Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 17 > Chapter 1 - General School Law

• Acceptable collateral: means any of the following:

              (a) As to securities lending transactions, and for the purpose of calculating counterparty exposure amount, cash, cash equivalents, letters of credit, direct obligations of, or securities that are fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by, the government of the United States or any agency of the United States, or by the Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or any state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia and as to lending foreign securities, sovereign debt rated one by the SVO. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all regular contributions, plus regular interest thereon, placed to the credit of the participant in the annuity savings account. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to his individual account. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Activities: means marketing, promotions, sales efforts, events, and any other services that are reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Actuarial equivalent: means a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of the mortality tables adopted by the board of trustees plus regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Actuarial equivalent: means a benefit of equal value, when computed upon the basis of mortality tables adopted by the board of supervisors and regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Adjusted risk-based capital report: means a risk-based capital report which has been adjusted by the commissioner in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Administrator: means any person whose employment requires professional certification issued under the rules of the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Admitted assets: means assets permitted to be reported as admitted assets on the statutory financial statement of the insurer most recently required to be filed with the commissioner, but excluding assets of separate accounts, the investments of which are not subject to the provisions of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• advisory evacuation: means an evacuation that may be ordered when a disaster or emergency has been declared and evacuation is recommended due to the potential for rapidly changing conditions to develop into a serious threat and all persons in designated evacuation areas are recommended to consider relocating to safer locations for their own safety. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Advisory organization: means any entity or organization which has five unrelated members and which assists insurers as authorized by Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Affiliate: means a person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Affiliate: means , in relation to a person, a subsidiary of the person or an entity which owns beneficially or of record a majority of the outstanding equity interests of the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Affiliate: means , as to any person, another person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Affiliate: means a person that directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common control with, the person specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Affiliated company: means a company in the same corporate system as its parent or a member organization by virtue of common ownership, control, operation or management. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Aggregator site: means a website that provides access to information regarding insurance products from more than one insurer, including product and insurer information, for use in comparison shopping. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352
• Agricultural movements: means the operation of a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles by a farmer to transport agricultural products, farm machinery, and farm supplies; or agricultural crop production fertilizers, agricultural chemicals, or agricultural related fuels, found to be hazardous under the provisions of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act which requires the motor vehicle to bear a placard under the provisions of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (99 C. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Annuity: means payments for life derived from the "accumulated contributions" of a member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Annuity: means annual payments for life, payable in equal monthly installments, derived from the accumulated contributions placed to the credit of the participant in the annuity reserve account. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Annuity reserve: means the present value of all payments to be made on account of an annuity or benefit in lieu of any annuity computed upon the basis of such mortality tables accepted by the board of trustees, plus regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Antique vehicle: shall mean a vehicle twenty-five years old or older. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriate early childhood program: means a developmentally appropriate program for young children, ages three to five years, which is in compliance with regulatory guidelines to be issued by the department pursuant to this Part and which is approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles: means the original articles of incorporation and all amendments thereto including those contained in merger agreements or, if restated, the latest restatement thereof except in those instances in which the context refers expressly to the original articles of incorporation only. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Articles of organization: means documents filed under Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Assessed business: means a business operated by a business owner who is required to pay an assessment pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Assessment: means the levy imposed pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Association: means an association organized under this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:443
• Association: means a legal entity consisting of two or more corporations, partnerships, associations or other forms of business organizations that are engaged in businesses or activities similar or related to a common business, trade, product, services, premises or operations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Association captive insurer: means any company that insures only the risks of the member organizations of the association, affiliated companies of the member organizations, and the risks of the association itself. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Athletic program: means an intercollegiate athletic program at a postsecondary education institution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3702
• Authorized officer: means any officer of a federally insured financial institution operating in Louisiana who is designated to witness the endorsement of a seller, on behalf of a federally insured financial institution, for the purpose of executing the transfer of a titled motor vehicle or titled vehicle in accordance with the requirements of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Authorized-control level risk-based capital: means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the risk-based capital instructions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Auto hulk: means any material which is or may have been a motor vehicle, with or without all component parts, which is not self-propelled nor capable of carrying persons or property upon a public highway and which material is in such condition that its highest or primary value is its sale or transfer as parts or scrap metal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Auto title company: means any person, firm, association, or corporation which is engaged primarily in the transfer and recordation of sales, leases, or mortgages of vehicles including but not limited to mobile homes, trailers, and motor vehicles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Autocycle: means a three-wheeled motorcycle on which the driver and all passengers ride in either a partially or completely enclosed seating area or in a side-by-side seating area that is equipped with a rollbar or roll cage, safety belts for all occupants, and is designed to be controlled with a steering mechanism and pedals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• average compensation: means his average earnable compensation for the five highest successive years of employment, or the highest five successive joined years where interruption of service occurred. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Average regular compensation: means the average annual rate of regular compensation of a member for any period of thirty-six successive months ending with full month's pay of service as an employee during which said earned compensation was the highest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Bail enforcement: means the apprehension or surrender of a person who is released on bail or who has failed to appear at any stage of the proceedings to answer the charge before the court in which he may be prosecuted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1582
• Balanced treatment: means providing whatever information and instruction in both creation and evolution models the classroom teacher determines is necessary and appropriate to provide insight into both theories in view of the textbooks and other instructional materials available for use in his classroom. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.3
• Ballot: means a paper ballot or electronic ballot, where applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
• 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.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Behavioral health: is a term used to refer to both mental health and substance use. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Beneficiary: means the eligible recipient of a pension, annuity, retirement allowance, or other benefit provided in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Beneficiary: means any person in receipt of a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance or other benefits provided for in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Beneficiary: means any person in receipt of a retirement allowance or other benefit provided for in this part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Benefit enforcement proceeding: means any claim or action for one or both of the following:

  (a)  Failure of a benefit corporation to pursue or create general public benefit or a specific public benefit set forth in its articles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Benefit officer: means the individual designated as the benefit officer of a benefit corporation pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Bioterrorism: means the intentional use of any microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product that may be engineered as a result of biotechnology, or any naturally occurring or bioengineered component of any such microorganism, virus, infectious substance, or biological product, to cause death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or other living organism in order to influence the conduct of government or to intimidate or coerce a civilian population. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Blanket travel insurance: means travel insurance issued to any eligible group providing coverage for specified circumstances and specific classes of persons defined in the policy and issued to a policyholder and not by specifically naming the persons covered, by certificate or otherwise, although a statement of the coverage provided may be given, or required by policy to be given, to eligible persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352
• Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
• Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
• Board: means the parish board of election supervisors of each parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
• Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3873
• Board: means the Louisiana Public Defender Oversight Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Board of supervisors: means the Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• 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
• Board of trustees: means and includes the members of the board of trustees of the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• bonds: includes the following:

              (a) United States Treasury securities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Broadband affiliate: means any entity that meets all of the following criteria:

              (a) Is wholly or partially owned by a cooperative. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:430.1

