Section 90100 - Definitions For purposes of this division, the following definitions apply:
(a) "Committee" means the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Finance Committee created pursuant to Section 95002.(b) "Community" has the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 65302.10 of the Government Code.(c) "Critical community infrastructure" means infrastructure that is necessary to providing vital community and individual functions, including, but not limited to, drinking and wastewater infrastructure, emergency shelters, communication and warning systems, evacuation routes, emergency power and public medical facilities, schools, town halls, hospitals, health clinics, community centers, community nonprofit facilities providing essential services, libraries, homeless shelters, senior and youth centers, childcare facilities, food banks, grocery stores, and parks and recreation sites.(d) "Disadvantaged community" means a community with a median household income of less than 80 percent of the area average or less than 80 percent of statewide median household income.(e) "Economically distressed areas" has the same meaning as set forth in Section 79702 of the Water Code.(f) "Natural infrastructure" has the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (3) of subdivision (c) of Section 71154.(g) "Nonprofit organization" means a nonprofit corporation qualified to do business in California and qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.(h) "Protection" includes those actions necessary to prevent harm or damage to persons, property, or natural, cultural, and historic resources, actions to improve access to public open-space areas, or actions to allow the continued use and enjoyment of property or natural, cultural, and historic resources. Protection includes site monitoring, acquisition, development, restoration, preservation, and interpretation.(i)(1) "Restoration" includes the improvement of physical structures or facilities and, in the case of natural systems and landscape features, includes, but is not limited to, any of the following: (A) The control of erosion.(B) Stormwater capture, treatment, reuse, and storage, or to otherwise reduce stormwater pollution.(C) The control and elimination of invasive species and harmful algal blooms.(D) The planting of native species.(E) The removal of waste and debris.(F) Prescribed burning and other fuel hazard reduction measures.(G) Fencing out threats to existing or restored natural resources.(H) Improving instream, riparian, floodplain, or wetland habitat conditions.(I) Other plant and wildlife habitat improvement to increase the natural system value of the property or coastal or ocean resources.(J) Activities described in subdivision (b) of Section 79737 of the Water Code.(2) "Restoration" also includes activities, including the planning, permitting, monitoring, and reporting that are necessary to ensure successful implementation of the restoration objectives.(j) "Severely disadvantaged community" means a community with a median household income of less than 60 percent of the area average or less than 60 percent of statewide median household income.(k) "Socially disadvantaged farmer or rancher" has the same meaning set forth in Section 512 of the Food and Agricultural Code. This provision shall apply to the extent allowable by law.(l) "State General Obligation Bond Law" means the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), as it may be amended from time to time.(m) "Structure hardening" includes the installation, replacement, or retrofitting of building materials, systems, or assemblies used in the exterior design and construction of existing nonconforming structures with features that are in compliance with Chapter 7A (commencing with Section 701A.1) of Part 2 of Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, or any appropriate successor regulatory code, with the primary purpose of reducing risk to structures from wildfire or conforming to the low-cost retrofit list, and updates to that list, developed pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 51189 of the Government Code.(n) "Tribe" means a federally recognized Native American tribe or a nonfederally recognized Native American tribe listed on the California Tribal Consultation List maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission.(o) "Vulnerable population" means a subgroup of population within a region or community that faces a disproportionately heightened risk or increased sensitivity to impacts of climate change and that lacks adequate resources to cope with, adapt to, or recover from such impacts.(p) "Water board" means the State Water Resources Control Board.Ca. Pub. Res. Code § 90100
Added by Stats 2024 ch 83 (SB 867),s 2, eff. 11/6/2024 upon the approval by the voters of the Safe Drinkiing Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024 (Approved in Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, election.).