Terms Used In California Codes > Public Resources Code > Division 9 > Chapter 4 - District Finance

• Abate: means to put an end to a public nuisance, or to reduce the degree or the intensity of a public nuisance. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• board: means the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 20
• Board of trustees: means the legislative body of a district. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Control: means to prevent or reduce vectors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Controller: means the State Controller. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 21
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• District: means any mosquito abatement and vector control district created pursuant to this chapter or any of its statutory predecessors. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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.
• Person: includes any person, firm, partnership, general partner of a partnership, limited liability company, registered limited liability partnership, foreign limited liability partnership, association, corporation, company, syndicate, estate, trust, business trust, or organization of any kind. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 19
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: means land and improvements, and includes water. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Public agency: means any state agency, board, or commission, including the California State University and the University of California, any county, city and county, city, regional agency, school district, special district, redevelopment agency, or other political subdivision. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Public nuisance: means any of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 2002

• state: means any state, territory, or possession of the United States, and the District of Columbia. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 13820.10 v2
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Vector: means any animal capable of transmitting the causative agent of human disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including, but not limited to, mosquitoes, flies, mites, ticks, other arthropods, and rodents and other vertebrates. See California Health and Safety Code 2002