Children and spouses of police officers and deputy sheriffs; definitions

A. The term police officers shall include only persons employed or engaged as commissioned police officers on a full-time basis by the state of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions. The term deputy sheriff shall include only persons employed or engaged as commissioned law enforcement officers on a full-time basis by a parish of the state of Louisiana. B. College or university means any institution of postsecondary education situated in this state, operated by an agency, board, or other body created by the constitution or laws of this state, operated in whole or in part with funds appropriated for that purpose by the legislature, and authorized to confer degrees in the arts and sciences. C. Room and board charges means the fee or charge for lodging, quarters or food furnished by a college or university, on its campus, and for which a regular and periodic charge is made to all students availing themselves of such services. D. Books means text books, reference books, manuals, and other aids to instruction which are required to be purchased by a student in a given course of study. E. Semester means a regularly fixed period of instruction for which credit is given whether a semester, quarter, trimester or otherwise. F. Child means the offspring of a police officer or his spouse or a deputy sheriff or his spouse living in the same household with and dependent upon the municipal police officer or deputy sheriff, as the case may be, for support and the offspring of a police officer or deputy sheriff dependent upon him for support, whether or not living in the same household. G. "Spouse" means the wife or husband of the police officer or deputy sheriff who is living in the same household and who is dependent upon the police officer or deputy sheriff for support if the police officer or deputy sheriff is alive and permanently disabled. Spouse also means the wife or husband of a police officer or deputy sheriff who is deceased and who was living in the same household and was dependent upon the police officer or deputy sheriff for support at the time of the injury which resulted in the police officer or deputy sheriff's death.