Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 11 - Election Campaign Finance

• Absentee by mail and early voting counting equipment: means a device capable of counting and producing results of votes cast on paper absentee by mail and early voting ballots. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Abused parent: means the parent who has not committed family violence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Administrator: means the secretary of the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Adult: means a person who has attained eighteen years of age. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agency: means the Louisiana Rehabilitation Services program of the office of workforce development within the Louisiana Workforce Commission, which licenses blind vendors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:3042
• Agent: means a person:

              (a) Authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of the principal by a power of attorney for health care; or

              (b) Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on behalf of the principal by any other record signed by the principal. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351

• Aggregating period: means :

              (a) For a political committee, except a political committee which supports only one candidate, the period from January first of the calendar year through December thirty-first of the same calendar year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483

• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office of conservation of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:731
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Benefits: means the money payments payable to an individual, as provided in this Chapter, with respect to his unemployment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Biosciences: means any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms, including but not limited to research, development, manufacture, testing, marketing and/or distribution of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology products, and medical devices that will eventually be used by healthcare providers to treat, cure, prevent, or mitigate disease or conditions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.65
• Blind vendors: means those individuals who are classified under state and federal regulations as legally blind and who are licensed to and have a permit to operate vending facilities on state, federal, or other property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:3042
• board of supervisors: means the governing board of the district or, if such board has been abolished, the board, body, or commission succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers given to the board by this Chapter have been given by law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• Bond: includes "certificate" and the provisions which are applicable to bonds are equally applicable to certificates. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• Bond: means the bonds, notes, renewal notes, refunding bonds, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, certificates of participation, debentures, warrants, commercial paper, capital leases, revenue bonds, or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness authorized to be issued by the district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.65
• Candidate: means a person who seeks nomination or election to public office, except the office of president or vice president of the United States, presidential elector, delegate to a political party convention, United States senator, United States congressman, or political party office. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• 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.
• Chairman: means the principal executive officer of a political committee regardless of his title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Closing date: means the date through which the report is complete. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Commission: means the Louisiana Workforce Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3516
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of conservation of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• committee: means two or more persons, other than a husband and wife, and any legal entity organized for the primary purpose of supporting or opposing one or more candidates, propositions, recalls of a public officer, or political parties, which accepts contributions in the name of the committee, or makes expenditures from committee funds or in the name of the committee, or makes a transfer of funds to or receives a transfer of funds from another committee, or receives or makes loans in an aggregate amount in excess of five hundred dollars within any calendar year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compressed natural gas: means natural gas designated for vehicular use that is under pressures exceeding twenty-four hundred pounds per square inch. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:731
• Compression and conversion equipment: means all equipment used in the compression, storage, transmission, and decompression of natural gas for the purpose of powering motor vehicles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:731
• Construction or development project: means a program of construction or development, either new or continuing, that will be planned and implemented with the primary goal of improving ports and harbors in the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• Contractual obligations: means the open contract balance at the close of business on September thirtieth. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1553
• Contractual relationship: includes but is not limited to land contracts, deeds, easements, leases, or other instruments transferring title or possession, unless the real property on which the facility concerned is located was acquired by the defendant after the disposal or placement of the hazardous substance on, in, or at the facility, and one or more of the circumstances described in Item (i), (ii), or (iii) is also established by the defendant by a preponderance of the evidence:

  (i)  At the time the defendant acquired the facility, the defendant did not know and had no reason to know that any hazardous substance which is the subject of the release or threatened release was disposed of on, in, or at the facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272

• Contribution: except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, means a gift, conveyance, payment, or deposit of money or anything of value, or the forgiveness of a loan or of a debt, made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination or election of a person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Contributions: means the money payments to the state unemployment compensation fund, required by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cost: when used with reference to any project, includes but is not limited to:

  (a)  The expenses of determining the feasibility or practicability of acquisition, construction, or reconstruction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13

