Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 7 > Part 2 > Chapter 5 > Article 3 - Conditions on the Use of State Funds for the Handling or Maintenance of Native American Human Remains and Cultural Items

• California Indian tribe: means a tribe located in California to which either of the following applies:

  California Health and Safety Code 8012

• Commission: means the Native American Heritage Commission established pursuant to §. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• Consultation: means the meaningful and timely process of seeking, discussing, and considering carefully the views of others, in a manner that is cognizant of all parties' cultural values and, where feasible, achieving agreement. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• Museum: means an agency, museum, person, or entity, including a higher educational institution, that receives state funds. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association. See California Government Code 7260
• Possession: means having physical custody of Native American human remains and cultural items with a sufficient legal interest to lawfully treat the human remains and cultural items as part of a collection. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• Public entity: includes the state, the Regents of the University of California, a county, city, city and county, district, public authority, public agency, and any other political subdivision or public corporation in the state or any entity acting on behalf of these agencies when acquiring real property, or any interest therein, in any city or county for public use, and any person who has the authority to acquire property by eminent domain under state law. See California Government Code 7260
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• State aboriginal territory: means lands identified as aboriginally occupied by one or more California Indian tribes. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which the term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Government Code 10