California Code, Government Code - GOV § 53040

(1) “Acquire” includes acquisition by gift, purchase, lease, eminent domain, or otherwise.

(2) “Local public entity” means any public entity other than the state.

(3) “Public record plant” means the plant, or any part thereof, or any record therein, of any person engaged in the business of searching or publishing public records or insuring or guaranteeing titles to real property, including copies of public records and abstracts or memoranda taken from public records, which is owned by or in the possession of such person or which is used by him in his business.