Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 104 > Part 6 - WHOLESALE FOOD

• Action: means an action for partition under this title. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Action: includes a civil action and a special proceeding of a civil nature. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Agency: means a depositary agency or a nondepositary agency. See California Financial Code 1750
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• area median income: means the median family income of a geographic area of the state, as annually estimated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937. See California Health and Safety Code 50093
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Basal area per acre: means the sum of the cross-sectional areas at breast height of the tree stems of commercial species per acre. See California Public Resources Code 4528
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Beverage: means beer or other malt beverages and mineral waters, soda water and similar carbonated soft drinks in liquid form and intended for human consumption. See California Health and Safety Code 113200
• Beverage container: means the individual, separate, sealed glass, metal or plastic bottle, can, jar or carton containing a beverage. See California Health and Safety Code 113200
• Birth admission: means the time after birth that the newborn remains in the hospital nursery prior to discharge. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• Branch business unit: has the meaning set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 4840. See California Financial Code 1670
• Branch locker plant: means a frozen food locker plant in any location or establishment artificially cooled in which space in individual lockers is rented, leased, or loaned to individuals, firms, or corporations for the storage of food for their own use after preparation for storage in a central or parent plant. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Branch office: means a limited branch office, a retail branch office, or a wholesale branch office. See California Financial Code 1750
• Business in this state: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank which is licensed to maintain one or more agencies or branch offices, includes (without limitation) the aggregate business of all the offices. See California Financial Code 1750
• CalAccount Program: means the proposed program described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 100104. See California Government Code 100100
• Capitalized operating subsidy reserve: means funds that are set aside before a property is acquired pursuant to this chapter to cover the property's operating expenses over time. See California Health and Safety Code 50720.4
• CCS: means the California Children's Services program administered through the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• City: includes incorporated city, city and county, municipal corporation, municipality, town and incorporated town. See California Financial Code 13
• Commission: means the CalAccount Blue Ribbon Commission convened pursuant to Section 100102. See California Government Code 100100
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
• Community housing development organizations: means the nonprofit organizations described in Section 92. See California Health and Safety Code 50896.2
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consolidated plan: means the five-year action plan that results from the process set by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that assesses affordable housing and community development needs and market conditions, allows the prioritization of development needs, and makes data-driven, place-based investment decisions for federal funding provided by HUD. See California Health and Safety Code 50826
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• control: has the meaning set forth in subdivision (b) of Section 1250, and "person" has the meaning set forth in subdivision (d) of Section 1250. See California Financial Code 1750
• Controlling person: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means any person who, directly or indirectly, controls the bank. See California Financial Code 1750
• Controlling person: when used with respect to an uninsured foreign (other state) bank, means any person who directly or indirectly controls the bank. See California Financial Code 1710
• Conversion: means any of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 50852

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Core banking business: means the business of receiving deposits, paying checks, making loans, and other activities that the commissioner may specify by order or regulation. See California Financial Code 1670
• corporation: means a corporation organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of transacting business pursuant to this article. See California Financial Code 1850
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• County: includes "city and county. See California Public Resources Code 14
• County: includes city and county. See California Financial Code 14
• Court: means the trial court in which the action is pending, unless otherwise specified. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department. See California Health and Safety Code 124030
• Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Department: means the Department of Housing and Community Development. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• department: means the Department of Housing and Community Development. See California Health and Safety Code 50681
• Department: means the Department of Housing and Community Development. See California Health and Safety Code 50720.4
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Depose: includes any written statement made under oath or affirmation. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Depositary agency: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means a place in this state at which the bank transacts commercial banking business but at which it does not transact the business of receiving deposits, except as permitted under paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 1805. See California Financial Code 1750
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Designated local board: means a group, including social service providers and a representative of local government, that has met department requirements for distribution of grants allocated by the department pursuant to this chapter. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director. See California Health and Safety Code 124030
• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• Director: means the Director of Housing and Community Development. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dwelling unit: includes a space in a mobilehome park, as defined in Section 18214, and includes a mobilehome rented with the space. See California Health and Safety Code 50775
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Electronically stored information: means information that is stored in an electronic medium. See California Code of Civil Procedure 2016.020
• Eligible city or county: means an area which is not a metropolitan city or part of an urban county, as defined by Section 5302(a)(4) and (6), respectively, of Title 42 of the United States Code. See California Health and Safety Code 50826
• Eligible organization: means an agency of local government or a nonprofit corporation that provides, or contracts with community organizations to provide, emergency shelter or transitional housing, or both. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Emergency shelter: means housing with minimal supportive services for homeless persons that is limited to occupancy of six months or less by a homeless person. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive officer: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank or a controlling person of a foreign (other nation) bank, means the chief executive officer, the chief operating officer, the chief financial officer, and any other person who participates or has authority to participate in major policymaking functions of the bank or controlling person. See California Financial Code 1750
• Executive officer: when used with respect to an uninsured foreign (other state) bank or a controlling person of an uninsured foreign (other state) bank, means the chief executive officer, the chief operating officer, the chief financial officer, and any other person who participates or has authority to participate in major policymaking functions of the bank or controlling person. See California Financial Code 1710
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Facility: when used with respect to a foreign (other state) bank, means an office in this state at which the bank engages in noncore banking business but at which it does not engage in core banking business. See California Financial Code 1670
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal agency: has the meaning set forth in Section 1(b) of the International Banking Act of 1978. See California Financial Code 1750
• Federal branch: has the meaning set forth in Section 1(b) of the International Banking Act of 1978. See California Financial Code 1750
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Flavored olive oil: as used in this chapter , means extra virgin olive oil, virgin olive oil, or olive oil, that is mixed with a flavoring, or olives that are processed into oil with any fruit, vegetable, herb, nut, seed, or spice and the product resulting from either process contains not less than 90 percent extra virgin olive oil, virgin olive oil, or olive oil, and is labeled for sale as an olive oil that has been flavored. See California Health and Safety Code 112878
• FmHA: means the Farmers Home Administration. See California Health and Safety Code 50852
• Followup services: means all of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 124116