• Court: means any district court, juvenile court, or family court having jurisdiction over the parents and/or child at issue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Court-monitored domestic abuse intervention program: means a program, comprised of a minimum of twenty-six in-person sessions, that follows a model designed specifically for perpetrators of domestic abuse. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decedent: means a deceased person whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
• Department: means Louisiana Rehabilitation Services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:3042
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discharge: means discharge as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Disinterested witness: means a witness other than the spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent, or guardian of the person who makes, amends, revokes, or refuses to make an anatomical gift, or an adult who exhibited special care and concern for the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Disposal: means disposal as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• district: means a special district as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• District: means the BioDistrict New Orleans as further defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.65
• District manager: means the manager of the district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• District office: means the following offices but shall not include any major office:

              (a) The office of a member of the Louisiana Legislature. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483

• District roads: means highways, streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks, landscaping, storm drains, bridges, and thoroughfares of all kinds and descriptions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Document of gift: means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Donor: means a person whose body or part is the subject of an anatomical gift. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Donor registry: means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Election: means and includes all elections held in Louisiana, whether primary, general, or special. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Election: means any primary, general, or special election held, pursuant to the laws of this state or a parish or municipal charter or ordinance or a court order, to choose a public officer or nominee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• 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}
• Employer: means :

              (a) Any employing unit which in any calendar quarter in either the current or preceding calendar year paid for services in employment wages of one thousand five hundred dollars or more for some portion of a day in each of twenty different calendar weeks, whether or not such weeks were consecutive, in either the current or the preceding calendar year, had in employment at least one individual regardless of whether the same individual was in employment each day. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472

• Employment: means , subject to the other provisions of this Subsection, any services including service in interstate commerce, performed for wages or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied;

              B. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472

• Employment security administration fund: means the employment security administration fund established by this Chapter, from which administrative expenses under this Chapter shall be paid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• 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.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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}
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Expenditure: means a purchase, payment, advance, deposit, or gift, of money or anything of value made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination or election of a person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Eye bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Facility: means facility as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• 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 violence: includes but is not limited to physical or sexual abuse and any offense against the person as defined in the Criminal Code of Louisiana, except negligent injuring and defamation, committed by one parent against the other parent or against any of the children. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• 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}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• 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}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the unemployment compensation fund established by this Chapter, to which all contributions required and from which all benefits provided under this Chapter shall be paid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Gas: means any gas derived from or composed of hydrocarbons, including synthetic gas which is produced from coal, lignite, or petroleum coke and the heat content of which synthetic gas does not exceed 800 BTUs per standard cubic foot. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the death of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Governmental entity: means the state or any political subdivision and the federal government as a cost share partner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: means a person appointed by a court to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health, or welfare of a person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Hazardous liquid: means :

              (a) Petroleum or any petroleum product, except as specifically excluded in this Paragraph, and

              (b) Any substance or material which is in liquid state, excluding liquefied natural gas and hydro-carbons incidental thereto, when transported by pipeline facilities and which, as determined by the assistant secretary by rule or regulation in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702

