Terms Used In California Codes > Education Code > Title 3 > Division 7 > Part 45 > Chapter 2 > Article 2 - Meetings

• 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
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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
• License: includes "certificate" "permit" and "registration. See California Business and Professions Code 2421
• 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
• Licensee: includes the holder of a license. See California Business and Professions Code 2421
• Licensing authority: means the board, which has jurisdiction over a particular licensee. See California Business and Professions Code 2421
• Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See California Food and Agricultural Code 38
• 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
• 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.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.