Terms Used In California Codes > Public Contract Code > Division 2 > Part 3 > Chapter 1 > Article 6.5 - Public Utility Districts

• Adult day health care: means an organized day program of therapeutic, social, and skilled nursing health activities and services provided pursuant to this chapter to elderly persons or adults with disabilities with functional impairments, either physical or mental, for the purpose of restoring or maintaining optimal capacity for self-care. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• adult day health care center: means a licensed facility that provides adult day health care. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• 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.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
• Department: means the State Department of Social Services. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the State Public Health Officer. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Hours of service: means the program hours defined and posted by the adult day health care center for the provision of adult day health care services, pursuant to §. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• License: means a basic permit to operate a residential care facility for the elderly. See California Health and Safety Code 1569.2
• 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.
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plans and specifications: means the unit price catalog and the job order contract technical specifications. See California Public Contract Code 20919.21
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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
• state department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Health and Safety Code 1570.7