For purposes of this chapter:

(a) “Land” means any right or interest, including development rights, in real property which is essentially unimproved and devoted to an open-space use as defined in Section 65560 or real property which is of significant historic or cultural value.

Terms Used In California Government Code 7301

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18

(b) “Person” means a transferee of property subject to tax under the Inheritance Tax Law (Part 8 (commencing with Section 13301) of Division 2 of the Revenue and Taxation Code), which includes open-space land, where the total property transferred to such transferee does not include sufficient money or other liquid assets to pay the state inheritance tax on the transfer.

(c) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Resources Agency.

(Added by Stats. 1978, Ch. 1144.)