§ 29000 Division Definitions Govern Construction

• •This section says that the words defined in this part of the law have special meanings.
• •If a word is defined here, you have to use that meaning when reading the rest of this part of the law.
• •If something in the law says otherwise, then you don’t have to use the special meaning.

Imagine you’re reading a rulebook for a game, and it says at the beginning that the word 'ball' always means a soccer ball in this rulebook.

This law works the same way. If this part of the law defines a word like 'car' in a special way, you have to use that definition when reading the rest of this part of the law. But if another part of the law says 'car' means something else, then you use that meaning instead.