Terms Used In California Codes > Code of Civil Procedure > Part 3 > Title 10 > Chapter 7 > Article 7 - Miscellaneous

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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.
• Business association: means any private corporation, joint stock company, business trust, partnership, or any association for business purposes of two or more individuals, whether or not for profit, including, but not by way of limitation, a banking organization, financial organization, life insurance corporation, and utility. See California Code of Civil Procedure 1501
• Commission: means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• NOx: means oxides of nitrogen. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Owner: means a depositor in case of a deposit, a beneficiary in case of a trust, or creditor, claimant, or payee in case of other choses in action, or any person having a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this chapter, or his or her legal representative. See California Code of Civil Procedure 1501
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• 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 both personal and real property. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• 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
• 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
• State: includes the District of Columbia and the territories when applied to the different parts of the United States, and the words "United States" may include the district and territories. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Writing: includes printing and typewriting. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17