, supplying, or selling any controlled dangerous substance and who has not during the course of his practice had board action taken against his medical license as a result of dependancy on drugs or alcohol. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2198.11
Place of business: means the place where the tobacco orders, alternative nicotine products orders, or vapor products orders are received, or where the taxable tobacco articles are sold, or if sold by a retail dealer upon a railroad train or on or from any other vehicle, the vehicle on which or from which the taxable articles or alternative nicotine products or vapor products are sold by the retail dealer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
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 of operation or a feasibility study: means an analysis which presents the expected activities and results of a risk retention group including, at a minimum:
(a) The coverages, deductibles, coverage limits, rates, and rating classification systems for each line of insurance the group intends to offer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Plan of reorganization: means the plan of reorganization adopted by the reorganizing mutual in compliance with this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Plan of reorganization: means the plan of reorganization adopted by the reorganizing mutual in compliance with this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
planned community: means a real estate development, used primarily for residential purposes, in which the owners of separately owned lots are mandatory members of an association by virtue of such ownership. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1141.2
Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
Policy: means an individual or group policy of insurance issued, or deemed by the plan of reorganization to have been issued, by a mutual insurer or by a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Policy: means an individual or group policy of insurance or annuity contract issued, or deemed by the plan of reorganization to have been issued, by a mutual insurer or by a reorganized insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Policyholder: means a person who, on the basis of the records and the organizational documents of the mutual insurer or reorganized insurer, is deemed to be a policyholder of such insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Policyholder: means a person who, on the basis of the records and the organizational documents of the mutual insurer or reorganized insurer, is deemed to be a policyholder of such insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
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 42:62
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
political subdivision: means :
(1) Any parish, municipality, special district, school board, sheriff, public board, institution, department, commission, district, corporation, agency, authority, or an agency or subdivision of any of these, and other public or governmental body of any kind which is not a state agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102
Possession: means the exercise of control over human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:953
Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
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.
Premiums: means premiums, rates, dues, or other required contributions by whatever name known, which are payable under the certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
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.
Prior service: means service rendered prior to July 1, 1947, for which credit is allowable under Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
Produce: means any food that is defined as such within the meaning of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and is a raw agricultural commodity, including raw agricultural commodities that are grown domestically or imported or offered for sale in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:921
Producer: means any person engaged in the business of producing eggs in Louisiana or any person deriving a profit from such a business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:836
Product liability: means the liability for personal injury and property damages arising from the manufacture, design, importation, distribution, packaging, labeling, lease, or sale of a product as defined and construed by the laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Program: shall mean the Louisiana Historic Cemetery Preservation Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:933
Program: shall mean the Neighborhood Enhancement Program as established in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:1270.2
Program: means the Magnolia Street Residential Neighborhood Enhancement Program as established by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:1271.2
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
Property: means all classes of movable or immovable property recognized under the laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
Property residual value insurer: means any person or organization, whether domestic, foreign, or alien, issuing or attempting to issue property residual value policies as defined herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
Provider: means any physician, hospital, or other person, organization, institution, or group of persons licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
Provider: shall mean one or more entities which offer health care services and shall include but not be limited to hospitals, individuals, or groups of physicians, individuals or groups of psychologists, nurse midwives, ambulance service companies, and other health care entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2202
Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
Public document: means informational matter, for public distribution regardless of format, method of reproduction, source, or copyright, originating in or produced with the imprint of, by the authority of, or at the total or partial expense of, any state agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
Public employee: shall mean and include every officer or employee of any department, board, commission, or agency of the State of Louisiana, or of any political subdivision or municipal corporation of the State of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:55
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 office: means any state, district, parish or municipal office, elective or appointive, or any position as member on a board or commission, elective or appointive, when the office or position is established by the constitution or laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1
Public officer: is a ny person holding a public office in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1
Publicly available information: means any information that a licensee reasonably believes is lawfully made available to the general public when all of the following occur:
(a) The information is available to the general public from any of the following sources:
(i) Federal, state, or local government records. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Purchase: means acquisition in any manner, for any consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Purchase: means acquisition in any manner, for any consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Purchasing group: means any group domiciled in any state which:
(a) Has as one of its purposes the purchase of liability insurance on a group basis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Quality: means degree or grade of excellence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
Reasonable qualifications: means the standard of the reasonable criteria established and consistently used by the respective supplier for similarly situated wholesalers that entered into, continued, or renewed an agreement with the supplier during a period of twenty-four months prior to the proposed transfer of the wholesaler's business, or for similarly situated wholesalers who have changed managers or designated managers during a period of twenty-four months prior to the proposed change in the manager or successor manager of the wholesaler's business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
