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Dear Mr. Jackson:

You requested an advisory opinion of the attorney general asking the following:

"Is the `Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation,' created by LA R.S. 22:1430.2, a branch, agency, department, or institution of state government?"

Confusion and difficulty with these terms sometimes abound because they are not always used in the strict sense and from time to time are broader or narrower in meaning than at other times and in other contexts. For example, the Executive and Judiciary branches [of the three separate branches of government in Section 1 of Article 2 of the…