Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 104 > Part 9 > Chapter 4 > Article 2 - Responsibilities of the Office of Emergency Services

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• Exercise: means an event that tests emergency plans and organizations and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency evaluates pursuant to Part 350 (commencing with Section 350. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• Local government: means a city or county that provides emergency response for a nuclear powerplant emergency. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• office: means the Office of Emergency Services. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• 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
• Plume emergency phase: means the period beginning at the onset of an emergency at a nuclear powerplant when immediate decisions for public protective actions are needed. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• Site: means the location of a nuclear powerplant and its surrounding emergency planning zone. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23