Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 26 > Part 5 > Chapter 8.7 - Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Open Access Act

• Battery: means an electrochemical energy storage system powered directly by electrical current. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Commission: means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• 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.
• Electric vehicle: means a vehicle that uses a plug-in battery to provide all or part of the motive power of the vehicle, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or plug-in fuel cell vehicle. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Electric vehicle charging station: means one or more publicly available parking spaces served by electric vehicle service equipment. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Electric vehicle service equipment: means an electric component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Interoperability billing standards: means the ability for a member of one electric charging station billing network to use another billing network. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Network roaming: means the act of a member of one electric vehicle charging station billing network using a charging station that is outside of the member's billing network with the member's billing network account information. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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.
• Publicly available parking space: means a parking space that has been designated by a property owner or lessee to be available to, and accessible by, the public and may include on-street parking spaces and parking spaces in surface lots or parking garages. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• 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