Terms Used In California Codes > Penal Code > Part 3 > Title 8 > Chapter 6 - Miscellaneous Provisions

• AIDS: means acquired immune deficiency syndrome. See California Penal Code 7502
• board: means the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 20
• Bodily fluids: means blood, semen, or any other bodily fluid identified by either the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or State Department of Public Health in appropriate regulations as capable of transmitting HIV or hepatitis B or C. See California Penal Code 7502
• Controller: means the State Controller. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 21
• Correctional institution: means any state prison, county jail, city jail, Division of Juvenile Justice facility, county- or city-operated juvenile facility, including juvenile halls, camps, or schools, or any other state or local correctional institution, including a court facility. See California Penal Code 7502
• county: includes "city and county". See California Penal Code 7
• HIV: means the etiologic virus of AIDS. See California Penal Code 7502
• Inmate: means any of the following:

  California Penal Code 7502

• Law enforcement employee: means correctional officers, peace officers, and other staff of a correctional institution, California Highway Patrol officers, county sheriff's deputies, city police officers, parole officers, probation officers, and city, county, or state employees including but not limited to, judges, bailiffs, court personnel, prosecutors and staff, and public defenders and staff, who, as part of the judicial process involving an inmate of a correctional institution, or a person charged with a crime, including a minor charged with an offense for which he or she may be made a ward of the court under §. See California Penal Code 7502
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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
• Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, general partner of a partnership, limited liability company, registered limited liability partnership, foreign limited liability partnership, association, corporation, company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 19
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• 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
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.