Terms Used In California Codes > Code of Civil Procedure > Part 2 > Title 10.5 > Chapter 1 > Article 1 - Preliminary Provisions

• Action: means an action for partition under this title. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Adequate progress: means all of the following:

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• Budget authority: Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds. Budget authority may be classified by the period of availability (one-year, multiyear, no-year), by the timing of congressional action (current or permanent), or by the manner of determining the amount available (definite or indefinite).
• City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
• Commission: means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Cost-effectiveness: means dollars provided to a project pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 44283 for each ton of covered emission reduction attributed to a project or to the program as a whole. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
• Covered emissions: include emissions of oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter, and reactive organic gases from any covered source. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Covered source: includes onroad vehicles, off-road nonrecreational equipment and vehicles, locomotives, marine vessels, agricultural sources of air pollution, as defined in Section 39011. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Covered vehicle: includes any vehicle or piece of equipment powered by a covered engine. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• District: means a county air pollution control district or an air quality management district. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Flood hazard zone: means an area subject to flooding that is delineated as either a special hazard area or an area of moderate hazard on an official flood insurance rate map issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. See California Government Code 65007
• Fund: means the Air Pollution Control Fund established pursuant to Section 43015. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Incremental cost: means the cost of the project less a baseline cost that would otherwise be incurred by the applicant in the normal course of business. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liquidated: means that all moneys for a specified fiscal year have been spent by a district to reimburse grantees for valid and eligible project invoices and district administrative costs. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee: means the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee created by Section 44244. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• NOx: means oxides of nitrogen. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
• Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
• Program: means the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program created by subdivision (a) of Section 44280. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Property: includes real and personal property. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Repower: means replacing an engine with a different engine. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Retrofit: means making modifications to the engine and fuel system so that the retrofitted engine does not have the same specifications as the original engine. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Returned: means those moneys sent by a district to the state board for reallocation because those moneys are not liquidated by a liquidation deadline. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley: means lands in the bed or along or near the banks of the Sacramento River or San Joaquin River, or their tributaries or connected therewith, or upon any land adjacent thereto, or within the overflow basins thereof, or upon land susceptible to overflow therefrom. See California Government Code 65007
• Schoolbus project: means the purchase of new schoolbuses or the repower or retrofit of emissions control equipment for existing schoolbuses. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10
• Tulare Lake basin: means the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region as defined in the California Water Plan Update 2009, prepared by the Department of Water Resources pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10004) of Part 1. See California Government Code 65007
• Urbanizing area: means a developed area or an area outside a developed area that is planned or anticipated to have 10,000 residents or more within the next 10 years. See California Government Code 65007