Terms Used In California Codes > Food and Agricultural Code > Division 9 > Part 1 > Chapter 2 > Article 1 - Application

• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corporation: includes a corporation, a company, a limited liability company, an association, and a joint stock association. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• County: includes city and county. See California Food and Agricultural Code 29
• 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
• local agency: means municipal corporation or sanitary district. See California Government Code 55000
• Person: includes an individual, a firm, or a partnership. See California Business and Professions Code 19225.5
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23