§ 4600 This division may be cited as the Health Care Decisions Law.
§ 4603 Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions …
§ 4605 “Advance health care directive” or “advance directive” means either …
§ 4607 (a) “Agent” means an individual designated in a power of …
§ 4609 “Capacity” means a person’s ability to understand the nature and …
§ 4611 “Community care facility” means a “community care facility” as …
§ 4613 “Conservator” means a court-appointed conservator having authority to …
§ 4615 “Health care” means any care, treatment, service, or procedure to …
§ 4617 (a) “Health care decision” means a decision made by a patient or …
§ 4619 “Health care institution” means an institution, facility, or agency …
§ 4621 “Health care provider” means an individual licensed, certified, or …
§ 4623 “Individual health care instruction” or “individual instruction” …
§ 4625 “Patient” means an adult whose health care is under consideration, …
§ 4627 “Physician” means a physician and surgeon licensed by the Medical …
§ 4629 “Power of attorney for health care” means a written instrument …
§ 4631 “Primary physician” means a physician designated by a patient or the …
§ 4633 “Principal” means an adult who executes a power of attorney for …
§ 4635 “Reasonably available” means readily able to be contacted without …
§ 4637 “Residential care facility for the elderly” means a “residential care …
§ 4639 “Skilled nursing facility” means a “skilled nursing facility” as …
§ 4641 “Supervising health care provider” means the primary physician or, if …
§ 4643 “Surrogate” means an adult, other than a patient’s agent or …
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Terms Used In California Codes > Probate Code > Division 4.7 > Part 1 > Chapter 1 - Short Title and Definitions

  • administrator: means the Director of Employment Development. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 821.3
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Conservator: includes a limited conservator. See California Probate Code 30
  • County: includes city and county. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 14
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Instrument: means a will, a document establishing or modifying a trust, a deed, or any other writing that designates a beneficiary or makes a donative transfer of property. See California Probate Code 45
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or other entity. See California Probate Code 56
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • 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
  • State: includes any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States. See California Probate Code 74