• bureau: means the Louisiana Bureau of Criminal Identification and Information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
• Business: means any type of tourism business, including but not limited to any tourist home, hotel, motel, or trailer court accommodations, recreational vehicle park, privately owned or managed campgrounds, other lodging intended for short-term occupancy, restaurant, tourism attraction, activity provider, and other tourism businesses that benefit from the visitor economy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Business: means any trade, occupation, profession, or other commercial activity, including but not limited to professions licensed by a state or other governmental agency whether or not engaged in for profit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Business entity: includes a sole proprietorship, corporation, limited liability company, association, partnership, joint stock company, joint venture, mutual fund, trust, joint tenancy, or other similar form of business organization, whether organized for-profit or not-for-profit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Business entity: shall mean a corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Business owner: means any person recognized by the tourist commissioners as the owner of the business subject to assessment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Cancellation: means that a driver's license is annulled because of some error or defect or because the licensee is no longer entitled to such license, but the cancellation of a license is without prejudice and application for a new license may be made at any time after such cancellation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Cancellation fee waiver: means a contractual agreement between a supplier of travel arrangements or travel services and its customer to waive some or all of the nonrefundable cancellation fee or penalty provisions of the underlying travel contract between the supplier and customer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352
• Cap: means an agreement obligating the seller to make payments to the buyer, with each payment based on the amount by which a reference price or level or the performance or value of one or more underlying interests exceeds a predetermined number, sometimes called the strike rate or strike price. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Capital: means the sum of capital stock, surplus, and undivided profits or, as to mutual state banks, as defined by Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Capital and surplus: means the sum of the capital and surplus of the insurer required to be shown on the statutory financial statement of the insurer most recently required to be filed with the commissioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Capital stock: means the sum of the par value of the shares outstanding plus any amounts in excess of par value transferred from surplus to capital stock in respect of such shares less any part of such amounts transferred from capital stock to surplus as permitted by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Captive insurer: means any pure captive insurer or association captive insurer formed or licensed under the provisions of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Cash equivalents: means any short-term, highly liquid investments that are both (a) readily convertible to known amounts of cash, and (b) so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value due to changes in interest rates. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Cash equivalents: means short-term, highly rated, and highly liquid investments or securities readily convertible to known amounts of cash without penalty and so near maturity that they present insignificant risk of change in value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Certificate of destruction: means a type of certificate of title issued by the office of motor vehicles for a "water-damaged vehicle" other than an antique vehicle or a vehicle in excess of twenty thousand pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR), whose power train, computer, or electrical system has been damaged by flooding as the result of a gubernatorially declared disaster or emergency and that is a "total loss" as defined in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Certificate of stock: means a properly executed instrument evidencing the fact that the person therein named is the registered owner of the shares therein described. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• chief indigent defender: means an attorney employed by or under contract with the office to supervise service providers and enforce standards and guidelines within a judicial district or multiple judicial districts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Child: means a person who has not reached age eighteen or otherwise been legally emancipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of eighteen years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Child and Adult Care Food Program: means the federal nutrition reimbursement program as funded by the United States Department of Agriculture through the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Child Care and Development Fund: means the child care programs funded through the federal Child Care and Development Fund Block Grant Act and administered by the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Child day care center: means any place or facility operated by any institution, political subdivision, society, agency, corporation, person or persons, or any other group for the purpose of providing care, supervision, and guidance of seven or more children, not including those related to the caregiver, unaccompanied by parent or legal custodian, on a regular basis for at least twelve and one-half hours in a continuous seven-day week. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• Clerk: means the clerk of court of each parish, except that in a parish having both a civil and a criminal sheriff, the word refers to the civil sheriff. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Commerce: means transportation for the purpose of compensation, remuneration, employment, trade, or payment of any thing of value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Commercial motor vehicle: means a motor vehicle or combination of motor vehicles used in commerce to transport passengers or property if the motor vehicle meets one of the following requirements:

              (a) Has a gross combination weight rating of twenty-six thousand one or more pounds inclusive of a towed unit with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than ten thousand pounds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401

• Commission: means the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272
• Commission: means the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:203
• Commission: shall mean a fee paid to an insurance producer as a percentage of the premium generated by a sold insurance policy, or direct compensation or reward of a producer when the same is calculated as a flat fee or as a percentage of the premium or on the profit to the principal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Commissioner: shall mean the director of public safety as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Forestry, or his duly authorized representatives acting at his discretion. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance, the commissioner's deputies, or the Department of Insurance, as appropriate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of insurance of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352
• commissioner: shall mean the commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1451
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Common disaster: A sudden and extraordinary misfortune that brings about the simultaneous or near-simultaneous deaths of two or more associated persons, such as husband and wife.
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Communication: means the acquiring, recording or transmittal, of any information, in any manner whatsoever, concerning any facts, opinions or statements necessary to enable the health care provider to diagnose, treat, prescribe or to act for the patients; said communications may include, but are not limited to any and all medical records, office records, hospital records, charts, correspondence, memoranda, laboratory tests and results, x-rays, photographs, financial statements, diagnoses and prognoses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
• Company-action level risk-based capital: means two hundred percent of a company's authorized control level risk-based capital. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Compensation: means a payment of money, objects, services, or anything else having monetary value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Competitive market: means any market except those which have been found to be noncompetitive pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Components of effective teaching: means the elements of teaching performance defined by the board, in formal, recognized collaboration with educators and other stakeholders involved in education, to be critical to providing effective classroom instruction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Conduit individual retirement account: means an account which is covered by the provisions of Section 408(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, provided the account only contains assets rolled over to the account as an eligible rollover distribution from a qualified plan, plus earnings on those assets, but does not contain any other assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation.
• Constituent entity: means each limited liability company, partnership, partnership in commendam, limited partnership, or corporation which is party to an agreement of merger or consolidation pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Contagious disease: means an infectious disease that can be transmitted from person to person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Contingent beneficiary: Receiver of property or benefits if the first named beneficiary fails to receive any or all of the property or benefits in question before his (her) death.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• conviction: includes the entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to an offense; the forfeiture of bail of any person charged with an offense; and the adjudication of a person as a delinquent for the commission of an offense pursuant to juvenile proceedings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Cooperative: means a corporation organized under this Part and a corporation which becomes subject to this Part in the manner hereinafter provided. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:402
• Corporation: means a corporation formed under the laws of this state or a foreign corporation as defined in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• corporation: shall mean the nonprofit corporation authorized to be formed by this Part or any corporation succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers conferred upon the corporation by this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3396.2
• corporation: means a nonprofit corporation organized under and pursuant to the Nonprofit Corporation Law, as provided in Chapter 2 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3397.3
• Corrective order: means an order issued by the department specifying corrective actions which are required. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Corrective order: means an order issued by the commissioner specifying corrective actions which the commissioner has determined are required. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Costs: includes any expense or expenditure directly or indirectly related to the sale of a good or provision of a service or the operation of the person's business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Council: means the Quality Science and Mathematics Council. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:372
• Counterparty exposure amount: means :

              (a) The net amount of credit risk attributable to a derivative instrument executed with a business entity other than through a qualified exchange, qualified foreign exchange, or cleared through a qualified clearinghouse, also referred to as an "over-the-counter derivative instrument". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Coverage area: means the parish, parishes, or other geographical area within the jurisdiction of a local early learning enrollment coordinator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• Covered: means that an insurer owns or can immediately acquire, through the exercise of options, warrants, or conversion rights already owned, the underlying interest in order to fulfill or secure its obligations under a call option, cap, or floor it has written, or has set aside under a custodial or escrow agreement cash or cash equivalents with a market value equal to the amount required to fulfill its obligations under a put option it has written, in an income generation transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Covered person: means a policyholder, subscriber, enrollee, insured, or other individual participating in a health benefit plan. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1019.1
• Creation-science: means the scientific evidences for creation and inferences from those scientific evidences. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.3
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. ^{Source: OCC}
• Creditable service: means "Prior Service" plus "Membership Service" for which credit is allowable as provided in Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Creditable service: means prior service plus subsequent service for which credit is allowable as provided for in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Credited service: means service for which credit is allowable as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• criminal justice agency: means any government agency or subunit thereof, or private agency which, through statutory authorization or a legal formal agreement with a governmental unit or agency has the power of investigation, arrest, detention, prosecution, adjudication, treatment, supervision, rehabilitation, or release of persons suspected, charged, or convicted of a crime; or which collects, stores, processes, transmits, or disseminates criminal history record or crime information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
• criminal justice information system: means all agencies, procedures, mechanisms, media, and forms as well as the information itself which are or become involved in the origination, collection, transmittal, storage, retrieval, and dissemination of information related to offenses or offenders in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
• criminal justice system: means that body of agencies at the federal, state, or local level, which may legally arrest, detain, prosecute, adjudicate, treat, supervise, rehabilitate or release, or collect, store, process, transmit, or disseminate criminal history record or crime information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
• critical workforce: means public safety officials, disaster response personnel, and other such employees of federal, state, and local governmental agencies, or contractors of such agencies and specific private sector employees, possessing important skills and training in emergency mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery as designated by the parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agency or in the absence of such designation by the parish homeland security and emergency preparedness agency, such designation by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Cross examine: Questioning of a witness by the attorney for the other side.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: shall mean any person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging motor vehicles which are subject to license under Chapter 4 of the Subtitle II of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Declared emergency: means an event or condition that constitutes an emergency as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
• Department: means the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
• Department: means the Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3873
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.82
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:203
• Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Depository: means an institution which contracts with the state librarian to participate in the public document depository system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
• Derivative instrument: means an agreement, option, instrument, or a series or combination thereof:

              (i) To make or take delivery of, or assume or relinquish, a specified amount of one or more underlying interests, or to make a cash settlement in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Derivative transaction: means a transaction involving the use of one or more derivative instruments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Designated emergency area: means the specific area, which shall be limited to the actual affected local area or parish or parishes or such areas as designated in an executive order or proclamation of the governor or parish president. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• directly: when used in connection with an obligation, means that the designated obligor is primarily liable on the instrument representing the obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Disaster: means the result of a natural or man-made event which causes loss of life, injury, and property damage, including but not limited to natural disasters such as hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high winds, and other weather related events, forest and marsh fires, and man-made disasters, including but not limited to nuclear power plant incidents, hazardous materials incidents, oil spills, explosion, civil disturbances, public calamity, acts of terrorism, hostile military action, and other events related thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Disaster preparedness or relief organization: means an entity that provides emergency preparedness services or disaster relief services that include health services provided by volunteer health practitioners, and that meets either of the following:

