(a) "Employing unit" means any individual or type of
organization that has in its employ one or more individuals
performing services for it within this state, and includes but is not
limited to, the following individuals and organizations:
   (1) Any individual or type of organization or public entity that
elects coverage pursuant to any provision of this division.
   (2) Any joint venture, partnership, association, trust, estate,
joint stock company, insurance company, corporation whether domestic
or foreign, limited liability company, whether domestic or foreign,
community chest, fund, or foundation.
   (3) Any public entity.  As used in this section, "public entity"
means the State of California (including the Trustees of the
California State University), any instrumentality of this state
(including the Regents of the University of California), any
political subdivision of this state or any of its instrumentalities,
a county, city, district (including the governing board of any school
district or community college district, any county board of
education, any county superintendent of schools, or any personnel
commission of a school district or community college district that
has a merit system pursuant to any provision of the Education Code),
entities receiving state money to conduct county fairs and
agricultural fairs pursuant to Sections 25905 and 25906 of the
Government Code and that perform no other functions, any public
authority, public agency, or public corporation of this state, any
instrumentality of more than one of the foregoing, and any
instrumentality of any of the foregoing and one or more other states
or political subdivisions.
   (4) Any instrumentality of the United States required to make
payments under this division.
   (5) The receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee or successor
thereof, and the legal representative of a deceased person.
   (6) Any Indian tribe as described by subsection (u) of Section
3306 of Title 26 of the United States Code.
   (b) All individuals performing services within this state for any
employing unit that maintains two or more separate establishments
within this state shall be deemed to be employed by a single
employing unit for all the purposes of this division.  This
subdivision does not apply to any Indian tribe (as described by
subsection (u) of Section 3306 of Title 26 of the United States Code)
and the subdivisions, subsidiaries, or other business enterprises
wholly owned by the Indian tribe if the tribe chooses to treat those
subdivisions, subsidiaries, or other business enterprises as separate
business entities for the purposes of Section 803.

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