2016 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 36 - Organization of the Executive Branch
RS 36:3 - Definitions

§3. Definitions

            For the purposes of this Title the following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

            (1) "Agency" means and includes the boards, commissions, departments, agencies, offices, officers, and other instrumentalities, or any or all of these, within the executive branch of state government which are abolished by this Title or which are transferred and placed within departments of the state government created and established or continued by this Title or transferred to and placed within the office of the governor as provided by this Title.

            (2) "Assistant secretary" means the officer designated by law or by the secretary of each department to carry out the duties and functions of an office within certain departments, except an office of management and finance and the office of state police of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. For the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the "director" shall mean the officer designated by law or by the executive director to carry out the duties and functions of an office within the Louisiana Workforce Commission except the office of management and finance.

            (3) "Department" means a department of the executive branch of state government created or continued in this Title in accordance with the constitutional mandate contained in Article IV, Section 1 and in Article XIV, Section 6 of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974 and shall include the Louisiana Workforce Commission.

            (4) "Deputy secretary" means the officer authorized to be appointed by the secretary to serve as his principal administrative assistant. For the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the "deputy secretary for public safety services" and the "deputy secretary for corrections services" shall be the officers of the department appointed by the secretary to serve as the principal administrative assistants of the secretary and references in any provision of law to the deputy secretary, where reference is to a deputy secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, shall include these two officers. For the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the "deputy executive director" shall mean the officer authorized by the executive director to serve as his principal administrative assistant.

            (5) "Office" means each principal operational unit within a department, except the executive office of the secretary. It shall not include the office of the governor and the office of lieutenant governor.

            (6) "Secretary" means the officer appointed by the governor as the executive head and chief administrative officer of certain departments created and provided for by this Title. For the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the "executive director" shall mean the officer appointed by the governor as the executive head and chief administrative officer.

            (7) "Undersecretary" means the officer designated to direct and be responsible for the functions of the office of management and finance of certain departments. For the Louisiana Workforce Commission, the "chief financial officer" shall mean the officer designated to direct and be responsible for the functions of the office of management and finance. For the Department of Children and Family Services, "undersecretary" means the officer designated to direct and be responsible for the functions of the division of management and finance within the office of children and family services.

            Acts 1976, No. 513, §1. Amended by Acts 1977, No. 83, §1, eff. June 22, 1977; Acts 1984, No. 326, §1, eff. July 2, 1984; Acts 1987, No. 736, §1; Acts 2008, No. 743, §3, eff. July 1, 2008; Acts 2009, No. 438, §15(A); Acts 2010, No. 877, §1, eff. July 1, 2010; Acts 2012, No. 811, §11, eff. July 1, 2012; Acts 2016, No. 90, §2, eff. July 1, 2016.

NOTE: See Acts 1987, No. 736, §3.

NOTE: See Acts 2008, No. 743, §§6, 7, and 8, eff. July 1, 2008, relative to severability, to changing of references to the former Dept. of Labor and former La. Workforce Commission, and to legislative intent for continuity of functioning of local workforce investment boards and the executive director's responsibility therefor.