Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 45 > Chapter 4 - Motor Carriers

• Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Allocation fund: shall mean the Coronavirus Local Recovery Allocation Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
• Annuity: means payments for life derived from the "accumulated contributions" of a member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Board of trustees: means the board provided for in Part V of this Chapter to administer the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Bodily injury: means claims for general and special damages for personal injury arising under Civil Code Article 2315. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Car pool: means a mode of transportation provided in any motor vehicle that is a private passenger automobile or station wagon, which has a seating capacity of not more than nine persons, including the driver, and in which the transportation is incidental to the purpose of the driver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Certificate: means the permission issued, pursuant to the terms of Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Commission: means the Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of the division of administration of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
• Commissioner: means one of the members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Common carrier by motor vehicle: means any person, other than a contract carrier by bus, the essential nature of whose business comprises engaging in, soliciting, or accepting household goods, passengers, or waste, for intrastate transportation for hire, charge, or compensation as an employment or holding himself out as so available to the public generally and indiscriminately for such business, whether or not the business is conducted over a regular route, between fixed termini, within a defined area, or upon a regular or irregular schedule. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Contract carrier by bus: means any person transporting persons intrastate for hire, charge, or compensation over any highway of this state using a bus as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Contract carrier by motor vehicle: means any person not included under Paragraph (5) of this Section, who under special and individual contracts or agreements, and whether directly or by other arrangement, transports household goods, passengers, or waste by vehicle intrastate for compensation or hire, where in the course of the transportation a highway between two or more incorporated municipalities is traversed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Digital network: means any online-enabled application, software, website or system offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides with transportation network company drivers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• driver: means a person who receives connections to potential passengers and related services from a transportation network company in exchange for payment of a fee to the transportation network company, and who uses a personal vehicle to offer or provide a prearranged ride to persons upon connection through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company in return for compensation or payment of a fee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Earnable compensation: means the compensation earned by a member during the full normal working time as a teacher. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Employer: means the state of Louisiana, any city, parish, or other local school board, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, any board created by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with regulations, restrictions, and limitations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Hazardous waste: means waste defined as hazardous by the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Highway: includes every way or place of whatever kind open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular traffic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Household goods: means :

              (a) Personal effects and property used or to be used in a dwelling when the personal effects and property are a part of the equipment or supply of such dwelling. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Member: means any teacher included in the membership of the system as provided in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Motor carriers: include both a common carrier by motor vehicle and contract carrier by motor vehicle, which transport household goods, passengers, waste intrastate, or any other classification of carriers created by law which transports household goods, passengers, or waste intrastate for compensation or hire. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Non-hazardous industrial solid waste: means waste defined as non-hazardous industrial solid waste by the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• 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.
• passenger service: means a nonscheduled charter passenger service using vehicles which meet manufacturer's specifications for no more than fifteen passengers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Pensions: means payments for life. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Permit: means the permission issued under the terms of Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Personal vehicle: means a vehicle that is used by a transportation network company driver and is owned, leased, or otherwise authorized for use by the transportation network company driver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Pre-trip acceptance period: means any period of time during which a driver is logged on to the transportation network company's digital network and is available to receive transportation requests but is not engaged in a prearranged ride as defined in Paragraph (4) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Prearranged ride: means the provision of transportation by a driver to a rider that commences when a driver accepts a ride requested by a person through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company, continues during the driver transporting a requesting rider, and ends when the last requesting rider departs from the personal vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Private carrier: when used in this Chapter means any person not included in the term "common carrier by motor vehicle" or "contract carrier by motor vehicle" transporting in intrastate commerce by motor vehicle property of which such person is the owner, lessee, or bailee when such transportation is for the purpose of sale, lease, rent, or bailment, or in furtherance of any commercial enterprise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Regular interest: means interest compounded annually at such a rate as shall be determined by the board of trustees in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• 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.
• Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Retirement system: means the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• rider: means a person who uses a transportation network company's digital network to connect with a transportation network driver who provides prearranged rides to the rider in the driver's personal vehicle between points chosen by the rider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Service: means service as a teacher within the meaning of Paragraph (33) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transportation network company: means a person, whether natural or juridical, that uses a digital network to connect transportation network company riders to transportation network company drivers who provide prearranged rides, or a person, whether natural or juridical, that provides a technology platform to a transportation network company rider that enables the transportation network company rider to schedule a prearranged ride. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Treasurer: means the state treasurer of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:100.42
• Van pool: means a mode of transportation provided in any motor vehicle that is a passenger van, that has a seating capacity of not less than seven nor more than fifteen persons, including the driver, and in which the transportation is incidental to the purpose of the driver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Vehicle: means every device by which any person or property is transported upon the highways of this state, except devices moved by animal power or exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Waste: means :

              (a) "Non-hazardous oilfield wastes" means waste defined as non-hazardous oilfield wastes by Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162