Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 3 > Chapter 2 - Co-Operative Associations

• Activity: means a distinct subset of functions or services within a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• addiction: means a compulsive disorder in which an individual becomes preoccupied with obtaining and using a substance, despite adverse social, psychological, or physical consequences, the continued use of which results in a decreased quality of life. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Adjusted gross income: means gross income, minus:

              (a) Amounts for preexisting child support or spousal support obligations owed under an order of support to another who is not a party to the proceedings and

              (b) At the court's discretion, amounts paid on behalf of a party's minor child who is not the subject of the action of the court. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315

• Administer: means to deliver under the auspices of a registered practitioner a controlled dangerous substance to the ultimate user or human research subject by injection, or for inhalation, or ingestion, or by any other means except where otherwise provided by law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• administration: means the direct application of a drug to the body of a patient by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Advanced life support: means an advanced level of pre-hospital, interhospital, and emergency service care which includes basic life support functions, cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation, telemetered electrocardiography, administration of antiarrhythmic agents, intravenous therapy, administration of specific medications, drugs and solutions, use of adjunctive ventilation devices, trauma care, and other techniques and procedures authorized in writing by the secretary pursuant to department regulations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• Advisory council: means the entity established in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• aerosol: shall mean a material which is dispensed from its container as a mist, spray, or foam by a propellant under pressure. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1057.1
• Agency: means any state office, department, board, commission, institution, division, officer or other person, or functional group, heretofore existing or hereafter created, that is authorized to exercise, or that does exercise, any functions of the government of the state in the executive branch, but not any governing body or officer of any local government or subdivision of the state, or any parochial officer who exercises functions coterminous with the municipality in which he performs those functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser but does not include a common or contract carrier, public warehouseman, or employee thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Aggregate: means the gross weight of an exhibit of evidence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Agricultural products: include horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairying, livestock, poultry, bee and farm and range products, and furbearing animals raised or produced on a defined acreage. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:72
• Agricultural products: include horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee, and other farm products;

  (2)  "Member" includes actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with capital stock;

  (3)  "Association" means any association organized under this Part; and,

  (4)  "Person" includes individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:122

• 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.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appropriation: means an authorization by the legislature to a budget unit for a program to expend from public funds a sum of money, for purposes designated, under the procedure prescribed in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Approved laboratory: means a laboratory approved by the state or department or certified by the U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Approved source: when used in reference to a bottled water plant's product water or water used in the plant's operations, means the source of the water whether it be from a spring, artesian well, drilled well, public or community water system or any other source that has been inspected and the water sampled, analyzed and found of a safe and sanitary quality with or without treatment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means any association or corporation organized under this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:72
• Association: means any association organized under this Part; and,

  (4)  "Person" includes individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:122

