Terms Used In California Codes > Streets and Highways Code > Division 16 > Part 3 > Chapter 18 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• Appointee: means the person in whose favor a power of appointment is exercised. See California Probate Code 610
• Appointive property: means the property or interest in property that is the subject of the power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• board: means the board of directors of the district unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See California Streets and Highways Code 27002
• City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town. See California Streets and Highways Code 15
• Construction: includes :

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• County: includes "city and county. See California Streets and Highways Code 14
• Creating instrument: means the deed, will, trust, or other writing or document that creates or reserves the power of appointment. See California Probate Code 610
• Director: means the director of the department. See California Streets and Highways Code 21
• district: means a bridge and highway district unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. See California Streets and Highways Code 27001
• highway: includes bridges, culverts, curbs, drains, and all works incidental to highway construction, improvement, and maintenance. See California Streets and Highways Code 23
• Instrument: means a will, a document establishing or modifying a trust, a deed, or any other writing that designates a beneficiary or makes a donative transfer of property. See California Probate Code 45
• 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: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, or other entity. See California Probate Code 56
• Power of appointment: means a power that enables a powerholder acting in a nonfiduciary capacity to designate a recipient of an ownership interest in or another power of appointment over the appointive property. See California Probate Code 610
• Powerholder: means the person to whom a power of appointment is given or in whose favor a power of appointment is reserved. See California Probate Code 610
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership and includes both real and personal property and any interest therein. See California Probate Code 62
• Will: includes codicil and any testamentary instrument which merely appoints an executor or revokes or revises another will. See California Probate Code 88