§ 40100 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this …
§ 40105 “Authorized recycling agent” means a person that a local governing …
§ 40106 (a) “Biomass conversion” means the production of heat, fuels, or …
§ 40110 “Board” means the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, or …
§ 40115 “City” or “county” includes city and county.
§ 40115.5 “Closed disposal site” means a disposal site that ceases to accept …
§ 40116 “Compost” means the product resulting from the controlled biological …
§ 40116.1 “Composting” means the controlled or uncontrolled biological …
§ 40117 “Gasification” means a technology that uses a noncombustion thermal …
§ 40118 “Department” means the Department of Resources Recycling and …
§ 40120 “Designated recycling collection location” means the place where an …
§ 40120.05 “Director” means the Director of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
§ 40120.1 “Disposal” or “dispose” has the same meaning as “solid waste …
§ 40121 “Disposal facility” or “facility” means a facility or location where …
§ 40122 “Disposal site” or “site” means the place, location, tract of land, …
§ 40124 “Diversion” means activities which reduce or eliminate the amount of …
§ 40127 “Diversion program” means a program in the source reduction and …
§ 40130 “Enforcement agency” means the local agency designated pursuant to …
§ 40131 “Enforcement program” means the regulations and procedures adopted by …
§ 40131.2 (a) “Engineered municipal solid waste conversion” or “EMSW …
§ 40131.5 “Federal act” means the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of …
§ 40135 “Fund” means the Integrated Waste Management Fund, which is hereby …
§ 40135.1 “Account” means the Integrated Waste Management Account created in …
§ 40140 “Hazard” includes any condition, practice, or procedure which is or …
§ 40141 (a) “Hazardous waste” means a waste, defined as a “hazardous …
§ 40145 “Jurisdiction” means a city, county, or regional agency that is …
§ 40148 “Large state facility” means those campuses of the California State …
§ 40150 “Local governing body” means the legislative body of the city, …
§ 40150.1 “Multicounty regional agency” means a regional agency, as defined in …
§ 40150.2 “Minor violation” means the failure of a person to comply with a …
§ 40151 “Nondisposal facility” means any solid waste facility required to …
§ 40160 “Operator” means a person who operates a solid waste facility or …
§ 40162 “Owner” means a person who holds fee title to, or a leasehold or …
§ 40170 “Person” includes an individual, firm, limited liability company, …
§ 40171 “Pollution” means the condition caused by the presence in or on a …
§ 40172 “Processing” means the reduction, separation, recovery, conversion, …
§ 40180 “Recycle” or “recycling” means the process of collecting, sorting, …
§ 40181 “Regional agency” means an agency formed pursuant to Chapter 5 …
§ 40182 “Regional water board” means a California regional water quality …
§ 40183 (a) “Rural city” or “rural regional agency” means a city or …
§ 40184 (a) “Rural county” means a county or multicounty regional agency …
§ 40190 “Segregated from other waste material” means any of the …
§ 40190.5 “Sharps waste” means waste generated by a household that includes a …
§ 40191 (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), “solid waste” means …
§ 40192 (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), “solid waste …
§ 40193 “Solid waste enterprise” means any individual, partnership, joint …
§ 40194 “Solid waste facility” includes a solid waste transfer or processing …
§ 40195 “Solid waste handling” or “handling” means the collection, …
§ 40195.1 (a) “Solid waste landfill” means a disposal facility that …
§ 40196 “Source reduction” means any action which causes a net reduction in …
§ 40196.3 “State agency” means every state office, department, division, board, …
§ 40196.5 “State board” means the State Board of Equalization.
§ 40197 “State water board” means the State Water Resources Control Board.
§ 40200 (a) “Transfer or processing station” or “station” includes those …
§ 40201 “Transformation” means incineration, pyrolysis, distillation, or …

Terms Used In California Codes > Public Resources Code > Division 30 > Part 1 > Chapter 2 - Definitions

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • board: means the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 20
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Controller: means the State Controller. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 21
  • County: includes "city and county. See California Public Resources Code 14
  • County: includes city and county. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 15
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • 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.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • newspaper: means a newspaper of general circulation. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 36.5
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, general partner of a partnership, limited liability company, registered limited liability partnership, foreign limited liability partnership, association, corporation, company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 19
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 12.2
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.