Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 7 > Part 2 > Chapter 5 > Article 4 - Penalties and Enforcement Procedures

• Agency: means a division, department, bureau, commission, board, council, city, county, city and county, district, or other political subdivision of the state. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• 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.
• Commission: means the Native American Heritage Commission established pursuant to §. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Museum: means an agency, museum, person, or entity, including a higher educational institution, that receives state funds. See California Health and Safety Code 8012
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association. See California Government Code 7260
• 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
• Public use: means a use for which real property may be acquired by eminent domain. 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 Government Code 18