Section 55001 Of Part 1. General Provisions From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 32. >> Part 1.
55001
. As used in this division:
(a) "Bonds" means bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness
issued by a local agency pursuant to Part 2 (commencing with Section
55100) of this division, including bonds issued to refund previously
issued bonds or other indebtedness.
(b) "Eligible building" means a building existing on the effective
date of this section which is identified as hazardous pursuant to
Article 4 (commencing with Section 19160) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of
Division 13, with the exception of the following:
(1) Industrial buildings for assembling, fabricating,
manufacturing and processing activities.
(2) Structures subject to the provisions of Part 1.5 (commencing
with Section 17910) of Division 13, other than a residential hotel or
apartment building containing six or more units or a commercial
building containing six or more residential units which is identified
as hazardous pursuant to this section.
(c) "Eligible costs" means all costs, including costs of design,
preparation, and inspection incurred in making structural or other
modifications to an eligible building, which are required in order to
meet reconstruction standards established by a local ordinance
pursuant to Sections 19162, 19163, and 19163.5, or to mitigate
potentially hazardous buildings, as defined by subdivision (a) of
Section 8875 of the Government Code including costs of payments
required by Section 7265.3 of the Government Code, and including
costs necessary to provide for the reasonable safety of the exterior
and interior of the eligible building and of interior fixtures and
appurtenances. Other eligible costs include nonseismic and
nonstructural costs, including, but not limited to, plaster,
wallboard, paint, and carpeting, and any other finishes deemed
necessary by the local building official to restore an eligible
building to its original conditions and suitable for occupancy.
(d) "Financing" means a loan made by the local agency pursuant to
this division to the owner of an eligible building for eligible costs
and which is secured by a deed of trust or mortgage upon the real
property improved thereby.
(e) "Local agency" means a city, county, or city and county.
(f) "Residential hotel" means any building containing six or more
guestrooms intended or designed to be used, or which are used,
rented, or hired out, to be occupied, or which are occupied, for
sleeping purposes by guests, which is also the primary residence of
those guests, but does not mean any hotel which is primarily used by
transient guests who do not occupy the hotel as their primary
residence.