Terms Used In California Codes > Penal Code > Part 1 > Title 8 - OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON

• administrator: means the Director of Employment Development. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 821.3
• Alcohol and drug abuse records: means patient records, or discrete portions thereof, specifically relating to evaluation and treatment of alcoholism or drug abuse. See California Health and Safety Code 123105
• Basic health care services: includes , but is not limited to, the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 123180

• Cal-ID: means the automated system maintained by the Department of Justice for retaining fingerprint files and identifying latent fingerprints. See California Penal Code 11112.1
• Cal-ID Telecommunications System: means a statewide telecommunications network dedicated to the transmission of fingerprint identification data in conjunction with Cal-ID for use by law enforcement agencies. See California Penal Code 11112.1
• Catastrophic health insurance: means a supplementary insurance contract that indemnifies a California resident for medical expenses, including at least the costs of the basic health care services that result from an illness, injury, or disease, and that are greater than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), subject to a lifetime benefit limit of one million dollars ($1,000,000). See California Health and Safety Code 123180
• county: includes "city and county". See California Penal Code 7
• County: includes city and county. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 14
• criminal offender record information: means records and data compiled by criminal justice agencies for purposes of identifying criminal offenders and of maintaining as to each such offender a summary of arrests, pretrial proceedings, the nature and disposition of criminal charges, sentencing, incarceration, rehabilitation, and release. See California Penal Code 11075
• Department: means the Department of Justice. See California Penal Code 11112.1
• employer: means any individual or type of organization, including any partnership, joint venture, association, trust, estate, joint stock company, insurance company, corporation whether domestic or foreign, and the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee or successor thereof, and the legal representative of a deceased person. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 1058
• Health care provider: means any of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 123105

• Insurer: as used in this chapter includes a disability insurer that covers hospital, medical, or surgical expenses, and a nonprofit hospital service plan. See California Health and Safety Code 123180
• joint venture: means a separate employing unit which has been organized by two or more employers to accomplish a contract or project or series of contracts or projects and which is wholly owned by such employers. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 1058
• knowingly: import s only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of this code. See California Penal Code 7
• license: shall include a permit or a certificate issued by a state agency. See California Penal Code 23
• maliciously: import a wish to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or an intent to do a wrongful act, established either by proof or presumption of law. See California Penal Code 7
• mandatory supervision: shall mean the portion of a defendant's sentenced term during which time he or she is supervised by the county probation officer pursuant to subparagraph (B) of paragraph (5) of subdivision (h) of Section 1170. See California Penal Code 19.9
• Mental health records: includes , but is not limited to, all alcohol and drug abuse records. See California Health and Safety Code 123105
• month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See California Penal Code 7
• Patient: means a patient or former patient of a health care provider. See California Health and Safety Code 123105
• Patient records: includes only records pertaining to the patient requesting the records or whose representative requests the records. See California Health and Safety Code 123105
• peace officer: signify any one of the officers mentioned in Chapter 4. See California Penal Code 7
• person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See California Penal Code 7
• personal property: include money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See California Penal Code 7
• Primary Care Services Act: means Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 124400), Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 124475), Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 124550), Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 124575), Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 124600), Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 124800), and Article 1 (commencing with Section 124875) of Chapter 7 of, Part 4 of Division 106. See California Health and Safety Code 27
• property: includes both real and personal property. See California Penal Code 7
• RAN: means a uniform statewide network of equipment and procedures allowing local law enforcement agencies direct access to the California Identification System. See California Penal Code 11112.1
• Reasonably suspects: means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion, based upon facts that could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on his or her training and experience, to suspect. See California Penal Code 11162.5
• Record: means the state summary criminal history information as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 11105, or a copy thereof, maintained under a person's name by the Department of Justice. See California Penal Code 11140
• representative: means any of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 123105

• Research Participants Undergoing Oocyte Retrieval for Medical Research Purposes Bill of Rights: means a list of the rights of a research participant providing human oocytes for the purposes of medical research. See California Health and Safety Code 125331
• Resident: means any individual who lives in California for at least 90 consecutive days. See California Health and Safety Code 123180
• school employer: means the governing board of any school district or community college district, any county board of education, any county superintendent of schools, or any personnel commission of a school district or community college district which has a merit system pursuant to any provision of the Education Code, or any instrumentality of the foregoing, or any instrumentality of more than one of the foregoing, which employs one or more employees. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 821.4
• seal: includes an impression of such seal upon the paper alone, or upon any substance attached to the paper capable of receiving a visible impression. See California Penal Code 7
• spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Penal Code 7
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 11.2
• Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Health and Safety Code 12.2
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the district and territories. See California Penal Code 7
• state agency: shall include any state board, commission, bureau, or division created pursuant to the provisions of the Business and Professions Code, the Education Code, or the Chiropractic Initiative Act to license and regulate individuals who engage in certain businesses and professions. See California Penal Code 23
• vessel: means a vessel as defined in subdivision (c) of §. See California Penal Code 7
• victim: means any person alleged or found, upon the record, to have sustained physical or financial injury to person or property as a direct result of the crime charged. See California Penal Code 11158
• will: includes codicil. See California Penal Code 7
• willfully: when applied to the intent with which an act is done or omitted, implies simply a purpose or willingness to commit the act, or make the omission referred to. See California Penal Code 7
• writ: signifies an order or precept in writing, issued in the name of the people, or of a court or judicial officer, and the word "process" a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See California Penal Code 7