Terms Used In California Codes > Insurance Code > Division 1 > Part 2 > Chapter 1 > Article 16 - Approval of Reinsurance Plans

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
• County: includes "city and county. See California Insurance Code 14
• Department: means the Department of Boating and Waterways. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 651
• Director: means the Director of Boating and Waterways. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 651
• Domestic: means organized under the laws of this State, whether or not admitted. See California Insurance Code 26
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• Foreign: means not organized under the laws of this State, whether or not admitted. See California Insurance Code 27
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Operator: means the person aboard a vessel who meets any of the following:

  California Harbors and Navigation Code 651

• Person: means an individual, partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association, or other entity, but does not include the United States, the state, or a municipality or subdivision thereof. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 651
• Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Recreational vessel: means a vessel that is being used only for pleasure. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 651
• State: means a state of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the District of Columbia. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 651
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Insurance Code 28
• Use: means operate, navigate, or employ. See California Harbors and Navigation Code 651
• Vessel: includes every description of a watercraft or other artificial contrivance used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, except either of the following:

  California Harbors and Navigation Code 651