Terms Used In California Codes > Business and Professions Code > Division 1 > Chapter 4

• Accepting county: means the county accepting transferred territory by reason of a county boundary change. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Access: means a personal inspection and review of a record or an accurate copy of a record, or receipt of an accurate copy of a record, an oral description or communication of a record or an accurate copy of a record, and a request to release a copy of any record. See California Education Code 49061
• Account: means the pertinent account established under subdivision (b). See California Education Code 17078.52
• Acquire: includes purchase, condemnation, lease, and gift. See California Government Code 31895.5
• act: as used in this division , means the Improvement Bond Act of 1915. See California Penal Code 18780
• Action: includes a civil action and a special proceeding of a civil nature. See California Government Code 14105.6
• Administrator: means the senior executive appointed to operate a home. See California Government Code 14000.6
• advance fee: as used in this part , is a fee, regardless of the form, that is claimed, demanded, charged, received, or collected by a licensee for services requiring a license, or for a listing, as that term is defined in Section 10027, before fully completing the service the licensee contracted to perform or represented would be performed. See California Government Code 53097
• Advocate: as used in this part means the "Property Taxpayers' Advocate" designated pursuant to Section 5904. See California Government Code 22204
• Affected county: means any county which contains or would contain territory which is the subject of a boundary change. See California Government Code 14050
• Affected county: means each county from which territory is proposed to be transferred to create a new county. See California Government Code 14181
• Affected territory: means any unincorporated area which is proposed to be transferred from one county to another. See California Government Code 14050
• Approved county: means the territory to be included in a new county after the registered voters in the affected county or counties have approved the creation of such a new county at a primary election, pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 23350), but before an election is held for purposes of determining the location of the county seat and the selection of county officers for such new county, pursuant to Article 4. See California Government Code 14181
• Art dealer: means a person engaged in the business of selling works of fine art, other than a person exclusively engaged in the business of selling goods at public auction. See California Education Code 7000.5
• art dealer: includes an auctioneer who sells these works at public auction, but excludes persons, not otherwise defined or treated as art dealers herein, who are consignors or principals of auctioneers. See California Education Code 7008
• Artist: means the person who creates a work of fine art or, if that person is deceased, that person's heir, legatee, or personal representative. See California Education Code 7000.5
• Artist: means the person who created the image which is contained in, or constitutes, the master or conceived of, and approved the image which is contained in, or constitutes, the master. See California Education Code 7008
• Authority: means the California School Finance Authority established pursuant to Section 17172. See California Education Code 17078.52
• Awarding department: means any agency, department, constitutional officer, governmental entity, or other officer or entity of the state empowered by law to issue bonds on behalf of the State of California. See California Government Code 22810
• Baldwin Hills area: means the land area currently within the Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, the Baldwin Hills community, the surrounding property bordered on the south by Slauson Avenue, and on the east by La Brea Avenue, including the approximately 21 acres of land zoned RE40 and bordered by La Brea Avenue on the east, Don Alberto Place to the south, and Don Ricardo Drive on the north, and including a spur of land extending from Stocker Street to an area between La Brea Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard, as designated on the Baldwin Hills Conservancy Map, dated March 1, 2001. See California Government Code 31580.2
• Board: means the governing board of the San Joaquin River Conservancy. See California Government Code 31552
• Board: means the governing board of the Baldwin Hills Conservancy. See California Government Code 31580.2
• board: refers to any healing arts board, division, or examining committee which licenses or certifies health professionals. See California Education Code 51760.3
• Board: means the governing board of the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy. See California Government Code 31595.1
• Board: means the governing board of the San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority established under Section 14074. See California Government Code 14074
• Board: means the governing board of the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority established under Section 14076. See California Government Code 14076
• Board: means the State Allocation Board. See California Education Code 17087
• board: means the State Public Works Board, and "director" means Director of General Services. See California Government Code 31884
• Board: means the State Public Works Board. See California Government Code 31895.5
• Board: as used in this chapter , means the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians of the State of California. See California Education Code 51764
• Board: means the Veterinary Medical Board. See California Education Code 52055.730
• Board: as used in this article , means the Board of Administration of the Public Employees' Retirement System. See California Government Code 31882
• Board: as used in this chapter , includes a board, advisory board, commission, examining committee, committee or other similarly constituted body exercising powers under this code. See California Education Code 52176
• board of directors: means the legislative body or governing board of a district. See California Government Code 22215
