Section 4200 Of Chapter 3. Backfilling Excavations With Native Spoil From California Government Code >> Division 5. >> Title 1. >> Chapter 3.
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. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Competent spoil" means soils that can be treated to bring
their moisture content into the optimum range, and that can achieve
the compaction required by the city or county in whose jurisdiction
an excavation is located.
(b) "Excavation" means any operation in which earth, rock, or
other material in the ground is moved, removed, or otherwise
displaced by means of tools, equipment, or explosive in any of the
following ways: grading, trenching, digging, ditching, drilling,
augering, tunneling, scraping, pipe plowing and driving, or any other
way.
(c) "Local agency" means any city, county, city and county,
special district, school district, or other political subdivision of
the state.