Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 11 > Subtitle IV > Chapter 1 - City Employees

• Accumulated contributions: means the sum of all amounts deducted from a member's compensation and credited to his individual account in the annuity savings fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Accumulated Contributions: shall mean the sum of all the amounts deducted from the compensation of a member and credited to his individual account in the Annuity Savings Account, together with regular interest thereon as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Actuarial Equivalent: shall mean a benefit of equal value to the accumulated contributions, annuity or benefit as the case may be, when computed upon the basis of such mortality tables as shall be adopted by the Board of Trustees and regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Administrative rules and regulations: means rules and regulations that are applicable to a particular marketing order which is issued and made effective by the commissioner pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Adopter: means a person who is legally competent to enter into a contract and who is adopting or buying a dog or cat from a releasing agency. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2471
• Adult animal: means any dog or cat that has reached the age of one hundred eighty days or six months or more. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2471
• Agency: shall mean any governing body employing persons in the Service of the City of Alexandria. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Agreement: means the document of participation between a participating employer and the board, that sets forth the requirements and procedures for covering the employees of such participating employer under this system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Animal dealer: means a person who receives payment for the transportation or delivery for transportation of any living or dead animal or who buys, sells, or negotiates the purchase or sale of any living or dead animal for research, teaching, exhibition, or biological supply. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462
• Animal shelter: means any building, structure, site, enclosure, or other facility used or operated for the housing or keeping of any stray, homeless, abandoned, or unwanted animals including any facility designated by the parish governing authority for the keeping or housing of any impounded animals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462
• Annuity reserve fund: means the fund in which shall be held the reserves for liabilities of retirees and beneficiaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Annuity savings fund: means the fund to which all accumulated contributions of members are credited. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• articles of incorporation: as used in this Chapter shall be deemed to include the articles of conversion of a converted corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2817
• association: means a corporation, or unincorporated association, owned by or composed of the unit owners and through which the unit owners manage and regulate the condominium. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103
• Authorized agent: means the employee authorized by a participating employer to act as the coordinator between the board and the participating employer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Average Compensation: means the average annual earnable compensation of an employee for any period of three consecutive years of service as an employee during which the said earnable compensation was the highest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Average salary: shall mean the average annual earnable rate of salary of a member for the thirty-six highest consecutive months during the total service of the member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• Beneficiary: shall mean any person designated to receive a retirement allowance, an annuity or other benefit as provided by this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Biological supply facility: means any blood bank, laboratory, firm, association, corporation, copartnership, or educational institution that sells biological materials, including blood or living or dead animals, to research facilities, educational institutions, or veterinarians. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462
• Board: means the Louisiana Rice Promotion Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Board: means the Louisiana Rice Research Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Board: shall mean the Board of Trustees provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Board: shall mean the Retirement Board of the City of Bogalusa Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• board of trustees: means the board of trustees of this system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Bona fide trade or professional association: means an active trade or professional association that is chartered and domiciled in Louisiana, or a successor organization thereof, that meets all of the following requirements:

              (a) Promotes Louisiana timber or agriculture production. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1

• Buyer: means any person who purchases rice at the first point of sale only. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Buyer: means any person who purchases rice at the first point of sale only. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• CCC: means the Commodity Credit Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Central registry: means the master index maintained by the secretary as provided by this Chapter, reflecting information contained in all effective financing statements, and statements evidencing assignments, amendments, extensions, and cancellations thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charge to the jury: The judge's instructions to the jury concerning the law that applies to the facts of the case on trial.
• City: shall mean the City of Alexandria. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• City: shall mean the city of Bogalusa, Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• City Service: shall mean all offices and positions of trust or employment in the employ of the City, or any department, independent agency, board or Commission thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Collection: means collecting and refunding the assessments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Collection: means collecting and refunding the assessments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Commission merchant: means any person engaged in the business of receiving any farm product for sale, on commission, or for or on behalf of another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture for the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture for the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Commodity: except as otherwise provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Common elements: means the portion of the condominium property not a part of the individual units. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103
• Common expenses: means :

  (a)  Expenses of administration, maintenance, repair, and replacement of the common elements. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103

• Condominium property: means all interests in land, improvements thereon, and all servitudes and rights attaching to the condominium. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103
• Cooperative: means a corporation organized under this Chapter and a corporation which becomes subject to this Chapter in the manner provided in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2803
• Council: shall mean the City Commission Council of Bogalusa, Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• Creditable service: means all periods of time for which credit is allowed towards any benefits of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Creditable Service: shall mean "Prior Service" plus "Membership Service" for which credit is allowable as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Creditor: means any person who holds a security interest in a farm product. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Debtor: means any person who owns or has an ownership interest in farm products which are subject to a security interest of creditors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Declarant: means :

  (a)  If the condominium has not yet been created, any person who offers to dispose of or disposes of his interest in a unit not previously disposed of; or

  (b)  If the condominium has been created, any person who has executed a declaration, or an amendment to a declaration to add additional property to the condominium regime, other than persons holding interests in the property solely as security for a debt or persons whose interest in the property will not be conveyed to unit owners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103

