§ 14502 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this …
§ 14503 “Aluminum beverage container” means a beverage container which …
§ 14503.5 “Average monthly volume” means the average number of empty beverage …
§ 14503.5.1 “Bag drop recycling center” means a recycling mechanism operated by a …
§ 14503.6 “Beneficiating processor” means any person certified by the …
§ 14504 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), “beverage” means any …
§ 14505 “Beverage container” means the individual, separate bottle, can, jar, …
§ 14506 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), “beverage …
§ 14506.3 “Bimetal container” means a beverage container which consists of one …
§ 14506.5 “Commingled” means a mix of empty beverage containers, as defined in …
§ 14506.7 “Commingled rate” means the ratio of empty beverage containers, as …
§ 14507.5 (a) “Community Conservation Corps” means a nonprofit public …
§ 14508 “Consumer” means every person who, for his or her use or consumption, …
§ 14509 “Container manufacturer” means any person who produces beverage …
§ 14509.3 “Cullet” means scrap glass that is derived from postfilled food, …
§ 14509.4 (a) “Convenience zone” means either of the …
§ 14509.5 “Curbside program” means a recycling program which meets all of the …
§ 14510 (a) “Dealer” means a retail establishment that offers the sale …
§ 14510.2 “Dealer cooperative” means a stewardship organization that is exempt …
§ 14510.5 “Department” means the Division of Recycling in the Department of …
§ 14510.6 “Director” means the Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
§ 14511 “Distributor” means every person who engages in the sale of beverages …
§ 14511.5 “Drink” means fruit juice or any other noncarbonated drink.
§ 14511.7 “Dropoff or collection program” means any person, association, …
§ 14512 “Empty beverage container” means a beverage container which meets all …
§ 14512.5 “Food or drink packaging material” means any material which is not a …
§ 14512.6 “For recycling” means that an empty beverage container has been …
§ 14512.7 “Fund” means the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund …
§ 14513 “Glass beverage container” means a beverage container which has a …
§ 14513.2 (a) Except as provided under Section 14549, “glass container …
§ 14513.3 “Glass food or drink container” means any nonbeverage container, …
§ 14513.4 “Handling fee” means an amount paid to an operator of a supermarket …
§ 14513.5 “HDPE” means a plastic beverage container labeled with a “2” for …
§ 14514 “Managing employee” includes, but is not limited to, any person who …
§ 14514.4.1 “Neighborhood dropoff program” means a recycling program that meets …
§ 14514.6 “Not for recycling” means that an empty beverage container has been …
§ 14514.7 “Nonprofit convenience zone recycler” means a recycling center that …
§ 14515 “Other beverage container” means a beverage container which has a …
§ 14515.1 “Out-of-state container” means a used beverage container or used …
§ 14515.2 “Person” means any individual, corporation, operation, or entity, …
§ 14515.5 “PET container” means a plastic beverage container labeled with a “1” …
§ 14515.6 “Physical recycling location” means the area in a convenience zone …
§ 14515.8 (a) “Pilot project recycler” means a recycling location …
§ 14516 “Place of business of the dealer” means the location at which a …
§ 14517 “Plastic beverage container” means a beverage container which has a …
§ 14517.5 “Postfilled container” means any container which had been previously …
§ 14518 “Processor” means any person, including a scrap dealer, certified by …
§ 14518.4 “Processing fee” means the amount paid by beverage manufacturers to …
§ 14518.5 “Processing payment” means an amount paid to processors, dropoff or …
§ 14519 “Recycle,” “recycled,” “recycling,” or “recyclable” means the reuse …
§ 14519.5 “Recycler” means a recycling center, dropoff or collection program, …
§ 14520 “Recycling center” means an operation which is certified by the …
§ 14520.5 “Recycling location” means a place, mobile unit, reverse vending …
§ 14520.6 “Noncertified recycler” means a person, entity, or operation which is …
§ 14521 “Recycling rate” means the proportion of empty beverage containers by …
§ 14522.5 “Redemption” and “redeem” means the return to a recycling center or …
§ 14523 “Redemption payment” means the minimum amount paid by a distributor …
§ 14523.5 “Redemption rate” means the proportion of empty beverage containers …
§ 14524 “Refund value” means the amount established for each type of beverage …
§ 14525 “Refillable beverage container” means any aluminum beverage …
§ 14525.1 “Reusable beverage container” means a glass beverage container with a …
§ 14525.5 “Reverse vending machine” means a mechanical device which accepts one …
§ 14525.5.1 “Rural region recycler” means an operator that is certified pursuant …
§ 14526 “Scrap value” means the price paid for container material types …
§ 14526.5 “Supermarket” means a full-line, self-service retail store with gross …
§ 14526.6 “Supermarket site” means any certified recycling center which redeems …
§ 14527 “Use or consumption” includes the exercise of any right or power over …
§ 14528 “Universal product code” is an 11-digit, all-numeric code that …
§ 14528.1 “Voluntary artificial scrap value” means a price paid by a willing …
§ 14528.5 (a) “Wine and distilled spirit cooler” means a beverage …
§ 14529 This division is a matter of statewide interest and concern and is …
§ 14529.5 Any action to increase recycling taken by the department, or by any …
§ 14529.7 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), this division does …

Terms Used In California Codes > Public Resources Code > Division 12.1 > Chapter 2 - Definitions

  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
  • County: includes "city and county. See California Public Resources Code 14
  • Dangerous condition: means a condition of property that creates a substantial (as distinguished from a minor, trivial or insignificant) risk of injury when such property or adjacent property is used with due care in a manner in which it is reasonably foreseeable that it will be used. See California Government Code 830
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Mistrial: An invalid trial, caused by fundamental error. When a mistrial is declared, the trial must start again from the selection of the jury.
  • month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See California Civil Code 14
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
  • personal property: include money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See California Civil Code 14
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • 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
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
  • property: includes property real and personal. See California Civil Code 14
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Protect against: includes repairing, remedying or correcting a dangerous condition, providing safeguards against a dangerous condition, or warning of a dangerous condition. See California Government Code 830
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • state agency: includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission. See California Government Code 11000
  • Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • will: includes codicil. See California Civil Code 14
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.