What is the test for determining whether a state is a natural person, partnership, corporation, association or corporation?

Words of a statute must be given their ordinary meaning and receive a common sense construction. (Community Memorial Hospital v. County of Ventura (1996) 50 Cal.App.4th 199, 209, 56 Cal.Rptr.2d 732.) The state is neither a natural person, partnership, corporation, association, nor other "organization[ ] of persons." It is a sovereign entity representing the People. Only through an unreasonable, strained construction can the state be deemed to fall within any of the statute's definitional categories.