As used in this chapter:

(a) “City” and “county” both include the City and County of San Francisco; “county” does not include a county service area, or zone therein, within the County of San Bernardino empowered to provide public park and recreation services pursuant to the County Service Area Law (Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 25210) of Part 2 of Division 2 of Title 3 of the Government Code).

(b) “Districts” means regional park districts formed under Article 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of Chapter 3; recreation and park districts formed under Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 5780); any public utility district formed under Division 7 (commencing with Section 15501) of the Public Utilities Code in a nonurbanized area that employs a full-time park and recreation director and offers year-round park and recreation services on lands and facilities owned by the district; any community services district formed under Division 3 (commencing with Section 61000) of Title 6 of the Government Code in a nonurbanized area which is authorized to provide public recreation as specified in subdivision (e) of Section 61600 of the Government Code; any memorial district formed under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1170) of Division 6 of the Military and Veterans Code that employs a full-time park and recreation director and offers year-round park and recreation services on lands and facilities owned by the district; the Malaga County Water District exercising powers authorized under Section 31133 of the Water Code; and any county service area, or zone therein, within the County of San Bernardino which is empowered to provide public park and recreation services pursuant to the County Service Area Law (Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 25210) of Part 2 of Division 2 of Title 3 of the Government Code), which is actually providing public park and recreation services, and which was reorganized prior to January 1, 1987, from a park and recreation district to a county service area or zone.

(c) “Urbanized area” consists of a central city or cities and surrounding closely settled territory, as determined by the Department of Finance on the basis of the most recent verifiable census data. “Urbanized county” means any county with a population of 200,000 or more, as determined by the Department of Finance on the basis of the most recent verifiable census data.

(d) “Heavily urbanized area” means a large city with a population of 300,000 or more and a large county or regional park district with a population of 1,000,000 or more, as determined by the Department of Finance on the basis of the most recent verifiable census data.

(e) “Nonurbanized area” means any city, county, or district which does not qualify as an urbanized area or urbanized county under the definitions in subdivision (c).

(f) “Block grant” means the allocation of moneys for one or more projects for the acquisition or development of recreational lands and facilities.

(g) “Need basis grant” means the allocation of moneys for one or more projects for the acquisition or development of recreational lands and facilities on a project-by-project basis, based upon need.

(h) “Account” means the Roberti-Z’berg-Harris Urban Open-Space and Recreation Program Account in the General Fund.

(i) “Special major maintenance project” means a rehabilitation or refurbishing activity performed on an annual or more infrequent interval, excluding capital improvements and routinized or other regularly scheduled and performed tasks such as grounds mowing, hedge trimming, garbage removal, and watering. Special major maintenance project includes activities which will reduce energy requirements to operate recreational lands or facilities.

(j) “Innovative recreation program” means specially designed, creative social, cultural, and human service activities which by their nature are intended to respond to the unique and otherwise unmet recreation needs of special urban populations, including, but not limited to, senior citizens, physically or emotionally handicapped, chronic and “new” poor, single parents, “latchkey” children, and minorities. The term includes special transportation programs designed to facilitate access of these groups to parks and recreational programs and facilities.

(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 158, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 2009.)