California Government Code ARTICLE 2 - Definitions

• Section 66414.
  The definitions in this article apply to the provisions of this division only and do not affect any other provisions of law.(Added by Stats. 1974,...
• Section 66415.
  “Advisory agency” means a designated official or an official body charged with the duty of making investigations and reports on the design and improvement of...
• Section 66416.
  “Appeal board” means a designated board or other official body charged with the duty of hearing and making determinations upon appeals with respect to divisions...
• Section 66416.5.
  (a) “City engineer” means the person authorized to perform the functions of a city engineer. The land surveying functions of a city engineer may be performed...
• Section 66417.
  (a) “County surveyor” includes county engineer, if there is no county surveyor.(b) A county engineer registered as a civil engineer after January 1, 1982, shall not be...
• Section 66418.
  “Design” means: (1) street alignments, grades and widths; (2) drainage and sanitary facilities and utilities, including alignments and grades thereof; (3) location and size of...
• Section 66418.1.
  “Development” means the uses to which the land which is the subject of a map shall be put, the buildings to be constructed on it,...
• Section 66418.2.
  (a) “Environmental subdivision” means a subdivision of land pursuant to this division for biotic and wildlife purposes that meets all of the conditions specified in subdivision...
• Section 66419.
  (a) “Improvement” refers to any street work and utilities to be installed, or agreed to be installed, by the subdivider on the land to be used...
• Section 66420.
  “Local agency” means a city, county or city and county.(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 1536.)
• Section 66421.
  “Local ordinance” refers to a local ordinance regulating the design and improvement of subdivisions, enacted by the legislative body of any local agency under the...
• Section 66422.
  “Certificate of exception” means a valid authorization to subdivide land, issued by the County of Los Angeles pursuant to an ordinance thereof, adopted between September...
• Section 66423.
  “Subdivider” means a person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who proposes to divide, divides or causes to be divided real property into a subdivision for...
• Section 66424.
  “Subdivision” means the division, by any subdivider, of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land, or any portion thereof, shown on the latest...
• Section 66424.1.
  Nothing in Section 66424 shall prevent a purchaser of a unit of land created under the provisions of this division or a local ordinance enacted...
• Section 66424.5.
  (a) “Tentative map” refers to a map made for the purpose of showing the design and improvement of a proposed subdivision and the existing conditions in...
• Section 66424.6.
  (a) When a subdivision, as defined in Section 66424, is of a portion of any unit or units of improved or unimproved land, the subdivider may...

Last modified: October 22, 2018