Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 2 > Chapter 2 > Part II - Acquisition, Construction, and Operation by Political Subdivisions

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Biological parents: means a husband and wife, joined by legal marriage recognized as valid in this state, who provide sperm and egg for in vitro fertilization, performed by a licensed physician, when the resulting fetus is carried and delivered by a surrogate birth parent who is related by blood or affinity to either the husband or wife. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Client: means any person registered with any Louisiana immunization tracking and recall system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of conservation of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Dead body: means a lifeless human body or such severed parts of the human body, or the bones thereof, from the state of which it may be reasonably concluded that death has recently occurred. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• 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 40:31.62
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health except in instances of the issuance of licenses and the collection of fees from transporters and haulers of sewage sludge or biosolids, when "department" means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.31
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Early learning center: means a facility licensed as an early learning center under the provisions of the Early Learning Center Licensing Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• evidence of life: include heart action, breathing, or movement of voluntary muscles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fetal death: means death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective of the duration of pregnancy; the death is indicated by the fact that after such expulsion or extraction the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• File: means the presentation of a vital record provided for in this Chapter for registration by the vital records registry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Final disposition: means the burial, interment, cremation, removal from the state, or other authorized disposition of a dead body or fetus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• 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.
• forms: means paper or electronic reports of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment, and data related thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Funeral director or person acting as such: is a licensed funeral director or embalmer as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Gas: means any gas derived from or composed of hydrocarbons, including synthetic gas which is produced from coal, lignite, or petroleum coke and the heat content of which synthetic gas does not exceed 800 BTUs per standard cubic foot. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Immunization record: means a client's medical record related to the client's receipt of immunizations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• Immunization registry: means any listing of clients and information relating to their immunization status. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• Immunization tracking and recall record: is a record that includes but is not limited to the client's name, address of the client or parent or guardian of the client, telephone number, provider, and other information needed to send reminder cards to, to place telephone calls to, or to personally contact the client or the parent or the guardian of a client for the purposes of informing the client, parent, or guardian that the client is due for a recommended immunization or is late in receiving a recommended immunization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
• Institution: means any establishment, public or private, which provides inpatient medical, surgical, or diagnostic care or treatment or nursing, custodial, or domiciliary care, or to which persons are committed by law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Live birth: means a birth in which the child shows evidence of life after complete birth. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Office: means the office of public health within the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.62
• Office: means the Louisiana Department of Health, office of public health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.31
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means an individual, a public or private corporation, an association, a partnership, a public body created by or pursuant to state law, the state of Louisiana, an agency or political subdivision of the state, a federally recognized Indian tribe, the United States government, a political subdivision of the United States government, and any officer, employee, and agent of one of those entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Physician: means a person authorized under the laws of this state to practice medicine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Political subdivision: as used in this Part means any parish of this state as well as any city or county of another adjoining or adjacent state which is authorized by the law of that state to engage in a joint endeavor for the creation and operation of an airport district with a political subdivision of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 2:131
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Provider: means any health care provider or facility licensed to provide health care services in Louisiana, any managed health care system, health maintenance organization, health service contractor, or insurance carrier, or the Louisiana Medical Assistance Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• Public health statistics unit: means that section which codes, tabulates, analyzes, reports, and coordinates vital records and other health status indicator data for the office of public health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Public health unit: means any facility acting under the supervision and advice of the state health officer and the office of public health, including any state-operated or contracted public health clinic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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}
• Removal: means the transportation of a dead human body or the remains thereof from the jurisdiction of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• School: means any institution or facility which provides for education of children in grades one or above, which shall include any kindergarten or prekindergarten attached thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• State health officer: means the legally appointed or acting state health officer as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:5.8
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• System of vital records: means the registration, collection, preservation, amendment, certification, and issuance of certified copies of vital records required by this Chapter and activities related thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Tracking and recall system: means a system associated with an immunization registry designed to contact clients listed in the registry to assist in the completion of the immunization series in a timely manner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:31.12
• Vital records registry: means a central registry as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:32