• Bonds: means revenue bonds, notes, including commercial paper notes or other forms of negotiable short-term indebtedness, or bond anticipation notes issued to finance prison facilities, interest during construction of prison facilities, reserve funds, and costs of issuance of the bonds, as the board may determine. See California Government Code 31521.1
• Bonds: means bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of participation, and other evidences of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the State of California. See California Government Code 22810
• Building: means a building owned and occupied, or leased and occupied, by the state. See California Penal Code 26805
• business opportunity: shall include the sale or lease of the business and goodwill of an existing business enterprise or opportunity. See California Government Code 53098.1
• Caregiver: means any unpaid family member or individual who assumes responsibility for the care of a cognitively impaired adult. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4362.5
• CCW: means "carry concealed weapons. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 30193
• Certificate of authenticity: means a written or printed description of the multiple which is to be sold, exchanged, or consigned by an art dealer. See California Education Code 7008
• Certificated employee: means a member, as defined by Section 22146, of the State Teachers' Retirement System. See California Education Code 7004
• Changes: as used in this chapter shall include corrections, alterations, modifications, additions, omissions, increases or decreases. See California Penal Code 26585
• Claim: means a demand for monetary compensation or damages, arising under or relating to the performance of any public works contract. See California Government Code 14120
• Clerk: means the clerk of a county board of supervisors. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Clerk: means the clerk of a county board of supervisors. See California Government Code 14181
• Cognitive impairment: means significant destruction of brain tissue with resultant loss of brain function. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4362.5
• Commission: means the County Boundary Review Commission. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Commission: means the California Transportation Commission. See California Government Code 31681.55
• commission: means the California Transportation Commission. See California Government Code 14002.5
• Commission: means the County Formation Review Commission. See California Government Code 14181
• Communications service provider: means a cable television corporation, video service provider, or telephone corporation. See California Government Code 22013
• Conducting county: means any county whose board of supervisors adopts a resolution pursuant to Section 23206. See California Government Code 14050
• Conservancy: means the San Joaquin River Conservancy. See California Government Code 31552
• Conservancy: means the Baldwin Hills Conservancy. See California Government Code 31580.2
• Conservancy: means the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy. See California Government Code 31595.1
• Consignment: means that no title to, estate in, or right to possession of, fine art, superior to that of the consignor shall vest in the consignee, notwithstanding the consignee's power or authority to transfer and convey to a third person all of the right, title and interest of the consignor in and to such fine art. See California Education Code 7000.5
• Construction: includes acquisition by purchase. See California Education Code 17110
• Construction: includes the extension, enlargement, repair, renovation, restoration, improvement, furnishing, and equipping of any public building. See California Government Code 31895.5
• Consumer: means any individual who seeks or acquires, by purchase or lease, any goods, services, money, or credit for personal, family, or household purposes. See California Education Code 52556
• Consumer: means an individual who seeks or acquires, by purchase or lease, any goods or services for personal, family, or household purposes. See California Education Code 8092.5
• Contiguous: means territory which adjoins the boundary line of the proposed county. See California Government Code 14181
• Contract: includes any contract, agreement, or joint agreement to provide professional bond services to the State of California or an awarding department. See California Government Code 22810
• Contract for sale of real property: means an agreement wherein one party agrees to convey title to real property to another party upon the satisfaction of specified conditions set forth in the contract and which requires conveyance of title within one year from the date of formation of the contract, whether designated in the agreement a "contract for sale of real property" "land sale contract" "deposit receipt" "agreement for sale" "agreement to convey" or otherwise. See California Education Code 4000
• Contractor: means any provider of professional bond services who enters into a contract with an awarding department. See California Government Code 22810
• cooperative bargaining association: means a farmer association which is organized and functioning pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 54001) of this division, for the purpose of group bargaining between its producer members and the first handler or processor, with respect to the sale of any agricultural commodity except milk, cotton, or cottonseed. See California Penal Code 29805
• corridor: means the Los Angeles-Bakersfield-Fresno-Stockton-Sacramento-Oakland intercity passenger rail corridor. See California Government Code 14074
• corridor: means the Colfax-Sacramento-Suisun City-Oakland-San Jose rail corridor. See California Government Code 14076
• County: means a county and a city and county. See California Government Code 22013.3
• County costs of eligible programs: means the amount of money other than federal and state funds, as reported by the State Department of Social Services to the Department of Finance or as derived from the Controller's "Annual Report of Financial Transactions Concerning Counties of California" that each county spends for each of the following:

