Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 4 > Chapter 4 - Racing

• Abortion-inducing drug: means any drug or chemical, or any combination of drugs or chemicals, or any other substance when used with the intent to cause an abortion, including but not limited to RU-486, the Mifeprex regimen, misoprostol (Cytotec), or methotrexate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• account wagering: means a form of pari-mutuel wagering in which an individual may deposit money in an account with an authorized licensee and then use the account balance to pay for pari-mutuel wagers made in person, by telephone call, or by communication through other electronic means. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:149.5
• accountability plan: means the statewide human services plan developed by the department in consultation with the Human Services Interagency Council which sets forth the criteria, process, timelines, guidelines for service delivery, clinical protocols, evidence-based practices, quality management and monitoring, data collection and reporting, performance outcome measures, and information management to be followed by the department and the districts. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Active duty: means active duty pursuant to an executive order of the president of the United States, an act of the Congress of the United States, or the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:311
• Addictive disorder: is a primary, chronic neurobiologic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Administrative costs: means costs incurred by the Louisiana Department of Health, office of public health in the administration of the program, including but not limited to:

              (a) Program startup costs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822

• Administrative units: means developmental centers and any other unit established under the administration and supervision of the office. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• administrator: means a person in charge of a treatment facility or his deputy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Administrator: means the administrator of veterans' affairs of the United States or his successor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• admission: as used in this Chapter includes the charges made for seats and tables, reserved or otherwise, and other similar accommodations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:44
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Agency: means a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:341
• Agency: means a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit of state government. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:352
• Agency head: means the chief executive or administrative officer of an agency or the chairman of a board or commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:341
• Agent contract: means any contract or agreement, whether written or oral, under which an athlete authorizes an athlete agent to negotiate or solicit on behalf of the athlete for the employment of the athlete by one or more professional sports teams. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Agricultural use: means farming in all of its branches, including but not limited to the cultivation and the tillage of the soil; the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any products from agricultural, horticulture, aquaponic, hydroponic, or aquaculture practices; the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, dairy-producing animals, and poultry; agricultural education; agricultural tourism; or any practices performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident to or in conjunction with farming operations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4751
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amateur: means any of the following:

  (a)  Contests or exhibitions of armed or unarmed combat or any combination thereof conducted by or participated in exclusively by any state-accredited middle school or high school, college, or university, or by any association or organization of a school, college, or university, when each participant in the contests or exhibitions is a bona fide student in the state-accredited middle school or high school, college, or university. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:85

• amounts distributed in partial liquidation: means a distribution by a corporation in complete cancellation or redemption of a part of its stock, or one of a series of distributions in complete cancellation or redemption of all or a portion of its stock. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:159
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Anything of value: means any thing of value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a person or place of business that makes a formal application for a license, permit, certification, registration, or certificate issued pursuant to this Title. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriate: means all of the following:

              (a) In accordance with standards of the Louisiana Department of Health and the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Asset forfeiture: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the office for citizens with developmental disabilities of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Athlete: means a student who resides in this state, or a student who does not reside in this state but has informed in writing an institution of higher education in this state of the student's intent to participate in that school's intercollegiate sports contests, and who is characterized by either of the following:

  (i)  Is eligible to participate in junior high, high school, or intercollegiate sports contests as a member of a sports team of a junior high, high school, or institution of higher education which is located in this state and which is a member of a federation or association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421