• Food: means any article used by man for food, drink, confectionery or condiment, or which enters into the composition thereof, whether simple, blended, mixed or compounded. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Food: as used in this chapter , includes all articles used for food, drink, confectionery, or condiment, whether simple or compound, and all substances and ingredients used in the preparation thereof. See California Health and Safety Code 111950
• Food processing establishment: as used in this chapter , shall mean any room, building, or place or portion thereof, maintained, used, or operated for the purpose of commercially storing, packaging, making, cooking, mixing, processing, bottling, canning, packing, slaughtering, or otherwise preparing or handling food except restaurants. See California Health and Safety Code 111955
• Food product: as used in this chapter , includes any fish or fish product, meat or meat product, or any other food product. See California Health and Safety Code 112660
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreclosure risk intervention sale: means a sale of a 1 to 25 unit residential real property that is not owner occupied and that exhibits indicators of foreclosure risk at the time of sale including, but not limited to, the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 50720.4

• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Frozen: means food frozen in a room or compartment in which the temperature is plus 5 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Frozen food locker plant: means an establishment in which space in the individual lockers is rented, leased, or loaned to individuals, firms, or corporations, for the storage of food for their own use and which is artificially cooled for the purpose of preserving the food. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Fuel break: means a strip of modified fuel to provide a line from which to work in the control of fire. See California Public Resources Code 4528
• funded debt: means all interest-bearing indebtedness of a corporation not maturing within one year of the date it was incurred. See California Financial Code 7275
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing board: means the governing board of a school district or community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Regents of the University of California. See California Education Code 32220
• Governing body: means the county board of supervisors or boards of supervisors in the case of counties acting jointly. See California Health and Safety Code 124030
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Handicapped child: as used in this article , means a physically defective or handicapped person under the age of 21 years who is in need of services. See California Health and Safety Code 123830
• Hearing loss: means a hearing loss of 30 decibels or greater in the frequency region important for speech recognition and comprehension in one or both ears (from 500 through 4000 Hz). See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• HOME: means the HOME Investment Partnership Act as enacted in Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act. See California Health and Safety Code 50896.2
• HUD: means the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. See California Health and Safety Code 50852
• Imitation olive oil: as used in this chapter , means the mixture of any edible oil artificially colored or flavored to resemble olive oil. See California Health and Safety Code 112879
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• In this state: means within the exterior limits of the State of California and includes all territory within these limits owned by or ceded to the United States of America. See California Health and Safety Code 113200
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Infant: means a child 29 days through 12 months old. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insurance agent: means a person authorized, by and on behalf of an insurer, to transact all classes of insurance other than life, disability, or health insurance, on behalf of an admitted insurance company. See California Insurance Code 31
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Intervention services: means the early intervention services described in Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• landowner: means either the person or persons owning the land or the person or persons owning the timber. See California Public Resources Code 4598.3
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means a license issued under this chapter, authorizing a foreign bank to maintain an office. See California Financial Code 1750
• License: means a license issued under this article, authorizing an uninsured foreign (other state) bank to maintain a facility. See California Financial Code 1710
• licensed: means to be issued or to hold a license. See California Financial Code 1750
• Licensed: means to be issued or to hold a license. See California Financial Code 1710
• licensed to transact business in this state: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means that the bank is licensed to maintain an agency or branch office. See California Financial Code 1750
