Terms Used In California Codes > Public Resources Code > Division 30 > Part 4 > Chapter 4 > Article 2 - Suspension or Revocation

• Abate: means to put an end to a public nuisance, or to reduce the degree or the intensity of a public nuisance. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Board of trustees: means the legislative body of a district. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Control: means to prevent or reduce vectors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• District: means any mosquito abatement and vector control district created pursuant to this chapter or any of its statutory predecessors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Property: means land and improvements, and includes water. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Public agency: means any state agency, board, or commission, including the California State University and the University of California, any county, city and county, city, regional agency, school district, special district, redevelopment agency, or other political subdivision. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Public nuisance: means any of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 2002

• 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: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Vector: means any animal capable of transmitting the causative agent of human disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including, but not limited to, mosquitoes, flies, mites, ticks, other arthropods, and rodents and other vertebrates. See California Health and Safety Code 2002