Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 40 > Chapter 5-A > Part VI > Subpart D - Shaken Baby Syndrome and Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention

• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Birthing center: means a healthcare facility, the primary purpose of which is the performance of low-risk deliveries, where births are planned to occur away from the mother's usual residence following a low-risk pregnancy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1086.1
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1086.1
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Hospital: means a facility that is licensed as a hospital in accordance with the provisions of the Hospital Licensing Law, La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1086.1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensed midwife: means a midwife who is licensed in accordance with the provisions of the Midwife Practitioners Act, La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1086.1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Postneonatal death: means the death of a child aged twenty-eight days to three hundred sixty-four days. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1086.1
• Shaken baby syndrome: means the condition known also as abusive head trauma which is characterized by injuries resulting from violent shaking or shaking and impacting of the head of an infant or small child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1086.1
• Sudden unexpected infant death: means the death of an infant of less than one year of age, the cause of which is not immediately obvious before investigation, that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1086.1