• Audit trail information: means information submitted or produced regarding requests for prescription monitoring program data that the board or other individual as specified by this Part uses to help monitor compliance with this Part and other applicable statutes, rules, or regulations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Autologous donations: means the donation or collection of blood, blood products, or tissue from a patient strictly intended for that patient's own future use. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1113.1
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Basic life support: means a basic level of pre-hospital care which includes patient stabilization, airway clearance, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, hemorrhage control, initial wound care and fracture stabilization, and other techniques and procedures authorized by the secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• Board: means the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Board: means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1103.2
• Board: shall mean the Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1105.1
• Board: means the board of trustees of the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Bottled water: means water that is placed in a sealed container or package and is offered for sale for human consumption or other consumer uses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Bottled water plant: means any place or establishment in which bottled water is prepared for sale. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Budget office: means the section of the division of administration which monitors budgeting functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Budget unit: means any spending agency of the state which is declared to be a budget unit by the division of administration and which is identified for accounting purposes by a five-digit number code. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Cannabis: includes all parts of plants of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant, and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin, but shall not include the mature stalks of such plant, fiber produced from such stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of such plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such mature stalks (except the resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake or the sterilized seed of such plant which is incapable of germination. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• Combined adjusted gross income: means the combined adjusted gross income of both parties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
• commerce: means any and all commerce within the state of Louisiana and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, and includes the operation of any business or service establishment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1057.1
• Commission: means the Louisiana Cybersecurity Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:15.12
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Confirmed positive test result: means any result obtained from a laboratory test of an ingredient, equipment, container, or finished product that indicates the presence of an adulterant, as defined by Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:651
• Consensus estimating conference: means the Economic Estimating Conference, the Demographic Estimating Conference, the Education Estimating Conference, the Criminal Justice Estimating Conference, the Health and Social Services Estimating Conference, and the Transportation Estimating Conference. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Control: means to add a drug or other substance, or immediate precursor, to a schedule under Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Controlled dangerous substance: means any substance defined, enumerated, or included in federal or state statute or regulations, Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Controlled substance: means any substance or drug defined, enumerated, or included in federal or state statute or rules, Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Controlled substance analogue: means a substance the chemical structure of which is substantially similar to the chemical structure of a controlled dangerous substance in Schedule I or II of Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Coordinator: means the person coordinating the EMSC program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Counterfeit controlled dangerous substance: means a controlled dangerous substance which, without authorization, bears the trademark, trade name or other identifying mark, imprint, number, or device, or any likeness thereof, of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser other than the person or persons who in fact manufactured, distributed, or dispensed such substance and which thereby falsely purports or is represented to be the product of, or to have been distributed by, such other manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Current tax collections: means the current collections of the taxes imposed by Subtitle II of Title 47 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Deficit: means the excess for any fiscal year of actual expenditures paid by warrant or transfer over the actual monies received and any monies or balances carried forward for any fund at the close of the fiscal year as such are reported by the office of statewide reporting within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• delivery: means the transfer of a controlled dangerous substance whether or not there exists an agency relationship. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Dentist: means a person licensed and authorized by law to practice dentistry in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:651
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1057.1
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1073.1
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1101.2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1103.2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1109.1
• Depressant: means a drug which contains any quantity of barbituric acid or any of the salts of barbituric acid; or any derivatives of barbituric acid; or any substance listed in Schedule I(D), Schedule II(D) or Schedule III(B) of Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Dispense: means to deliver a controlled dangerous substance to the ultimate user or human research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Dispenser: means a person authorized by this state to dispense or distribute to the ultimate user any controlled substance or drug monitored by the program, but shall not include any of the following:

              (a) A pharmacy permitted by the board as a hospital pharmacy that dispenses or distributes any controlled substance or drug monitored by the program for the purposes of inpatient hospital care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003

• dispensing: means the interpretation, evaluation, and implementation of a prescription drug order, including the preparation and delivery of a drug or device to a patient or patient's agent in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to, or use by, a patient. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Distribute: means to deliver a controlled dangerous substance whether by physical delivery, administering, subterfuge, furnishing a prescription, or by filling, packaging, labeling or compounding the substance pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Distributor: means a person who delivers a controlled dangerous substance as herein defined. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Down syndrome: means a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of an extra whole or partial copy of chromosome 21. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1109.1
• Drinking water: means bottled water obtained from an approved source that has at minimum undergone treatment consisting of filtration (activated carbon or particulate) and ozonation or an equivalent disinfection process. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Drug: means :

              (a) Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961

• Drug: means any of the following:

              (a) Any substance recognized as a drug in the official compendium, or supplement thereto, designated by the board for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or animals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003

• Drug Enforcement Administration: means the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of Justice or its successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• drug paraphernalia: means and includes but is not limited to:

              (1) All equipment, products, and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, repackaging, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance in violation of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law, as scheduled in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1021

• Drugs of concern: means drugs other than controlled substances as defined by rule which demonstrate a potential for abuse or whose use requires tracking for public health purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Early intervention services: means services that are designed to meet the developmental needs of an infant or toddler with a disability, in any one or more of the following areas:

              (a) Physical development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1073.1

• Early intervention services provider: includes but is not limited to the following:

              (a) Special educators. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1073.1

• Efficiency: means cost-effectiveness or productivity relative to achievement of an objective. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Emergency medical services personnel: means persons trained and certified or licensed to provide emergency medical care, whether on a paid or volunteer basis, as part of a basic life support or advanced life support pre-hospital emergency care service or in an emergency department or pediatric critical care or specialty unit in a licensed hospital. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• EMSC program: means the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Evidence-based program: means a program or practice that has had multiple site random controlled trials across heterogeneous populations demonstrating that the program or practice is effective for the population. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Executive budget: means the document submitted to the legislature at each regular session, pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter and Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Existing operating budget: means the initial operating budget as adjusted for actions taken by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, the Interim Emergency Board, the legislature, or the governor in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter or any other provision of law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Expenses: means amounts represented by cash paid out or by obligations to pay cash or partly by each for maintaining and operating government services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• 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.
• Food processing plant: means a commercial operation that manufactures food for human consumption and does not provide food directly to a consumer from that location. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:651
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Functions: means duties, jurisdiction, powers, rights, and obligations, conferred or imposed upon, or vested in, any agency by law, or exercised, performed, or discharged by any agency without contravention of any provision of law. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Fund: means the Assessors' Retirement Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts recording cash or other resources together with all related liabilities, obligations, reserves, and equities which are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives in accordance with regulations, restrictions, and limitations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goal: means a general purpose toward which the efforts of an agency are directed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Gross income: means :

              (a) The income from any source, including but not limited to salaries, wages, commissions, bonuses, dividends, severance pay, pensions, interest, trust income, recurring monetary gifts, annuities, capital gains, social security benefits, workers' compensation benefits, basic and variable allowances for housing and subsistence from military pay and benefits, unemployment insurance benefits, disaster unemployment assistance received from the United States Department of Labor, disability insurance benefits, and spousal support received from a preexisting spousal support obligation;

              (b) Expense reimbursement or in-kind payments received by a parent in the course of employment, self-employment, or operation of a business, if the reimbursements or payments are significant and reduce the parent's personal living expenses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315

• Health care provider: shall mean every licensed health care facility and licensed health care provider, as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1105.1
• Health care provider: means a person, partnership, corporation, facility, or institution licensed by the state or federal government to provide health care or professional services as a physician, osteopath, hospital, blood bank or tissue bank and/or an officer, employee, or agent thereof acting in the course and scope of his employment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1113.1
• Health insurance premiums: means the actual amount paid by a party for providing health insurance on behalf of the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
• Healthcare facility: means a facility, including but not limited to a hospital, or an office where a healthcare provider furnishes care to patients for health needs or medical conditions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1109.1
• Healthcare provider: includes a genetic counselor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1109.1
• HIV test: means a laboratory test approved by the Louisiana Department of Health to detect antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1113.1
• Hospital: means a facility that is duly licensed as a hospital in accordance with the provisions of the Hospital Licensing Law, Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1109.1
• Imitation controlled dangerous substance: means a noncontrolled substance which by appearance or operation, including color, shape, size, markings, or packaging, or by representations made, or by its pharmacological effect, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled dangerous substance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Immediate precursor: means a substance which the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health has found to be and by regulation designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use, and which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled dangerous substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail, or limit such manufacture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Income: means :

              (a) Actual gross income of a party, if the party is employed to full capacity; or

              (b) Potential income of a party, if the party is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315

• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Industrial hemp: means the plant Cannabis sativa and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Initial operating budget: means the amount of the appropriation on July first of a particular fiscal year for that fiscal year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Input: means any resource used to implement a policy, program, or specific service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• 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}
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• Isomers: refers to optical isomers and/or stereoisomers and mixtures thereof, unless specifically excepted in this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any aerosol product and a requirement made by or under authority of this Act that any word, statement, or other information appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement, or other information also appears (a) on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, unless it is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper and (b) on all accompanying literature where there are directions for use, written or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1057.1
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Legend drug: means any drug or drug product bearing on the label of the manufacturer or distributor, as required by the federal Food and Drug Administration, the statement "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription". See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, or processing of a controlled dangerous substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Marijuana: means all parts of plants of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Medical support: means health insurance and the payment of the medical expenses of the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
• Member: includes actual members of associations with or without capital stock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:72
• Member: includes actual members of associations without capital stock and holders of common stock in associations organized with capital stock;

  (3)  "Association" means any association organized under this Part; and,

  (4)  "Person" includes individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:122

• Mineral water: means bottled water that contains not less than 500 parts per million total dissolved solids. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Money available for appropriation: means the amount of money to be received for a fiscal year by the state general fund and dedicated funds, exclusive of federal funds and those amounts appropriated or allocated by the Constitution of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• narcotic drug: as used in this Part shall not include decocainized coca leaves or extracts of coca leaves, which extracts do not contain cocaine or ecgonine. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Net child care costs: means the reasonable costs of child care incurred by a party due to employment or job search, minus the value of the federal income tax credit for child care. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
• Nitrogen-heterocyclic analog: means a nitrogen-heterocyclic analog of a synthetic cannabinoid which has a single carbon atom in a cyclic structure of a compound replaced by a nitrogen atom. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Nondiscretionary adjusted standstill budget: shall mean and shall contain the following:

              (a) The budget unit's current-year existing operating budget as of December first. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2

• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Objective: is a specific and measurable target for achievement which describes the exact results sought, which is expressed in an outcome-oriented statement that may reflect effectiveness, efficiency, or quality of work, and which may be either numeric or non-numeric. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Office: shall mean the office of the president. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1105.1
• Official forecast: means the most recently adopted estimate of money available for appropriation by the Revenue Estimating Conference as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Opiate: means any dangerous substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having such addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Opium poppy: means the plant of the species Papaver somniferum, except the seeds thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Ordinary medical expenses: means unreimbursed medical expenses less than or equal to two hundred fifty dollars per child per year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315
• Outcome: means evidence or demonstration of the actual impact or public benefit of a program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Output: means the quantity of actual service or product delivered by an agency or program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Participating hospital: shall mean every hospital operating as such in the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1105.1
• Pathology laboratory: shall mean every pathology laboratory located or doing business in the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1105.1
• Patient: means the person or animal who is the ultimate user of a controlled substance or drug monitored by the program for whom a prescription is issued and for whom a controlled substance or drug is dispensed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Patient: means a natural person who receives health care from a health care provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1113.1
• Pediatric: means children and youth eligible and certified for Medicaid coverage, Louisiana Children's Health Insurance Program coverage, or coverage under a Louisiana Medicaid waiver program or Louisiana Medicaid managed care program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1077.1
• Performance indicator: means a statement identifying an activity, input, output, outcome, achievement, ratio, efficiency, or quality to be measured relative to a particular goal or objective in order to assess an agency's performance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Person: includes individuals, firms, partnerships, corporations, and associations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:72
• Person: includes any institution whether public or private, hospitals or clinics operated by the state or any of its political subdivisions, and any corporation, association, partnership, or one or more individuals. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, or association, or the legal representative or agent of any of these. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1057.1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Physical dependence: means a physiologic state of neuroadaptation which is characterized by the emergence of a withdrawal syndrome if drug use is stopped or decreased abruptly, or if an antagonist is administered. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Place of business: means a permanent location or a portion of a permanent location from which business, in a regulated profession or occupation, is transacted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
• Plant operator: means any person who owns or operates a bottled water plant and who meets the requirements of Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• PMP: means the program established in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Poppy straw: means all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• positive reaction: means a positive HIV test with a positive confirmatory test, including, but not limited to the western blot. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1113.1
• 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}
• Practitioner: means a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to, or administer a controlled dangerous substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Pre-hospital care: means the provision of emergency medical care or transportation by trained and certified or licensed emergency medical services personnel at the scene of an emergency and while transporting sick or injured persons to a medical care facility or provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• 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.
• Prescribe: means to issue a written request or order for a controlled dangerous substance by a person licensed under this Part for a legitimate medical purpose. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Prescriber: means a licensed healthcare professional with prescriptive authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Prescription: means a written request for a drug or therapeutic aid issued by a licensed physician, dentist, veterinarian, osteopath, or podiatrist for a legitimate medical purpose, for the purpose of correcting a physical, mental, or bodily ailment, and acting in good faith in the usual course of his professional practice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Prescription monitoring information: means data submitted to and maintained by the prescription monitoring program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• President: shall mean the president of the Louisiana State University System or his designee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1105.1
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Procedure: means any dental or medical practice or process described in the current year's version of the American Dental Association's current Dental Terminology or the American Medical Association's Code of Procedural Terminology. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1003
• Production: includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled dangerous substance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Program: means a grouping of activities directed toward the accomplishment of a clearly defined objective or set of objectives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Promising practices: means a practice that presents, based upon preliminary information, potential for becoming a research-based or evidence-based program or practice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Purified water: means bottled water produced by distillation, deionization, reverse osmosis or other suitable process and that meets the definition of purified water in the most recent edition of the United States Pharmacopeia. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Quality: means degree or grade of excellence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Radiation center: shall mean every freestanding radiation diagnostic and treatment facility in the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1105.1
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:651
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health or his successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• secretary: means the head of the Louisiana Department of Health, or his legally authorized representative or agent. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1057.1
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1075.3
• Spring water: means water derived from an underground formation from which water flows naturally to the surface of the earth. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• State planning and budgeting system: refers to the processes and functions prescribed in Subtitle I of this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Stimulant: means a drug which contains a quantity of amphetamine or any of its isomers; any salt of amphetamine or any salt of an isomer of amphetamine; or any substance listed in Schedules II(C) or III(A) of Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Strategic planning: is a process of agency self-assessment and objective setting which considers an organization's purpose, capacities and environment, and results in a strategic plan which determines a path for development of the organization's resources in order to achieve meaningful results. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supporting document: means the document prepared by the budget office and composed of supporting information, data, and documentation used to develop the executive budget. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Supporting objective: means an objective that is designated as such by the commissioner of administration and is included in the executive budget supporting document and not included in the executive budget. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Supporting performance indicator: means a performance indicator which is designated as such by the commissioner of administration and is included in the executive budget supporting document and not included in the executive budget. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Surplus: means the excess for any fiscal year of the actual monies received and any monies or balances carried forward over the actual expenditures paid by warrant or transfer for any fund at the close of the fiscal year as such are reported by the office of statewide reporting within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:2
• Surviving spouse: means a person who is legally married to a member of the system and living with the member at the time of his death. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1402
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Tolerance: means the physiologic state resulting from regular use of a drug in which an increased dosage is needed to produce the same effect or a reduced effect is observed with a constant dose. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a controlled dangerous substance for his own use or for the use of a member of his household or for administration to an animal owned by him or by a member of his household. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:961
• Unique provider of health services for catastrophically ill children: means an institution designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center focused solely on pediatrics and that is a children's hospital dedicated to caring for children with catastrophic illness and conducting basic and advanced research into catastrophic childhood diseases such as cancers, acquired and inherited immunodeficiencies, and genetic disorders. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:1077.1
• Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Water dealer: means any person who imports bottled water or causes bulk water to be transported for bottling for human consumption or other consumer uses. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Well water: means water from a hole bored, drilled or otherwise constructed in the ground which taps the water of an aquifer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:732
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.