Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 2 > Chapter 3.3 > Article 2 - Administration

• Adult day health care: means an organized day program of therapeutic, social, and skilled nursing health activities and services provided pursuant to this chapter to elderly persons or adults with disabilities with functional impairments, either physical or mental, for the purpose of restoring or maintaining optimal capacity for self-care. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Director: means the State Public Health Officer. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• License: means a basic permit to operate an adult day health care center. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Project: means the specific requirements and work to be accomplished by the job order contractor in connection with an individual job order. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• state department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7