Terms Used In California Codes > Labor Code > Division 5 > Part 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 3 - Construction Elevators

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Building: includes structures of all kinds during the course of construction, regardless of the purposes for which they are intended and whether such construction be below or above the level of the ground. See California Labor Code 7200
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction elevator: includes any means used to hoist persons or material of any kind on a building under course of construction, when operated by any power other than muscular power. See California Labor Code 7200
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• County: includes "city and county. See California Labor Code 14
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Division: means the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. See California Labor Code 6302
• 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.
• health facility: means a facility, place, or building that is organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, physical or mental, including convalescence and rehabilitation and including care during and after pregnancy, or for any one or more of these purposes, for one or more persons, to which the persons are admitted for a 24-hour stay or longer, and includes the following types:

  California Health and Safety Code 1250

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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 person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Labor Code 18
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23