Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 41 > Chapter 3 - Vacant and Unappropriated Lands

• 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
• Behavioral health: is a term used to refer to both mental health and substance use. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Behavioral health services: means community-based mental health and substance-related and addictive disorders services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Board: means the governing body of the district or authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Case records: means medical and treatment records, records and investigations of abuse or neglect of adults, records of public health services including children's special health services, nutrition, and immunization, and other medical, disability, or behavioral health service records related to services provided by the district or authority or the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Client: refers to a recipient of services who has been charged with or convicted of a crime and who requires special protection and restraint in a forensic treatment facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Court: means any duly constituted district court or court having family or juvenile jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Diagnosis: means the art and science of determining the presence of disease in an individual and distinguishing one disease from another. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• 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.
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Parent: means a person who is the biological mother or father of an individual or the legally adoptive mother or father of an individual. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• 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}
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Treatment: means an active effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental condition or behavior of a patient or to prevent deterioration in his condition or behavior. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2