Terms Used In California Codes > Business and Professions Code > Division 5 > Chapter 5.5 > Article 2 - Registration

• 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.
• Bond: includes warrant or other evidence of indebtedness. See California Government Code 53430
• City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
• Correct: means a device that meets all of the tolerance and specification requirements of Section 12107. See California Business and Professions Code 12531
• County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
• County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
• County: includes city and county. See California Food and Agricultural Code 29
• Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 32
• Device: means a weighing or measuring equipment, contrivance, or instrument used, or designed to be used, for determining weight or measure, and includes any tool, appliance, or accessory used in connection therewith, that is used for commercial purposes, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 12500. See California Business and Professions Code 12531
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Local agency: means county, city, irrigation district, reclamation district, school district, or other municipal corporation. See California Government Code 53430
• Placed in service: means to permit the use of a device that has been tested and found to be correct, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 12500, and type approved, as provided for in Section 12500. See California Business and Professions Code 12531
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 35
• Service agency: means a person, as defined in Section 12011, that for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind, repairs a commercial device. See California Business and Professions Code 12531
• Service agent: means a person employed by a service agency to repair a commercial device. See California Business and Professions Code 12531
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18