• declaration: means the instrument by which immovable property is made subject to this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103
• Department: means the Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1
• Disability: means a condition which in the determination of the board renders an employee permanently and totally disabled, by bodily injury or disease, leaving him incapable of any employment, provided that such condition is not, directly or indirectly, the result of military service, engaging in a felonious criminal enterprise, habitual drunkenness or use of narcotics, intentionally self-inflicted injury, or declared war or enemy action. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Earnable Compensation: shall mean the full amount earned by an employee for a given pay period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Earnings: means the full amount of compensation earned by a member for service rendered as an employee, excluding bonuses or fees in excess of regular salary or retainer, overtime pay, or payments relative to termination of employment including but not limited to accrued sick or annual leave and severance pay. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Effective date: shall mean July 1, 1953. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• Effective financing statement: means a written instrument which is an abstract of a security device and which complies with the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• 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}
• Employee: means a person including an elected official, actively employed by a participating employer on a permanent, regularly scheduled basis of at least an average of thirty-five hours per week. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Employee: means any person legally occupying a position in the Service of the City of Alexandria, and shall include the employees of the retirement system created hereunder. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Employee: shall mean any appointive officer or employee of the city now or hereafter employed by the city, whose services are compensated by the city in whole or in part, who is not covered by any existing pension fund maintained by the city. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• Employer: shall mean the City of Alexandria or any of its departments and agencies from which any employee receives his compensation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Encumbrance: means any lien, privilege, judgment, mortgage, pledge, pawn, claim, charge, or any other encumbrance of like nature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
• Encumbrance certificate: means a written document which lists all effective financing statements affecting a person which have been filed with the filing officer and containing the information required by this Chapter to be transmitted to the secretary for inclusion in the central registry on the date and at the time the certificate is issued and which complies with the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• euthanize: means the act of inducing a painless death upon an animal in a humane manner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Farm product: means any type of crop whether growing or to be grown, and whether harvested or unharvested, or any species of livestock, or any type of agricultural commodity or product raised or cultivated of every type and description, including but not limited to cattle, hogs, sheep, horses, bees, rabbits, or poultry, and oysters, crabs, prawns, shrimp, alligators, turtles, and fish raised, produced, cultivated, harvested, or gathered on any beds of bodies of water, whether owned, leased, or licensed by the debtor, grains, beans, vegetables, grasses, legumes, melons, tobacco, cotton, flowers, shrubberies, plants and fruits, nuts and berries, and other similar products whether of trees or other sources, or if they are a product of such crop or livestock in its unmanufactured state, such as seed, ginned cotton, wool-clip, honey, syrup, meat, milk, eggs, and cut, harvested, or standing timber, or supplies used or produced in farming operations, and if they are in the possession, including civil possession as defined in Civil Code Articles 3421 and 3431, of a debtor engaged in planting, producing, raising, cultivating, harvesting, gathering, fattening, grazing, or other farming operations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Filing officer: means the clerk of court of any parish. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Fiscal year: means July first through June thirtieth of the following year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Fiscal Year: means July 1 through June 30 of the following year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Fiscal year: shall mean the twelve-month period ending on June 30th of each year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Fiscal Year: shall mean the period beginning on January first in any year, and ending on December thirty-first of the same year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Fund: means the self-insurance fund established pursuant to this Part to provide automobile coverage for timber transportation vehicles, agriculture transportation vehicles, or a combination of both types of vehicles and shall be known as the Louisiana Agriculture Transportation Group Self-Insured Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1
• General rules and regulations: means those which are applicable to all marketing orders and marketing agreements and are issued by the commissioner to provide uniform methods to facilitate the administration and enforcement of all such marketing orders and marketing agreements. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Handler: means any person that is engaged as a distributor or any person that is engaged as a processor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Handler: means any person engaged in the business of handling rice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Handler: means any person engaged in the business of handling rice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Handling: means engaging in the business of a handler as defined in Paragraph (9). See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Hazardous financial condition: means a condition in which, based upon its present or reasonably anticipated financial condition, the fund, although not yet financially impaired or insolvent, is unlikely to be able to:

              (a) Meet obligations with respect to known claims and reasonably anticipated claims. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1

• Hundredweight: means one hundred pounds, excluding tare. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Hundredweight: means one hundred pounds, excluding tare. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Insolvency: means the condition existing when the fund's liabilities are greater than the fund's assets as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as delineated in the fund's financial statement audited by an independent certified public accountant and calculated before a member distribution is payable or before a dividend is declared. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• knowledge: means actual knowledge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Limited common elements: means those common elements reserved in the condominium declaration for the exclusive use of a certain unit or certain units. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103
• Louisiana Rice Council: means the Louisiana section of the Rice Council for Market Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Major amendments: means amendments to any marketing order or agreement which are made pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Marketing agreement: means a voluntary contract between growers and handlers and the commissioner of agriculture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Marketing order: means an order which is issued by the commissioner, which prescribes rules and regulations that govern the processing, distributing, or handling in any manner of any commodity within this state during any specified period. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Medical board: means the board of physicians which shall arrange for or review medical examinations as required by this Chapter or applicable state laws. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Medical Board: shall mean the Board of Physicians provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Member: means a contributing employee who is covered under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Member: shall mean any employee in the City service included in the membership of the system as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Member: shall mean any employee included in the membership of the system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• Membership Service: means service as an employee rendered while a member of the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Miller: means any person engaged within or without the state in the operation of milling rice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Miller: means any person engaged within or without the state in the operation of milling rice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• OEA: means the office of elderly affairs that is an organizational part of the governor's office, and exercises overall supervision of parish councils on aging. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:120.26
• Office: means the office of the secretary of state of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Operator: means a person, partnership, corporation, or limited liability company who owns or operates a timber or agriculture transportation vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1
• Parish councils on aging: means the sixty-four nonprofit domestic corporations domiciled one per parish and dedicated to delivering state-approved services directly to senior citizens. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:120.26
• participating employer: shall mean :