              (a) Is designated or recognized as a provider of those services pursuant to a disaster response and recovery plan adopted by an agency of the federal government or by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782

• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• District: means any city, parish, or other local public school district, the Recovery School District, and the Special School District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
• District indigent defender fund: means the judicial district indigent defender fund as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• District office: means the office of a district public defender as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Dollar roll transaction: means two simultaneous transactions with different settlement dates no more than ninety-six days apart, so that in the transaction with the earlier settlement date, an insurer sells to a business entity, and in the other transaction the insurer is obligated to purchase from the same business entity, substantially similar securities of any of the following types:

              (a) Asset-backed securities issued, assumed, or guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Association, the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or their respective successors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• domestic limited liability company: means an entity that is an unincorporated association having one or more members that is organized and existing under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Driver rehabilitation specialist: means an individual who provides comprehensive services in clinical evaluation of physical functioning, visual/perceptual/cognitive screening, as it pertains to the driving test, and wheelchair/seating assessment, driving assessment, vehicle modification prescription, and driver education; possesses at a minimum an undergraduate degree in a rehabilitation, education, health, safety, physical, occupational, kinesio, or recreational therapy, or related profession or an equivalent of eight years experience in driver rehabilitation/education; and has a minimum of one year of experience in the area of driver evaluation and training for persons with disabilities or possesses current recognition from the Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists (ADED) as a driver rehabilitation specialist. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Dyslexia: means an unexpected difficulty in reading for an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader, most commonly caused by a difficulty in phonological processing, which affects the ability of an individual to speak, read, and spell. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:392.11
• Early learning center: means any child day care center, Early Head Start Center, Head Start Center, or stand-alone prekindergarten program not attached to a school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• Early learning staff: means a person employed as a full-time staff member in a licensed early learning center or a registered family child day care home. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.82
• Early voting: means the period of time prior to any scheduled election when any person who is qualified to vote may vote in person at a place designated by the registrar as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
• Earnable compensation: means the compensation earned by a member during the full normal working time as a teacher. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Earnable compensation: means the full rate of the compensation that would be payable to a participant if he worked the full normal working time during the year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Economic disadvantage: means any one of the following characteristics of a student:

              (a) Is eligible for Louisiana's food assistance program for low-income families. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882

• Educational accountability: means the respective responsibilities and duties, under the provisions of this Part, of local school boards, administrators, principals, teachers, and other personnel; the state Department of Education and its personnel; parents, students, and any other governing authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• Election official: means the parish board of election supervisors; clerks and their employees who perform duties in the election process; registrars of voters and their employees; the secretary of state and employees of his office who perform duties in the election process; and the poll commissioners, including the commissioner-in-charge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
• Election official: means :

  (a)  The parish board of election supervisors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1466

• Electric delivery system: means the poles, lines, materials, equipment, servitudes, and other facilities or properties used by a cooperative. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:430.1
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Eligible group: means any of the following:

              (a) Any entity engaged in the business of providing travel or travel services, including but not limited to:

              (i) Tour operators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352

• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Emergency: means :

              (a) The actual or threatened condition which has been or may be created by a disaster; or

              (b)(i) Any natural or man-made event which results in an interruption in the delivery of utility services to any consumer of such services and which affects the safety, health, or welfare of a Louisiana resident; or

              (ii) Any instance in which a utility's property is damaged and such damage creates a dangerous condition to the public. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723

• Emergency declaration: means a declaration of emergency issued by the governor under the authority of Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Emergency Management Assistance Compact: means the interstate compact approved by the United States Congress by Public Law No. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Emergency preparedness: means the mitigation of, preparation for, response to, and the recovery from emergencies or disasters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Employee: means any person regularly employed in any capacity under the control of the Orleans Parish School Board who is not a teacher or whose legal employment does not require the holding of a teacher's certificate, including employees of the public school lunch department, all skilled and unskilled employees of the maintenance department, managers, custodians, subcustodians, and others who are not temporarily employed, and are paid out of funds under the control of the Orleans Parish School Board, who are not now eligible for membership in any other retirement system created or established by the State of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Employee: means a person employed in any classification of University employees other than a student, and the word "student" includes a graduate assistant, medical intern, and medical resident. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• 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
• En banc: In the bench or "full bench." Refers to court sessions with the entire membership of a court participating rather than the usual quorum. U.S. courts of appeals usually sit in panels of three judges, but may expand to a larger number in certain cases. They are then said to be sitting en banc.
• Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
• Enterprise: means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation or other legal entity, or any unchartered association, or group of individuals associated in fact and includes unlawful as well as lawful enterprises and governmental as well as other entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1352
• Enterprise risk: means any activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving one or more affiliates of an insurer that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect upon the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer or its insurance holding company system as a whole, including but not limited to anything that would cause the insurer's risk-based capital to fall into company action level as set forth in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• 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.
• Entity: means a person other than an individual. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evacuation: means an operation whereby all or part of a particular population is temporarily relocated, whether individually or in an organized manner, from an area in which a disaster or emergency has been declared and is considered dangerous for health or safety of the public. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Evaluation: means the process by which a local board monitors the continuing performance of its teachers and administrators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Evolution-science: means the scientific evidences for evolution and inferences from those scientific evidences. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:286.3
• Excessive: means a rate that is likely to produce a long-term profit that is unreasonably high for the insurance provided. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Executive director: means the executive director of the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• expansion project: means a project or projects for the acquisition, construction, installation, and equipping of additions or improvements to the Ernest N. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.24
• Expenses: means that portion of a rate attributable to acquisition, field supervision, collection expenses, general expenses, taxes, licenses, and fees and does not include loss adjustment expenses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Family child care provider: means an individual who provides child care services for fewer than twenty-four hours per day per child, as the sole caregiver, for six or fewer children, in a private residence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Farmer: means any person who operates a farm or is directly involved in the cultivation of land, crops, or livestock which are owned by that person, or are under the direct control of that person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• FBI rap back system: means a service maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to provide authorized noncriminal and criminal justice agencies ongoing status notifications of any criminal history subsequently reported to the FBI in its criminal history system after the initial criminal or civil transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:576
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal postcard application: means an application for absentee by mail ballot as permitted by 50 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
• Federal reserve: means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means any person, firm, partnership, association, or state bank, including a usufructuary, who or which occupies a position of peculiar confidence toward any person, firm, association, partnership, trust, or estate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• First responders: means the first arriving organized responders with the capability and mission to contain, mitigate, and resolve the emergency at hand, including but not limited to state agency essential workers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Fiscal year: means the period beginning July first of any year and ending June thirtieth of the next succeeding year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Floor: means an agreement obligating the seller to make payments to the buyer in which each payment is based on the amount by which a predetermined number, sometimes called the floor rate or price, exceeds a reference price, level, performance, or value of one or more underlying interests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• food service establishment: has the meaning set forth in Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.24
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Forced evacuation: means an evacuation that may be ordered as a last resort when a disaster or emergency has been declared and danger of loss of life is imminent, and conditions exist that critically imperil or endanger the lives of those in a defined area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation formed under the laws of any state other than this state or under the laws of any foreign country. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Foreign currency: means a currency other than that of a domestic jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Foreign jurisdiction: means a jurisdiction other than a domestic jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Foreign limited liability company: means a limited liability company formed under the laws of any state other than this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Foreign limited partnership: means a limited partnership formed under the laws of any state other than this state or under the laws of any foreign country. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Foreign partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of any state other than this state, or under the laws of any foreign country. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fulfillment materials: means documentation sent to the purchaser of a travel protection plan confirming the purchase and providing the travel protection plan's coverage and assistance details, as applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352
• Full-time employee: means an employee who works the number of hours required by the department or division under applicable university policies for a full-time employee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• funded system: means the funded Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Retirement System as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Future: means an agreement, traded on a qualified exchange or qualified foreign exchange, to make or take delivery of, or effect a cash settlement based on the actual or expected price, level, performance, or value of, one or more underlying interests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• General public benefit: means a material positive impact on society and the environment, taken as a whole, assessed against a third-party standard, from the business and operations of a benefit corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gestational carrier: means a woman who agrees to engage in a process by which she attempts to carry and give birth to a child born as a result of an in utero transfer of a human embryo to which she makes no genetic contribution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing authority: means the governing authority of any public elementary or secondary school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
• governing authority: means the governing authority of the parish of Calcasieu or the cities of Lake Charles or Sulphur. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:134
• Governing authority: means the governing authority of the parish of St. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:351
• Governing authority: means the city council for the city of Central. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:371
• Governing authority of a nutrition program provider: means any authority which has executed an agreement or contract with the state Department of Education to participate in a nutrition program authorized by this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:191
• Governing body: means the board or body in which the bond issuing power of a governmental unit is vested. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5121
• Government sponsored enterprise: means any of the following:

