Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 26 > Chapter 1 > Part III - Regulatory Provisions

• Applicant: means a person who applies for licensure as a legend drug or legend device distributor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Board: means the Louisiana Board of Drug and Device Distributors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Designated responsible party: means a natural person designated by the applicant or licensee as responsible for facility operations of the applicant or licensee facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Distribution: means the sale or facilitation of delivery of legend drugs or legend devices to a person other than the consumer or patient, including but not limited to distribution by manufacturers, repackagers, own-label distributors, jobbers, third-party logistics providers, retail pharmacy warehouses, pharmacies, brokers, agents, and wholesale distributors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Distributor: means any person engaged in distribution, including but not limited to manufacturers, repackagers, own-label distributors, jobbers, third-party logistics providers, retail pharmacy warehouses, pharmacies, brokers, agents, and wholesale distributors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Legend device: means any device intended for use by humans that carries on its label "Rx" "Rx only" a designation for physician use only, or a statement that federal law restricts the device to sale by or on the order of a licensed health care practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Legend drug: means any drug intended for use by humans that carries on its label any of the following: "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without a prescription" "Rx" or "Rx Only". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Licensure: means any license, permit, or registration that the board is authorized by law to issue. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• 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.
• Owner: means a natural person who owns greater than a ten percent interest in the distributor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Person: means a natural or juridical person, including a proprietorship, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, trust, business firm, association, franchise arrangement, combination of any of these entities, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transaction: means the transfer of a product between persons in which a change of ownership occurs, but does not include a transaction that is exempted from the definition by rules of the board or federal law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Transaction information: means :

              (a) The proprietary or established name or names of the product. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462

• Transaction statement: means a statement, in paper or electronic form, that the entity transferring ownership in a transaction meets all of the following conditions:

              (a) Is authorized as required under the federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462

• Wholesale distribution: means the distribution of legend drugs or legend devices to a person other than the consumer or patient except as exempted in the standards of the federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act as the act pertains to wholesale distribution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462
• Wholesale distributor: means any person engaged in wholesale distribution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 37:3462