Ca. Gov. Code § 13951 Definitions

• Library: California Codes
• Edition: 2023 Edition
• Currency: Current through the 2023 Legislative Session.
• Year: 2023
• Citation: Ca. Gov. Code § 13951

As used in this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:

(a) "Board" means the California Victim Compensation Board.

(b)

(1) "Crime" means a crime or public offense, wherever it may take place, that would constitute a misdemeanor or a felony if the crime had been committed in California by a competent adult.

(2) "Crime" includes an act of terrorism, as defined in Section 2331 of Title 18 of the United States Code, committed against a resident of the state, whether or not the act occurs within the state.

(c) "Derivative victim" means an individual who sustains pecuniary loss as a result of injury or death to a victim.

(d) "Law enforcement" means every district attorney, municipal police department, sheriff's department, district attorney's office, county probation department, and social services agency, the Department of Justice, the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, the Department of the California Highway Patrol, the police department of any campus of the University of California, California State University, or community college, and every agency of the State of California expressly authorized by statute to investigate or prosecute law violators.