Terms Used In California Codes > Food and Agricultural Code > Division 17 > Chapter 2 > Article 5 - Inspection and Certification by the Director

• application to purchase: means either of the following:

  California Penal Code 16190

• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 32
• firearm: includes the frame or receiver of the weapon, including both a completed frame or receiver, or a firearm precursor part:

  California Penal Code 16520

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
• prisoner: includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. See California Government Code 844
• Purchaser: means the purchaser or transferee of a firearm or the person being loaned a firearm. See California Penal Code 28200
• safety: is a utomatically applied by the pistol, this feature shall not be defeated. See California Penal Code 31900