California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 2 - California Apprenticeship Council
Subchapter 2 - Other on-the-Job Training
Article 1 - Declaration of Policy and Purpose
Section 252 - Definitions

(a) "Competent evidence" as used in Section 259 is a transcript or abstract of the records required to be maintained pursuant to Section 255(b)(5), or an attestation by the training program sponsor stating that all training has been fully completed, on forms to be furnished by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, demonstrating that the training program has been fully completed, certified by the training program sponsor, and endorsed by a representative of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.

(b) "Training program sponsor" is a joint training committee, a unilateral training committee or the party to a unilateral training program where there is no training committee established or any combination thereof, and may include a school to career partnership.

(c) A "Training Committee" means those persons designated by the sponsor to act for it in the administration of the program.

(d) The term "trainee" means a person at least 16 years of age who has entered into a written agreement called a "trainee agreement" in accordance with Section 3093 of the Labor Code.