  California Government Code 22013.3

• County placing agency: means the county social service department or county probation department. See California Education Code 49061
• Court: includes any official authorized to impose sentence for a public offense. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 1703
• Court: means the trial court in which the action is pending, unless otherwise specified. See California Government Code 14105.6
• CRC: means a caregiver resource center. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4362.5
• creditor: means the state or the department or agency of the state seeking to collect the liability. See California Code of Civil Procedure 688.040
• debtor: means the debtor from whom the liability is sought to be collected. See California Code of Civil Procedure 688.040
• department: means the Department of Veterans Affairs. See California Government Code 13995.44
• Department: as used in this article , means the Department of Transportation as to work within its jurisdiction, the Department of Water Resources as to work within its jurisdiction, the Department of Boating and Waterways as to any project under the jurisdiction of that department pursuant to Article 2. See California Government Code 14155
• Department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4369.1
• department: means the Department of Transportation. See California Education Code 2571
• department: means the Employment Development Department. See California Education Code 5230
• department: means the Department of Motor Vehicles. See California Government Code 22831
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See California Government Code 31681.55
• Department: means the Department of Veterans Affairs. See California Government Code 14000.6
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See California Government Code 14002.5
• Department: means the Department of Human Resources. See California Government Code 19815
• Designated agent: means the person who is in charge of the business of a prepaid rental listing service at a given location. See California Education Code 15723
• Director: means the Director of Health Care Services. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4362.5
• Director: means the Director of Transportation. See California Government Code 14002.5
• Director: means the Director of the Department of Human Resources. See California Government Code 19815
• district: means an agency of the state, formed pursuant to general law or special act, for the local performance of governmental or proprietary functions within limited boundaries. See California Government Code 22215
• division: means the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Facilities. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 1703
• Division: means the Division of Consumer Services. See California Education Code 52556
• Division: means the Division of Labor Relations. See California Government Code 19815
• domestic violence: means abuse perpetrated against any of the following persons:

  California Revenue and Taxation Code 30213

• e-mail: means an electronic message that is sent to an e-mail address and transmitted between two or more telecommunications devices, computers, or electronic devices capable of receiving electronic messages through a local, regional, or global computer network, whether or not the message is converted to hard copy format after receipt, viewed upon transmission, or stored for later retrieval. See California Government Code 14032.6
• easement: means a burden or servitude upon land, whether or not attached to other land as an incident or appurtenance, that allows the holder of the burden or servitude to do acts upon the land. See California Education Code 4005
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See California Government Code 14105.6
• Electronic record: means a document or record created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. See California Government Code 14032.6
• Electronically stored information: means information that is stored in an electronic medium. See California Government Code 14105.6
• encroachment: includes any structure or object of any kind or character placed, without the authority of law, either in, under or over any county highway. See California Government Code 22970.22
• Family: means persons whose children, spouses, siblings, parents, grandparents, or grandchildren have a serious mental disorder. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4242
• Fax: is a n abbreviation for "facsimile" and refers, as indicated by the context, to a facsimile transmission or to a document so transmitted. See California Government Code 14032.6
• Fax transmission: includes , but is not limited to, the use of a facsimile machine or the process of integrating an electronic fax software application to automate the sending and receiving of a faxed document as an electronic record, in portable data format, by e-mail or similar electronic means. See California Government Code 14032.6
• Fee: means the charge required by a licensee (1) to obtain listings of residential real properties for tenancy or (2) to purchase any other product or service in order to obtain listings. See California Education Code 15723
• final settlement pay: means pay or cash conversions of employee benefits that are in excess of compensation earnable, that are granted or awarded to a member in connection with, or in anticipation of, a separation from employment. See California Penal Code 27345
• Financially sound: means a charter school that has demonstrated, over a period of time determined by the authority, but not less than 24 months immediately preceding the submission of the application, that it has operated as a financially capable concern in California, as measured by criteria established by the authority. See California Education Code 17078.52
• Fine art: means a painting, sculpture, drawing, work of graphic art (including an etching, lithograph, offset print, silk screen, or a work of graphic art of like nature), a work of calligraphy, or a work in mixed media (including a collage, assemblage, or any combination of the foregoing art media). See California Education Code 7000.5
• fireman: as used in this part , also includes persons employed in positions set forth in Sections 20414, 20423. See California Government Code 22013.7
• fiscal agent: means any state fiscal agent selected and acting pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 16670). See California Government Code 22944
• formal notice: means the notice of election which is required to be published and posted in public places, and "card notice" means the notice of election which is required to be mailed to the registered voters of the area in which the election is to be held. See California Education Code 5360
• Fund: means the Baldwin Hills Conservancy Fund created pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 32574. See California Government Code 31580.2
• Gambling disorder: means a condition that causes the person to be unable to resist impulses to gamble, which can lead to harmful negative consequences, and that meets the diagnostic criteria set forth in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4369.1
• General purpose revenues: means revenues received by a county whose purpose is not restricted by state law to a particular purpose or program, as reported in the Controller's "Annual Report of Financial Transactions Concerning Counties of California. See California Government Code 22013.3
• Goal: means a numerically expressed objective that awarding departments and providers of professional bond services are required to make efforts to achieve. See California Government Code 22810
• Governing body: means the governing body of a local publicly owned electric utility, including, where applicable, a board appointed by a city council. See California Government Code 22013
• Governing body: means the board of supervisors in the case of a county, or the city council or board of trustees or other governing board in the case of a city, district, or other local governmental agency. See California Government Code 14055
• group or class of employment: means a number of employees considered together because they share similarities in job duties, work location, collective bargaining unit, or other logical work-related grouping. See California Penal Code 27345
• highway: includes all or any part of the entire width of right of way of a county highway, whether or not such entire area is actually used for highway purposes. See California Government Code 22970.22
• Home: means any facility operated by the department for the provision of long-term care, assisted living, adult day health, independent living, or other health care services to eligible veterans. See California Government Code 14000.6
• immediate family member: means either of the following relationships:

  California Revenue and Taxation Code 30285

• Income: as used in this chapter means the return derived from principal. See California Education Code 2572
• Indebtedness: means the net obligations of a county arising from contract or through the operation of law, other than short-term operational expenses, but including and not limited to obligations arising under general obligation bonds, leases, joint powers agreements, and similar obligations or contracts entered into by the county prior to the date on which a petition is filed. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Indebtedness: means the net obligations of a county arising from contract or through the operation of law, other than short-term operational expenses, but including and not limited to obligations arising under general obligation bonds, leases, joint powers agreements, and similar obligations or contracts entered into by the county prior to the date on which a petition is filed. See California Government Code 14181
• Information processing system: means an electronic system for creating, generating, sending, receiving, storing, displaying, retrieving, or processing information, but does not include a fax machine. See California Government Code 14032.6
• Inhabited territory: means territory within which there reside 12 or more registered voters at the time a resolution is adopted pursuant to Section 23203 or a petition is filed pursuant to Section 23205. See California Government Code 14050
• Initiating county: means any county whose board of supervisors adopts a resolution pursuant to Section 23203. See California Government Code 14050
• Installment judgment: means a money judgment under which a lien may be created on an interest in real property under Section 697. See California Education Code 1093
• institution: include every hospital, boarding home, or other place receiving or caring for persons with mental health disorders. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4011
• instrument: means bonds, coupons, and other evidences of State indebtedness, except warrants. See California Government Code 22774
• joint powers board: means the governing board of a joint exercise of powers agency established pursuant to Article 5. See California Government Code 14070
• judicial branch entity: means any superior court, court of appeal, the California Supreme Court, the Judicial Council, the Habeas Corpus Resource Center, or the Administrative Office of the Courts. See California Government Code 14107
• Language acquisition programs: refers to educational programs designed to ensure English acquisition as rapidly and as effectively as possible, and that provide instruction to pupils on the state-adopted academic content standards, including the English language development standards. See California Education Code 306
• Lease-purchase financing: means the financing of prison facilities from the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized by the board. See California Government Code 31521.1
• Lessee: means a school district or county superintendent of schools to whom the board has leased a portable classroom pursuant to this chapter. See California Education Code 17087
• Levying officer: means the sheriff or marshal acting as a ministerial officer pursuant to Section 26608 of the Government Code. See California Government Code 14032.6
• Licensee: means a person licensed to conduct a prepaid rental listing service or a person engaged in the business of a prepaid rental listing service under a real estate broker license. See California Education Code 15723
• Limited edition: means fine art multiples produced from a master, all of which are the same image and bear numbers or other markings to denote the limited production thereof to a stated maximum number of multiples, or are otherwise held out as limited to a maximum number of multiples. See California Education Code 7008
• local agency: means any city, county, city and county, district, or other subdivision of the state, or any independent instrumentality thereof. See California Penal Code 26525
• Location: means the place, other than the main or branch office of a real estate broker, where a prepaid rental listing service business is conducted. See California Education Code 15723
• machinegun: means any weapon that shoots, is designed to shoot, or can readily be restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 30354.5
• manufactured home: means a structure as defined in Section 18007 of the Health and Safety Code, and "mobilehome" means a structure as defined in Section 18008 of the Health and Safety Code. See California Education Code 17072.33
• Matured installments: means the sum of all of the following:

  California Education Code 1093

• Member: means a veteran or nonveteran spouse or domestic partner who has been admitted to residency at a veterans' home. See California Government Code 14000.6
• Minority: means an ethnic person of color including American Indians, Asians (including, but not limited to, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Pacific Islanders, Samoans, and Southeast Asians), Blacks, Filipinos, and Hispanics. See California Government Code 22810
• Multidisciplinary committee: means the Veterinary Medicine Multidisciplinary Advisory Committee established pursuant to Section 4809. See California Education Code 52055.730
• Nonprofit organization: means an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. See California Government Code 31552
• Nonprofit organization: means an exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. See California Government Code 31580.2
• Notice: includes all papers and orders required to be served in any proceedings before any court, board, or officer, or when required by law to be served independently of such proceeding. See California Government Code 26660
• Office: means the Office of Problem Gambling. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4369.1
• Open educational resources: include , but are not limited to, full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, faculty-created content, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge. See California Government Code 31585
• Owner: means the owner as shown on the last equalized assessment roll, except that the person entitled to be shown as owner on the current assessment roll shall be deemed the owner, and except that, where the property affected is subject to a recorded written agreement to buy, the purchaser under such agreement to buy shall be deemed the owner. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Parent: means a natural parent, an adopted parent, or legal guardian. See California Education Code 49061
• Parkway: means the San Joaquin River Parkway, as described in Section 32510. See California Government Code 31552
• Payrate: means the normal monthly rate of pay or base pay of the member paid in cash to similarly situated members of the same group or class of employment for services rendered on a full-time basis during normal working hours, pursuant to publicly available pay schedules. See California Penal Code 27345
• Pension board: as used in this article , means the board of retirement. See California Government Code 31884
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other entity, however organized. See California Education Code 7008
• Policeman: as used in this part includes members of the California Highway Patrol, state safety members of the Public Employees' Retirement System employed by the Department of Justice, sheriffs, undersheriffs, deputy sheriffs, marshals and deputy marshals, and any other employee of a public agency other than the state or University of California in a position designated as a policeman's position by the board for the purposes of Section 218(d)(5)(A) of the Social Security Act. See California Government Code 22013
• Political subdivision: means any city, county, district, or other local governmental agency. See California Government Code 14055
• Preliminary apportionment: means an apportionment made for eligible applicants under this article in advance of full compliance with all of the application requirements otherwise required for an apportionment pursuant to this chapter. See California Education Code 17078.52
• Prepaid rental listing service: means the business of supplying prospective tenants with listings of residential real properties for tenancy, by publication or otherwise, pursuant to an arrangement under which the prospective tenants are required to pay an advance or contemporaneous fee (1) specifically to obtain listings or (2) to purchase any other product or service in order to obtain listings, but which does not otherwise involve the negotiation of rentals by the person conducting the service. See California Education Code 15723
• Prevention program: means a program designed to reduce the prevalence of gambling disorders among California residents. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4369.1
• Principal: as used in this chapter means any realty or personalty which has been so set aside or limited by the owner thereof or a person thereto legally empowered that it and any substitutions for it are eventually to be conveyed, delivered, or paid to a person, while the return therefrom or use thereof or any part of such return or use is in the meantime to be taken or received by or held for accumulation for the same or another person. See California Education Code 2572
• Principal county: means the county from which it is proposed that territory with the greatest proportion of assessed value, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll, relative to the total amount of taxable property within the boundaries of a proposed county, is to be transferred to create, in part, that proposed county. See California Government Code 14181
• Prison facilities lease: means any lease of a prison facility entered into by the Director of Corrections with the board pursuant to this chapter. See California Government Code 31521.1
• Prison facility: means real property, fixtures, furnishings, equipment, and related improvements for the following facilities:

