Terms Used In California Codes > Evidence Code > Division 8 > Chapter 4 > Article 8 - Clergy Penitent Privileges

• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• board: means the board of directors of the district. See California Public Utilities Code 125050
• compensation: means the remuneration paid out of funds controlled by the employer in payment for the member's services performed during normal working hours or for time during which the member is excused from work because of any of the following:

  California Government Code 20630

• district: means the North County Transit District. See California Public Utilities Code 125001
• member of the clergy: means a priest, minister, religious practitioner, or similar functionary of a church or of a religious denomination or religious organization. See California Evidence Code 1030
• penitent: means a person who has made a penitential communication to a member of the clergy. See California Evidence Code 1031
• penitential communication: means a communication made in confidence, in the presence of no third person so far as the penitent is aware, to a member of the clergy who, in the course of the discipline or practice of the clergy member's church, denomination, or organization, is authorized or accustomed to hear those communications and, under the discipline or tenets of his or her church, denomination, or organization, has a duty to keep those communications secret. See California Evidence Code 1032
• Person: includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. See California Evidence Code 175
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Public Utilities Code 17
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Town: includes "unincorporated town" and "village. See California Government Code 21