Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 13 > Chapter 36 - Coroners

• ABLE account: means a special savings account for financing of certain qualified expenses of persons with disabilities as specifically provided for in this Chapter that conforms with all applicable standards and requirements set forth for ABLE accounts in the ABLE Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• ABLE Act: means the Stephen Beck, Jr. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Administrator: means any person whose employment requires professional certification issued under the rules of the board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Advisory Council: means the ABLE Account Advisory Council. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Alternative nicotine product: means any non-combustible product containing nicotine that is intended for human consumption, whether chewed, absorbed, dissolved, or ingested by any other means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Authority: means the Louisiana Tuition Trust Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Authority: means the Louisiana Tuition Trust Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Beneficiary: means a person designated in an education savings account owner's agreement, or by the authority when authorized by an account owner meeting the classification requirements of Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Beneficiary: means a person designated in an education savings account owner's agreement, or by the authority when authorized by an account owner meeting the classification requirements of Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Benefit contract: means the agreement for provision of benefits authorized by Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Benefit member: means an adult member who is designated by the laws or rules of the society to be a benefit member under a benefit contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Board: means the Prison Enterprises Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1151
• Board: means the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Bulk: means in nonpackaged form. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Certificate: means the document issued as written evidence of the benefit contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Chalk: means a soft, friable, loosely consolidated material composed primarily of calcium carbonate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Cigarette: includes any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, where such roll has a wrapper or cover made of paper, or any other material except where such wrapper is wholly or in greater part made of tobacco. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of alcohol and tobacco control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• 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
• 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
• Dealer: includes every person who manufactures or purchases cigars, cigarettes, or other tobacco products for distribution or resale in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Department: means the state Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1151
• Department: means the Department of Education. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Designated beneficiary: has the meaning ascribed in Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• directory: means the directory compiled by the attorney general under Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Earnings enhancement: is a payment credited to an education savings account, on behalf of the beneficiary of the account, to help offset the beneficiary's qualified higher education expenses at a college or university. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• 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

• Education savings account: is a savings account established by an individual, a group of individuals, or an organization pursuant to the program created by this Chapter for a beneficiary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Education savings account: is a savings account established by an individual, a group of individuals, or an organization pursuant to the program created by this Chapter for a beneficiary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Elementary or secondary school: means a public or approved nonpublic elementary or secondary school in Louisiana that contains any of the grades kindergarten through twelve. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Eligible individual: means a person with a disability who meets the criteria necessary to qualify as an eligible individual as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• 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}
• Evaluation: means the process by which a local board monitors the continuing performance of its teachers and administrators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Exporter license: means the stamping agent designation as set forth in Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Fixed earnings: means the placement of all the deposits in an education savings account and the interest earned thereon in investments with fixed earnings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Fixed earnings: means the placement of all the deposits in an education savings account and the interest earned thereon in investments with fixed earnings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• 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
• 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.
• Institution of postsecondary education: means a state college, university, or technical college or institute or an independent college or university located in this state that is approved by the United States Secretary of Education; a public or independent college or a university located outside this state that is approved by the United States Secretary of Education; a proprietary school licensed pursuant to Chapter 24-A of this Title; or a proprietary school located outside this state that is licensed by an out-of-state public postsecondary education board, accredited by a recognized national or regional accrediting body, and eligible to participate in a program under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Label: means any written or printed matter on or attached to a package of materials or an invoice for a shipment of bulk materials. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Laws: means the society's articles of incorporation, constitution, and bylaws, however designated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Local board: means a city, parish, or other local public school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3882
• Lodge: means subordinate member units of the society, known as camps, courts, councils, branches, or by any other designation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Lot: means the quantity of materials from which a sample has been taken and which the sample represents. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Manufacturer: means a person who produces agricultural liming materials which are sold, offered for sale, or distributed in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Manufacturer: means anyone engaged in the manufacture, production, or foreign importation of tobacco products who sells to wholesalers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
• Marl: means a granular or loosely consolidated earthy material composed primarily of seashell fragments and calcium carbonate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• materials: means solid or liquid materials which contain calcium or magnesium and which are sold, offered for sale, or distributed for use in neutralizing acidity in agricultural soils. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Member of the family: means , with respect to any designated beneficiary:

              (a) An individual who bears one of the following relationships to such beneficiary:

              (i) Brother, sister, stepbrother, or stepsister. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2