              (i) Any incorporated city, town, or village in the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732

• Pension accumulation fund: means the fund to which shall be credited all payments to the system, exclusive of those amounts to be credited to the annuity savings and expense funds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, or any other business unit, and includes any state agency which engages in any of the commercial activities which are regulated pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other business unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other business unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, or other business entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Person: includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, state or political subdivision or agency thereof, or any body politic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2803
• Person: means an individual, corporation, or association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462
• Plan A: means the revised plan to replace a combination of the regular and supplemental plans, to be effective October 1, 1978, as outlined in Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Plan B: means the revised plan to replace the regular plan, to be effective October 1, 1978, as outlined in Part IV of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Position: means any office and any employment in the City Service, or two or more of them, the duties of which call for services to be rendered by one person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Primary enclosure: means any structure used to immediately restrict an animal or animals to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, run, cage, compartment, or hutch. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462
• Principal: means a person or persons who own a majority interest or the majority of the stock in a corporation, partnership, or limited liability company that is established for the purpose of operating a timber or agriculture business and is a member of the fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1
• Prior Service: shall mean service rendered prior to August 1, 1948 for which credit is allowable under Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Processing: means engaging in the business of a processor as defined in Paragraph (17). See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Producer: means any person that is engaged within this state in the business of producing any commodity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3502
• Producer: means any person who receives a share in the proceeds from the sale of rice produced in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Producer: means any person who receives a share of the proceeds from the sale of rice produced in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Regular Interest: shall mean interest compounded annually at such rate as shall be determined by the Board in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• Regular interest: shall mean such rate of interest as is fixed by the board provided that for the first five years of operation of the system the rate shall be three percent per annum compounded annually. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• Releasing agency: means an animal pound, shelter, humane organization, or animal control agency, whether public or private. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2471
• Research facility: means any school, institution, organization, or person that uses or intends to use animals in research or experiments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462
• Retirement Allowance: shall mean an annuity for life, as provided in this Part, payable each year in twelve equal monthly installments beginning as of the date fixed by the Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• retirement system: means the Municipal Employees' Retirement System of Louisiana, established as of January 1, 1955, defined in Chapter 4, Title 11 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, and as subsequently amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Rice: means all marketable green and dry rough "paddy" rice produced within the state of Louisiana for milling, seed or other commercial purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3531
• Rice: means all marketable green and rough "paddy" rice produced within the State of Louisiana for milling, seed or other commercial purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3541
• Salary: shall mean the amount of compensation earned by a member as an employee of the city. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• Secretary: means the secretary of state of the state of Louisiana, or his duly authorized agent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Revenue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:120.26
• Secured party: means a creditor with a security interest in farm products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Security device: means a written security agreement that establishes a creditor's security interest in farm products or any agricultural lien as defined in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Security interest: means an interest in or encumbrance upon farm products that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:3652
• Senior citizens: means residents of Louisiana who have attained the age of sixty years or more. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:120.26
• Service certificate: means a statement of a member's total creditable service as approved by the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1732
• Social media account: means an internet-based service that allows individuals to do the following:

              (a) Construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system created by the service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2462

• Sterilization: means the surgical removal of the reproductive organs of a dog or cat in order to render the animal unable to reproduce. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2471
• System: shall mean the City of Alexandria Employees' Retirement System established and described in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002
• System: shall mean the City of Bogalusa Retirement System. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• 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.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Timber or agriculture transportation vehicle: means a vehicle or automobile used to collect and transport timber or agriculture products, or used in the course and scope of a timber or agriculture business, or used by an operator or principal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1
• Timber or agriculture transportation vehicle coverage: means automobile coverage for a timber or agriculture transportation vehicle that includes any of the following:

              (a) Liability payment for bodily injury caused by the operator of a timber or agriculture transportation vehicle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4351.1

• Timberland: as used in this Part , means bona fide timberland being assessed at its use value as defined and determined pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4321
• Total service: shall mean service rendered before the operative date of the system, and subsequent thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3033
• 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.
• Unit: means a part of the condominium property subject to individual ownership. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:1121.103
• Withdrawal from Service: shall mean complete severance of employment in the City Service of any member by resignation, dismissal or discharge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3002