17:9A-175.2. Definitions

As used in this act, the following words and terms shall be deemed to have the following meanings:

(a) The word "unit" shall mean any State or any political subdivision thereof, any authority, department, district or commission, or any agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, or any agency or instrumentality of the Federal Government, or a commission or other public body created by an Act of Congress or pursuant to a compact between any 2 or more States.

(b) The word "utility" shall mean any waterworks system, gas system, electric light system, sewer or sewerage disposal system, bridge, tunnel, turnpike or other highway, or any combination of 2 or more of the foregoing. The word "system" as used herein shall mean a supply or a generating system, or a transmission or a distribution system, or both such supply or generating system and such transmission or distribution system, and all appurtenances thereof.

(c) The term "revenue bonds" shall mean any bonds or other interest-bearing obligations of a unit, the principal and interest of which are by their terms payable from the revenues derived from a utility owned or operated by the unit which issued such bonds or obligations, or by an agency or instrumentality thereof, whether or not said bonds are secured by a mortgage or a trust indenture.

(d) The term "debt service" shall mean provision for the payment of principal and interest on revenue bonds, including mandatory sinking funds, if any.

(e) The term "enabling legislation" shall mean any Act of Congress or of the Legislature of any State or territory, any ordinance or resolution of any unit authorizing or providing for the issuance of revenue bonds, or any mortgage, trust indenture, trust agreement or other instrument executed as security for revenue bonds.

(f) The term "consolidated net revenues" shall mean the revenue derived from the utility and available for debt service, as reported. In computing the consolidated net revenues available for debt service in previous years the consolidated net revenues so available of any utility acquired by any unit may be included, such consolidated net revenues to be calculated as though such utility had been operated by a unit and an equivalent amount of bonded debt was outstanding.

L.1955, c. 251, p. 929, s. 1.