Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 7 > Part I - Brands and Marks

• Activity: means a distinct subset of functions or services within a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• 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
• Agency: means any governing body employing persons in the public school system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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
• 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
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• 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
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Beneficiary: 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
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2198.11
• Board of Trustees: means the board provided to administer the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
• 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
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:731
• 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
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• 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: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2171
• 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 Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• 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
• 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}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interdisciplinary team: includes representatives from all of the core services as evidenced by documentation, planning, and team meetings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2182
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• 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
• Licensing agency: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mandatory reporter to law enforcement: means any abortion facility staff member or any abortion facility professional. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2175.3
• Medical board: shall mean the State Medical Disability Board. 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• 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
• 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.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• 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.
• Quality: means degree or grade of excellence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• 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).
• Retirement system: means the Louisiana School Employees Retirement System established and described in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1002
• 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 40:2175.3
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.