California Code of Regulations
Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services
Division 4 - Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs
Chapter 6 - Nondiscrimination in Programs or Activities Receiving State Financial Assistance
Article 4 - Discriminatory Practices Relating to Ethnic Group Identification
Section 10826 - Definitions

(a) Alternative Communication Services. "Alternative communication services" means the method used or available for purposes of communicating with an ultimate beneficiary unable to read, speak or write in the English language. This includes, but is not limited to, the provision of the services of a multilingual employee or an interpreter for the benefit of an ultimate beneficiary and the provision of written materials in a language other than English.

(b) Ethnic Group. "Ethnic group" means a social group with a cultural and social system that claims or is accorded special status on the basis of traits such as religious, linguistic, ancestral or physical characteristics.

(c) Ethnic Group Identification. "Ethnic group identification" means the possession of the traits or physical characteristics common to a particular cultural and social system from which a person or his or her ancestors originated.