Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 1 > Part 6

• agreement: means the total legal obligation that results from the parties' agreement as determined by this code and as supplemented by any other applicable laws. See California Education Code 78031
• Assessor: as used in this part , means the assessor of a district. See California Probate Code 4261
• 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.
• Authority: means the California Health Facilities Financing Authority established pursuant to Section 15431 of the Government Code. See California Insurance Code 1758.992
• Bank: means a person engaged in the business of banking, and includes a savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, and trust company. See California Education Code 78031
• Casualty broker-agent: means a person licensed pursuant to Section 1625. See California Education Code 32061
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Education Code 25022.5
• Committee: means the Children's Hospital Bond Act Finance Committee created pursuant to Section 1179. See California Insurance Code 1758.992
• contract: means the bargain of the parties in fact, as found in their language or inferred from other circumstances, including course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade as provided in Section 1303. See California Education Code 78031
• County: includes "city and county. See California Education Code 25018.5
• Credit insurance: includes credit life insurance, credit disability insurance, credit involuntary unemployment insurance, credit loss-of-income insurance, credit property insurance, or guaranteed asset protection (GAP) insurance. See California Insurance Code 1758.992
• District: as used in this part , means a district formed pursuant to this part or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. See California Probate Code 4237
• Document of title: includes a bill of lading, dock warrant, dock receipt, warehouse receipt, or order for the delivery of goods, and also any other document which in the regular course of business or financing is treated as adequately evidencing that the person in possession of it is entitled to receive, hold, and dispose of the document and the goods it covers. See California Education Code 78031
• Fund: means the Children's Hospital Fund created pursuant to Section 1179. See California Insurance Code 1758.992
• Grant: means the distribution of money in the fund by the authority to children's hospitals for projects pursuant to this part. See California Insurance Code 1758.992
• insurance agent: as used in this chapter does not include a life agent as defined in this article. See California Insurance Code 1621
• license: includes a certificate of convenience and a permanent license, and the term "persons who are licensed" includes the holders of any such certificate or the license, but these definitions and the use of those terms in this chapter shall not confer upon a certificate of convenience or any holder thereof any property right in or to the certificate, the certificate being and remaining only a temporary permit, issued as a matter of convenience, allowing the transaction of insurance without a permanent license, but within the limits, and subject to the conditions of the certificate of convenience issued and the laws applicable thereto. See California Insurance Code 1627
• License year: as used in this chapter shall be determined for each entity as follows:

  California Insurance Code 1629

• licensee: means an insurer, agent, broker, or any other person who is required to be licensed by the department. See California Education Code 32080
• Life and disability insurance analyst: means a person who, for a fee or compensation of any kind, paid by or derived from any person or source other than an insurer, advises, purports to advise, or offers to advise any person insured under, named as beneficiary of, or having any interest in, a life or disability insurance contract, in any manner concerning that contract or his or her rights in respect thereto. See California Education Code 32044
• Mortgage: includes a trust deed, "mortgagor" includes a trustor under such trust deed, "mortgagee" includes a beneficiary under such trust deed, or a trustee exercising powers or performing duties granted to or imposed upon him thereunder, and "lien" in respect to real or personal property includes a charge or incumbrance arising out of a trust deed. See California Education Code 32034
• organization: means any legal entity other than a natural person. See California Insurance Code 1628
• Participant: as used in this article , means a seller of travel, as defined in Section 17550. See California Education Code 17437
• Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Education Code 25022
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See California Education Code 78031
• person: includes any individual, partnership, firm, association, or corporation. See California Education Code 17289
• Program: means the Children's Hospital Program established pursuant to this part. See California Insurance Code 1758.992
• Project: means constructing, expanding, remodeling, renovating, furnishing, equipping, financing, or refinancing of a children's hospital to be financed or refinanced with funds provided in whole or in part pursuant to this part. See California Insurance Code 1758.992
• Property broker-agent: means a person licensed pursuant to Section 1625. See California Education Code 32061
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See California Education Code 78031
• Representative: means a person empowered to act for another, including an agent, an officer of a corporation or association, and a trustee, executor, or administrator of an estate. See California Education Code 78031
• Resident: means residing in this State, "nonresident" means not residing in this State. See California Education Code 32040
• Right: includes remedy. See California Education Code 78031
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Education Code 32033
• Surplus line broker: means a person licensed under Section 1765 and authorized to do business under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 1760) of Part 2 of Division 1. See California Education Code 32224
• Term: means a portion of an agreement that relates to a particular matter. See California Education Code 78031