Terms Used In California Codes > Public Contract Code > Division 2 > Part 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 55 - Highway Lighting Districts

• 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
• Care and supervision: means the facility assumes responsibility for, or provides or promises to provide in the future, ongoing assistance with activities of daily living without which the resident's physical health, mental health, safety, or welfare would be endangered. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: means the ability to direct the operation or management of the applicant or licensee and includes the ability to exercise control through intermediary or subsidiary entities. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Department: means the State Department of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Director: means the Director of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• License: means a basic permit to operate a residential care facility for the elderly. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Residential care facility for the elderly: means a housing arrangement chosen voluntarily by persons 60 years of age or over, or their authorized representative, where varying levels and intensities of care and supervision, protective supervision, or personal care are provided, based upon their varying needs, as determined in order to be admitted and to remain in the facility. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23