Terms Used In California Codes > Streets and Highways Code > Division 4 > Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS

• 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
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• legislative body: shall include the governing body of any district or other public corporation authorized by law to construct such public improvements. See California Streets and Highways Code 2809
• maintenance: includes any of the following:

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• mayor: includes president of the legislative body. See California Government Code 34002
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• municipal improvement: includes bridges, waterworks, water rights, sewers, light and power works or plants, buildings for municipal uses, wharves, breakwaters, jetties, seawalls, schoolhouses, fire apparatus, street work, and other works, property, or structures necessary or convenient to carry out the objects, purposes, and powers of the city. See California Government Code 43601
• Person: means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, organization, limited liability company, or business trust. See California Streets and Highways Code 19
• taxation assessment roll: when used with reference to a county, or district or other public corporation, means the taxation assessment roll of the county, and when used with reference to a city means the assessment roll of the county in which the city is located unless a correction factor is established for the purpose of determining true value as provided for in Part 8, in which event those terms mean the taxation assessment rolls of the city. See California Streets and Highways Code 2802