              (a) Governmental agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Group capital calculation instructions: means the group capital calculation instructions as adopted by the NAIC and as amended by the NAIC in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Group travel insurance: means travel insurance issued to any eligible group. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352
• Group-wide supervisor: means the regulatory official authorized to engage in conducting and coordinating group-wide supervision activities who is determined or acknowledged by the commissioner pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• 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.
• Hazardous financial condition: means that, based upon its present or reasonably anticipated financial condition, a captive insurer, although not yet financially impaired or insolvent, is unlikely to be able to:

              (a) Meet obligations to policyholders with respect to known claims and reasonably anticipated claims. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2

• Health care provider: means a clinic, person, corporation, facility, or institution which provides health care or professional services by a physician, dentist, registered or licensed practical nurse, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist, and any officer, employee, or agent thereof acting in the course and scope of his service or employment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Health care provider: means a hospital, as defined in this Subsection, and means a person, corporation, facility, or institution licensed by the state to provide health care or professional services as a physician, hospital, dentist, registered or licensed practical nurse, pharmacist, optometrist, podiatrist, chiropractor, physical therapist, psychologist, social worker, or licensed professional counselor and an officer, employee, or agent thereof acting in the course and scope of his employment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
• Health facility: means an entity licensed under the laws of this or another state to provide health services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Health organization: means a health maintenance organization licensed under Subpart I of Part I of this Chapter, a limited health service organization which bears risk, dental or vision plan which bears risk, hospital, medical and dental indemnity or service corporation which bears risk, provider-sponsored organization which bears risk, or other risk-bearing managed care organization licensed under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Health practitioner: means an individual licensed under the laws of this or another state to provide health services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Health services: means the provision of treatment, care, advice or guidance, or other services, or supplies, related to the health or death of individuals or human populations, to the extent necessary to respond to a declared emergency, including:

              (a) The following, concerning the physical or mental condition or functional status of an individual or affecting the structure or function of the body:

              (i) Preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or palliative care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782

• Hedging transaction: means a derivative transaction which is entered into and maintained to reduce one of the following:

              (a) The risk of a change in the value, yield, price, cash flow, or quantity of assets or liabilities which the insurer has acquired or incurred or anticipates acquiring or incurring. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• HIPPY: means the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.1
• Home state: shall mean the District of Columbia or any state or territory of the United States in which an insurance producer maintains a principal place of residence or principal place of business and is licensed to act as an insurance producer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Homeland: means the state of Louisiana, and where the context requires, means the parishes of the state of Louisiana, "the United States". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Hospital: means any hospital as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
• Host entity: means an entity operating in this state which uses volunteer health practitioners to respond to an emergency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• hotel: as used in this Chapter means and includes any establishment that is engaged in the business of furnishing or providing rooms intended or designed for dwelling, lodging, or sleeping purposes to transient guests and that consists of ten or more guest rooms. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.15
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Improvement: means the acquisition, construction, installation, or maintenance of any corporeal property with an estimated useful life of five years or more that is reasonably related to the enhancement of tourism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• 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.
• In utero embryo transfer: means the medical procedure whereby the genetic mother's egg is fertilized with the sperm of the genetic father, with the resulting embryo transferred into the uterus of the gestational carrier. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• In-home provider: means an individual who provides child care services in the child or children's own home. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Inadequate: means a rate which is unreasonably low for the insurance provided and either the continued use of which endangers the solvency of the insurer using it or will have the effect of substantially lessening competition or creating a monopoly in any market. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Incidental costs: means expenses specified in the warranty incurred by the warranty holder related to the failure of the vehicle protection product to perform as provided in the warranty. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272
• Income: means , as to a security, interest, accrual of discount, dividends, or other distributions, such as rights, tax or assessment credits, warrants and distributions in kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• indigent defender: means an attorney employed by or under contract with the board, the office, or a district public defender to provide legal counsel to an indigent person in a criminal proceeding. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• indigent defender: means an attorney employed by or under contract with the board, the district public defender, or a nonprofit organization contracting with the board or the district public defender to provide representation, including curatorship appointments, to indigent or absent parents in child abuse and neglect cases as required by the provisions of the Children's Code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• indigent defender services: means the providing of legal services to indigent persons in criminal proceedings in which the right to counsel attaches under the United States and Louisiana constitutions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Infectious disease: means a disease caused by a living organism or other pathogen, including a fungus, bacteria, parasite, protozoan, or virus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Infectious waste: means :

              (a) "Biological waste" which includes blood and blood products, excretions, exudates, secretions, suctioning and other body fluids, and waste materials saturated with blood or body fluids. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insolvency: means that the assets of a state bank are insufficient to satisfy its obligations to its creditors and depositors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Insurable interest: as used in this Chapter means any lawful and substantial economic interest in the safety or preservation of the subject of the insurance free from loss, destruction, or pecuniary damage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:853
• Insurance: shall mean any of the lines of authority as specified in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• insurance holding company system: consists of two or more affiliated persons, one or more of which is an insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Intended parents: means a married couple who each exclusively contribute their own gametes to create their embryo and who enter into an enforceable gestational carrier contract, as defined in this Chapter, with a gestational carrier pursuant to which the intended parents will be the legal parents of the child resulting from an in utero embryo transfer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Intercollegiate athlete: means a student enrolled in a postsecondary education institution who participates in an athletic program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3702
• interest: means a member's rights in a limited liability company, collectively, including the member's share of the profits and losses of the limited liability company, the right to receive distributions of the limited liability company's assets, and any right to vote or participate in management. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Internal Revenue Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Internationally active insurance group: means an insurance holding company system that:

              (a) Includes an insurer registered pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2

• Interoperability: means the ability of two or more systems or their components to exchange information and to use the information exchanged. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Investment company: means an investment company as defined in 15 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Investment practices: means transactions of the types described in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Investment subsidiary: means a subsidiary of an insurer engaged or organized to engage exclusively in the ownership and management of assets authorized as investments for the insurer if each subsidiary agrees to limit its investment in any asset so that its investments will not cause the amount of the total investment of the insurer to exceed any of the investment limitations or avoid any other provisions of this Subpart applicable to the insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Isolation: means the physical separation and confinement of an individual or groups of individuals who are infected or are reasonably believed to be infected with a contagious or possibly contagious disease from non-isolated individuals, to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to non-isolated individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Issued shares: means outstanding shares. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Joint underwriting: means an arrangement established to provide insurance coverage for a risk, pursuant to which two or more insurers contract with the insured for a price and policy terms agreed upon between or among the insurers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• Law clerk: Assist judges with research and drafting of opinions.
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means authorization by a state to engage in health services that are unlawful without the authorization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• License: shall mean a document issued by this state's commissioner of insurance authorizing a person to act as an insurance producer for the lines of authority specified in the document. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• License fee: means the privilege, tax, or fee imposed by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• License type: means the type of license applied for or held, which shall include Type I, Type II, and Type III. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• licensed and in good standing: means a current, unrestricted license or other authority issued by the professional licensing authority of another state to provide the health services sought or to be rendered in this state during a declared emergency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Life or health and accident insurer: means any insurance company possessing a certificate of authority in the state that issues the kind of insurance listed in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Limited liability company: means a business organization, excluding partnerships and ordinary business corporations, organized or operating under the laws of the United States or any state thereof that limits the personal liability of investors to the equity investment of the investor in the business entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Limited line credit insurance: includes credit life, as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Limited line credit insurance producer: shall mean an insurance producer who sells, solicits, or negotiates one or more forms of limited line credit insurance coverage to individuals through a master, corporate, group, or individual policy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Limited lines producer: shall mean an insurance producer authorized by the commissioner of insurance to sell, solicit, or negotiate limited lines insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Limited partnership: means a partnership in commendam formed under the laws of this state or a foreign limited partnership as defined in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Line of insurance: means those lines identified in this Title or as otherwise specified by the commissioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• livestock: means any animal bred, kept, maintained, raised, or used for show, profit, or for the purpose of selling or otherwise producing crops, animals, or plant or animal products for market. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2651
• Livestock: means cattle, buffalo, bison, oxen, and other bovine; horses, mules, donkeys, and other equine; sheep; goats; swine; domestic rabbits; fish, turtles, and other animals identified with aquaculture that are located in artificial reservoirs or enclosures that are both on privately owned property and constructed so as to prevent, at all times, the ingress and egress of fish life from public waters; imported exotic deer and antelope, elk, farm-raised white-tailed deer, farm-raised ratites, and other farm-raised exotic animals; chickens, turkeys, and other poultry; and animals placed under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of agriculture and forestry and any hybrid, mixture, or mutation of any such animal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2802
• Local board: means a city or parish school board and, as it relates to educators employed by it, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3873
• Local board: means a city, parish, or other local public school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Local early learning enrollment coordinator: means an approved entity that conducts a process for informing families about publicly funded and Type III licensed early childhood care and education programs in the coverage area; collects family preferences; develops and uses a common application process; annually determines demand for publicly funded early childhood care and education within the coverage area; and makes recommendations to the department for the distribution of available publicly funded early childhood care and education slots for children who are economically disadvantaged as defined by the state board within its coverage area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• Local governmental subdivision: means a parish of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Local superintendent: means the appropriate city or parish school superintendent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3831
• Local system: means the appropriate city or parish school board or system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3831
• Low-performing school: means an academically unacceptable school as determined by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
• Management plan: means a plan adopted or amended pursuant to this Chapter for the development, redevelopment, maintenance, operation, and promotion of a tourism recovery and improvement district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Manager of livestock: means any person other than an owner of livestock having the care and control of livestock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2802
• managers: means a person or persons designated by the members of a limited liability company to manage the limited liability company as provided in its articles of organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Mandatory evacuation: means an evacuation that may be ordered when a disaster or emergency has been declared and danger is imminent, conditions exist that seriously imperil or endanger the lives of those in a defined area, and government officials strongly urge and order all persons in designated evacuation areas to relocate to safer locations for their own safety. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Mandatory-control level risk-based capital: means seven-tenths of a company's authorized control level risk-based capital. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Mandatory-control level risk-based capital: means the product of seventy hundredths and the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the risk-based capital instructions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Manufacturer: means any person regularly engaged in the business of manufacturing or assembling new motor vehicles, either within or without this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Market: means the interaction between buyers and sellers in the procurement of a line of insurance pursuant to the provisions of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Market value: means :