• Athlete agent: means any person who recruits or solicits an athlete to enter into an agent contract or professional sport services contract with any person, or who offers anything of value to any person to induce an athlete to enter into an agreement by which any person will represent the athlete, or who for anything of value procures, offers, promises, or attempts to obtain employment for an athlete with a professional sports team. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney general: means the Louisiana attorney general. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2863
• Authorized agent: means an employee of the department designated by the state health officer to enforce the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bank stabilization works: means concrete, rock, masonry, rip-rap, or similar materials used to cover existing banks or shorelines or bulkheads located above the mean low water line, all in acres subject to erosion, to combat the same. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• 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.
• Behavioral health: is a term used to refer to both mental health and substance use. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Behavioral health services: means community-based mental health and substance-related and addictive disorders services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Beneficiary: means a person who resides or is employed in this state and is covered or is eligible to be covered by a health plan. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2863
• Beneficiary: means the eligible recipient of a pension, annuity, retirement allowance, or other benefit provided in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Benefits: means all moneys paid or payable by the United States through the veterans administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Board: means the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Board: means the Louisiana Emergency Response Network Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2842
• board: means the governing authority which has the ultimate jurisdiction over a profession, occupation, or activity which under state law or regulation requires a person to meet certain skills, training, or educational standards prior to being authorized, licensed, or certified to practice or to render a specific service or engage in a trade. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:92
• Board: means the governing body of the district or authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Board: means any agency, board, commission, or office, public or private, that issues any license for activity specified in Paragraph (6) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• Board of Pharmacy: means the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2863
• Board of trustees: means the board provided for in Part V of this Chapter to administer the retirement system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Bulk: means in nonpackaged form. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Burial: means the placement of human remains in a grave. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Capitalization grant: means the assistance agreement by which the United States Environmental Protection Agency obligates and awards funds allotted to the state for the purposes of capitalizing the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund as well as any other monies for other purposes authorized by the federal act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Case records: means medical and treatment records, records and investigations of abuse or neglect of adults, records of public health services including children's special health services, nutrition, and immunization, and other medical, disability, or behavioral health service records related to services provided by the district or authority or the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Cemetery: means a place used or intended to be used for the interment of the human dead and, to the extent allowed in accordance with this Title, pet remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Cemetery authority: means any person, firm, corporation, limited liability company, trustee, partnership, association, or municipality owning, operating, controlling, or managing a cemetery or holding lands within this state for interment purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Cemetery space: means a grave, crypt, vault, niche, tomb, lawn crypt, or any other property used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Chalk: means a soft, friable, loosely consolidated material composed primarily of calcium carbonate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Children: as used in this Part , are defined as children of the firefighter and/or children of the widow of the firefighter who are solely dependent upon the firefighter for their support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:3378
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• Client: refers to a recipient of services who has been charged with or convicted of a crime and who requires special protection and restraint in a forensic treatment facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Clinically diagnosable pregnancy: means a pregnancy that is capable of being verified by one of the following conventional medical testing methods, whether or not any testing was in fact performed by any person:

              (a) A blood or urine test, whether used at home or in a medical setting, that tests for the human pregnancy hormone known as human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) that medically indicates that implantation has occurred. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1

• Club: means any club, corporation, association, or individual under the authority of the commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:85
• Commercial: means built or operated for any purpose where revenue is produced or profit realized. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Commercial body art facility: means any location, place, area, or business, whether permanent or temporary, which provides consumers access to personal services workers who for remuneration perform any of the following procedures:

              (a) Tattooing or the insertion of pigment under the surface of the skin of a human being, by pricking with a needle or otherwise, to produce an indelible mark or figure visible under the skin. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831

• Commission: means the State Boxing and Wrestling Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:85
• commissioner: means the "Commissioner, Louisiana Department of Agriculture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Commissioner of insurance: means the Louisiana commissioner of insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2863
• Community home: means a living option, certified, licensed, or monitored by the Louisiana Department of Health, where six or fewer people with developmental disabilities reside. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Compensation: means a payment of money, objects, services, or anything else having monetary value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Conduit individual retirement account: means an account which is covered by the provisions of Section 408(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code, provided the account only contains assets rolled over to the account as an eligible rollover distribution from a qualified plan, plus earnings on those assets, but does not contain any other assets. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Consumer: means any individual who is provided access to a tanning facility which is required to be registered pursuant to provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Consumer: means any individual who is provided access to a commercial body art facility which is required to be registered pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831
• Consumer: means any person who purchases agricultural liming materials for use on fields owned or leased by that person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Contact: means any communication by an athlete agent or by any intermediary with an athlete, or with any third person for the purpose of having that third person communicate with the athlete about the possibility of or formation of any business, financial, or other contractual relationship or agreement, including an agent contract, a professional services contract, or a professional sports services contract. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Contempt of court: means that a person has been found guilty of a direct contempt of court for a contumacious failure to comply with a subpoena, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Article 222(5), or a constructive contempt of court for willful disobedience of a lawful order of the court, pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure Article 224(2), in or ancillary to a child support or paternity proceeding. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• Contraceptive: means any device, measure, drug, chemical, or product, including single-ingredient levonorgestrel, that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the purpose of preventing pregnancy and is intended to be administered prior to the time when a clinically diagnosable pregnancy can be determined, provided that the contraceptive is sold, prescribed, or administered in accordance with manufacturer's instructions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: means any corporation or limited liability company which is authorized by its articles or an operating agreement to conduct any one or more of the businesses of a cemetery. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Cost: means , with reference to a project, all capital costs incurred or to be incurred for a public water system, including but not limited to:

              (a) Engineering, financing, and other fees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822

• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Court: means any court exercising jurisdiction over the determination of child support, paternity, or criminal neglect of family proceedings. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Creditable service: means "Prior Service" plus "Membership Service" for which credit is allowable as provided in Part III of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Cremated remains: means human remains after cremation in a crematory. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Cremation: means the reduction of the body of a deceased person to cremated remains in a crematory. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Crematory: means a building or structure containing one or more retorts for the reduction of bodies of deceased persons to cremated remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Curator: means any person acting as a fiduciary for an incompetent ward. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dangerous to others: means the condition of a person whose behavior or significant threats support a reasonable expectation that there is a substantial risk that he will inflict physical harm upon another person in the near future. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2842
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Department: means the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Department: means the Department of Children and Family Services when rendering child support enforcement services in  TANF or non-TANF cases. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• Department of Insurance: means the Louisiana Department of Insurance. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2863
• Department of Justice: means the Louisiana Department of Justice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2863
• Deposit: means the action of placing or moving materials by artificial means, over state lands which results in or adds to a landfill, whether contained within a bulkhead or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• 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.
• Determination: means determination of eligibility for entry into the system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Developmental disabilities services: means programs, services, and supports for persons with developmental disabilities that include but are not limited to information and referral services, support coordination services, system entry services, development of the support profiles and plans, individual and family support services, living options, habilitation services, and vocational services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Developmental disability: means either:

              (a) A severe, chronic disability of a person that:

              (i) Is attributable to an intellectual or physical impairment or combination of intellectual and physical impairments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Diagnosis: means the art and science of determining the presence of disease in an individual and distinguishing one disease from another. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Disadvantaged community: means the service area of a public water system wherein the system's existing or projected rates for water service do not meet affordability criteria established under the Intended Use Plan of the Louisiana Department of Health, office of public health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Discharge: means the full or conditional release from a treatment facility of any person admitted or otherwise detained under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disparagement: means dissemination to the public in any manner of any false information that the disseminator knows or should have known to be false, and which states or implies that a perishable agricultural or aquacultural food product is not safe for consumption by the consuming public. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4502
• Disposition: means the interment, burial, cremation, or anatomical donation of the body of a deceased person or parts of the body of a deceased person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Disturb: includes excavating, removing, exposing, defacing, mutilating, destroying, molesting, or desecrating in any way any unmarked burial sites or any human skeletal remains, burial artifacts, or burial markers on or in an unmarked burial site without a permit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:673
• dividend: when used in this Chapter (except in Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:159
• Division: means the public protection division of the Department of Justice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund: means the revolving loan fund established under this Chapter pursuant to the authority of the federal act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Earnable compensation: means the compensation earned by a member during the full normal working time as a teacher. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Elected official: means any person holding an office in a governmental entity which is filled by the vote of the appropriate electorate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:341
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Emergency contraceptive: means a drug, chemical, or product, including but not limited to single-ingredient levonorgestrel or ulipristal, that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration designed or intended to be taken after sexual intercourse but prior to the time when a clinically diagnosable pregnancy can be determined, provided that the emergency contraceptive is sold, prescribed, or administered in accordance with manufacturer's instructions or is prescribed in accordance with the standard of care that is generally accepted by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Employer: means the state of Louisiana, any city, parish, or other local school board, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, any board created by La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Encroachment: means any construction, or improvement, obstacle, fill, or material which is placed upon or maintained upon state lands. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
• Environmental review: means an environmental review process conducted by the Louisiana Department of Health of any public water system that has applied for or has received a loan or other assistance from the program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Estate: means income on hand and assets acquired partially or wholly with income. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• 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
• Exhibition: means :

