Terms Used In California Codes > Health and Safety Code > Division 12.5 > Chapter 2 - Essential Services Buildings

• Action: means an action for partition under this title. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Adequate progress: means all of the following:

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• 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.
• Budget authority: Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds. Budget authority may be classified by the period of availability (one-year, multiyear, no-year), by the timing of congressional action (current or permanent), or by the manner of determining the amount available (definite or indefinite).
• City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
• Commission: means the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner of this State. See California Insurance Code 20
• 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.
• Cost-effectiveness: means dollars provided to a project pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 44283 for each ton of covered emission reduction attributed to a project or to the program as a whole. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• County: includes city and county. See California Health and Safety Code 14
• Covered emissions: include emissions of oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter, and reactive organic gases from any covered source. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Covered source: includes onroad vehicles, off-road nonrecreational equipment and vehicles, locomotives, marine vessels, agricultural sources of air pollution, as defined in Section 39011. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Covered vehicle: includes any vehicle or piece of equipment powered by a covered engine. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• District: means a county air pollution control district or an air quality management district. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Flood hazard zone: means an area subject to flooding that is delineated as either a special hazard area or an area of moderate hazard on an official flood insurance rate map issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. See California Government Code 65007
• Foreign: means not organized under the laws of this State, whether or not admitted. See California Insurance Code 27
• Fund: means the Air Pollution Control Fund established pursuant to Section 43015. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Incremental cost: means the cost 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 44275
• Liquidated: means that all moneys for a specified fiscal year have been spent by a district to reimburse grantees for valid and eligible project invoices and district administrative costs. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee: means the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee created by Section 44244. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• NOx: means oxides of nitrogen. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Owner: means a depositor in case of a deposit, a beneficiary in case of a trust, or creditor, claimant, or payee in case of other choses in action, or any person having a legal or equitable interest in property subject to this chapter, or his or her legal representative. See California Code of Civil Procedure 1501
• Person: means any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation, limited liability company, or company. See California Health and Safety Code 19
• Person: means any person, association, organization, partnership, business trust, limited liability company, or corporation. See California Insurance Code 19
• Process: includes a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings of either a civil or criminal nature. See California Government Code 22
• Program: means the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Attainment Program created by subdivision (a) of Section 44280. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Property: includes real and personal property. See California Code of Civil Procedure 872.010
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17
• Repower: means replacing an engine with a different engine. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Retrofit: means making modifications to the engine and fuel system so that the retrofitted engine does not have the same specifications as the original engine. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Returned: means those moneys sent by a district to the state board for reallocation because those moneys are not liquidated by a liquidation deadline. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley: means lands in the bed or along or near the banks of the Sacramento River or San Joaquin River, or their tributaries or connected therewith, or upon any land adjacent thereto, or within the overflow basins thereof, or upon land susceptible to overflow therefrom. See California Government Code 65007
• Schoolbus project: means the purchase of new schoolbuses or the repower or retrofit of emissions control equipment for existing schoolbuses. See California Health and Safety Code 44275
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Insurance Code 28
• Tulare Lake basin: means the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region as defined in the California Water Plan Update 2009, prepared by the Department of Water Resources pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 10004) of Part 1. See California Government Code 65007
• Urbanizing area: means a developed area or an area outside a developed area that is planned or anticipated to have 10,000 residents or more within the next 10 years. See California Government Code 65007
• Writing: includes printing and typewriting. See California Code of Civil Procedure 17