              (a) As to cash and letters of credit, the amounts thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Material relationship: means the relationship between a person and a benefit corporation or any of its subsidiaries if any of the following apply:

  (a)  The person is, or has been within the last three years, an employee, other than a benefit officer, of the benefit corporation, or an affiliate of the benefit corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Medical board: means the board of physicians provided for in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Member: means a person with a membership interest in a limited liability company with the rights and obligations specified under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Member: means an actual member of an association without capital stock and the holder of common stock in an association organized with capital stock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:443
• 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
• Member: means any employee included in the membership of the funded system as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Member organization: means any corporation, partnership, association or other form of business organization that belongs to an association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Mental health support personnel: includes but is not limited to psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and volunteer crisis counseling groups. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Mentor: means any teacher qualified and selected pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
• Minimum vote: means :

  (a)  In the case of a business corporation, the approval by holders of two-thirds of the shares present and voting of each class or series and any other approval or vote required under the Business Corporation Law or the articles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Motor vehicle: means and includes automobiles, trucks, truck-tractors, trailers, semitrailers, and motorcycles, propelled by steam, gasoline, electricity, or any other source of energy other than muscular power, except electric-assisted bicycles, farm implements temporarily operated or moved on a highway or vehicles operated only on rails or tracks constructed therefor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor and an electric-assisted bicycle or a motorized bicycle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Motorized bicycle: means a pedal bicycle which may be propelled by human power or helper motor, or by both, with a motor rated no more than one and one-half horsepower, a cylinder capacity not exceeding fifty cubic centimeters, an automatic transmission, and which produces a maximum design speed of no more than twenty-five miles per hour on a flat surface, but excluding an electric-assisted bicycle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• NAIC: shall mean the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or its successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• NAIC liquidity stress test framework: means the separate NAIC publication which includes a history of the NAIC's development of regulatory liquidity stress testing, the scope criteria applicable for a specific data year, and the liquidity stress test instructions and reporting templates for a specific data year, such scope criteria, instructions, and reporting template being as adopted by the NAIC and amended by the NAIC in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Negotiate: shall mean to confer directly with or to offer advice directly to a purchaser, certificate holder, or enrollee, or prospective purchaser, certificate holder, or enrollee, of a particular contract of insurance, including certificates, riders, endorsements, or amendments, concerning any of the benefits, terms, or conditions of the contract if the person engaged in that act is an insurance producer who either sells insurance or obtains insurance from insurers for purchasers, certificate holders, or enrollees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• network: means an entity, including a health insurance issuer, that, through contracts or agreements with health care providers, provides or arranges for access by groups of covered persons to health care services by health care providers who are not otherwise or individually contracted directly with a health insurance issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1019.1
• New entity: means the entity into which constituent entities consolidate, as identified in the agreement or certificate of consolidation provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• New teacher: means any full time employee of a city or parish school board who is engaged to and does directly provide instruction to students, who holds a valid regular Louisiana teaching certificate, and who is engaged in his first year of teaching. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
• 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.
• Nonpayment of premium: means failure of the named insured to discharge when due any of his obligations in connection with the payment of premiums on a policy, or any installment of such premium, whether the premium is payable directly to the insurer or its agent or indirectly under any premium finance plan or extension of credit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1266
• Normal service retirement age: means age sixty. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Nutrition program: means a program under which meals or snacks are served by any governing authority of a nutrition program provider in this state on a nonprofit basis to individuals in attendance, including any such program under which a nutrition program provider receives assistance out of the funds appropriated by the Congress of the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:191
• Obligation: means a bond, note, debenture, trust certificate including an equipment certificate, production payment, negotiable bank certificate of deposit, bankers' acceptance, and other evidence of indebtedness for the payment of money, or participations, certificates, or other evidences of an interest in any of the foregoing, whether constituting a general obligation of the issuer or payable only out of certain revenues or certain funds pledged or otherwise dedicated for payment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Office: means the office of the state public defender authorized to:

              (a) Regulate and fund public defender services and provide financial support to other service programs that provide services to persons adjudicated in the criminal justice system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143

• Office: means the office of the state public defender as created by Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Office: means the office of state fire marshal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Operating agreement: means any agreement, written or oral, of the members as to, or in the case of a limited liability company having a single member, any written agreement between the member and the company memorializing the affairs of a limited liability company and the conduct of its business. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Option: means an agreement giving the buyer the right to buy or receive, known as a "call option" sell or deliver, known as a "put option" enter into, extend or terminate or effect a cash settlement based on the actual or expected price, level, performance, or value of one or more underlying interests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner of livestock: means any person owning livestock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2802
• Parent: means a corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association or other form of business organization that directly or indirectly owns, controls or holds with power to vote more than fifty-one percent of the outstanding voting securities of a captive insurer organized as a stock corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Parish president: means the president of any parish, mayor-president, mayor of New Orleans (Orleans Parish), or police jury president. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Participant: means any employee who is entitled to the beneficial provisions of this retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of this state or a foreign partnership as defined in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Patient: means a natural person who receives health care from a licensed health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
• Pattern of racketeering activity: means engaging in at least two incidents of racketeering activity that have the same or similar intents, results, principals, victims, or methods of commission or otherwise are interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents, provided at least one of such incidents occurs after August 21, 1992, and that the last of such incidents occurs within five years after a prior incident of racketeering activity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1352
• Pension: means annual payments for life, payable in equal monthly installments, derived from money provided by the Orleans Parish School Board and other amounts accumulated in the pension accumulation account as provided for in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Pension reserve: means the present value of all payments to be made on account of any pension or benefit in lieu of any pension computed upon the basis of mortality tables adopted by the board of trustees, plus regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Pensions: means payments for life. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Performance expectations: means the elements of effective leadership approved by the board that shall be included as evaluation criteria for all building-level administrators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Person: shall mean any individual, firm, corporation, partnership or association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Person: means an individual, public entity, firm, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, association, or any other business entity or juridical person, whether operating on a for-profit or nonprofit basis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Person: as used in this Chapter shall have the same definition as that contained in Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.15
• Person: means both plural and singular, as the case demands, and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, companies, societies, and associations

              (14)(a) Except as provided in Subparagraph (b) of this Paragraph, "petroleum product" means any refined hydrocarbon mixture including motor oil, kerosene, gasoline, gasohol, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, heating kerosene, and any blend of two or more refined hydrocarbon mixtures except liquefied petroleum gas and natural gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602

