Terms Used In California Codes > Public Resources Code > Division 9 > Chapter 5 - District Reorganization

• 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
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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
• County: includes city and county. See California Revenue and Taxation Code 15
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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
• District: as used in this chapter , means any pest abatement district formed pursuant to this chapter or pursuant to any law which it supersedes. See California Health and Safety Code 2802
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Pest: as used in this chapter , includes any plant, animal, insect, fish, or other matter or material, not under human control, which is offensive to the senses or interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life, or which is detrimental to the agricultural industry of the State, and is not protected under any other provision of law. See California Health and Safety Code 2800
• Principal county: means the county having all or the greater portion of the entire assessed value, as shown on the last equalized assessment roll of the county or counties, of all taxable property within a district at the time of formation. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: means land and improvements, and includes water. See California Health and Safety Code 2002
• public nuisance: includes , but is not limited to, both of the following:

  California Health and Safety Code 2800.5

• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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