Terms Used In California Codes > Food and Agricultural Code > Division 5 > Part 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 5 - Marking and Validations

• Bureau: refers to the Bureau of Household Goods and Services, as established in Section 9810. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 32
• Household mover: includes every corporation or person, their lessees, trustee, receivers, or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, engaged in the permitted or unpermitted transportation for compensation or hire as a business by means of a motor vehicle or motor vehicles being used in the transportation of used household goods and personal effects over any public highway in this state. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See California Food and Agricultural Code 38
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18