Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 45 > Chapter 4 > Part C - Transportation Network Company Motor Vehicle Responsibility

• Bodily injury: means claims for general and special damages for personal injury arising under Civil Code Article 2315. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Car pool: means a mode of transportation provided in any motor vehicle that is a private passenger automobile or station wagon, which has a seating capacity of not more than nine persons, including the driver, and in which the transportation is incidental to the purpose of the driver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Commission: means the Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Digital network: means any online-enabled application, software, website or system offered or utilized by a transportation network company that enables the prearrangement of rides with transportation network company drivers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• driver: means a person who receives connections to potential passengers and related services from a transportation network company in exchange for payment of a fee to the transportation network company, and who uses a personal vehicle to offer or provide a prearranged ride to persons upon connection through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company in return for compensation or payment of a fee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Personal vehicle: means a vehicle that is used by a transportation network company driver and is owned, leased, or otherwise authorized for use by the transportation network company driver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Pre-trip acceptance period: means any period of time during which a driver is logged on to the transportation network company's digital network and is available to receive transportation requests but is not engaged in a prearranged ride as defined in Paragraph (4) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Prearranged ride: means the provision of transportation by a driver to a rider that commences when a driver accepts a ride requested by a person through a digital network controlled by a transportation network company, continues during the driver transporting a requesting rider, and ends when the last requesting rider departs from the personal vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• rider: means a person who uses a transportation network company's digital network to connect with a transportation network driver who provides prearranged rides to the rider in the driver's personal vehicle between points chosen by the rider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Transportation network company: means a person, whether natural or juridical, that uses a digital network to connect transportation network company riders to transportation network company drivers who provide prearranged rides, or a person, whether natural or juridical, that provides a technology platform to a transportation network company rider that enables the transportation network company rider to schedule a prearranged ride. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:201.4
• Van pool: means a mode of transportation provided in any motor vehicle that is a passenger van, that has a seating capacity of not less than seven nor more than fifteen persons, including the driver, and in which the transportation is incidental to the purpose of the driver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Vehicle: means every device by which any person or property is transported upon the highways of this state, except devices moved by animal power or exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162