Terms Used In California Codes > Business and Professions Code > Division 9 > Chapter 15

• Advisory body: means the advisory body for each individual agriculture program. See California Food and Agricultural Code 230
• Agriculture programs: means the programs specified in Section 221, Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 5301) of Division 4, Sections 6037, 6038, and 9641. See California Food and Agricultural Code 230
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Award year: means one academic year, or the equivalent, of attendance at a qualifying institution. See California Education Code 69432.7
• board: as used in this chapter means the Medical Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 2002
• certificate: as used in this chapter are deemed to be synonomous. See California Business and Professions Code 2040
• Commission: means the Student Aid Commission. See California Education Code 69432.7
• commission: means the Student Aid Commission created by this article. See California Education Code 69515
• Commissioner: means any county agricultural commissioner. See California Food and Agricultural Code 26
• 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
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• fee: includes , but is not limited to, any application fee, license fee, permit fee, inspection fee, certification fee, registration fee, identification fee, analysis fee, or certificate fee. See California Food and Agricultural Code 301
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Judicial office: means the office filled by any judicial officer. See California Elections Code 326
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• licensee: as used in this chapter means the holder of a physician's and surgeon's certificate or doctor of podiatric medicine's certificate, as the case may be, who is engaged in the professional practice authorized by the certificate under the jurisdiction of the appropriate board. See California Business and Professions Code 2041
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• podiatric medicine: means the diagnosis, medical, surgical, mechanical, manipulative, and electrical treatment of the human foot, including the ankle and tendons that insert into the foot and the nonsurgical treatment of the muscles and tendons of the leg governing the functions of the foot. See California Business and Professions Code 2472
• Primary election: includes all primary nominating elections provided for by this code. See California Elections Code 341
• program: means the California Dreamer Service Incentive Grant Program established by this section. See California Education Code 69438
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Qualifying institution: means an institution that complies with paragraphs (2) and (3) and is any of the following:

  California Education Code 69432.7

• Special election: is a n election, the specific time for the holding of which is not prescribed by law. See California Elections Code 356
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by Section 297. See California Business and Professions Code 14.2
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Trust fund: means the Agriculture Trust Fund created pursuant to Section 232. See California Food and Agricultural Code 230
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Voter-nominated office: means a congressional or state elective office for which a candidate may choose to have his or her party preference or lack of party preference indicated upon the ballot. See California Elections Code 359.5