• Person: means a natural person, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, domestic or foreign limited liability company, joint venture, trust including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust, or any other form of trust, estate, or association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Person: includes individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:443
• Person: means any individual, company, insurer, association, organization, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchange, partnership, business, trust, limited liability company, or corporation which provides property residual value insurance in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
• Person: means an individual, a business entity, a multilateral development bank, or a government or quasi-governmental body, such as a political subdivision or a government-sponsored enterprise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, an association, a joint stock company, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any similar entity or any combination of the foregoing acting in concert, but shall not include any joint venture partnership exclusively engaged in owning, managing, leasing, or developing immovable or corporeal movable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Person: shall mean any natural or artificial legal entity including but not limited to individuals, partnerships, associations, trusts, or corporations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Petit jury: A group of citizens who hear the evidence presented by both sides at trial and determine the facts in dispute. Federal criminal juries consist of 12 persons. Federal civil juries consist of six persons.
• petroleum product: shall include compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas as those terms are defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4602
• Phonological processing: means the appreciation of the individual sounds of spoken and written language. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:392.11
• PIPS: means units by which the effort and quality of improvement activities are measured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan: means an uncompleted professional improvement program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• 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.
• Policy: means an automobile liability, automobile physical damage, or automobile collision policy, or any combination thereof, delivered or issued for delivery in this state, or any binder based on such a policy, insuring a single individual or husband and wife resident of the same household, as named insured, and under which the insured vehicles therein designated are of the following types only:

              (a) A private passenger vehicle that is not used as a public or livery conveyance for passengers, nor rented to others. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1266

• Political subdivision: means a parish, municipality, and any other unit of local government, including a school board and a special district, authorized by law to perform governmental functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:581
• Postsecondary education institution: means a Louisiana public postsecondary education institution or nonpublic postsecondary institution that receives or disburses any form of state student financial assistance, including scholarships and grants. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3702
• Potential exposure: means the amount determined in accordance with the NAIC Annual Statement Instructions, as amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Power cycle: means every motor vehicle propelled by an engine developing not more than five brake horse power, designed to travel on not more than three wheels, at a speed under thirty-five miles per hour, and equipped with brakes adequate to stop such vehicle upon a reasonably clean, dry, level surface within forty-five feet from the spot where the brakes were first applied when the vehicle is travelling at twenty miles per hour. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• 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}
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Prior service: means service rendered by an employee prior to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system for which credit is allowable as provided in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• producer: shall mean a person required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance, and includes all persons or business entities otherwise referred to in this Code as "insurance agent" or "agent" or "insurance broker" or "broker" or "insurance solicitor" or "solicitor" or "surplus lines broker". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Program: means the Professional Growth Program created in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
• Program: means a program limited to providing incentive pay to teachers for not using sick leave days. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3831
• Program: means a completed five-year professional improvement program, or refers to the subject of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• program: means the activities directed toward the accomplishment of providing indigent defender services under the Louisiana Public Defender Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• program: means the Indigent Parents' Representation Program required by the Louisiana Children's Code and administered in accordance with the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Program: means the Quality Science and Mathematics Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:372
• projects: means one or more of any combination of convention, exhibition, and tourist facilities, including a convention center hotel with a multi-story parking garage and bridge connecting the hotel and the south end of the convention center, the "Convention Center Headquarters Hotel Project" and the necessary land, acquired by lease or purchase, site improvements, infrastructure, furnishings, machinery, equipment, and appurtenances for any such facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4710.11
• property: means immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:1
• property: means immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property, and any electric light, gas or waterworks plants. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:101
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property, where there are no buildings or structures for support or shelter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:121
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes and other rights in or to immovable property, and the term "governing authority" means the governing authority of the parish of East Baton Rouge and the city of Baton Rouge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:131
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property, where there are no buildings or structures for support or shelter; the term "governing authority" means the governing authority of the city of Alexandria or the governing authority of the city of New Orleans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:132
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights of way, and other rights in or to immovable property; the term "governing authority" means the governing authority of the town of Colfax; and the term "project" means the Aloha-Rigolette Area Louisiana Project. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:133
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property, where there are no buildings or structures for support or shelter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:134
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights of way, and other rights in or to immovable property; the term "governing authority" means the governing authority of the city of Pineville; and the term "project" means the Susek Drive Project. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:138
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property; the term "governing authority" means the city of Lafayette and parish of Lafayette; and the term "project" means the Kaliste Saloom Road Widening Project or the construction, repair, or enhancement of drainage, roads, or bridges. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:139
• property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property; the term "governing authority" means the city of Youngsville; and the term "project" means the Chemin Metairie Phase II Project. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:139.11
• property: means any portion of immovable property including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property, but shall not include any property, utility plant, or facilities owned by any private waterworks or sewerage system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:251
• property: means any portion of immovable property including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property, but shall not include any property, utility plant, or facilities owned by any private waterworks or sewerage system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:271
• property: means any portion of immovable property including servitudes, rights of way, and other rights in or to immovable property, but shall not include any property, utility plant, or facilities owned by any private waterworks or sewerage system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:291
• property: means any portion of immovable property including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:311
• Property: means any portion of immovable property, including servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:351
• Property: means any portion of immovable property, including corporeal property, servitudes, rights-of-way, and other rights in or to immovable property located within the corporate limits of the city of Central. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 19:371
• Property: means all classes of movable or immovable property recognized under the laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
• Property and casualty insurer: means any insurance company possessing a certificate of authority in the state that issues insurance other than the kinds specified in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Property residual value insurer: means any person or organization, whether domestic, foreign, or alien, issuing or attempting to issue property residual value policies as defined herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protected health information: includes any health or medical information, document, or record designated as confidential by state or federal law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public document: means informational matter, for public distribution regardless of format, method of reproduction, source, or copyright, originating in or produced with the imprint of, by the authority of, or at the total or partial expense of, any state agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
• Public health authority: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, or his designee, and the state health officer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• public health emergency: means an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition that:

              (a) Is believed to be caused by any of the following:

              (i) Bioterrorism. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762

• Public highway: means a public way for vehicular traffic, including the entire area dedicated thereto and the bridges, culverts, structures, appurtenances and features necessary to or associated with its purpose, and refers to those highways designated in Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2802
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public school: means any public elementary, middle, junior high, or high school in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Public school: means any school conducted within the state under the authority and supervision of a city, parish, or other local school board and any educational institution supported by and under the control of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Public schools: means the public elementary and secondary schools governed by the parish and city school boards. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• Pupil progression plan: means the comprehensive plan developed and adopted by each city and parish school board which shall be based on student performance in the state testing program with goals and objectives which are compatible with the Louisiana competency-based education program contained within Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• Pure captive insurer: means a captive insurer that insures only the risks of its parent and affiliated companies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:550.2
• Qualified business entity: means a business entity that is one of the following:

              (a) An issuer of obligations or preferred stock that are rated one or two by the SVO or an issuer of obligations, preferred stock or derivative instruments that are rated the equivalent of one or two by the SVO, or by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization recognized by the SVO. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Qualified exchange: means any of the following:

              (a) A securities exchange registered as a national securities exchange or a securities market regulated under Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Qualified foreign exchange: means a foreign exchange, board of trade, or contract market located outside the United States, its territories, or possessions meeting all of the following criteria:

              (a) That has received regulatory comparability relief under Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rule 30. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Quarantine: means the physical separation and confinement of an individual or groups of individuals, who are or may have been exposed to a contagious or possibly contagious disease and who do not show signs or symptoms of a contagious disease, from non-quarantined individuals, to prevent or limit the transmission of the disease to non-quarantined individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• racketeering activity: means committing, attempting to commit, conspiring to commit, or soliciting, coercing, or intimidating another person to commit any crime that is punishable under the following provisions of Title 14 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law, or the Louisiana Securities Law:

              (1) Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1352

• Rate: means that cost of insurance per exposure unit, whether expressed as a single number or as a prospective loss cost, with an adjustment to account for the treatment of loss adjustment expenses, expenses, profit, and variation in expected future loss experience, prior to any application of individual risk variations based on actual past loss or expense considerations, and does not include minimum premiums. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Real estate: means :

              (a) Any of the following:

              (i) Immovable property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1

• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Registrar: means the registrar of voters of each parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302
• Regular compensation: means the total cash compensation for personal services paid to an employee by the university, except compensation of an unusual or noncontinuing nature excluded by the board of supervisors as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Regular contributions: means the contributions deducted from the compensation of a participant subsequent to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system as required by this Part and placed to the credit of the participant in the annuity savings account. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Regular employee: means :

  (a)  An employee whose appointment is for a period of more than one hundred eighty calendar days, or

  (b)  One who has been employed for more than one hundred eighty consecutive calendar days by successive uninterrupted appointments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1

