Terms Used In California Codes > Family Code > Division 3 > Part 4 > Chapter 1 - General Provisions

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means the Monterey County Special Health Care Authority. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• Board: means the State Water Resources Control Board. See California Water Code 13959
• Board: means the Monterey County Special Health Care Authority Board. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• Committee: means the Clean Water and Water Conservation Finance Committee created by Section 13960. See California Water Code 13959
• community advisory board: means that advisory board to the authority's board appointed by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors which is comprised of 15 persons who represent community and consumer interests and who do not directly earn their income from the provision of medical or health services. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• Construction: means any one or more of the following: preliminary planning to determine the feasibility of treatment works, engineering, architectural, legal, fiscal, or economic investigations or studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures, or other necessary actions, erection, building, acquisition, alteration, remodeling, improvement, or extension of treatment works, or the inspection or supervision of any of the foregoing items. See California Water Code 13959
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• County: means the County of Monterey. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• County: includes city and county. See California Family Code 67
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• Eligible project: means a project for the construction of treatment works which is all of the following:

  California Water Code 13959

• Eligible state assisted project: means a project for the construction of treatment works which is all of the following:

  California Water Code 13959

• Federal assistance: means funds available to a municipality either directly or through allocation by the state, from the federal government as grants for construction of treatment works, pursuant to Title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. See California Water Code 13959
• Fund: means the State Clean Water and Water Conservation Fund. See California Water Code 13959
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Health care system: means any system established to arrange for the provision of medical services. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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.
• order: include a decree, as appropriate under the circumstances. See California Family Code 100
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, trust, business trust, or the receiver or trustee or conservator for any of the above, but does not include a public agency. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• Person: includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. See California Family Code 105
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pollution: means an alteration of the quality of the waters of the state by waste to a degree which unreasonably affects either of the following:

  California Water Code 13050

• professional advisory board: means that advisory board to the authority's board composed of nine health and medical care professionals appointed by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, five of whom shall be nominated by the Monterey County Medical Society, with at least one to be a member of the Monterey County Chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians, one of whom shall be nominated by Natividad Medical Center, one of whom shall be nominated by the Monterey County Hospital Administrators' Association, and two of whom shall be nominated by other organizations in the County of Monterey representing other professional health care providers. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• Public agency: means the United States, the State of California, any political subdivision, county, municipality, district, or agency of the State of California or of the United States and any department, bureau, or commission of the State of California or of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 101560
• returned: means presented to the appropriate person in person, or postmarked, before the expiration of the specified time period. See California Family Code 359
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or a commonwealth, territory, or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See California Family Code 145
• Waste: includes sewage and any and all other waste substances, liquid, solid, gaseous, or radioactive, associated with human habitation, or of human or animal origin, or from any producing, manufacturing, or processing operation, including waste placed within containers of whatever nature prior to, and for purposes of, disposal. See California Water Code 13050
• Water quality control: means the regulation of any activity or factor which may affect the quality of the waters of the state and includes the prevention and correction of water pollution and nuisance. See California Water Code 13050