California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions and Definitions

• Section 44500.
  This division may be cited as the California Pollution Control Financing Authority Act.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)
• Section 44501.
  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) It is necessary and essential that the state, in cooperation with the federal government, use all practical...
• Section 44502.
  It is the purpose of this division to carry out and make effective the findings of the Legislature and to that end to do all...
• Section 44503.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1975, Ch. 957.)
• Section 44504.
  “Authority” means the California Pollution Control Financing Authority established pursuant to Section 44515 and any board, commission, department, or officer succeeding to the functions thereof...
• Section 44504.1.
  “Brownfield site” means a real estate parcel or improvements located on the parcel, or both that parcel and the improvements, which is abandoned, idled, or...
• Section 44505.
  “Cost” as applied to a project or portion thereof financed under the provisions of this division embraced all or any part of the cost of...
• Section 44506.
  “Participating party” means any person, company, corporation, public agency, partnership, firm, or other entity or group of entities engaged in operations within this state that...
• Section 44507.
  “Pollution” means an alteration of the quality of the environment of the state and shall be determined by the various standards prescribed from time to...
• Section 44508.
  “Project” and “pollution control facility,” respectively, mean any land, building, structure, improvement thereto, work, real or personal property, vehicle, or equipment providing or designed to...
• Section 44509.
  “Public agency” means any state agency, board, or commission, any county, city and county, city, regional agency, public district, or other political subdivision.(Added by Stats....
• Section 44510.
  “Revenues” means all rents, receipts, purchase payments and all other income or receipts derived by the authority from the sale, lease, or other disposition of...
• Section 44511.
  “Renewable energy resource device” means any device, or any combination of devices, which produces heat, process heat, space heating, water heating, steam, space cooling, refrigeration,...
• Section 44512.
  “Energy conservation program” means any program which utilizes techniques or devices including, but not limited to, cogeneration, waste heat recovery systems, efficient lighting systems, and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018