Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 45 > Chapter 4 > Part A - Motor Carriers

• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Certificate: means the permission issued, pursuant to the terms of Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Commission: means the Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Commissioner: means one of the members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Common carrier by motor vehicle: means any person, other than a contract carrier by bus, the essential nature of whose business comprises engaging in, soliciting, or accepting household goods, passengers, or waste, for intrastate transportation for hire, charge, or compensation as an employment or holding himself out as so available to the public generally and indiscriminately for such business, whether or not the business is conducted over a regular route, between fixed termini, within a defined area, or upon a regular or irregular schedule. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract carrier by bus: means any person transporting persons intrastate for hire, charge, or compensation over any highway of this state using a bus as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Contract carrier by motor vehicle: means any person not included under Paragraph (5) of this Section, who under special and individual contracts or agreements, and whether directly or by other arrangement, transports household goods, passengers, or waste by vehicle intrastate for compensation or hire, where in the course of the transportation a highway between two or more incorporated municipalities is traversed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation and Development. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Hazardous waste: means waste defined as hazardous by the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Highway: includes every way or place of whatever kind open to the use of the public for the purpose of vehicular traffic. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Household goods: means :

              (a) Personal effects and property used or to be used in a dwelling when the personal effects and property are a part of the equipment or supply of such dwelling. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Motor carriers: include both a common carrier by motor vehicle and contract carrier by motor vehicle, which transport household goods, passengers, waste intrastate, or any other classification of carriers created by law which transports household goods, passengers, or waste intrastate for compensation or hire. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Non-hazardous industrial solid waste: means waste defined as non-hazardous industrial solid waste by the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• 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.
• passenger service: means a nonscheduled charter passenger service using vehicles which meet manufacturer's specifications for no more than fifteen passengers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Permit: means the permission issued under the terms of Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Private carrier: when used in this Chapter means any person not included in the term "common carrier by motor vehicle" or "contract carrier by motor vehicle" transporting in intrastate commerce by motor vehicle property of which such person is the owner, lessee, or bailee when such transportation is for the purpose of sale, lease, rent, or bailment, or in furtherance of any commercial enterprise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Van pool: means a mode of transportation provided in any motor vehicle that is a passenger van, that has a seating capacity of not less than seven nor more than fifteen persons, including the driver, and in which the transportation is incidental to the purpose of the driver. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Vehicle: means every device by which any person or property is transported upon the highways of this state, except devices moved by animal power or exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162
• Waste: means :

              (a) "Non-hazardous oilfield wastes" means waste defined as non-hazardous oilfield wastes by Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:162