Terms Used In California Codes > Education Code > Title 3 > Division 5 > Part 40 > Chapter 14.28 > Article 4 - Criteria and Process

• Allocation: means the portion of the initial California Student Housing Revolving Loan Fund Act of 2022 appropriation allocated to each designated authority to provide loans pursuant to this chapter. See California Education Code 67329.2
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• authority: as used in this chapter depends on the college or university system of which the applicant is a member. See California Education Code 67329.2
• Campus: means a community college district, or a campus of the University of California or the California State University. See California Education Code 67329.2
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• Fund: means the California Student Housing Revolving Loan Fund established by this chapter. See California Education Code 67329.2
• 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.
• license: means license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Section 1000 or 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.7
• Licensee: means any person authorized by a license, certificate, registration, or other means to engage in a business or profession regulated by this code or referred to in Sections 1000 and 3600. See California Business and Professions Code 23.8
• 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.
• Participating nonprofit entity: means an entity within the meaning of paragraph (3) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of Title 26 of the United States Code. See California Education Code 67329.2
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Project: means a student housing project or a faculty and staff housing project. See California Education Code 67329.2
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• University applicant: means a campus of the University of California or the California State University, the Office of the President of the University of California on behalf of one or more campuses of the University of California, or the Office of the Chancellor of the California State University on behalf of one or more campuses of the California State University. See California Education Code 67329.2