Terms Used In California Codes > Government Code > Title 8 > Chapter 5 > Article 8.5 - Superior Court Security

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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
• best available control technology: has the meaning provided in Section 40405. See California Health and Safety Code 40951
• best available retrofit control technology: has the meaning given in Section 40406. See California Health and Safety Code 40952
• 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
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• strategy: means the Sacramento district air quality improvement strategy. See California Health and Safety Code 40953
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.