Terms Used In California Codes > Public Contract Code > Division 2 > Part 3 > Chapter 1.5 > Article 84 - Napa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District

• Blood: means human whole blood or components of human blood, including plasma, which are prepared from human whole blood by physical, rather than chemical processes, but does not include blood derivatives manufactured or processed for industrial use. See California Health and Safety Code 1625
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Hemapheresis: means the removal of whole blood from a donor, separation of the blood into components, retention of the desired components, and return of the recombined remaining elements to the donor. See California Health and Safety Code 1625
• Industrial use: means a use of blood in which the blood is modified by physical or chemical means to produce derivatives for therapeutic or pharmaceutic biologics, laboratory reagents, or in vitro diagnostics. See California Health and Safety Code 1625
• Payment: means the transfer by a blood bank to any person of money or any other valuable consideration which can be converted to money by the recipient, except that payment shall not include any of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 1625

• Person: means any individual, blood bank, hospital, firm, corporation, or any other entity. See California Health and Safety Code 1625
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Transfusion: means a use of blood in which the blood is administered to a human being for treatment of sickness or injury. See California Health and Safety Code 1625