  (a)  As applied to boxing and mixed technique events, any event in which the participants show or display their skills without necessarily striving to win. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:85

• Facility administrator: means the official appointed as the head of a state or privately operated residential facility and includes anyone designated by the facility administrator to act on behalf of the facility administrator. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Federal act: means the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal law: means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, (Title 26 United States Code) and applicable U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:287.701
• Federal Meat Inspection Act: means the act so entitled approved March 4, 1907, as amended by the Wholesome Meat Act (21 U. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Federal Poultry Products Inspection Act: means the act so entitled, approved August 28, 1957 (Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Federation or association: means any state or national association for the promotion and regulation of interscholastic or intercollegiate sports governing athletes and their relationships with athlete agents. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• fertilization: means the fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• firm: means any partnership, association, or other unincorporated business organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Fiscal year: means the period beginning July first of any year and ending June thirtieth of the next succeeding year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Fiscal year: means an accounting period of twelve months ending on the last day of any month other than December. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:98
• Force majeure: means any of the following circumstances:

              (a) A major storm, major flood, or other similar natural disaster. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1

• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• framework: means the requirements specified in the contract between the department and the district that set forth the organizational structure, eligible and priority populations, core and targeted services, and standards for intake and access to institutional and community services, which require adherence to the human services accountability plan for a district. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Genetic gestational carrier: means the process by which a woman attempts to carry and give birth to a child using her own gametes and either the gametes of a person who intends to parent the child or donor gametes, when there is an agreement to relinquish the custody of and all rights and obligations to the child. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Gestational age: means the age of the unborn child as measured by the time elapsed since the first day of the last menstrual period as determined by a physician and confirmed through the use of an ultrasound test of a quality generally used in existing medical practice. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Gestational carrier: means a woman who agrees to engage in a process by which she attempts to carry and give birth to a child born as a result of an in utero transfer of a human embryo to which she makes no genetic contribution. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Governing body: means the board or body in which the bond issuing power of a governmental unit is vested. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 13:5121
• Governmental agency: means the state, its political subdivisions, or any agency thereof, Indian tribes, and combinations of governmental entities, which have the authority to own, construct, or operate a public water system or a wastewater treatment facility and other related activities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Governmental entity: means the state or any political subdivision. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:341
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grave: means a space of ground in a cemetery, used or intended to be used, for burial. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Group home: means a living option, certified, licensed, or monitored by the department, where seven to fifteen people with developmental disabilities reside. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• Health plan: means an individual or group plan or program which is established by contract, certificate, law, plan, policy, subscriber agreement, or by any other method and which is entered into, issued, or offered for the purpose of arranging for, delivering, paying for, providing, or reimbursing any of the costs of health or medical care, including pharmacy services, drugs, or devices. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2863
• Human remains: means the body of a deceased person and includes the body in any stage of decomposition, as well as cremated remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Human services authority or district: means a special authority or district provided for in Chapter 21 of this Title that has assigned powers, duties, and functions regarding the delivery of mental health, developmental disabilities, and addictive disorders services funded by appropriations from the state and provided through memoranda of agreement with the program offices of the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Human skeletal remains: means any part of the body of a deceased human being in any stage of decomposition. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:673
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• In utero embryo transfer: means the medical procedure whereby the genetic mother's egg is fertilized with the sperm of the genetic father, with the resulting embryo transferred into the uterus of the gestational carrier. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Income: means moneys received from the veterans administration and revenue or profit from any property wholly or partially acquired therewith. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• 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

• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Indian tribe: means an Indian tribe having a federally recognized governing body carrying out substantial governmental duties and powers over any area within the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• 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.
• Individual: means any human being. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• induced abortion: means the performance of any act with the intent to terminate a clinically diagnosable pregnancy with knowledge that the termination by those means will, with reasonable likelihood, cause the death of the unborn child by one or more of the following means:

              (i) Administering, prescribing, or providing any abortion-inducing drug, potion, medicine, or any other substance, device, or means to a pregnant female. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institution: means any institution of higher education in this state having an athlete contract with an athlete. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• institution-affiliated party: means :

  (1)  A director, officer, employee, agent, or controlling stockholder of a savings bank operating under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 6:1335

• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Intended parents: means a married couple who each exclusively contribute their own gametes to create their embryo and who enter into an enforceable gestational carrier contract, as defined in this Chapter, with a gestational carrier pursuant to which the intended parents will be the legal parents of the child resulting from an in utero embryo transfer. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:2718.1
• Intended Use Plan: means a document which describes how the state intends to use the federal capitalization grant funds, state matching funds, principal repayments, interest earnings, and any other monies associated with the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Program during each year in order to meet the objectives of the federal act and further the goal of protecting public health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Interdisciplinary review: means a review by a team of professionals for the purpose of determining the presence of a developmental disability as defined in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Interdisciplinary team: means a group that reviews information, data and input from a person to make recommendations relevant to the needs of the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Interest holder: means a secured party within the meaning of La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2601
• Interment: means the disposition of human remains by inurnment, scattering, entombment, or burial in a place used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Internal Revenue Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• intervening transfer or storage: means no longer in possession of meat products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• intervention and stabilization unit: means a type of crisis receiving center in which a staff of mental health and behavioral health specialists provide a high level of screening and assessment to people experiencing mental health or behavioral health crises. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:931
• intrastate commerce: means commerce within the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container (not including package liners) of any article. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Label: means any written or printed matter on or attached to a package of materials or an invoice for a shipment of bulk materials. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter (1) upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers, or (2) accompanying such article. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Landfill: means the direct or induced raising or elevating of any navigable waterbottom by deposit to the extent that newly emerging land results, not covered at mean low water or navigable rivers and streams or mean high water on other state properties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means any license, certification, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to or granting authority for any of the following:

  (a)  To engage in a profession, occupation, business, or industry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31

• Licensee: means any individual holding a license, certification, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in any activity specified in Paragraph (6) hereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life Insurance Company: means an insurance company engaged in the business of issuing life insurance and annuity contracts (including contracts of combined life, health, and accident insurance), the reserve funds of which held for the fulfillment of such contracts comprise more than fifty per centum (50%) of its total reserve funds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:221
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• livestock: means any animal bred, kept, maintained, raised, or used for show, profit, or for the purpose of selling or otherwise producing crops, animals, or plant or animal products for market. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2651
• Living options: means a variety of service settings wherein people with developmental disabilities live, including but not limited to extended family living, supported living, community homes, group homes, and residential facilities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Loan: means a loan of money from the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund for eligible project costs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Local governing entity: means an integrated human services delivery system with local accountability and management and which provides behavioral health and developmental disabilities services through local human services districts and authorities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Manager: means any individual designated by the owner to manage the daily business of a commercial body art facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831
• Manufacturer: means a person who produces agricultural liming materials which are sold, offered for sale, or distributed in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Marl: means a granular or loosely consolidated earthy material composed primarily of seashell fragments and calcium carbonate. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Material: means rock, gravel, sand, shell, silt, or other inorganic substances used to fill any state lands of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• materials: means solid or liquid materials which contain calcium or magnesium and which are sold, offered for sale, or distributed for use in neutralizing acidity in agricultural soils. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• meat food product: means any product capable of use as human food which is made wholly or in part from any meat or other portion of the carcass of any cattle, sheep, swine, poultry or goats, excepting products which contain meat or other portions of such carcasses only in a relatively small proportion or historically have not been considered by consumers as products of the meat food industry, and which are exempted from definition as a meat food product by the commissioner under such conditions as he may prescribe to assure that the meat or other portions of such carcasses contained in such product are not adulterated and that such products are not represented as meat food products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Medically futile: means that, in reasonable medical judgment as certified by two physicians, the unborn child has a profound and irremediable congenital or chromosomal anomaly that is incompatible with sustaining life after birth. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Member: means any teacher included in the membership of the system as provided in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Mental health advocacy service: means a service established by the state of Louisiana for the purpose of providing legal counsel and representation for persons with mental illness or substance-related or addictive disorders and for ensuring that the legal rights of those persons are protected. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Mixed technique event: means contests in which contestants attack and defend with wrestling or grappling and with the fists and other parts of the human body, including but not limited to the foot, knee, leg, elbow, or head, wherein dangerous blows are intended to be struck with full contact. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:85
• Most integrated setting: is a n environment that includes the full range of service and support options that reflect the desires and goals of the person and that address the needs of the person and which promotes the full participation in daily life and activities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• mother: means a female human being, whether or not she has reached the age of majority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Motor vehicle: means any automobile, car, minivan, passenger van, sport utility vehicle, pickup truck, or other self-propelled vehicle not operated or driven on fixed rails or track. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:311
• Net allocable income or loss: means net allocable income or loss earned within or derived from sources within Louisiana and is the mathematical remainder when subtracting from Louisiana gross allocable income or loss:

  (1)  Allowable deductions within the meaning of Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:287.701

• Net apportionable income or loss: means net apportionable income or loss earned within or derived from sources within Louisiana as computed pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:287.701
• Net proceeds: means the funds raised from the sale of bonds minus issuance costs, which costs include but are not limited to the underwriting discount, printing of disclosure documents' bond certificates, and the fees of the underwriter's legal counsel, bond counsel, financial advisor, rating agency, and trustee banks. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Network: means the Louisiana Emergency Response Network. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2842
• Niche: means a space in a columbarium used or intended to be used for inurnment of cremated human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• 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.
• Non-community water system: means a public water system that serves persons in a nonresidential setting. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Noncommercial: means built or maintained by either private citizens or nonprofit corporations for the purpose of recreation and enjoyment and not for revenue production, except for nonprofit corporations, or realizing profit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• noncompetitive lease: as used in this Chapter shall not refer to any proposed use for which the lease is granted. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1709
• Obligation: means any retail installment sales contract, other contract for the purchase of goods or services, or bond, bill, note, or other instrument of writing for the payment of money arising out of the contract or other transaction for the purchase of goods or services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:311
• Obligee: means any person to whom an award of child support is owed and may include the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• Obligor: means any individual legally obligated to support a child or children pursuant to an order of support. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• official certificate: means any certificate prescribed by regulations of the commissioner for issuance by an inspector or other person performing official functions under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• official device: means any device prescribed or authorized by the commissioner for use in applying any official mark. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• official mark: means the official inspection legend or any other symbol prescribed by regulations of the commissioner to identify the status of any article or animal under this Act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Operator: means any individual designated by the registrant to operate or to assist and instruct the consumer in the operation and use of the tanning facility or tanning equipment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Operator: means any individual designated by the registrant to apply or to assist in the performance of body art procedures upon the consumer for remuneration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831
• Order of support: means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including any judgment or order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• Other similar services: includes but is not limited to the drilling of oil and gas wells. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:287.701
• Owner: means a person to whom the cemetery authority has transferred full title to or the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space and who appears as the title holder in the official records of the cemetery authority. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Owner: means a person, other than an interest holder, who has an interest in property and, if required by law, is in compliance with any statute requiring recordation or reflection in public records in order to perfect the interest against a bona fide purchaser for value. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2601
• Owner: means any person who operates a commercial body art facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831
• Owner: means the actual owner of record. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• paid or accrued: shall be construed according to the method of accounting upon the basis of which the net income is computed under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:98
• Parent: means a person who is the biological mother or father of an individual or the legally adoptive mother or father of an individual. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Patient: means any person detained and taken care of as a person who has a mental illness or person who is suffering from a substance-related or addictive disorder. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Peace officer: means any employee of the state, a municipality, a sheriff, or other public agency, whose permanent duties actually include the making of arrests, the performing of searches and seizures, or the execution of criminal warrants, and is responsible for the prevention or detection of crime or for the enforcement of the penal, traffic, or highway laws of this state, but not including any elected or appointed head of a law enforcement department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2402
• Perishable agricultural or aquacultural food product: means any food product of agriculture or aquaculture which is sold or distributed in a form that will perish or decay beyond marketability within a period of time. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4502
• Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, trust, or any other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Person: means an individual, company, corporation, association, partnership, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Person: shall mean any individual, partnership, corporation, organization, or entity not including political subdivisions or state agencies. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Person: means a person with a developmental disability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Person: means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, or an association. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Persons: means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this state, any other state, or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of these entities. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Petition: means a written civil complaint filed by a person of legal age alleging that a person has a mental illness or is suffering from a substance-related or addictive disorder and requires judicial commitment to a treatment facility. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Phototherapy device: means a piece of equipment that emits ultraviolet radiation and is used by a licensed health care professional in the treatment of disease. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Physician: means an individual licensed to practice medicine by the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners in active practice or an individual in a post-graduate medical training program of an accredited medical school in Louisiana or a medical officer similarly qualified by the government of the United States while in the state in the performance of his official duties. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine in the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Pier: means any structure extending channelward from the shore or bank, built upon pilings with water on both sides, with or without a sunshade or boathouse, built or maintained for the purpose of providing a berthing or mooring place for watercraft or for loading or unloading cargo or passengers onto or from watercraft or for fishing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• 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
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan coordinator: means the individual who is responsible for guiding the support team in development of the support plan for the person with a disability. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Political subdivision: means any unit of local government including a municipality, parish, or special district authorized by law to perform governmental functions. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4751
• Pregnant: means that female reproductive condition of having a developing embryo or fetus in the uterus which commences at fertilization and implantation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• prepared: means slaughtered, canned, salted, rendered, boned, cut up, or otherwise manufactured or processed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4201
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Proceeds: means property derived directly or indirectly from, maintained by, or realized through, an act or omission and includes any benefit, interest or property of any kind without reduction for expenses incurred for acquisition, maintenance, or any other purpose. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2601
• Professional wrestling event: means any event which does not qualify as either a mixed technique event or amateur or boxing contest and which features in any way a professional wrestler and which qualifies as an exhibition under Subparagraph (4)(b) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:85
• Program: means the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund Program as established by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Project: means improvements or activities to be undertaken by a public water system which:

              (a) Are of a type that will facilitate compliance with state drinking water regulations which are no less stringent than any federal drinking water regulations adopted pursuant to the federal act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822

• Property: means anything of value, including movables and immovables, including the whole of any lot or tract of land and corporeal and incorporeal movable property, including currency, instruments, or securities, or any other kind of privilege, claim, or right and includes any interest therein. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2601
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Provider: means a person, partnership, corporation, state agency, or other entity that provides developmental disabilities services and receives either state or federal funds or both. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Public employee: means anyone who is:

              (a) An administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an elective office. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:341

• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• public office: means any state, district, parish or municipal office, elective or appointive, or any position as member on a board or commission, elective or appointive, when the office or position is established by the constitution or laws of this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1
• Public officer: is a ny person holding a public office in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:1
• Public school: means any school conducted within the state under the authority and supervision of a city, parish, or other local school board and any educational institution supported by and under the control of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Public servant: means a public employee or an elected official. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:341
• Public water system: means a system for the provision to the public of water for potable purposes, through pipes or other constructed conveyances, if the system has at least fifteen service connections or regularly serves an average of at least twenty-five individuals daily for at least sixty days out of the year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• reasonable medical judgment: means a physician's use of reasonable care and diligence, along with his best judgment, in the application of his skill. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 14:87.1
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Registered athlete agent: means an athlete agent registered with the division under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Registrant: means any person who is registered with the department as required by provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Registrant: means any person who is registered with the department as required by provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831
• Registration: means registration with the department in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Relocation: means a change in the principal residence of a child for a period of sixty days or more, but does not include a temporary absence from the principal residence. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:355.1
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• 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 facilities: means living options that are certified and licensed by the department to provide residential services to sixteen or more persons. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Respondent: means a person alleged to have a mental illness or be suffering from a substance-related or addictive disorder and for whom an application for commitment to a treatment facility has been filed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retirement: means withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Retirement allowance: means the sum of the annuity and the pensions or any optional benefit payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Retirement system: means the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• reuse: means the act of removing and disposing of a previously interred casket and the gathering and placing of human remains in an alternative container within the same cemetery space in order to accommodate additional interments. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Running surface waters: means the running waters of the state, including the waters of navigable water bodies and state owned lakes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:962
• Sale: means the sale of the full title to any cemetery space or the sale of the right of use of or interment in any cemetery space. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• School: means any secondary school in this state, including high schools and junior high schools, that has an athlete contract with an athlete. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism or the person designated by the secretary to administer the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:673
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:911
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources and his designees. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:962
• secretary of revenue: when used in this Title, mean the secretary of the Department of Revenue for the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:1501
• Seizure for forfeiture: means seizure of property by a law enforcement officer designated by the district attorney accompanied by a written assertion by the seizing agency or by a district attorney that the property is seized for forfeiture. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2601
• Service: means service as a teacher within the meaning of Paragraph (33) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:701
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: means developmental disability services. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Set-asides: means use of a portion of the state's allotted capitalization grant funds for various project and non-project activities as authorized under the federal act. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2822
• sewerage district: as used in this Subpart shall include the city of Shreveport. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:3981.1
• Sexual harassment: means unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, physical, or inappropriate conduct of a sexual nature which explicitly or implicitly affects an individual's employment or the holding of office, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance, or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environment, by a public servant of the state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 42:352
