Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes > Title 51 > Chapter 39 - Economic Development Act

• Actuarial equivalent: shall mean a benefit of equal value when computed upon the basis of such mortality tables as shall be adopted by the board of trustees, and regular interest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Agency: as used in this Chapter shall have the same meaning ascribed to it as provided in Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Agriculture: means the commercial planting, growing, harvesting, production, storage, processing, marketing, distribution, or export of any agricultural product, including but not limited to farm products, livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, milk and dairy products, fruit and other horticultural products, and seafood and aquacultural products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Agriculture: means the commercial planting, growing, harvesting, production, storage, processing, marketing, distribution, or export of any agricultural product, including but not limited to farm products, livestock and livestock products, poultry and poultry products, milk and dairy products, fruit and other horticultural products, and seafood and aquacultural products. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Annuity: shall mean payments for life derived from the "accumulated contributions" of a member. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Applicant: means a private nonprofit or public entity located in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2322
• Applicant: means a private nonprofit or public entity located in this state. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2327
• 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.
• Assistant secretary: means the assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce for Communications and Information. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• average final compensation: shall mean the average monthly compensation earned by an employee during any period of sixty successive months of service as an employee during which the earned compensation was the highest. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• 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}
• Beneficiary: shall mean any person designated to receive a pension, an annuity, a retirement allowance or other benefit as provided by this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the board of commissioners of the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
• Board of Trustees: shall mean the Board provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Bonds: means any bond, refunding bond, note, debenture, interim certificate or any bond, grant, or any other evidences of indebtedness of the corporation whether in temporary or in definitive form and whether or not exempt from federal taxation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2303
• Broadband data maps: means the maps created in accordance with the provisions of Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Broadband service: means deployed internet access service with a minimum of one hundred megabits per second (Mbps) download and at least twenty megabits per second upload transmission speeds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Broadband service: means deployed mass-market retail internet access service with a minimum of one hundred megabits per second, or Mbps, download and at least twenty megabits per second upload transmission speeds. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Broadband-serviceable location: means a business or residential location in the United States at which fixed broadband internet access service is, or can be, installed. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Cattle: means all bovine animals, regardless of age, including calves. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2053
• Chief procurement officer: means the person holding the position created in Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Commission: means the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District Commission. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
• consulting service: includes the procurement of supplies and services by a contractor without the necessity of complying with provisions of the Louisiana Procurement Code when such supplies and services are either for insurance procured directly by a licensed insurance producer pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Contract: means all types of state agreements, regardless of what they may be called, including orders and documents purporting to represent grants, which are for the purchase or disposal of supplies, services, major repairs, or any other item. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Contractor: means any person having a contract with a governmental body. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a corporation organized under Part I of Chapter 2 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or a corporation who becomes subject to those provisions pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Cooperative: means a corporation organized pursuant to Part I of Chapter 4 of Title 12 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or a corporation that becomes subject to those provisions pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Corporation: means the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation as established in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2303
• Corporation: means the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2322
• Corporation: means the Louisiana Economic Development Corporation. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2327
• Council: means the Louisiana Beef Industry Council established under this Part to administer and govern the program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2053
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:1
• Designee: means a duly authorized representative of a person holding a superior position. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the executive director of the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Director: means the executive director of the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• District: means the Acadiana Regional Juvenile Justice District. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1109
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• economic unit: consists of all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and expenses of a household. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• economic unit: consists of all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and expenses of a household. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Economically distressed parish: means an unserved area that is in need of expansion of business and industry and the creation of jobs, giving consideration to unemployment, per capita income, and the number of residents receiving public assistance within that unserved area. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Electronic: means electrical, digital, magnetic, optical, electromagnet, or any other similar technology. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Eligible costs: means costs that are eligible for BEAD program funding as specified by the assistant secretary. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Eligible grant recipient: means a provider of broadband service, including a provider operated by a local government if the local government is compliant with the Local Government Fair Competition Act prior to July 1, 2021, with respect to providing such services, a cooperative, or any partnership thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Eligible grant recipient: means a provider of broadband service, including a provider operated by a local government if the local government is compliant with the Local Government Fair Competition Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Eligible parish: means any parish with unserved or underserved broadband-serviceable locations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Eligible project: means a discrete and specific project located in an unserved area of an eligible parish seeking to provide broadband service to homes, households, businesses, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, and community anchor points not currently served. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Employee: shall mean any district attorney of the state of Louisiana, or any assistant district attorney in any parish of the state of Louisiana. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Employer: shall mean any parish in the state of Louisiana; the state of Louisiana, or the police jury or any other governing body of a parish or political corporation or subdivision of the state of Louisiana which employs and pays persons as district attorneys or assistant district attorneys. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Enforceable commitment: means any location that is already subject to a legally enforceable federal, state, or local commitment to deploy broadband. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• 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.
