Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 25 > Chapter 21-A - Division of Historic Preservation

• Affiliate: means a person who directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with, another person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Allocable share: means allocable share as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• cigarette: includes "roll-your-own" i. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Master Settlement Agreement: means the settlement agreement, and related documents, entered into on November 23, 1998, by the state and leading United States tobacco product manufacturers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• person: means an individual, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or any other organization or group of persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Released claims: means released claims as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Releasing parties: means releasing parties as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Tobacco product manufacturer: means an entity that after July 1, 1999, directly, and not exclusively through any affiliate:

  (a)  Manufactures cigarettes anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in the United States, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer (except where such importer is an original participating manufacturer, as that term is defined in the Master Settlement Agreement, that will be responsible for the payments under the Master Settlement Agreement with respect to such cigarettes as a result of the provisions of subsection II(mm) of the Master Settlement Agreement and that pays the taxes specified in subsection II(z) of the Master Settlement Agreement, and provided that the manufacturer of such cigarettes does not market or advertise such cigarettes in the United States). See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5062