Terms Used In California Codes > Penal Code > Part 6 > Title 4 > Division 6 > Chapter 6 > Article 4 - Firearms Safety and Enforcement Special Fund

• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Department: means the Department of Food and Agriculture. See California Food and Agricultural Code 32
• firearm: includes the frame or receiver of the weapon, including both a completed frame or receiver, or a firearm precursor part:

  California Penal Code 16520

• Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
• person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See California Penal Code 7
• prisoner: includes an inmate of a prison, jail, or penal or correctional facility. See California Government Code 844
• safety: is a utomatically applied by the pistol, this feature shall not be defeated. See California Penal Code 31900
• 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