California Codes > Financial Code > Division 15 > Chapter 1 > Article 3 – Definitions
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- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
- Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Emergency planning zone: means a zone identified in state and local government emergency plans where immediate decisions for effective public protective action from radiation may be necessary. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Environment: means all places outside the control of the person responsible for the radioactive materials. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Exercise: means an event that tests emergency plans and organizations and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency evaluates pursuant to Part 350 (commencing with Section 350. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Field tracer study: is a ny project, experiment, or study that includes provision for deliberate introduction of radioactive material into the environment for experimental or test purposes. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Ingestion pathway phase: means the period beginning after any release of radioactive material from a nuclear powerplant accident when the plume emergency phase has ceased, and reliable environmental measurements are available for making decisions on additional protective actions to protect the food chain. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Ingestion pathway zone: means the 50-mile radius around each of the state's nuclear powerplants in which protective actions may be required to protect the food chain in the event of an emergency. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Interjurisdictional Planning Committee: means the planning committee, comprised of representatives of the Counties of Orange and San Diego, the Cities of Dana Point, San Clemente, and San Juan Capistrano, the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, the State Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Southern California Edison Company, established as a mechanism for coordinating integrated preparedness and response in the event of an emergency at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- ionizing radiation: means gamma rays and X-rays. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
- 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.
- Local government: means a city or county that provides emergency response for a nuclear powerplant emergency. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- office: means the Office of Emergency Services. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, limited liability company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Financial Code 18
- Person: includes any association of persons, copartnership or corporation. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Plume emergency phase: means the period beginning at the onset of an emergency at a nuclear powerplant when immediate decisions for public protective actions are needed. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Radioactive material: means any material or combination of materials that spontaneously emits ionizing radiation. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Radioactive waste: means any radioactive material that is discarded as nonusable. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Radiological monitoring: means the measurement of the amounts and kinds of radioactive materials in the environment. See California Health and Safety Code 114710
- Recovery phase: means the period when actions designed to reduce radiation levels in the environment to acceptable levels for unrestricted use are commenced, and ending when all recovery actions have been completed. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Site: means the location of a nuclear powerplant and its surrounding emergency planning zone. See California Health and Safety Code 114650