Terms Used In California Codes > Water Code > Division 26 > Chapter 8 - Water Conservation Program

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• 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.
• 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}
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• contractor: means a public agency or a private nonprofit corporation. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 11000.5
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• County: includes city and county. See California Water Code 14
• County: includes "city and county. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14
• County: includes city and county. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 14
• department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14062
• Department: means the Employment Development Department. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• eligible employer: means any employer subject to Part 1 (commencing with Section 100) of Division 1, except any public entity, or any nonprofit organization which has elected an alternate method of financing its liability for unemployment insurance compensation benefits pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 801), or Article 6 (commencing with Section 821) of Chapter 3. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• 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}
• Executive director: means the executive director appointed pursuant to Section 10202. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the Employment Training Fund created by Section 1610. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• initiative: means the Breaking Barriers to Employment Initiative established in this article. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 14030
• 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}
• Job: means employment on a basis customarily considered full time for the occupation and industry. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Medi-Cal: means the California Medical Assistance Program. See California Welfare and Institutions Code 14063
• New hire training: means employment training, including job-related literacy training, including soft skills, for persons who, at the start of training, are unemployed. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Panel: means the Employment Training Panel created by Section 10202. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Retraining: means employment-related skills and literacy training, including soft skills, for persons who are employed and who meet the definition of paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) prior to commencement of training and will continue to be employed by the same employer for at least 90 days following completion of training. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Soft skills: means behaviors and competencies to allow people to navigate professional environments, work well with colleagues, and perform up to standards for professional success, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

  California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201

• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Water Code 18
• State average hourly wage: means the average weekly wage paid by employers to employees covered by unemployment insurance, as reported to the Employment Development Department for the four calendar quarters ending June 30 of the preceding calendar year, divided by 40 hours. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Water Code 10
• Trainee: means an eligible participant. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201
• Training agency: means any private training entity or local educational agency. See California Unemployment Insurance Code 10201