Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 104 > Part 9 > Chapter 4 > Article 3 - Responsibilities of the State Department of Health Services

• Department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• Ingestion pathway zone: means the 50-mile radius around each of the state's nuclear powerplants in which protective actions may be required to protect the food chain in the event of an emergency. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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
• Recovery phase: means the period when actions designed to reduce radiation levels in the environment to acceptable levels for unrestricted use are commenced, and ending when all recovery actions have been completed. 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