Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 46 > Chapter 3 > Part II > Subpart A - Aid to Needy Families

• Adult paraphernalia store: means an establishment that has as a substantial or significant portion of its stock clothing, objects, tools, toys, or any other items distinguished or characterized by their association with sexual activity, including sexual conduct or sexual excitement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Agreement: means a written contractual agreement between the merchant and the third-party delivery service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Amusement attraction: means a movie theater, video arcade, or any other building, structure, or place principally devoted to activities providing amusement, pleasure, thrills, or excitement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Amusement ride: includes inflatables. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• 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.
• Applicant: means a parent or relative of the parent who applies for FITAP on behalf of a child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• 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
• Automated teller machine: means an electronic hardware device that is capable of dispensing currency and responding to balance inquiries through the use of a magnetic stripe card issued by or on behalf of the state for distribution of assistance through an electronic benefits transfer system as described in this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Bar: means a business that holds a Class A-General retail permit and the primary purpose of such business is to serve alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the premises and in which the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of those beverages. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Cash assistance: means funds that the department provides through the Family Independence Temporary Assistance Program and the Kinship Care Subsidy Program to eligible beneficiaries for the purpose of assisting those persons in meeting ongoing basic needs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• commerce: means the advertising, offering for sale, sale, or distribution of any services, including educational services, and any property, corporeal or incorporeal, immovable or movable, and any other article, commodity, or thing of value wherever situated, and includes any trade or commerce directly or indirectly affecting the people of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Commercial body art facility: means any location, place, area, or business, whether permanent or temporary, that provides consumers access to personal services workers who for remuneration perform any of the following procedures:

  (a)  Tattooing or inserting pigment under the surface of the skin of a human being, by pricking with a needle or otherwise, to produce an indelible mark or figure visible under the skin. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231

• Commercial recording or audiovisual work: means a recording or audiovisual work whose owner, assignee, authorized agent, or licensee has disseminated or intends to disseminate for sale, rental, performance, or exhibition to the public, including under license, but does not include an excerpt consisting of less than substantially all of a recording or audiovisual work. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3232
• Consumer: means a person, business, or other entity who places an order for merchant products through the third-party delivery platform. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Consumer: means any individual who uses, purchases, or leases goods or services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Cruise ship: means any commercial ship used for the domestic or international carriage of passengers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• current status: includes valid, expired, cancelled, suspended, disqualified, active, inactive, member, nonmember, eligible, or ineligible. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Digitized identification card: means a data file available on any mobile device which has connectivity to the internet through a state-approved application that allows the mobile device to download the data file from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections or an authorized representative of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections that contains all of the data elements visible on the face and back of a license or identification card and displays the current status of the license or identification card. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Electronic dissemination: means initiating a transmission of, making available, or otherwise offering a commercial recording or audiovisual work for distribution, display, or performance through the internet or other digital network, regardless of whether another person has previously electronically disseminated the same commercial recording or audiovisual work. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3232
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Family Success Agreement: means the mutually developed contract between a FITAP recipient, on behalf of their family, and the department that sets forth mutual and time-bound responsibilities, expectations, activities, and goals designed to transition a participant from welfare to self-sufficiency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Federal Welfare Reform Act: means the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, Public Law 104-193, and applicable changes due to its reauthorization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• FITAP: means the cash assistance program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gaming establishment: means a gambling casino and any other establishment which provides gaming activities that are subject to regulation by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Jewelry: means an object or thing consisting of precious stones or precious metals worn as adornment or apparel, including costume jewelry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Likeness: means the logo, motto, or any identifiable symbols attributed and easily identified as belonging to a specific merchant. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Liquor store: means any retail establishment that sells exclusively or primarily intoxicating liquor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Merchant: means a restaurant or other retail entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Nail salon: means a commercial establishment that provides nail services of any kind including but not limited to trimming, filing, decorating, shaping, sculpting, or in any way caring for the nails and skin of a person's hands or feet together with massaging the hands, arms, legs, and feet. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, union, public or private education institution, or other organization, including but not limited to a bar or restaurant that is engaged in trade or commerce within the geographic boundaries of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3211
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Point-of-sale terminal: means an electronic hardware device that meets all of the following criteria:

  (a)  May be utilized at a retailer's place of business where consumers pay for goods or services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231

• Provider: means a person who is contractually obligated to provide the services or indemnification under a motor vehicle service contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3162
• Psychic: means any person or establishment engaged in the occupation of occult science including a fortune teller, palmist, astrologist, numerologist, clairvoyant, craniologist, phrenologist, card reader, spiritual reader, tea leaf reader, prophet, or advisor who in any manner claims or pretends to tell fortunes or claims or pretends to disclose mental faculties of individuals for any form of compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• 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.
• Sexually oriented business: means any commercial enterprise that has as its primary business the offering of a service or the sale, rent, or exhibit of devices or any other items intended to provide sexual stimulation or sexual gratification to the customer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• STEP: means the education, employment, training and related services program for families receiving cash assistance payments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• TANF: means the federal block grant program established under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Public Law 104-193, and applicable changes due to its reauthorization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231
• Third-party delivery platform: means the online communication platform of the third-party delivery service on which a consumer can view and search the menus of merchants and place an order for merchant products through internet-enabled technology and digital media, including websites and consumer applications accessible through smart phones and other mobile devices. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Third-party delivery service: means a company, organization, or other entity, other than a merchant, that is licensed to do business in this state and provides limited delivery services to a consumer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3171
• Website: means a set of related webpages served from a single web domain. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:3232
• Work-eligible: refers to families containing an adult under sixty years of age, or teen head of household, that is not disabled, incapacitated, or caring for a family member who is disabled or incapacitated as documented by a medical expert to which the status of disability is clearly established and explained. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:231