• Lien: means a mortgage, deed of trust, or other security interest in property whether arising from contract, statute, common law, or equity. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Limited branch office: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means a place in this state at which the bank transacts commercial banking business but at which it does not transact the business of receiving deposits except as permitted under paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 1805. See California Financial Code 1750
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• local agency: means a city, county, or city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 50683
• Locker: means the individual sections or compartments of a capacity of not to exceed 25 cubic feet in the locker room of a frozen food locker plant. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• locker plant: as used in this chapter shall mean any building or portion thereof that is artificially cooled to or below a temperature above zero of 45 degrees Fahrenheit and used exclusively for the storage of any article of food for the sole use of the storer, and that article or articles of food are not for resale. See California Health and Safety Code 112380
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Newborn: means a child less than 29 days old. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• Newborn hearing screening services: means those hearing screening tests that are necessary to achieve the identification of all newborns and infants with a hearing loss. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• NOFA: means notice of funding availability, a public announcement that an estimated amount of funding will be awarded by a department program according to specified criteria and schedules. See California Health and Safety Code 50826
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Noncore banking business: means all activities permissible for commercial banks, industrial banks, or trust companies, except core banking business, and except those activities prohibited by law or determined by the commissioner by regulation or order not to be noncore banking business. See California Financial Code 1670
• Nondepositary agency: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means a place in this state at which the bank transacts commercial banking business, except the business of receiving deposits. See California Financial Code 1750
• Nonurban county: means any county with a population of less than 200,000, as published in the most recent edition of Population Estimates of California Cities and Counties, E-1, prepared by the Department of Finance, Demographic Research Unit. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation. See California Financial Code 16
• Office: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means any agency, branch office, or representative office of the bank. See California Financial Code 1750
• Olive oil: as used in this chapter means the edible oil obtained solely from the fruit of the olive tree (Olea europea L. See California Health and Safety Code 112875
• Operator: means any person, firm or corporation operating or maintaining a frozen food locker plant. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means the person, partnership, or corporation that is a party to a contract with a federal, state, or local governmental agency which provides a mortgage, mortgage assistance, or rent subsidy. See California Health and Safety Code 50852
• Owner: includes any individual, partnership, corporation, or association. See California Public Resources Code 4712
• Parent: means a natural parent, adoptive parent, or legal guardian of a child. See California Health and Safety Code 124116
• partnership: means the School/Law Enforcement Partnership established by this section. See California Education Code 32262
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
• Person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, limited liability company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Financial Code 18
• Persons and families of low or moderate income: means persons and families whose income does not exceed 80 percent of the area median income, adjusted for family size, as determined pursuant to regulations or subsequent guidelines adopted by the department. See California Health and Safety Code 50826
• Persons and families of low or moderate income: includes very low income households, as defined in Section 50105, extremely low income households, as defined in Section 50106, and lower income households as defined in Section 50079. See California Health and Safety Code 50093
• persons of low income: means persons or families who are eligible for financial assistance specifically provided by a governmental agency for the benefit of occupants of housing financed pursuant to this division. See California Health and Safety Code 50093
• persons requiring supportive services: means persons who are eligible to receive housing assistance pursuant to federal law because of financial inability to provide adequate housing for themselves or persons dependent upon them, who are or will be participating in programs of rehabilitation, education, or social services, and who meet any of the following criteria:

