Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 4 - Powers

• Abate: means to put an end to a public nuisance, or to reduce the degree or the intensity of a public nuisance. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• 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.
• Board of trustees: means the legislative body of a district. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Control: means to prevent or reduce vectors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• 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
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• 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}
• Operator: means a person who operates a solid waste facility. See California Public Resources Code 44201
• Owner: means a person who owns a solid waste facility. See California Public Resources Code 44201
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Principal county: means the county having all or the greater portion of the entire assessed value, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county or counties, of all taxable property within a district at the time of formation. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Property: means land and improvements, and includes water. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Public agency: means any state agency, board, or commission, including the California State University and the University of California, any county, city and county, city, regional agency, school district, special district, redevelopment agency, or other political subdivision. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Public nuisance: means any of the following:

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• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Secretary: means the Secretary for Environmental Protection. See California Public Resources Code 44201
• Siting: means the physical suitability of a location proposed for a solid waste facility. See California Public Resources Code 44201
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• State: means the State of California and any agency or instrumentality thereof. See California Public Resources Code 44201
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tribe: means an Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, or a tribal agency authorized by a tribe as defined herein, which is recognized as eligible for special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians and is identified on pages 52829 to 52835, inclusive, of Number 250 of Volume 53 (December 29, 1988) of the Federal Register, as that list may be updated or amended from time to time. See California Public Resources Code 44201
• 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