§ 37-2.1-5. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:

(1) "Person" means natural persons as well as corporations, partnerships, business units, and associations;

(2) "Public agency" means any and all other public bodies, authorities, officers, agencies, or instrumentalities, whether exercising a governmental or proprietary function;

(i) The state and its departments, boards, commissions and agencies;

(ii) Cities, towns, school districts, and any other governmental unit or district; or

(iii) Any and all other public bodies, authorities, officers, agencies, or instrumentalities, whether exercising a governmental or proprietary function;

(3) "Public works" means steel to construct, frame or reinforce any public structure, building, highway, waterway, street, bridge, transit system, airport, or other betterment, work, or improvement, whether of a permanent or temporary nature, and whether for governmental or proprietary use;

(4) "Steel products" means products rolled, formed, shaped, drawn, extruded, forged, cast, fabricated, or otherwise similarly processed, or processed by a combination of two or more of these operations, from steel made in the United States by the open hearth, basic oxygen, electric furnace, Bessemer, or other steel making process; and

(5) "United States" means the United States of America and includes all territory, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

History of Section. (P.L. 1979, ch. 299, § 1.)