§ 51:1951 Title
§ 51:1952 Definitions
§ 51:1953 Employers; prohibited activities; exceptions
§ 51:1954 Educational institutions; prohibited activities; exceptions
§ 51:1955 No duty to monitor; liability

Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 51 > Chapter 28 - Personal Online Account Privacy Protection Act

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102
  • Educational institution: means a public or private educational institution or a separate school or department of a public or private educational institution and includes but is not limited to the following:

    (a)  A university, college, or junior college. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952

  • Electronic communications device: means any device that uses electronic signals to create, transmit, and receive information, including a computer, telephone, personal digital assistant, or other similar device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952
  • Employer: means a person, including a unit of state or local government, engaged in a business, industry, profession, trade, or other enterprise in this state and includes an agent, representative, or designee of the employer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952
  • Hospital: means any institution, place, building, or agency, public or private, whether for profit or not, with facilities for the diagnosis, treatment, or care of persons who are suffering from illness, injury, infirmity, or deformity or other physical condition for which obstetrical, medical, or surgical services would be available and appropriate and which operates or is affiliated with facilities for the overnight care, observation, or recovery of those persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102
  • 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.
  • Person: means the state, and any political subdivision or municipal corporation thereof, an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association or joint stock association, or the legal successor thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102
  • Personal online account: means an online account that the employee, applicant for employment, student, or prospective student uses exclusively for personal communications unrelated to any business purpose of the employer or educational institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:1952
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2102