Terms Used In California Codes > Streets and Highways Code > Division 9 > Part 2 > Chapter 8 - The Bond Issue

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• 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}
• Commission: means the commission provided in Chapter 3 of this part. See California Streets and Highways Code 8101
• County: includes "city and county. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14
• County: means the county in which the district or proposed district is situated. See California Streets and Highways Code 8101
• department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14062
• District: means separation of grade district. See California Streets and Highways Code 8101
• 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.
• Medi-Cal: means the California Medical Assistance Program. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14063