Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 46 > Chapter 3 > Part I - Adult Services

• Advisor: means a person who regularly provides legal, accounting, or management services or advice to a licensee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2397
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affiliate: when used with respect to a specified person, means any person, other than a natural person, controlling, controlled by or under common control with, such specified person, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Affiliate: means , when used with reference to a specified person, an entity that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls or is controlled by or is under common control with the entity specified. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• 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.
• Ancillary agreement: means any bond, insurance policy, letter of credit, reserve account, surety bond, swap arrangement, hedging arrangement, liquidity or credit support arrangement, or other financial arrangement entered into in connection with the issuance or payment of system restoration bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Associate: means , if used with respect to a licensee:

  (i)  A controlling person, director, manager, officer, agent, or advisor of that licensee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2397

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• BIDCO: means a business and industrial development company licensed under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Business firm: means a person who transacts business on a regular and continual basis, or a person that proposes to transact business on a regular and continual basis. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Certificate of documentation: means a certificate issued by the United States Coast Guard for a vessel documented under 46 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Certificate of origin: means a document establishing the initial chain of ownership, such as a manufacturer's certificate of origin (MCO) or statement of origin (MSO), or an importer's certificate of origin (ICO) or statement of origin (ISO), or a builder's certification (Form CG-1261, under Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• 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.
• Close relative: means parent, child, sibling, spouse, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, nephew, niece, uncle, or aunt. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2397
• Closing services: includes but is not limited to appraising property and preparing credit reports. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2397
• Commission: means the Louisiana Commission on Human Rights. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Commission: means the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission or, solely with respect to an electric or gas utility furnishing electric or natural gas service within the city of New Orleans, the council of the city of New Orleans, as applicable. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Commissioner: means a member of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the Office of Financial Institutions within the office of the governor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3516
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consumer: means a natural person who purchases goods, services, or movable or immovable property or rights therein, for a personal, family, or household purpose and includes a purchaser or buyer in a consumer credit sale or transaction made with the use of a seller credit card or otherwise, or a borrower or debtor in a consumer loan, revolving loan account, or a lender credit card. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3516
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contributed proceeds: means the monies contributed by the corporation to a trust. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Control: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a licensee or a small concern whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Controlling person: when used with respect to a specified person means a person who controls that specified person directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Corporate name: means the name of a corporation or limited liability company as set forth in the articles of incorporation of a corporation or the articles of organization of a limited liability company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• 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.
• Corporation: means the Louisiana Utilities Restoration Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means any person who engages wholly or in part in the business of buying, selling, or exchanging for value new or used vessels or outboard motors, or both, either outright or on conditional sale, bailment, lease, chattel mortgage, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Department: means the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and its duly authorized representatives. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Disability: means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the individual, a record of such impairment, or being regarded as having such an impairment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Discriminatory practice in connection with employment: means an employment practice prohibited by Chapter 3-A of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, or by Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Discriminatory practice in connection with public accommodations: means any direct or indirect act or practice of exclusion, distinction, restriction, segregation, limitation, refusal, denial, or any other act or practice of differentiation or preference in the treatment of a person or persons because of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, or natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Electric utility: means an "electric public utility" as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• 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.
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Financing assistance: means to lend money or otherwise extend credit to a person or to purchase securities issued by a person, either directly or indirectly through an underwriter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Financing costs: means any of the following:

              (a) Interest and acquisition, defeasance, or redemption premiums that are payable on system restoration bonds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Financing order: means an order of the commission, if granted by the commission in its sole discretion, which allows for all of the following:

              (a) The assessment, imposition, and periodic adjustment of system restoration charges by the corporation and the collection thereof by a utility as an agent on behalf of the corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Financing party: means any holder of system restoration bonds, any party to or beneficiary of an ancillary agreement, and any trustee, collateral agent, or other person acting for the benefit of any of the foregoing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing board: means that board of directors of the corporation which is established under Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Hearing examiner: means one or more persons or commissioners designated by the commission to conduct a hearing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Houseboat: means a vessel constructed for the primary purpose of a temporary or permanent dwelling without an effective means of propulsion for safe navigation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Hull identification number: means the number assigned to a vessel under Subpart C of Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Indigent: means any person who meets the state definition of indigent who would have qualified for indigent care in any general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana prior to arrest and who is housed in any parish or municipal jail or detention facility or state prison, shall be treated in the nearest general hospital owned and operated by the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:17
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insolvent: means a licensee that ceases to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business, that cannot pay its debts as they become due, or whose aggregate liabilities exceed its aggregate assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Interests of the licensee: includes the interests of shareholders or members of the licensee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Issuance costs: means any of the following:

              (a) Any initial payment made on issuance of, and any amount required to fund any system restoration sinking fund, reserve or overcollateralization fund, or other fund or account required by the documents pertaining to, system restoration bonds authorized by a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Issuer: means any Louisiana public corporation, public trust, or other entity that issues system restoration bonds approved by a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• 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}
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a license issued under this Chapter authorizing a Louisiana corporation or a Louisiana limited liability company to transact business as a BIDCO. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Licensee: means a Louisiana corporation or Louisiana limited liability company which is licensed under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien creditor: means any of the following:

              (a) A creditor that has acquired a lien on the property involved by attachment, sequestration, seizure, levy, or the like. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Lienholder: means a person holding a security interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Louisiana corporation: means a corporation incorporated under the Louisiana Business Corporation Law, La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Louisiana limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under the Louisiana Limited Liability Company Law, Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Louisiana nonprofit corporation: means a corporation incorporated under the Nonprofit Corporation Law, Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Major life activities: includes functions such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Management assistance: means management or technical advice or services provided to a person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Manufacturer: means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing or importing new vessels or outboard motors for the purpose of sale or trade. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Mental impairment: means any mental or psychological disorder, such as intellectual disability, organic brain syndrome, emotional or mental illness, and specific learning disabilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Motorboat: means any vessel equipped with or propelled by any type of machinery whether or not such machinery is the principal source of propulsion but shall not include a vessel which has a valid marine document issued by the Bureau of Customs of the United States Government or any federal agency successor thereto, unless the vessel is a recreational use vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• National origin: means the national origin of an ancestor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Officer: means :

  (a)  If used with respect to a corporation, a person appointed or designated as an officer of that corporation by or pursuant to applicable law or the articles of incorporation, or bylaws of that corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388