• Hazardous substance: means any gaseous, liquid, or solid material which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical, or biological composition when released into the environment poses a substantial present or potential hazard to human health, the environment, or property, and which material is identified or designated as being hazardous by rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the secretaries of the Department of Environmental Quality or of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, regardless of whether it is intended for use, reuse, or is to be discarded. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• Hazardous waste: means hazardous waste as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• Hospital: means a facility licensed as a hospital under the laws of any state or a facility operated as a hospital by the United States, a state, or a subdivision of a state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Identification card: means a card issued by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, office of motor vehicles. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• 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}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Injunction: means a temporary restraining order or a preliminary or a permanent court ordered injunction, as defined in the Code of Civil Procedure, which prohibits the violent parent from in any way contacting the abused parent or the children except for specific purposes set forth in the injunction, which shall be limited to communications expressly dealing with the education, health, and welfare of the children, or for any other purpose expressly agreed to by the abused parent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Intentional criminal violation: means conduct which establishes that a violator was in the state of mind which exists when the circumstances indicated that the offender actively desired the prescribed criminal consequences to follow his act or failure to act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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 committee: means the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works, functioning as a joint legislative committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• Joint committee: means the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works and the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works, functioning as a joint legislative committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
• Know: means to have actual knowledge. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Landowner: means the owner of immovable property as it appears in the official records of the parish, including a trustee, a private corporation, and an owner of a condominium unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensed mental health professional: as used in this Chapter means a person who possesses at least a master's degree and who is licensed in counseling, social work, psychology, marriage and family counseling, or exempt from licensing requirements pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:331
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Loan: means a transfer of money, property, or anything of value in exchange for an obligation to repay in whole or in part, made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination for election, or election, of any person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• major office: means offices voted on throughout the state or a congressional district, the offices of justice of the supreme court or judge of a court of appeal, the offices of members on a state board or commission, or offices which require election from a territorial jurisdiction having a population exceeding two hundred fifty thousand. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1409
• Major office: means the following offices: governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer, commissioner of agriculture, commissioner of insurance, the superintendent of education, public service commissioner, justice of the supreme court, court of appeal judge, district court judge in a judicial district comprised of a single parish with a population in excess of four hundred fifty thousand persons as determined by the most recently published decennial federal census where the election district is parishwide, as long as these offices are elective offices, and any candidate for office with an election district containing a population in excess of two hundred fifty thousand persons as determined by the most recently published decennial federal census. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Minor: means a person who has not yet attained eighteen years of age. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Natural gas company: means a person engaged in the production or sale of intrastate natural gas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:591
• Nonparticipating party: means a person who refuses to comply with the demand of the secretary, or fails to respond to the demand, or against whom a suit has been filed by the secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Office: means the office of multimodal commerce within the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Office: means the office of workers' compensation administration established pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1021
• Organ procurement organization: means a person designated by the secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services as an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner or operator: means any person owning or operating a facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• Parent: means a person whose parental rights have not been terminated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Parish custodian: refers to the parish custodian of voting machines and means the persons designated as such by Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Part: means an organ, an eye, or tissue of a human being. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Participating party: means a person who undertakes remedial action after receiving a demand from the secretary in compliance with the demand and as approved by the secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• past due spousal support: means the amount of a delinquency determined under a court order under state law for support and maintenance of a spouse. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:325
• Person: means any individual, municipality, public or private corporation, partnership, firm, the United States Government, and any agent or subdivision thereof or any other juridical person, which shall include, but not be limited to, trusts, joint stock companies, associations, the state of Louisiana, political subdivisions of the state of Louisiana, commissions, and interstate bodies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
• Person: means any individual, partnership, limited liability company or corporation, association, labor union, political committee, corporation, or other legal entity, including their subsidiaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, 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 17:2351
• Person: as used in this Chapter means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, association, joint venture pool, syndicate, sole proprietorship, unincorporated organization, or any other form of entity not specifically listed herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3516
• Person: means any natural person, corporation, political subdivision, association, partnership, limited liability company, receiver, tutor, curator, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:503
• Person: means any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, any political subdivision of this state, municipality, cooperative association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Physician: means a person authorized and licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy under the laws of any state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Pipeline facility: means and shall include, without limitation, new and existing pipe, right of way, and any equipment, facility, or building used or intended for use in the transportation of hazardous liquids; but, rights of way as used in this Chapter does not authorize the assistant secretary to prescribe the location or the routing of any pipeline facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• 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.
• Pollution source: means pollution source as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272
• Port authority: means the governing authority of any port area or port, harbor, and terminal district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3451
• 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}
• 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.
• Principal campaign committee: means a political committee designated by a candidate pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Probate: Proving a will
• Project: means any development, improvement, property, utility, facility, works, enterprise, or service hereafter undertaken or established under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• Project: means a project as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.65
• Prospective donor: means a person who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part that may be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Public office: means any state, parish, municipal, ward, district, or other office or position that is filled by election of the voters, except those specifically excepted in Paragraph (3) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Randolph-Sheppard Act: means the federal law which enables the Blind Enterprise Program under the authority of Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:3042
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reasonably available: means able to be contacted by a procurement organization without undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with existing medical criteria necessary for the making of an anatomical gift. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Recipient: means a person into whose body a part of a decedent has been or is intended to be transplanted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Refusal: means a record created pursuant to the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• 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 cost: means after the discharge or disposal of a hazardous substance the cost of:

