Terms Used In California Codes > Public Utilities Code > Division 10 > Part 12 > Chapter 6 > Article 4 - Other Benefits

• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• department: means the Department of Veterans Affairs. See California Military and Veterans Code 690
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Farm: means a tract of land, which, in the opinion of the department, is capable of producing sufficient income to provide payment of the amortized contract installments, including principal, interest, and taxes. See California Military and Veterans Code 987.53
• Home: includes all of the following:

  California Military and Veterans Code 987.53

• Immediate family: means the spouse or registered domestic partner of a purchaser, the natural or adopted dependent children of the purchaser, and the parents of the purchaser if they are dependent on the purchaser for 50 percent or more of their support. See California Military and Veterans Code 987.53
• Indian veteran: means a veteran, as defined in Section 980, who, in addition, either belongs to an Indian tribe, band, group, reservation, rancheria, or community which is recognized by the United States as eligible for services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs or is an Indian beneficiary and who is eligible under this article for purchase by the department of a home or farm sited on trust land. See California Military and Veterans Code 987.53
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Mobilehome: means either a parcel of real estate, or an undivided interest in common in a portion of a parcel of real property, on which is sited one or more mobilehome modules, or a site in a mobilehome park, as defined in §. See California Military and Veterans Code 987.53
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Public Utilities Code 17
• Tribal trust land: means land held in trust by the United States for an Indian tribe or band. See California Military and Veterans Code 987.53
• Tribe: means any Indian tribe, band, group, reservation, rancheria, or community which is recognized by the United States as eligible for services from the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. See California Military and Veterans Code 987.53