Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set forth in this section shall govern the construction of this chapter. (a) âPersonâ means an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, limited liability company, or association. (b) âOwnerâ means a person holding any interest in the legal or equitable title or both to any leasehold for oil or gas purposes, or his or her agent and shall include purchasers under executory contract, receivers, and trustees. (c) âContractâ means a contract, written or oral, express or implied, or partly express and partly implied, or executory or executed, or partly executory and partly executed. (d) âMaterialâ means any material, machinery, appliances, buildings, structures, casing, tanks, pipelines, tools, bits, or other equipment or supplies but does not include rigs or hoists or their integral component parts except wire lines. (e) âLaborâ means work performed in return for wages. (f) âServicesâ means work performed exclusive of labor, including the hauling of material, whether or not involving the furnishing of material. (g) âFurnishâ means sell or rent. (h) âDrillingâ means drilling, digging, shooting, torpedoing, perforating, fracturing, testing, logging, acidizing, cementing, completing or repairing. (i) âOperatingâ means all operations conducted on the lease in connection with or necessary to the production of oil or gas, either in the development thereof or in working thereon by the subtractive process. (j) âConstructionâ means construction, maintenance, operation, or repair, either in the development thereof or in working thereon by the subtractive process. (k) âOriginal contractorâ means any person for whose benefit a lien is prescribed under Section 1203.52.
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