Terms Used In California Codes > Government Code > Title 5 > Division 2 > Part 2 > Chapter 1 > Article 1 - General

• Bureau: refers to the Bureau of Household Goods and Services, as established in Section 9810. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corporation: includes a corporation, a company, a limited liability company, an association, and a joint stock association. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
• Department: means the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. See California Health and Safety Code 14950
• Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 32
• Director: refers to the Director of Consumer Affairs. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Earthquake hazard mitigation technologies: includes , but is not limited to, seismic isolation, energy dissipation, ductility, damping systems, and other technologies which endeavor to reasonably protect buildings and nonstructural components, building contents, and functional capability from earthquake damage. See California Health and Safety Code 16100
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Household mover: includes every corporation or person, their lessees, trustee, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, engaged in the permitted or unpermitted transportation for compensation or hire as a business by means of a motor vehicle or motor vehicles being used in the transportation of used household goods and personal effects over any public highway in this state. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• local agency: means municipal corporation or sanitary district. See California Government Code 55000
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Person: includes an individual, a firm, or a partnership. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• state park lands: means any lands subject to the control of the Department of Parks and Recreation. See California Food and Agricultural Code 11301