Chapter 1 Title of Act and Policy
Chapter 2 Definitions
Chapter 3 Creation of District and Annexation
Chapter 4 Government of District
Chapter 5 Powers and Functions of District
Chapter 6 Personnel
Chapter 7 Bonds and Other Evidences of Indebtedness
Chapter 8 Dissolution

Terms Used In California Codes > Public Utilities Code > Division 10 > Part 14 - SACRAMENTO REGIONAL TRANSIT DISTRICT

  • Administering agency: means the Treasurer, in the case of contracts for professional bond services, and the Department of General Services' Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Services, in the case of contracts governed by Section 999. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • 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.
  • Awarding department: means a state agency, department, governmental entity, or other officer or entity empowered by law to issue bonds or enter into contracts on behalf of the state. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • Board: means the board of directors of a memorial district. See California Military and Veterans Code 1170
  • Bonds: means bonds, notes, warrants, certificates of participation, and other evidences of indebtedness issued by, or on behalf of, the state. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • bonds: includes both construction and refunding bonds except as otherwise expressly provided. See California Water Code 25200
  • City: includes city and county and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Public Utilities Code 19
  • commissioner: means a member of the commission. See California Public Utilities Code 20
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: includes any agreement or joint agreement to provide professional bond services to the State of California or an awarding department. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contractor: includes a provider of professional bond services who enters into a contract with an awarding department. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • department: means the Department of Veterans Affairs. See California Military and Veterans Code 690
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • directors: means the board of directors of the district. See California Public Utilities Code 105003
  • Disabled veteran: means a veteran of the military, naval, or air service of the United States, including, but not limited to, the Philippine Commonwealth Army, the Regular Scouts, "Old Scouts" and the Special Philippine Scouts, "New Scouts" who has at least a 10-percent service-connected disability and who is domiciled in the state. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • Disabled veteran business enterprise: means a business certified by the administering agency as meeting all of the following requirements:

    California Military and Veterans Code 999

  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • District: means the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District. See California Public Utilities Code 105003
  • District: means a memorial district organized under the provisions of this chapter. See California Military and Veterans Code 1170
  • District: means the Sacramento Regional Transit District, including all operations and extensions of its transportation system, regardless of modality or vehicle type, and excluding all temporary bus lines. See California Public Utilities Code 102398
  • district: as used in this article , shall be limited to such territory for purposes of the election and the incurring of indebtedness, and for purposes of Section 102336. See California Public Utilities Code 102500
  • Employee organization: means an organization that includes employees of the district that has as one of its primary purposes representing those employees in their relations with the district. See California Public Utilities Code 102398
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Establish: includes establish, construct, complete, acquire, extend or reroute. See California Public Utilities Code 98300
  • Exclusive representative: means an accredited employee organization recognized or certified as the exclusive negotiating representative of employees in an appropriate unit within the district. See California Public Utilities Code 102398
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Existing system: means any transit service or system of a publicly or privately owned public utility situated entirely within the district or at least 75 percent of whose revenue vehicle miles for the preceding calendar year were operated within the district. See California Public Utilities Code 98300
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • foreign-based business: means a business entity that is incorporated or has its principal headquarters located outside the United States of America. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Goal: means a numerically expressed objective that awarding departments and contractors are required to make efforts to achieve. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Management and control: means effective and demonstrable management of the business entity. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See California Civil Code 14
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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
  • Professional bond services: include services as financial advisers, bond counsel, underwriters in negotiated transactions, underwriter's counsel, financial printers, feasibility consultants, and other professional services related to the issuance and sale of bonds. See California Military and Veterans Code 999
  • property: includes property real and personal. See California Civil Code 14
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Spouse: includes "registered domestic partner" as required by §. See California Military and Veterans Code 19
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • subscription: includes mark when the signer or subscriber cannot 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 Public Utilities Code 16
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: means the United States of America, and in relation to any particular matter includes the officers, agents, employees, agencies, or instrumentalities authorized to act in relation thereto. See California Water Code 20
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
  • war: shall mean : (a) whenever Congress has declared war and peace has not been formally restored. See California Military and Veterans Code 18
  • will: includes codicil. See California Civil Code 14