Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 103 > Part 7

• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Bureau: refers to the Bureau of Household Goods and Services, as established in Section 9810. See California Government Code 53859.01
• Chief: refers to the chief of the bureau. See California Government Code 53859.01
• Corporation: includes a corporation, a company, an association, and a joint stock association. See California Government Code 53859.01
• County: includes city and county. See California Education Code 24937
• Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Education Code 19959
• Director: refers to the Director of Consumer Affairs. See California Government Code 53859.01
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Fund: means the Household Movers Fund established pursuant to Section 19229. See California Government Code 53859.01
• Grant anticipation note: means a note issued upon the security of specified accounts receivable from state or federal governments, including, without limitation, grants, loans, or a combination of both, for which funds have been appropriated and committed to a local agency. See California Government Code 53859
• 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 Government Code 53859.01
• Loan: includes , but is not limited to, a borrowing by a local agency represented or to be represented by bonds of a local agency. See California Government Code 53859
• local agency: means county, city and county, city, school district, community college district, or any other municipal or public corporation or district. See California Government Code 53859
• Motor vehicle: means every motor truck, tractor, or other self-propelled vehicle used for transportation of property over the public highways, other than upon fixed rails or tracks, and any trailer, semitrailer, dolly, or other vehicle drawn thereby. See California Government Code 53859.01
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: includes an individual, a firm, or a copartnership. See California Government Code 53859.01
• Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability company, or any organized group of persons whether incorporated or not. See California Education Code 19963
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Public highway: includes every public street, road, or highway in this state. See California Government Code 53859.01
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Education Code 17325
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Education Code 19970