Terms Used In California Codes > Public Resources Code > Division 5 > Chapter 1.699 - Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006

• Advanced introduction costs: means the costs of the project less a baseline cost that would otherwise be incurred by the applicant in the normal course of business. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• 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
• 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.
• Battery: means an electrochemical energy storage system powered directly by electrical current. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• board: means the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 20
• City: includes incorporated city, city and county, municipal corporation, municipality, town, and incorporated town. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 14
• Commission: means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Conformity: means that a transportation program, project, and plan promulgated by the Sacramento Area Council of Governments is able to successfully comply with Sections 7410 and 7506 of Title 42 of the United States Code, so as to qualify for an approval, license, or permit, or to obtain financial assistance, from the federal agencies specified in those sections. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• Controller: means the State Controller. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 21
• County: includes city and county. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 15
• Covered engine: includes any internal combustion engine or electric motor and drive powering a covered source. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• Covered source: includes onroad heavy-duty diesel vehicles and other onroad high-emitting diesel engine categories, as determined by SACOG. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• department: means the Department of Parks and Recreation and "director" means the Director of Parks and Recreation. See California Public Resources Code 5001.1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Electric vehicle: means a vehicle that uses a plug-in battery to provide all or part of the motive power of the vehicle, including battery electric, plug-in hybrid electric, or plug-in fuel cell vehicle. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Electric vehicle charging station: means one or more publicly available parking spaces served by electric vehicle service equipment. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Electric vehicle service equipment: means an electric component assembly or cluster of component assemblies designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles by permitting the transfer of electric energy to a battery or other storage device in an electric vehicle. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Interoperability billing standards: means the ability for a member of one electric charging station billing network to use another billing network. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Network roaming: means the act of a member of one electric vehicle charging station billing network using a charging station that is outside of the member's billing network with the member's billing network account information. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• newspaper: means a newspaper of general circulation. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 36.5
• partnership: shall include limited liability company, registered limited liability partnership, and foreign limited liability partnership, except where the context or the specific provisions of this division otherwise require. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 28.5
• 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: include money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See California Civil Code 14
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Program: means the Sacramento Emergency Clean Air and Transportation Program created by this chapter. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• property: includes property real and personal. See California Civil Code 14
• Publicly available parking space: means a parking space that has been designated by a property owner or lessee to be available to, and accessible by, the public and may include on-street parking spaces and parking spaces in surface lots or parking garages. See California Health and Safety Code 44268
• repower: as used in this chapter , generally refers to replacing an older, uncontrolled engine with a new, emissions-certified engine, although replacing an older emissions-certified engine with a newer engine certified to lower emissions standards may be eligible for funding under this program. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• Retrofit: means making modifications to the engine and fuel system such that the retrofitted engine does not have the same specifications as the original engine. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• SACOG: means the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• Sacramento federal ozone nonattainment area: means the area defined by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the Federal Register notice dated November 6, 1991 (56 Fed. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• Sacramento Region Districts: means the El Dorado Air Pollution Control District, Feather River Air Quality District, Placer County Air Pollution Control District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, and Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50
• subscription: includes mark when the signer or subscriber can not write, such signer's or subscriber's name being written near the mark by a witness who writes his own name near the signer's or subscriber's name. See California Health and Safety Code 18
• Very low-emission vehicle: means a vehicle with emissions significantly lower than otherwise applicable baseline emission standards or uncontrolled emission levels determined pursuant to the criteria in Section 44282. See California Health and Safety Code 44299.50