• Regular interest: means interest compounded annually at such rate as shall be determined by the board of trustees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Regular interest: means interest compounded annually at such rate or rates as shall be determined by the board of supervisors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Regulatory-action level risk-based capital: means one hundred fifty percent of a company's authorized control level risk-based capital. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Regulatory-action level risk-based capital: means the product of one and one half and the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the risk-based capital instructions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• related: means the child, grandchild, niece, or nephew of the primary child care provider of a family child care provider or in-home provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• relative: means a natural or adopted child or grandchild of the caregiver or a child in the legal custody of the caregiver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.33
• 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.
• Remedial program: means a program to assist students to overcome educational deficits identified as a result of the state's testing program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• 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).
• Representative: means the spouse, parent, tutor, curator, trustee, attorney or other legal agent of the patient. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:3734
• Repurchase transaction: means a transaction in which an insurer sells securities to a business entity and is obligated to repurchase the sold securities or equivalent securities from the business entity at a specified price, either within a specified period or upon demand. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Residual market mechanism: means an arrangement, either voluntary or mandated by law, involving participation by insurers in the equitable apportionment of risks among insurers for insurance which may be afforded applicants who are unable to obtain insurance through ordinary methods. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Residual value: shall mean the value of property at a specific future time, which value is determined by agreement at the time the contract of lease or sale is entered into. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:381
• Retained earnings: means the accumulated net income of the mutual state bank since its organization less all distributions to its members. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance allowable under the provisions of this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Retirement allowance: means the sum of the annuity and the pensions or any optional benefit payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Retirement allowance: means the sum of the annuity and the pension, or any other benefits payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Retirement allowance: means annual payments for life under the funded system payable in equal monthly installments beginning as of the date fixed by the board of supervisors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Retirement system: means the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Retirement system: means the corporation known as the Orleans Parish School Employees' Retirement System established in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Reverse repurchase transaction: means a transaction in which an insurer purchases securities from a business entity that is obligated to repurchase the purchased securities or equivalent securities from the insurer at a specified price, either within a specified period or upon demand. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Revocation: means that the driver's license to drive a motor vehicle on the highways is terminated and shall not be renewed, except that an application for a new license may be presented and acted upon by the department after the expiration of at least one year after revocation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Right of offset: Banks' legal right to seize funds that a guarantor or debtor may have on deposit to cover a loan in default. It is also known as the right of set-off. ^{Source: OCC}
• Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). ^{Source: OCC}
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Risk is imminent: means that the available facts, when viewed in light of surrounding circumstances, would cause a reasonable person to believe that the event stated in the threat is about to happen. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
• Risk-based capital instructions: means the risk-based capital report including risk-based capital instructions adopted by the NAIC, as such risk-based capital instructions may be amended by the NAIC from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Risk-based capital instructions: means the risk-based capital report including risk-based capital instructions adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, as these risk-based capital instructions may be amended by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Risk-based capital level: means an action level risk-based capital, regulatory action level risk-based capital, authorized control level risk-based capital, or mandatory control level risk-based capital of an insurer where:

  (a)  "Authorized-control level risk-based capital" means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the risk-based capital instructions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611

• Risk-based capital plan: means a comprehensive financial plan containing the requirements of Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Risk-based capital plan: means a comprehensive financial plan containing the elements specified in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• Risk-based capital report: means the report required pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611
• Risk-based capital report: means the report required in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631
• roll cage: shall mean supports that will bear the vehicle's weight and are so designed as to protect the occupants when the vehicle is resting on the supports. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Salvage title: shall mean a certificate used to evidence the declaration in an insurance settlement that a motor vehicle is a "total loss" motor vehicle as provided in this Chapter, to be prescribed and distributed by the office of motor vehicles, to an insurance company, its authorized agent, or the owner of a "total loss" motor vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• School board: means a parish or city school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• School district: means the area of each parish or municipality under the jurisdiction of a school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• School personnel: means the teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and other professional personnel of the public schools of the state including members of the professional staff of the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:391.2
• Scope of practice: means the extent of the authorization to provide health services granted to a health practitioner by a license issued to the practitioner in the state in which the principal part of the practitioner's services are rendered, including any conditions imposed by the licensing authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Sea food products: include shrimp, clams, fish, crabs, lobsters, and all other sea foods, as well as all by-products of sea foods. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:443
• Secure registration card: means a secure form of identification which meets the following criteria:

              (a) Is built on nationally recognized standards-based security features and enrollment vetting and issuance processes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782

• Securities lending transaction: means a transaction in which securities are loaned by an insurer to a business entity that is obligated to return the loaned securities or equivalent securities to the insurer, either within a specified period or upon demand. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• self-generated revenue: means all revenue received by a judicial district including revenue received as a result of grants or donations or other forms of assistance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• self-generated revenue: means all revenue received by a judicial district except revenue received as a result of grants, donations, or other forms of assistance when the terms and conditions thereof or of agreements pertaining thereto require otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:185.2
• Sell: shall mean to exchange a contract of insurance by any means, for money or its equivalent, on behalf of an insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Service: means service as a teacher within the meaning of Paragraph (33) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Service: means service rendered by an employee as herein defined. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Shares: means the units into which the stockholders' rights to participate in the control of the state bank, in its profits, or in the distribution of corporate assets are divided. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Skins and furs: include all the skins and furs of all quadrupeds valuable for their skins or furs, including but not limited to alligators, minks, otter, muskrats, beaver, raccoons, opossums, weasels, spotted skunks, or "civet cats". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:443
• Social Security breakpoint: means the maximum level at which compensation may be included in the determination of the primary insurance amount under Title II of the Federal Social Security Act, provided that for purposes of the funded system seven thousand eight hundred dollars shall be deemed to have been the Social Security breakpoint for all years prior to 1968. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Solicit: shall mean to attempt to sell insurance or to ask or urge a person to apply for a particular kind of insurance from a particular insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Special Schools: includes all Louisiana special schools and all schools or educational programs in Special School Programs operated by the Special School District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:43
• Specific public benefit: means any of the following:

  (a)  Serving low-income or underserved individuals or communities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Specimens: include but are not limited to blood, sputum, urine, stool, other bodily fluids, wastes, tissues, and cultures necessary to perform required tests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Sponsoring organization: means a public or nonprofit private organization that is recognized by the department and that is entirely responsible for the administration of the Child and Adult Care Food Program for a provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.62
• Spouse: shall mean a person who is legally married to a member of this system and shall not include a person who is legally separated from a member of this system by a judgment of separation, unless such person has voluntarily reconciled with the member and which reconciliation is established by a court of competent jurisdiction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• State agency: means an office, department, board, bureau, commission, council, institution, college or university, division, officer, or other person or group within the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of state government that is authorized to exercise or that exercises any of the functions of the government of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 25:121.1
• State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:396
• State board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:407.91
• State licensing authority: means a professional licensing board, agency, or commission with authority to license health practitioners in this state to provide the health services proposed to be provided by a volunteer health practitioner in response to a declared emergency, and which shall have administrative disciplinary jurisdictional authority over volunteer health practitioners with respect to their offering or provision of such health services in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• State public defender: means the person appointed by the governor, subject to approval of a majority of the board and Senate confirmation, to administer the statewide public defender system for the delivery of public defender services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:143
• Statewide communications interoperability plan for first responders: means a statewide shared communications system for first responders with the ability to transport and receive voice, data, image, and video information adopted by the interoperability subcommittee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Stockholder: means the holder of record of one or more shares. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Student: means any person registered or enrolled at a school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
• student: includes a graduate assistant, medical intern, and medical resident. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Subsequent service: means service rendered by an employee subsequent to the effective date of the establishment of this retirement system and while a participant in this retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:951.1
• Subsidiary: means , in relation to a person, an entity in which the person owns beneficially or of record fifty percent or more of the outstanding equity  interests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplementary rate information: means any manual or plan of rates, classification, rating schedule, minimum premium, policy fee, rating rule, and any other similar information needed to determine an applicable rate in effect or to be in effect. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Supporting information: means the experience and judgment of the filer and the experience or data of other insurers or organizations relied upon by the filer, the interpretation of any statistical data relied upon by the filer, descriptions of methods used in making the rates, and other similar information relied upon by the filer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Surcharge: means any charge to the consumer that is required to be paid for goods and services that is passed through to the consumer as a charge on the customer's receipt or guest folio. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Surplus: means sums contributed by stockholders in excess of the par value of shares outstanding plus any amounts transferred from undivided profits pursuant to action by the board of directors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Surplus lines broker: shall mean an insurance producer who solicits, negotiates, or procures a policy with a surplus lines insurer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Surviving entity: means the constituent entity surviving a merger, as identified in the agreement or certificate of merger provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1301
• Suspension: means that the driver's license to drive a motor vehicle on the highways is temporarily withdrawn during the period of such suspension. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• SVO: means the Securities Valuation Office of the NAIC or any successor office established by the NAIC. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• System: means any or the appropriate city or parish school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3772
• system: means and refers to the programs and institutions under the jurisdiction of the respective management boards for postsecondary education created by or under authority of the Constitution of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3202
• Teacher: means any public school classroom teacher, librarian, school counselor, secondary vocational instructor, principal, assistant principal, or other personnel for whom a valid Louisiana teaching certificate is required for employment; any teacher in an institution which offers thirteenth and fourteenth grade instruction; any speech therapist who possesses a valid Louisiana ancillary certificate issued by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education; and any instructor seeking to continue in the program who has been transferred from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections to vocational-technical schools under the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Teacher: means any employee of a parish or city school board who holds a teacher's certificate and whose legal employment requires such teacher's certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:372
• Teaching certificate: means a certificate issued by the department to school personnel pursuant to the requirements fixed by the department or by law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• teaching staff: shall include any social worker, school counselor, school nurse, audiologist, educational diagnostician, speech-language pathologist, or school psychologist employed by a special school who holds the appropriate valid professional ancillary certificate issued by the state Department of Education and who has served in the Special School District for the number of years required for probationary teachers to attain tenure. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:46
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Terminate: shall mean to cancel the relationship between an insurance producer and the insurer or the termination of a producer's authority to transact insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tests: include but are not limited to any diagnostic or investigative analyses necessary to prevent the spread of disease or protect the public's health, safety, and welfare. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:762
• Third-party standard: means a recognized standard for defining, reporting, and assessing the performance of corporations in producing general public benefit and specific public benefits which is all of the following:

  (a)  Comprehensive in that it assesses the effect of the corporation and its operations in producing general public benefit and any specific public benefit specified in the articles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1803

• Threat is credible: means that the available facts, when viewed in light of surrounding circumstances, would cause a reasonable person to believe that the person communicating the threat actually intends to carry out the threat. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
• Threat of terrorism: means communication, whether oral, visual, or written, including but not limited to electronic mail, letters, notes, social media posts, text messages, blogs, or posts on any social networking website, of any crime of violence that would reasonably cause any student, teacher, principal, or school employee to be in sustained fear for his safety, cause the evacuation of a building, or cause other serious disruption to the operation of a school. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
• Threat of violence: means communication, whether oral, visual, or written, including but not limited to electronic mail, letters, notes, social media posts, text messages, blogs, or posts on any social networking website, of any intent to kill, maim, or cause great bodily harm to a student, teacher, principal, or school employee on school property or at any school function. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:409.2
• to renew: means the issuance and delivery by an insurer of a policy replacing at the end of the policy period a policy previously issued and delivered by the same insurer, or the issuance and delivery of a certificate or notice extending the term of a policy beyond its policy period or term. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1266
• 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.
• Total adjusted capital: means the sum of:

  (a)  An insurer's statutory capital and surplus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:611

• Total adjusted capital: means the sum of the following:

  (a)  A health organization's statutory capital and surplus as determined in accordance with the statutory accounting applicable to the annual financial statements required to be filed under Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:631

• Total loss: means a motor vehicle which has sustained damages equivalent to seventy-five percent or more of the market value as determined by the most current National Automobile Dealers Association Handbook. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Total voting power: means the entirety of the voting power. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Tourist commission: means a political subdivision created pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Tourist commissioners: means the members of the governing body of a tourist commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:4600.3
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transportation of passengers for hire or fee: means the movement of passengers by motor vehicle for direct monetary payment to a taxicab, limousine service, livery, and/or any common carrier of passengers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
• Travel administrator: means a person who directly or indirectly underwrites, collects charges, collateral, or premiums from, or adjusts or settles claims on residents of this state in connection with travel insurance except that a person shall not be considered a travel administrator if the only circumstance that would otherwise cause him to be considered a travel administrator is one of the following:

              (a) A person working for a travel administrator to the extent that his activities are subject to the supervision and control of the travel administrator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352

• Travel assistance services: means non-insurance services that may be distributed by limited lines travel insurance producers or other entities and for which there is no indemnification for the travel protection plan customer based on a fortuitous event, nor any transfer or shifting of risk that would constitute the business of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352
• Travel insurance: shall mean that line of insurance defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Travel protection plan: means a plan that provides any of the following:

              (a) Travel insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1352

• 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
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• UCG: means the group which is established by executive order of the governor to bring senior officials within the governor's office and cabinet secretaries or their designees together with a common objective of effectively managing an incident and ensuring that regardless of the number of agencies or jurisdictions involved, all decisions will be based upon mutually agreed upon objectives with the governor as the unified commander. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:723
• under common control with: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with or corporate office held by the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Underlying interest: means the assets, liabilities, other interests, or a combination thereof underlying a derivative instrument, such as any one or more securities, currencies, rates, indices, commodities, or derivative instruments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:601.1
• Undivided profits: means paid-in or accumulated net income less distributions to stockholders and transfers to capital stock or surplus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Unfairly discriminatory: means not capable of being actuarially justified or based on race, color, creed, or national origin. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1452
• Uniform application: shall mean the current version of the NAIC Uniform Application for resident and nonresident producer licensing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• Uniform Business Entity Application: shall mean the current version of the NAIC Uniform Business Entity Application for resident and nonresident business entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:1542
• United States Service: means the following persons, and their spouses and dependents:

              (a) A member of the armed forces while in active service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1302

• University: means all campuses and divisions of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• University Retirement Plan: means the nonfunded University Retirement Plan established pursuant to regulations of the board of supervisors as in effect on the effective date of this funded system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:952.1
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• User: shall mean any person who acquires a vehicle for purposes other than resale and is required to register same under the provisions of the Louisiana Vehicle Registration License Tax Law, Chapter 4 of Subtitle II of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Vehicle: shall include those devices sometimes referred to as mobile homes as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Vehicle: means any vehicle that is required to be titled pursuant to the Vehicle Certificate of Title Law (Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
• Vehicle mechanical breakdown insurance policy: means any contract, agreement, or instrument whereby a person other than the owner, seller, or lessor of a vehicle assumes the risk of or the expense or portion thereof for the mechanical breakdown or mechanical failure of a motor vehicle and may include other customer assistance and convenience services, such as vehicle rental assistance, towing assistance, trip interruption, and roadside assistance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:361
• Vehicle protection product: means a vehicle protection device, system, or service that is:

  (i)  Installed on or applied to a vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272

• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Voir dire: The process by which judges and lawyers select a petit jury from among those eligible to serve, by questioning them to determine knowledge of the facts of the case and a willingness to decide the case only on the evidence presented in court. "Voir dire" is a phrase meaning "to speak the truth."
• Volunteer health practitioner: means a health practitioner who provides health services in this state for a host entity, whether or not the practitioner receives compensation for those services so long as the person who receives the health services does not pay and is not asked to pay directly or indirectly for the health services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:782
• Voting power: means the right vested by law or by the articles or the bylaws in the stockholder or in one or more classes of stockholder to vote in the determination of any particular question or matter coming before meetings of the stockholders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Voting power present: means that part of the voting power exercisable by the stockholders present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting at which the stockholders take action on a particular question or matter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:201
• Voting security: shall include any security convertible into or evidencing a right to acquire a voting security. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:691.2
• Waiver: means a waiver granted pursuant to and in accordance with this Chapter which exempts the recipient district from any provision of this Title or from any rule, regulation, or policy of the board that is applicable to public schools and to public school officers and employees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:4041
• warrantor: means a person who is contractually obligated to the warranty holder under the terms of the vehicle protection product warranty agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272
• warranty: means a written agreement by a warrantor that provides if the vehicle protection product fails to prevent loss or damage to a vehicle from a specific cause, that the warrantor will pay to or on behalf of the warranty holder specified incidental costs as a result of the failure of the vehicle protection product to perform pursuant to the terms of the warranty. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272
• Warranty holder: means a person who purchases a vehicle protection product or who is a permitted transferee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272
• Warranty reimbursement insurance policy: means a policy of insurance that is issued to the vehicle protection product warrantor to provide reimbursement to the warrantor or to pay on behalf of the warrantor all covered contractual obligations incurred by the warrantor under the terms and conditions of the insured vehicle protection product warranties issued by the warrantor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:1272
• Water-damaged vehicle: means any vehicle whose power train, computer, or electrical system has been damaged by flooding and that is a "total loss" as defined in this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:702
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.