Terms Used In California Codes > Family Code > Division 4 > Part 2 > Chapter 2 - Separate Property

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Authority: means the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority. See California Health and Safety Code 101685
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Board: means the State Water Resources Control Board. See California Water Code 13999.2
• Board: means the Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority Board of Directors. See California Health and Safety Code 101685
• County: includes city and county. See California Water Code 14
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• Date of separation: means the date that a complete and final break in the marital relationship has occurred, as evidenced by both of the following:

  California Family Code 70

• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• Fund: means the 1984 State Clean Water Bond Fund. See California Water Code 13999.2
• Health care system: means any system established to arrange for the provision of medical services. See California Health and Safety Code 101685
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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 101685
• Person: includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. See California Family Code 105
• 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

• Property: includes real and personal property and any interest therein. See California Family Code 113
• 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 101685
• Service area: means Santa Barbara County, and those counties that are contiguous with Santa Barbara County. See California Health and Safety Code 101685
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by Section 297. See California Family Code 143
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Water 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
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Water Code 10