  (i)  Removing, confining, or storing any hazardous substance; constructing barriers, securing the site, encapsulating in clay or other impermeable material;

  (ii)  Cleaning up a contamination, recycling, or reuse of a hazardous substance;

  (iii)  Diversion, destruction, or segregation of reactive or other wastes;

  (iv)  Dredging or excavating a site;

  (v)  Repairing or replacing leaking containers;

  (vi)  Collection of leachate and runoff;

  (vii)  Onsite treatment or incineration of a substance;

  (viii)  Provision of alternative water supplies;

  (ix)  Monitoring, testing, or analyzing;

  (x)  Employing legal, engineering, chemical, biological, architectural, or other professional consultants or personnel;

  (xi)  Investigation, initiation, or prosecution of lawsuits to final judgment;

  (xii)  Transporting and disposing of waste from the site; or

  (xiii)  Any other action the secretary deems necessary to restore the site or remove the hazardous substance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2272

• Reporting period: shall mean those periods established by Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Revenue bonds: means obligations of the district which are payable from revenues derived from sources other than ad valorem taxes on immovable or movable property and which do not pledge the property, credit, or general tax revenue of the district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• Secretary: means the secretary of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
• 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.
• Sexual abuse: includes but is not limited to acts which are prohibited by Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Sign: means , with the present intent to authenticate or adopt a record either:

              (a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351

• State: includes the states of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• 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 17:2351
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subsidiary committee: means a political committee other than a principal campaign committee, designated by a candidate or by a principal campaign committee pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Supervised visitation: means face-to-face contact between a parent and a child which occurs in the immediate presence of a supervising person approved by the court under conditions which prevent any physical abuse, threats, intimidation, abduction, or humiliation of either the abused parent or the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:362
• Supervisory committee: means the Board of Ethics established in Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Technician: means any individual determined to be qualified to remove or process parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• 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.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tissue: means a portion of the human body other than an organ or an eye. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• Tissue bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:2351
• 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.
• Transfer of funds: means any money, regardless of amount, received by a committee from another committee or money given by a committee to another committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
• Transportation of hazardous liquids: means the movement of hazardous liquids by pipeline, or their storage incidental to such movement, in or affecting intrastate commerce; however, it shall not include any such movement through gathering lines in rural locations, onshore production, refining, or manufacturing facilities, or storage or in-plant piping systems associated with any of such facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:702
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: when used in a geographical sense, includes the states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Voter-verified paper record: means a paper document or a secure hand-marked paper ballot produced by a voting system that the voter can review and verify before officially casting his ballot. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Voting machine: means the enclosure occupied by the voter when voting, as formed by the voter-facing vote-capture device, including its screen and privacy shield. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Voting system: means the total combination of equipment, hardware, firmware, software, materials, and documentation used to cast and count votes or to perform any of the support functions to enable the casting or counting of votes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1351
• Wages: means all remuneration for services, including vacation pay, holiday pay, dismissal pay, commissions, bonuses, the cash value of all remuneration in any medium other than cash, and WARN Act payments received pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 23:1472
• Water management and control facilities: means any lakes, canals, ditches, reservoirs, dams, levees, floodways, pumping stations, or any other works, structures, or facilities for the conservation, control, development, utilization, and disposal of water, and any purposes incidental thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:9039.13
• Waterway: means any navigable bayou, canal, channel, or river, or portion thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Waterway dredging and deepening priority program: means the priority list of projects submitted by the office and approved by the joint committee pursuant to this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Waterway project: means a program, either new or continuing, that is planned and implemented with the primary goal of dredging and deepening waterways in the state to include cost share projects with the federal government and construction and maintenance costs associated with dredging and disposing of dredged material. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:3471
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.