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

• Earthquake hazard mitigation technologies: includes , but is not limited to, seismic isolation, energy dissipation, ductility, damping systems, and other technologies which endeavor to reasonably protect buildings and nonstructural components, building contents, and functional capability from earthquake damage. See California Health and Safety Code 16100
• 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
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23