  California Health and Safety Code 50685.5

• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Preauthorized electronic fund transfers: An EFT authorized in advance to recur at substantially regular intervals. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Preforeclosure intervention sale: means a sale of a 1 to 25 unit residential real property that is subject to a recorded notice of default by a trustee representing a beneficiary at the time of the sale. See California Health and Safety Code 50720.4
• Primary office: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain a single agency or branch office, means the agency or branch office and, when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank that is licensed to maintain two or more agencies or branch offices, means that one of the offices which the bank has designated as its primary office in accordance with Section 1766. See California Financial Code 1750
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Process: signifies a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Processor: means an establishment in which, for compensation directly or indirectly, meat or meat products are cut, wrapped, or frozen to be delivered for frozen storage by the ultimate consumer. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Program: means the State Community Development Block Grant Program created pursuant to federal law (42 U. See California Health and Safety Code 50826
• Program: means the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program. See California Health and Safety Code 50720.4
• Property: includes real and personal property. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Property acquisition costs: means direct real property acquisition costs such as payment of the purchase price and any liens on eligible properties in addition to repairs required to ensure a property and its structures are in compliance with all applicable habitability, health, and safety laws. See California Health and Safety Code 50720.4
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• PTEIR: means a program timberland environmental impact report prepared pursuant to this article and Article 6. See California Public Resources Code 4598.3
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• public library: means any public library as defined in this code, or any county law library established pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 6300) of Division 3 of . See California Education Code 19307
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Region: means a county or a consortium of counties voluntarily banding together by action of a designated local board. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• related entity: means a spouse, parent, child, or other individual who is blood related to the owner, a partnership if the owner is either a general or limited partner of the partnership, a corporation if the owner serves on the board of directors of the corporation or if the owner is a holder of 1 percent, or more, of the stock of the corporation, and any other business entity for which the owner has primary authority for management of the business. See California Health and Safety Code 50852
• Remainder: includes reversion, reversionary interest, right of entry, and executory interest. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Representative office: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means an office in this state at which the bank engages in representational functions but at which it does not transact commercial banking business. See California Financial Code 1750
• Resident: means residing in this State, "nonresident" means not residing in this State. See California Insurance Code 30
• Safe Haven: means supportive housing for seriously mentally ill homeless persons, many of whom have cooccurring substance abuse problems, that have been unable or unwilling to participate in high demand housing programs. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• Service locker plant: means a frozen food locker plant in which patrons' foods are prepared or packaged by the operator of the plant before the foods are placed in the lockers for storage. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: as used in this article , means any or all of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 123840

• small school district: means a school district that has fewer than 2,501 units of average daily attendance at the beginning of each fiscal year. See California Education Code 32281
• Smaller nonindustrial landowner: means an owner of 5,000 acres or less of timberland within the state. See California Public Resources Code 4598.3
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Health and Safety Code 12.2
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Insurance Code 28
• State: includes the District of Columbia and the territories when applied to the different parts of the United States, and the words "United States" may include the district and territories. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• State Board of Public Health: means "State Department of Health Services" with respect to regulatory functions heretofore performed by the State Board of Public Health or the "Advisory Health Council" with respect to all other functions heretofore performed by the board. See California Health and Safety Code 22
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Stocking: means a measure of the degree to which space is occupied by well-distributed countable trees. See California Public Resources Code 4528
• Storage locker plant: means a frozen food locker plant, the operator of which does not prepare or package the foods of patrons. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Stream: means a natural watercourse as designated by a solid line or dash and three dots symbol shown on the largest scale United States Geological Survey map most recently published. See California Public Resources Code 4528
• subscription: includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name. See California Health and Safety Code 18
• Subsidized rental unit: means any unit with a rent that was subject to regulation by a federal, state, or local governmental agency prior to conversion. See California Health and Safety Code 50852
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• tactical responses to criminal incidents: means steps taken to safeguard pupils and staff, to secure the affected school premises, and to apprehend the criminal perpetrator or perpetrators. See California Education Code 32281
• task force: means the California Oak Mortality Task Force. See California Public Resources Code 4750.2
• Temperature: means the average air temperature in refrigerated rooms. See California Health and Safety Code 112500
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Transaction costs: means costs related to acquiring a property, which may include property appraisal, transfer taxes, financing costs, underwriting, project management, broker fees, and legal fees. See California Health and Safety Code 50720.4
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transitional housing: means housing with supportive services for up to 24 months that is exclusively designated and targeted for recently homeless persons. See California Health and Safety Code 50801
• two-way communication devices: include , but are not necessarily limited to, telephones, intercoms, walkie-talkies, or portable radios. See California Education Code 32226
• uncontrolled fire: as used in this division , means any fire which threatens to destroy life, property, or resources and either: (1) is unattended by any person. See California Public Resources Code 4104
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• Whole business unit: has the meaning set forth in subdivision (g) of Section 4840. See California Financial Code 1670
• Wholesale branch office: when used with respect to a foreign (other nation) bank, means a place in this state at which the bank transacts commercial banking business but at which it does not transact the business of receiving deposits except as permitted under paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of Section 1805. See California Financial Code 1750
• Will: includes codicil. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ: means an order or precept in writing, issued in the name of the people, or of a court or judicial officer. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Writing: includes printing and typewriting. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Writing: includes any form of recorded message capable of comprehension by ordinary visual means. See California Financial Code 8