Terms Used In California Codes > Welfare and Institutions Code > Division 8.5 > Chapter 9 - Senior Center Bond Act of 1984

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Community water system: means a public water system that serves at least 15 service connections used by yearlong residents or regularly serves at least 25 yearlong residents of the area served by the system. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contaminant: means any physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the state board. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Department: means the Department of Fish and Wildlife. See California Fish and Game Code 37
• Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fish: means a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part, spawn, or ovum of any of those animals. See California Fish and Game Code 45
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Human consumption: means the use of water for drinking, bathing or showering, hand washing, oral hygiene, or cooking, including, but not limited to, preparing food and washing dishes. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Local health officer: means a local health officer appointed pursuant to Section 101000 or a local comprehensive health agency designated by the board of supervisors pursuant to Section 101275 to carry out the drinking water program. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Local primacy agency: means a local health officer that has applied for and received primacy delegation pursuant to Section 116330. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Maximum contaminant level: means the maximum permissible level of a contaminant in water. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, company, association, partnership, limited liability company, municipality, public utility, or other public body or institution, including the United States to the extent authorized by federal law. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Primary drinking water standards: means :

  California Health and Safety Code 116275

• Public health goal: means a goal established by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 116365. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Public water system: means a system for the provision of water for human consumption through pipes or other constructed conveyances that has 15 or more service connections or regularly serves an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days out of the year. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Secondary drinking water standards: means standards that specify maximum contaminant levels that, in the judgment of the state board, are necessary to protect the public welfare. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Sell: includes offer or possess for sale, barter, exchange, or trade. See California Fish and Game Code 75
• Service connection: means the point of connection between the customer's piping or constructed conveyance, and the water system's meter, service pipe, or constructed conveyance. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Significant rise in the bacterial count of water: means a rise in the bacterial count of water that the state board determines, by regulation, represents an immediate danger to the health of water users. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Fish and Game Code 83
• State board: means the State Water Resources Control Board. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Fish and Game Code 73
• User: means a person using water for domestic purposes. See California Health and Safety Code 116275
• Wildlife: means and includes all wild animals, birds, plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and related ecological communities, including the habitat upon which the wildlife depends for its continued viability. See California Fish and Game Code 89.5