• Operate: means to navigate or otherwise use a motorboat or vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• operation: means all operations of a vessel or outboard motor when it is at the pier, idle in the water, at anchor, or being propelled through the water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Order: includes a condition of a license and an agreement made by a person with the commissioner under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Outboard motor: means a mechanical combustion engine manufactured to produce a twenty-five or more horsepower engine and designed to attach outboard of the transom of a vessel. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means a person, other than a lien holder, having a property interest in or title to a motorboat. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Owner: means a person, other than a secured party, having property rights in, or title to, a vessel or outboard motor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means one or more individuals, governments, governmental agencies, public authorities, labor organizations, corporations, legal representatives, partnerships, associations, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, unincorporated organizations, or other organized groups of persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• person: includes a combination of two or more persons acting in concert. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association, or other entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Person: means any natural person or individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, limited liability company, or other entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Person: as used in this Chapter means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, association, joint venture pool, syndicate, sole proprietorship, unincorporated organization, or any other form of entity not specifically listed herein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3516
• person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pledgee: means an issuer as pledgee of the corporation or an applicable financing party as pledgee of an issuer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Possesses: means the person has acquired rights in or title to a vessel or outboard motor by virtue of a gift, donation, raffle, or exchange or the person built the vessel or outboard motor themselves. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• 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.
• Preferred interests: means preferred equity interests in a utility affiliate that pay preferred dividends to the trust that purchased those preferred equity interests. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Principal: means the amount financed or amount deferred under a consumer credit transaction. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:3516
• Principal shareholder or member: means a person that owns, directly or indirectly, of record or beneficially, securities representing ten percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of a corporation or limited liability company. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Prohibited zone: means an area paralleling each side of the entire length of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge and extending outward for a distance of one mile from both the most easterly and westerly outboard sides of the causeway bridge twin spans. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchase proceeds: means the proceeds received by a utility affiliate from the sale of its preferred interests to a trust. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recipient: means the person who has received assistance under this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Related bonds: means , with respect to a trust, the system restoration bonds that funded the net proceeds transferred by an issuer to the corporation and then contributed by the corporation to that trust. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Related utility: means , with respect to a trust, the utility that is a beneficiary of such trust and that obtains a financing order pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• 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.
• Residential consumer: means an individual or family eligible for utility relief under the provisions of Title III of P. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:192
• Sailboat: means any watercraft propelled by sail or canvas. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Children and Family Services or the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:1
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Security interest: means an interest that is reserved or created by an agreement that secures payment or performance of an obligation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Short-term financing assistance: means financing assistance with a term of not more than five years. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2397
• State: means the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Storm: means a named tropical storm or hurricane, ice or snow storm, flood, or other significant weather or natural disaster that occurred during calendar year 2005 or that occurs thereafter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Storm damage reserve: means a utility's storm reserve or such other similar reserve established pursuant to order or rule of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Subject person: means a controlling person, subsidiary, or affiliate of a licensee; a director, manager, officer, or employee of a licensee or of a controlling person, subsidiary, or affiliate of a licensee, or any other person who participates in the conduct of the business of a licensee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subsidiary: means , if used with respect to a licensee, a company or business firm of which the licensee holds control. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2388
• System restoration activity: means any activity or activities by or on behalf of a utility in connection with the restoration of service associated with utility outages affecting customers of a utility as the result of a storm or storms, including but not limited to mobilization, staging, and construction, reconstruction, replacement, or repair of generation, transmission, distribution, or general plant facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration bonds: means bonds, notes, certificates of participation, or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued pursuant to this Part by an issuer at the request of the corporation and a utility, and authorized by a financing order, the net proceeds of which are transferred to the corporation and used as provided in this Part, and which are secured by and payable from system restoration property. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration charge: means the nonbypassable charges, if determined appropriate by the commission and provided for in a financing order, to be assessed by the corporation on, and collected by the utility or other collection agent from, all existing and future customers of a utility, and periodically adjusted, in an amount sufficient at all times to pay the principal of and interest on particular system restoration bonds as the same shall become due and payable, all other financing costs, and any other costs as necessary to otherwise ensure the timely payment of such system restoration bonds, all as the commission may authorize in a financing order. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration costs: means , if requested by the utility, and as may be approved by the commission, those prudent incremental costs incurred or to be incurred by a utility in undertaking a system restoration activity, including associated carrying costs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• System restoration property: means all of the following:

              (a) All rights and interests of the corporation arising out of this Part, including the right to receive system restoration charges billed and collected by the utility on the behalf of the corporation as authorized in the financing order, the right to enforce the obligations of the utility to collect and service the system restoration charges, and the right to obtain periodic adjustments to such charges as provided in the financing order and this Part. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312

• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust: means an express special public trust created only pursuant to and in compliance with the provisions of this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trust agreement: means , with respect to a trust, the written instrument that created the trust together with all proper amendments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• under common control with: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of an entity whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Undocumented vessel: means a vessel for which a certificate of documentation has not been issued by the United States Coast Guard under 46 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Unlawful practice: means a discriminatory practice in connection with employment, a discriminatory practice in connection with public accommodations, or any other practice prohibited by this Chapter or by Chapter 3-A of Title 23 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2232
• Utility: means an electric utility or a gas utility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1312
• Utility: means any publicly owned, investor-owned, cooperative or municipally controlled company, corporation, partnership, business, system, or person which supplies gas or electricity or both to residential consumers in Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 46:192
• Utility affiliate: means an affiliate of the utility that obtains a financing order pursuant to this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 45:1332
• Vessel: means watercraft and air boats of every description, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Vessel: means every description of watercraft and air boats, including homemade boats, other than a seaplane on the water, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, valued in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars, to be principally operated on the waters of this state, required to be numbered, not held as inventory for sale or lease, and transferred for the first time on or after July 1, 2008. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:852.2
• Watercraft: means any contrivance used or designated for navigation on water. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Waters of the state: means any waters within the territorial limits of this state and the marginal sea adjacent to this state and the high seas when navigated as a part of a journey or ride to or from the shore of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 34:851.2
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.