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 11:1002
Reinsurer: means a person licensed under this Subpart engaged in the reinsuring of vehicle mechanical reimbursement insurance, residual value insurance, or credit disability insurance policies, or any combination of kinds of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Released claims: means released claims as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Releasing parties: means releasing parties as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Rental agreement: means any agreement or lease, written or oral, entered into between the owner and a lessee, that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provisions concerning the use of self-service storage facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
Reorganized company: means either: (a) a reorganized insurer resulting from the reorganization of a mutual insurer under this Subpart; or (b) a reorganized insurance holding company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Reorganized company: means either: (a) a reorganized insurer resulting from the reorganization of a mutual insurer under this Subpart; or (b) a reorganized insurance holding company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Reorganized insurance holding company: means a former mutual insurance holding company reorganized as a stock insurance holding company, or a stock insurance holding company into which a mutual insurance holding company has been merged, pursuant to a plan of reorganization under this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Reorganized insurance holding company: means a former mutual insurance holding company reorganized as a stock insurance holding company, or a stock insurance holding company into which a mutual insurance holding company has been merged, pursuant to a plan of reorganization under this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Reorganized insurer: means the following:
(a) With respect to a conversion of a mutual insurer under this Subpart, the domestic stock insurer into which a mutual insurer is being or has been reorganized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Reorganized insurer: means the following:
(a) With respect to a conversion of a mutual insurer under this Subpart, the domestic stock insurer into which a mutual insurer is being or has been reorganized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Reorganizing mutual: means a mutual insurer or mutual insurance holding company that is reorganizing pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:237.2
Reorganizing mutual: means a mutual insurer or mutual insurance holding company that is reorganizing pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:236
Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
Representative: means the spouse, parent, tutor, curator, trustee, attorney or other legal agent of the patient. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
Residual value: shall mean the value of property at a specific future time, which value is determined by agreement at the time the contract of lease or sale is entered into. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
Respondent: means any state or local election official whose actions relating to a federal election are asserted, in a complaint under this Subpart, to be in violation of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:567.1
Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
Retail dealer: includes every dealer other than a wholesale dealer, or manufacturer who sells or offers for sale cigars, cigarettes, other tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products, irrespective of quantity or the number of sales. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
retail sale: means any transfer for valuable consideration, made in the ordinary course of trade or in the usual conduct of the seller's business, of title to tangible movable property to the purchaser. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Retailer: means "retail dealer" as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Retaliatory action: means the refusal to continue an agreement, or a material reduction in the quality of service or quantity of products available to a wholesaler under an agreement, which refusal or reduction is not made in good faith. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Retirement allowance: means the sum of annuity and the pensions or any optional benefit payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Retirement system: means the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System established and described in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Risk assessment: means the risk assessment that each licensee is required to conduct pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Risk retention group: means any corporation or other limited liability association formed under the laws of any state, Bermuda, or the Cayman Islands:
(a) Whose primary activity consists of assuming and spreading all, or any portion, of the liability exposure of its group members. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
Road hazard: shall include but not be limited to potholes, rocks, curbs, wood debris, other debris, nails, screws, bolts, metal parts, or glass; however, "road hazard" shall not include any damage caused by collision with another vehicle, vandalism, or other causes usually covered under the comprehensive or collision coverages provided by an automobile physical damage policy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Rules: means all rules, regulations, or resolutions adopted by the supreme governing body or board of directors which are intended to have general application to the members of the society. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
Sales entity affiliate: means an entity that sells cigarettes that it acquires directly from a manufacturer or importer and is affiliated with that manufacturer or importer as established by documentation received directly from that manufacturer or importer to the satisfaction of the attorney general. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Sales Entity Affiliate: means an entity that sells cigarettes that it acquires directly from a manufacturer or importer and is affiliated with that manufacturer or importer as established by documentation received directly from that manufacturer or importer to the satisfaction of the attorney general. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Sales territory: means an area of exclusive sales responsibility for the brand or brands of beer sold by a supplier as designated by an agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Second trimester: means the time period from fourteen to twenty-three weeks after the first day of the last menstrual period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Revenue and includes any of his duly authorized assistants. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Secretary: means the head of the Department of Revenue, which is the agency responsible for collection of the excise tax on cigarettes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Secretary: means the secretary of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1
Self-service display: means any display that contains tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products, and is located in an area openly accessible to the retail dealer's customers and from which such customers can readily access tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products without the assistance of a salesperson. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Self-service storage facility: means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to lessees who are to have access to such for the purpose of storing and removing movable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