• Fiscal year: means the calendar period beginning July 1 and ending June 30 following. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2053
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the Louisiana Economic Development Fund. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2332
• 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
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Household: means any individual or group of individuals who are living together at the same address as one economic unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Household: means any individual or group of individuals who are living together at the same address as one economic unit. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• in writing: means the product of any method of forming characters on paper, other materials, or viewable screen, which can be read, retrieved, and reproduced, including information that is electronically transmitted and stored. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Infrastructure: means existing facilities, equipment, materials, and structures that an internet service provider has installed either for its core business or public enterprise purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Infrastructure: means existing facilities, equipment, materials, and structures that an internet service provider has installed either for its core business or public enterprise purposes. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Labor demand occupation: means an occupation for which there is or is likely to be a greater demand than supply of adequately trained workers. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2332
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Local government: means a parish, municipality, or school board, or any instrumentality thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Local government: means a parish, municipality, or school board. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Major repairs: means those repairs payable with funds appropriated in the general appropriations act, except those funds transferred from the operating budget of one governmental body to supplement and complete a project under contract by the division of administration facility planning and control section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Member: shall include any employee, as defined in Paragraph (10) of this Section, included in the membership of this system as provided in Part II of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• 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.
• Office: means the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Office: means the office of broadband development and connectivity within the division of administration. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Person: means any natural person, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, trust, or other business unit or organization. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2053
• 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.
• Prior service: shall mean service rendered prior to the date of the establishment of this retirement system for which credit is allowable as provided in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Procurement: means the buying, purchasing, renting, leasing, or otherwise obtaining any supplies, services, or major repairs. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Procurement officer: means any person authorized by a governmental body, in accordance with procedures prescribed by regulations, to enter into and administer contracts and make written determinations and findings with respect thereto. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Producer: means any person who owns or acquires ownership of cattle, except that a person shall not be considered to be a producer if the person's only share in the proceeds of a sale of cattle or beef is a sales commission handling fee or other service fee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 3:2053
• Program: means the Workforce Development and Training Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2332
• Program: means the Louisiana Small Business Incubator Program. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2322
• Program: means the Monroe and Northeast Louisiana Technology and Business Incubation Center. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2327
• Project: means an undertaking by an eligible grant recipient to construct and deploy infrastructure for the provision of broadband service. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Prospective broadband recipient: means a household, home, business, educational facility, healthcare facility, community anchor point, agricultural operation, or agricultural processing facility that is currently unserved and is identified in an application submitted in accordance with this Subpart. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Regular interest: shall mean interest compounded annually at such a rate as shall be determined by the board of trustees in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Request for proposals: means all documents, whether attached or incorporated by reference, utilized for soliciting proposals in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Retirement: shall mean withdrawal from active service with a retirement allowance granted under the provisions of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Retirement allowance: shall mean the sum of the "annuity" and the "employers' annuity" or any optional benefit payable in lieu thereof. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Retirement System: shall mean the District Attorneys' Retirement System as defined in Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Revenues: means any and all fees, rates, rentals, profits, and receipts collected by, payable to, or otherwise derived by the corporation and all other moneys and income of whatsoever kind or character collected by, payable to, or otherwise derived by the corporation in connection with loans to any eligible small business in furtherance of the purposes of this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2303
• Service: shall mean service rendered as an employee as described in Paragraph (10) of this Section. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 11:1581
• Services: means the furnishing of labor, time, or effort by a contractor whose primary purpose is to perform an identifiable task rather than to furnish an end item of supply. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Shapefile: means a file format for storing, depicting, and analyzing geospatial data depicting broadband coverage, comprised of several component files, such as a Main file (. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Small business incubator: means a multi-tenanted facility which is characterized by shared business services, equipment, space, and access to on-premises business consultants for tenants and which is operated by a private nonprofit or public entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2322
• Small business incubator: means a multi-tenanted facility which is characterized by shared business services, equipment, space, and access to on-premises business consultants for tenants and which is operated by a private nonprofit or public entity. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2327
• Social service: means work rendered by any person, firm, corporation, organization, governmental body, or governmental entity in furtherance of the general welfare of the citizens of Louisiana, including but not limited to the objectives provided for in Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• State chief procurement officer: means the person holding the position created in Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplies: means all property, including but not limited to equipment, materials, insurance, and leases on immovable property excluding land or a permanent interest in land. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Underserved location: means an underserved location as defined in the IIJA and the BEAD NOFO. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Unserved: means , notwithstanding any other provision of law, any federal funding awarded to or allocated by the state for broadband deployment shall not be used, directly or indirectly, to deploy broadband infrastructure to provide broadband internet service in any area of the state where broadband internet service of at least one hundred megabits per second download and twenty megabits per second upload is available from at least one internet service provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Unserved area: means a designated geographic area that is presently without access to broadband service, as defined in this Section, offered by a wireline or fixed wireless provider. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.2
• Unserved location: means an unserved location as defined in the IIJA and the BEAD NOFO. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 51:2370.22
• Using agency: means any governmental body of the state which utilizes any supplies, services, or major repairs purchased under this Chapter. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 39:1556
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.