2005 California Government Code Sections 11342.510-11342.610 Article 2. Definitions

11342.510.  Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the
definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
11342.520.  "Agency" means state agency.
11342.530.  "Building standard" has the same meaning provided in
Section 18909 of the Health and Safety Code.
11342.535.  "Cost impact" means the amount of reasonable range of
direct costs, or a description of the type and extent of direct
costs, that a representative private person or business necessarily
incurs in reasonable compliance with the proposed action.
11342.540.  "Director" means the director of the office.
11342.550.  "Office" means the Office of Administrative Law.
11342.560.  "Order of repeal" means any resolution, order, or other
official act of a state agency that expressly repeals a regulation in
whole or in part.
11342.570.  "Performance standard" means a regulation that describes
an objective with the criteria stated for achieving the objective.
11342.580.  "Plain English" means language that satisfies the
standard of clarity provided in Section 11349.
11342.590.  "Prescriptive standard" means a regulation that
specifies the sole means of compliance with a performance standard by
specific actions, measurements, or other quantifiable means.
11342.595.  "Proposed action" means the regulatory action, notice of
which is submitted to the office for publication in the California
Regulatory Notice Register.
11342.600.  "Regulation" means every rule, regulation, order, or
standard of general application or the amendment, supplement, or
revision of any rule, regulation, order, or standard adopted by any
state agency to implement, interpret, or make specific the law
enforced or administered by it, or to govern its procedure.
11342.610.  (a) "Small business" means a business activity in
agriculture, general construction, special trade construction, retail
trade, wholesale trade, services, transportation and warehousing,
manufacturing, generation and transmission of electric power, or a
health care facility, unless excluded in subdivision (b), that is
both of the following:
   (1) Independently owned and operated.
   (2) Not dominant in its field of operation.
   (b) "Small business" does not include the following professional
and business activities:
   (1) A financial institution including a bank, a trust, a savings
and loan association, a thrift institution, a consumer finance
company, a commercial finance company, an industrial finance company,
a credit union, a mortgage and investment banker, a securities
broker-dealer, or an investment adviser.
   (2) An insurance company, either stock or mutual.
   (3) A mineral, oil, or gas broker.
   (4) A subdivider or developer.
   (5) A landscape architect, an architect, or a building designer.
   (6) An entity organized as a nonprofit institution.
   (7) An entertainment activity or production, including a motion
picture, a stage performance, a television or radio station, or a
production company.
   (8) A utility, a water company, or a power transmission company
generating and transmitting more than 4.5 million kilowatt hours
annually.
   (9) A petroleum producer, a natural gas producer, a refiner, or a
pipeline.
   (10) A manufacturing enterprise exceeding 250 employees.
   (11) A health care facility exceeding 150 beds or one million five
hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) in annual gross receipts.
   (c) "Small business" does not include the following business
activities:
   (1) Agriculture, where the annual gross receipts exceed one
million dollars ($1,000,000).
   (2) General construction, where the annual gross receipts exceed
nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).
   (3) Special trade construction, where the annual gross receipts
exceed five million dollars ($5,000,000).
   (4) Retail trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed two
million dollars ($2,000,000).
   (5) Wholesale trade, where the annual gross receipts exceed nine
million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000).
   (6) Services, where the annual gross receipts exceed two million
dollars ($2,000,000).
   (7) Transportation and warehousing, where the annual gross
receipts exceed one million five hundred thousand dollars
($1,500,000).