Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• 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.
• City: means any city, whether general law or chartered, including a city and county, and including any city the name of which includes the word "town. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Control: means to prevent or reduce vectors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• District: means any mosquito abatement and vector control district created pursuant to this chapter or any of its statutory predecessors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Property: means land and improvements, and includes water. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Public nuisance: means any of the following:

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• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Vector: means any animal capable of transmitting the causative agent of human disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including, but not limited to, mosquitoes, flies, mites, ticks, other arthropods, and rodents and other vertebrates. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Voter: means a voter as defined by §. See California Health and Safety Code 2002