sell: means any transfer, exchange, or barter in any manner or by any means for any consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
sell: means any transfer, exchange, or barter in any manner or by any means for any consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
Similarly situated wholesalers: means wholesalers of a supplier that are of a generally comparable size, and operate in markets with similar demographic characteristics, including population size, density, distribution, and vital statistics, as well as reasonably similar economic and geographic conditions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Smokeless tobacco: means any finely cut, ground, powdered, or leaf tobacco that is intended to be placed in the oral or nasal cavity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Smoking tobacco: includes granulated, plug cut, crimp cut, ready rubbed, and any other kind and form of tobacco prepared in such manner as to be suitable for smoking in pipe or cigarette. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Society: means fraternal benefit society. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
soil conservation district: means a governmental subdivision of this State, and a public body corporate and politic, organized in accordance with the provisions of this Part, for the purposes, with the powers, and subject to the restrictions set forth in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Soil health: means the overall composition of the soil, including the amount of organic matter in and water holding capacity of the soil, and the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Soil health practices: means agricultural practices that improve the health of soils, including but not limited to consideration of depth of topsoil horizons, water infiltration rate, organic carbon content, nutrient content, bulk density, biological activity, biological and microbiological diversity, and minimization of bare ground. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Spouse: means 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. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
Stamp: means the impression, device, stamp, label, or print manufactured or printed as prescribed by the secretary by the use of which the tax levied hereunder is paid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Stamping agent: means a dealer that is authorized to affix tax stamps to packages or other containers of cigarettes under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Stamping agent: means a dealer that is authorized to affix tax stamps to packages or other containers of cigarettes under La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5072
State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
State: means any state of the United States and the District of Columbia. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:482
State: means the State of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
State agency: means an office, department, board, bureau, commission, council, institution, college or university, division, officer, or other person or group within the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of state government that is authorized to exercise or that exercises any of the functions of the government of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
state agency: means any board, commission, department, agency, special district, authority, or other entity of the state and, as used in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102
State Soil and Water Conservation Commission: means the agency created in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
Student: means a person in a high school, a vocational-technical school, or a college or university, in a sufficient number of courses and classes in an accredited 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 11:1301
Student in a public educational institution: shall mean and include every student enrolled in any public school of the State, or in any state-supported trade school, vocational school, college, or university. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:55
Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
Subscriber: means the person who is responsible for payment to a health maintenance organization or whose employment or other status, except for family dependence, is the basis for eligibility for enrollment in the health maintenance organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:242
subscriber: means the participant or policyholder; "attorney-in-fact" means the representative of the subscribers through whom reciprocal insurance is exchanged; and "reciprocal insurer" means the organization or group of all the subscribers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:161
Successor: means a person who replaces a supplier, importer, broker, or wholesaler with regard to the right to manufacture, sell, distribute, broker, or import a brand or brands of beer or light wine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
suit: means civil actions as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Art. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5102
Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
Supervisor: means one of the members of the governing body of a district, elected or appointed in accordance with the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1202
Supplier: means a manufacturer or importer of beer and light wine brands as registered with the commissioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Supported decisionmaking: means a process of supporting and accommodating an adult to enable the adult to make life decisions, including decisions related to where the adult wants to live, the services, supports, and medical care the adult wants to receive, with whom the adult wants to live, and where the adult wants to work, without impeding the self-determination of the adult. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:4261.102
Supported decisionmaking agreement: is a n agreement between an adult and a supporter entered into under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:4261.102
Supporter: means an individual who has attained the age of eighteen years of age and entered into a supported decisionmaking agreement with an adult. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:4261.102
Surplus: means the excess for any fiscal year of the actual monies received and any monies or balances carried forward over the actual expenditures paid by warrant or transfer for any fund at the close of the fiscal year as such are reported by the office of statewide reporting within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
Suspension: means a temporary revocation of a license for an indefinite period of time or the denial of an application for issuance or renewal of a license. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
suspension: includes a temporary suspension of the registration, including the seizure of the vehicle license plate, trailer license plate, or a certificate of identification or registration of a motorboat or sailboat for an indefinite period of time or the denial of an application for issuance or renewal of a registration or license plate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.40
System: means the Louisiana State Police Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1301
Tangible benefit: shall mean but not be limited to:
(a) Any reasonable expectation of a demonstrable increase in or maintenance of usage of the provider's services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2202
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
Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
Terminally ill: refers to a medical prognosis of limited expected survival, of approximately six months or less at the time of referral to a hospice, of an individual who is experiencing an illness for which therapeutic strategies directed toward cure and control of the disease alone are no longer appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
Testify: Answer questions in court.
Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
Third-party service provider: means a person, not otherwise defined as a licensee, who contracts with a licensee to maintain, process, store, or otherwise have access to nonpublic information through its provision of services to the licensee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:2503
Title III: means Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, P. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:567.1
Tobacco product: means any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco, or smoking tobacco. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Tobacco product manufacturer: means an entity that after July 1, 1999, directly, and not exclusively through any affiliate:
(a) Manufactures cigarettes anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in the United States, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer (except where such importer is an original participating manufacturer, as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement, that will be responsible for the payments under the Master Settlement Agreement with respect to such cigarettes as a result of the provisions of subsection II(mm) of the Master Settlement Agreement and that pays the taxes specified in subsection II(z) of the Master Settlement Agreement, and provided that the manufacturer of such cigarettes does not market or advertise such cigarettes in the United States). See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Tobacconist: means any bona fide tobacco retailer engaged in receiving bulk smoking tobacco for the purpose of blending such tobacco for retail sale at a particular retail outlet where fifty percent or more of the total purchases for the preceding twelve months were purchases of tobacco products, excluding cigarettes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
Total assessed value: means the assessed valuation of all property, including both homestead-exempt property, which shall be included on the assessment roll for the purposes of total assessed value, and nonexempt property as shown on the most recent assessment of the parish in which the governmental entity is located. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:503
Total voting power: means the entirety of the voting power. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
Trade: means to distribute, to offer for sale, to offer for acquisition, to buy, to sell, to barter, to exchange, to give, to receive, to donate, or to bequest, whether by physical delivery or by subterfuge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:953
Trade discount: means any discount immediately recognized by a wholesale dealer from the manufacturer, importer, or sales entity affiliate or by a retail dealer from a manufacturer, importer, sales entity affiliate, or wholesale dealer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
Trauma center: means a health care facility which is capable of treating one or more types of potentially seriously injured persons and which has been certified as a trauma center by the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2171
Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
Units sold: means the number of individual cigarettes sold in the state by the applicable tobacco product manufacturer, whether directly or through a distributor, retailer, or similar intermediary or intermediaries, during the year in question, as measured by excise taxes collected by the state on packs, or "roll-your-own" tobacco containers, bearing the excise tax stamp of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
Unrestricted benefit: means the monthly retirement benefit a member, or the spouse, child, or dependent parent of a member, would have received under the terms of all qualified plans of the employer, except for the restrictions of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1342
Vapor product: includes any electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device and any vapor cartridge or other container of nicotine in a solution or other form that is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
Vehicle: means any vehicle that is required to be titled pursuant to the Vehicle Certificate of Title Law (La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Vehicle component coverage contracts: means a contract which provides the owner or purchaser of a motor vehicle with one or more of the following coverages:
(a) "Paintless dent repair contract" means a contract which provides for the repair of or promises to pay for all or part of the cost to repair or remove dents, dings, or creases from the exterior of the motor vehicle utilizing the paintless dent repair process, provided that a paintless dent repair contract shall not cover sanding, bonding, painting, or the replacement of body panels. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Vehicle mechanical breakdown insurance policy: means any contract, agreement, or instrument whereby a person other than the owner, seller, or lessor of a vehicle assumes the risk of or the expense or portion thereof for the mechanical breakdown or mechanical failure of a motor vehicle and may include other customer assistance and convenience services, such as vehicle rental assistance, towing assistance, trip interruption, and roadside assistance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Vehicle mechanical breakdown insurer: means any person or organization, whether domestic, foreign, or alien, issuing or attempting to issue vehicle mechanical breakdown policies or vehicle component coverage contracts as defined herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
Vending machine: means any mechanical, electric, or electronic self-service device which, upon insertion of money, tokens, or any other form of payment, automatically dispenses tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Vending machine operator: means any person who controls the use of one or more vending machines as to the supply of cigarettes or any tobacco products in the machine or the receipts from cigarettes vended through such machines. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
Verified mail: means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States Postal Service or a private delivery service that provides evidence of mailing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
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
Wholesale dealer: means a dealer whose principal business is that of a wholesaler, who sells cigarettes, cigars, other tobacco products, vapor products, or alternative nicotine products to retail dealers for the purpose of resale, who is a bona fide wholesaler, and fifty percent of whose total tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine sales are to retail stores other than its own or those of its subsidiaries or parent companies within Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
Wholesaler: means a wholesaler of beer and light wine as licensed under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:802
Wireless telecommunications device: means a cellular telephone, a text messaging device, a personal digital assistant, a stand-alone computer, or any other substantially similar wireless device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:4757
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.

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