• Solar device: means the equipment associated with the collection, transfer, distribution, storage, and control of solar energy. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:1151
• State health officer: means the employee of the department who is the chief health care official of the state as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• State health officer: means the employee of the department who is the chief health care official of the state as provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2831
• Structure: means any encroachment upon state lands, other than those which are specified as the subject matter of a particular class of permit, which is permanently attached to the public lands by pilings, or other means, including, but not limited to storage docks, houses, camps, warehouses, residences, bulkheads not proximate to the shore or bank, business establishments, dams, bridges, impoundment structures, or similar works. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Substantial functional limitations: means documented evidence of limitations in present functioning considered within the context of community environments typical of the age, peers, and culture of the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Support plan: means an individualized plan that coordinates supports and services to assist the person in reaching his desired outcomes and reflects the vision, personal preferences, life goals, and diverse formal and informal support needs of the person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Support profile: means a summary of identified supports or services that addresses the expressed needs and desires of the person and that is used in the development of the support plan for that person. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Support team: means a team consisting of a person with a developmental disability, his plan coordinator, and may include his family and others whom the person chooses to assist him in developing a support plan. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Suspension: means a temporary revocation of a license for an indefinite period of time or the denial of an application for issuance or renewal of a license. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 9:315.31
• System: means the developmental disabilities services system. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:451.2
• Tanning equipment: means ultraviolet or other lamps and equipment containing such lamps intended to induce skin tanning through the irradiation of any part of the living human body with ultraviolet radiation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Tanning facility: means any location, place, area, structure, or business which provides consumers access to tanning equipment. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Taxable year: includes , in the case of a return made for a fractional part of a year under the provisions of this Chapter or under regulations prescribed by the collector, the period for which return is made. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:98
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• third person: means any persons other than the athlete agent or the athlete. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 4:421
• tomb: means a structure or building for the entombment of human remains in crypts or vaults in a place used or intended to be used, and dedicated, for cemetery purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Ton: means two thousand pounds avoirdupois. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1430.2
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Total net apportionable income or loss: means the remainder when subtracting from gross apportionable income or loss:

  (1)  Allowable deductions within the meaning of Louisiana Revised Statutes 47:287.701

• 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.
• Transfer: means the removal of a patient from one mental institution to another without any procedure for admission other than is prescribed by the department. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Treatment: means an active effort to accomplish an improvement in the mental condition or behavior of a patient or to prevent deterioration in his condition or behavior. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 28:2
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Tutor: means any person acting as a fiduciary for a minor ward. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Ultraviolet radiation: means electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in air between two hundred nanometers and four hundred nanometers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 40:2703
• Unmarked burial site: means the immediate area where one or more human skeletal remains are found in the ground that is not in a recognized and maintained municipal, fraternal, religious, or family cemetery, or a cemetery authorized by the Louisiana Cemetery Board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:673
• Urban: means an area within the boundaries of an urbanized area, as that term is used by the United States Census Bureau, that includes at least forty-five thousand people. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4751
• Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone: means an area within a political subdivision that is comprised of individual properties designated as urban agriculture preserves by the political subdivision for farming purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:4751
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• vault: means a space in a mausoleum of sufficient size, used or intended to be used, to entomb human remains. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 8:1
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Veterans administration: means the veterans administration, its predecessors, or successors. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Ward: means a beneficiary of the veterans administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 29:351
• Wharf: means any structure built upon pilings extending along the shore and generally connected with the bank or shore along its length, with or without a sunshade or boathouse, built or maintained for the purpose of providing a berthing or mooring place for watercraft or for loading or unloading cargo or passengers onto or from watercraft or for fishing. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 41:1704
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.