Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions hereinafter set forth shall govern the construction of this division.
Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 3000
Definitions and General Provisions
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 9 Cal. 4th 763 - DeVita v. County of Napa (1995)
Most recently applied in Committee to Protect our Agricultural Water v. Occidental Oil & Gas Corp. (January 2017)
Amended by Stats. 1955, Ch. 1670.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.