• Member of the family: means , with respect to any designated beneficiary:

              (a) The spouse of such beneficiary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092

• 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 any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Person: means any natural person, trustee, company, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• PIPS: means units by which the effort and quality of improvement activities are measured. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Place of business: means the place where the tobacco orders, alternative nicotine products orders, or vapor products orders are received, or where the taxable tobacco articles are sold, or if sold by a retail dealer upon a railroad train or on or from any other vehicle, the vehicle on which or from which the taxable articles or alternative nicotine products or vapor products are sold by the retail dealer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Plan: means an uncompleted professional improvement program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Premiums: means premiums, rates, dues, or other required contributions by whatever name known, which are payable under the certificate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Program: means a completed five-year professional improvement program, or refers to the subject of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Public school: means any public elementary, middle, junior high, or high school in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3602
• Qualified disability expense: means an expense made for a purpose authorized in federal law and regulation relative to ABLE accounts for the benefit of a person with a disability who is a designated beneficiary participating in the program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3082
• Redemption value: means the cash value of the education savings account attributable to the sum of the principal invested, the interest earned on principal and authorized to be credited to the account by the authority, any earnings enhancements appropriated by the legislature and authorized by the authority to be credited to the account and the interest earned on earnings enhancements, less any earnings enhancements or interest thereon restricted from expenditure, and any fees due and imposed by rule of the authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Redemption value: means the cash value of the education savings account attributable to the sum of the principal invested and the interest earned on principal and authorized to be credited to the account by the authority less any fees due and imposed by rule of the authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Replacement cost: means the cost per unit at which the merchandise sold or offered for sale could have been bought by the seller at any time within thirty days prior to the date of sale or the date upon which it is offered for sale by the seller if bought in the same quantity as the seller's last purchase of the merchandise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Retail dealer: includes every dealer other than a wholesale dealer, or manufacturer who sells or offers for sale cigars, cigarettes, other tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products, irrespective of quantity or the number of sales. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Rules: means all rules, regulations, or resolutions adopted by the supreme governing body or board of directors which are intended to have general application to the members of the society. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Sales entity affiliate: means an entity that sells cigarettes that it acquires directly from a manufacturer or importer and is affiliated with that manufacturer or importer as established by documentation received directly from that manufacturer or importer to the satisfaction of the attorney general. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Secretary: means the secretary of corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1151
• sell: means any transfer, exchange, or barter in any manner or by any means for any consideration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Society: means fraternal benefit society. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 22:284
• Stamp: means the impression, device, stamp, label, or print manufactured or printed as prescribed by the secretary by the use of which the tax levied hereunder is paid. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• 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
• 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
• Tobacco product: means any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco, or smoking tobacco. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Ton: means two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Trade date: means the date that a deposit to an investment option that includes variable earnings is assigned a value in units, the date a disbursement or refund from an investment option that includes variable earnings is assigned a value, or the date a change in investment options that includes variable earnings is assigned a value, whichever is applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Trade date: means the date that a deposit to an investment option that includes variable earnings is assigned a value in units, the date a disbursement or refund from an investment option that includes variable earnings is assigned a value, or the date a change in investment options that includes variable earnings is assigned a value, whichever is applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Tuition: means the mandatory educational charges imposed by an institution of postsecondary education and all fees required as a condition of enrollment, as delineated by the Louisiana Tuition Trust Authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Tuition: means the expenses for tuition in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary school, as delineated by the authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Vapor product: includes any electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device and any vapor cartridge or other container of nicotine in a solution or other form that is intended to be used with or in an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or similar product or device. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901
• Variable earnings: means that portion of funds in an education savings account invested in equities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Variable earnings: means that portion of funds in an education savings account invested in equities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Variable Earnings Transaction Fund: means the subaccount established by the state treasurer within the Tuition and Savings Fund to receive earnings funds as described in Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3100.2
• Variable Earnings Transaction Fund: means the subaccount established by the state treasurer within the Louisiana Education Tuition and Savings Fund to receive earnings funds as described in Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:3092
• Wholesale dealer: means a dealer whose principal business is that of a wholesaler, who sells cigarettes, cigars, other tobacco products, vapor products, or alternative nicotine products to retail dealers for the purpose of resale, who is a bona fide wholesaler, and fifty percent of whose total tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine sales are to retail stores other than its own or those of its subsidiaries or parent companies within Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 26:901