  California Government Code 31521.1

• Process: includes all writs, warrants, summons, and orders of courts of justice, or judicial officers. See California Government Code 26660
• Professional bond services: include services as financial advisers, bond counsel, underwriters in negotiated transactions, underwriter's counsel, financial printers, feasibility consultants, and other professional services related to the issuance and sale of bonds. See California Government Code 22810
• prohibited area: means any place where it is unlawful to discharge a weapon. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 30367
• Proofs: means multiples which are the same as, and which are produced from the same master as, the multiples in a limited edition, but which, whether so designated or not, are set aside from and are in addition to the limited edition to which they relate. See California Education Code 7008
• Property: includes all property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of this part. See California Government Code 31895.5
• psychiatric technician: means any person who, for compensation or personal profit, implements procedures and techniques that involve understanding of cause and effect and that are used in the care, treatment, and rehabilitation of mentally ill or emotionally disturbed persons, or persons with intellectual disabilities, and who has one or more of the following:

  California Education Code 51767

• Public building: includes any structure, building, facility, or work that a state agency has jurisdiction of, or is authorized to design or construct, including, but not limited to, infrastructure, parking lots, landscaping, and other ancillary facilities, including furnishings and equipment, incidental to the use of any building, and also includes the site thereof, and any easements or rights of way appurtenant thereto or necessary for its full use. See California Government Code 31895.5
• Public works contract: means , except for a contract awarded pursuant to the State Contract Act (Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100)), a contract awarded through competitive bids or otherwise by the state, any of its political subdivisions or public agencies for the erection, construction, alteration, repair, or improvement of any kind upon real property. See California Government Code 14120
• Pupil record: means any item of information directly related to an identifiable pupil, other than directory information, that is maintained by a school district or required to be maintained by an employee in the performance of his or her duties whether recorded by handwriting, print, tapes, film, microfilm, or other means. See California Education Code 49061
• Real property sales contract: as used in this part is an agreement wherein one party agrees to convey title to real property to another party upon the satisfaction of specified conditions set forth in the contract and which does not require conveyance of title within one year from the date of formation of the contract. See California Government Code 53098
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium, or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See California Government Code 14032.6
• Recorded contract for sale of real property: includes the entire terms of a contract for sale of real property that is recorded in its entirety or is evidenced by a recorded memorandum or short form of the contract. See California Education Code 4000
• Regulations: means the rules and regulations set forth in Division 20 (commencing with Section 2000) of Title 16 of the California Code of Regulations. See California Education Code 52055.730
• Remainderman: as used in this chapter means the person ultimately entitled to the principal, whether named or designated by the terms of the transaction by which the principal was established or determined by operation of law. See California Education Code 2572
• Respite care: means substitute care or supervision in support of the caregiver for the purposes of providing relief from the stresses of providing constant care and so as to enable the caregiver to pursue a normal routine and responsibilities. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4362.5
• responsible adult: means a person at least 21 years of age who is not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing, receiving, owning, or purchasing a firearm. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 30383
• San Joaquin Joint Powers Authority: means a joint exercise of powers agency formed under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 for purposes of assuming administrative responsibility for the San Joaquin Corridor under an interagency transfer agreement pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 14070). See California Government Code 14074
• School district: means that district from which the member of the State Teachers' Retirement System last made contributions to the system before retirement. See California Education Code 7004
• School district: means any school district maintaining any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, any public school providing instruction in any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, the office of the county superintendent of schools, or any special school operated by the department. See California Education Code 49061
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See California Government Code 14070
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. See California Government Code 14000.6
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See California Government Code 14002.5
• secure facility: means that the facility satisfies all of the following:

  California Penal Code 29141

• Service charge: means the amount of the fee that a licensee may retain if a prospective tenant finds housing through a source other than the listings supplied by the licensee. See California Education Code 15723
• Spouse: means a spouse as defined by Section 22171. See California Education Code 7004
• State agency: includes any state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, commission, organization, or agency including, without limitation, the University of California, the California State University, the California Community Colleges, and the Judicial Council. See California Government Code 31895.5
• state agency: means a state agency, as defined pursuant to Section 11000, the Legislature, the Supreme Court and the courts of appeal, and each California Community College campus and each campus of the California State University and the University of California. See California Penal Code 26805
• state agency: includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission. See California Government Code 11000
• State employee: means an employee of a state agency. See California Penal Code 26805
• state hospital: means any hospital specified in Section 4100. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4001
• State School Building Aid Fund: means that fund established pursuant to Section 16096. See California Education Code 17087
• Tenant: as used in this chapter means the person to whom income is presently or currently payable, or for whom it is accumulated or who is entitled to the beneficial use of the principal presently and for a time prior to its distribution. See California Education Code 2572
• Territory: means the land in the Baldwin Hills area that is under the jurisdiction of the conservancy. See California Government Code 31580.2
• Territory: means the territory of the conservancy that consists of those portions of Los Angeles County and Orange County located within the San Gabriel River and its tributaries, the lower Los Angeles River and its tributaries, and the San Gabriel Mountains, including, without limitation, all of the following:

  California Government Code 31595.1

• this law: refer to the applicable provisions of this division unless the context otherwise requires. See California Government Code 31511.3
• Transferring county: means the county from which territory is, or is proposed to be, transferred by reason of a county boundary change. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Transmission record: means the electronic record or document printed by the sending fax machine, stating the telephone number of the receiving fax machine, the number of pages sent, the transmission time and date, and an indication of any errors in transmission. See California Government Code 14032.6
• Treatment program: means a program designed to assist individuals who experience harmful negative consequences related to gambling disorders. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 4369.1
• Underutilization: means having a statistically significant, smaller percentage of persons of a group in an occupation or at a level in a state agency than would reasonably be expected by their percentage representation in the relevant labor force. See California Penal Code 26040
• Uninhabited territory: means territory where less than 12 persons who have been registered to vote within the territory for at least 54 days reside at the time of filing of a petition or resolution for county boundary change. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Utility pole: means an electricity or telephone pole, but does not include a street light pole or an electricity pole used solely for the transmission of electricity at 50 kilovolts or higher and not intended for distribution of communications signals or electricity at lower voltages. See California Government Code 22013
• Value of the uninhabited territory: means the value of land and improvements thereon. See California Government Code 14074.2
• Veteran: means a person who is eligible for benefits under this chapter. See California Government Code 14000.6
• veterans service organization: means any association or organization which is composed solely of persons who served honorably in time of war or in time of peace in a campaign or expedition for service in which a medal has been authorized by the government of the United States, as members of the Armed Forces of the United States, or who as citizens of the United States served honorably in time of war as members of the armed forces of any nation whose government was allied with the United States during that war, and which is organized for patriotic, fraternal, and benevolent objects. See California Government Code 14055
• women business enterprise: include an enterprise of which 50 percent is owned and controlled by one or more minorities and the other 50 percent is owned and controlled by one or more women, or, in the case of a publicly owned business, 50 percent of the stock of which is owned and controlled by one or more minorities and the other 50 percent is owned and controlled by one or more women. See California Government Code 22810