16-5-402. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Anticipation note" means notes of the issuer, evidencing short-term borrowings, issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds which a governing body is authorized to issue;

(ii) "Authorizing instrument" means an ordinance, resolution, instrument or other written evidence of a proceeding by which a governing body takes formal action and adopts legislative provisions on matters of some permanency;

(iii) "Bonds" means general obligation bonds or revenue bonds of an issuer;

(iv) "General obligation bonds" means bonds authorized to be issued by a governing body or any successor thereto which are payable or which may be paid from ad valorem taxes or which constitute a debt or an indebtedness of the issuer within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation, which mature one (1) or more years after the date of their issuance and delivery;

(v) "Governing body" means the city council, town council, commission, board of commissioners, board of trustees, board of directors or other legislative body of an issuer in which the legislative powers of the issuer are vested;

(vi) "Issuer" means any Wyoming county, school district, municipal corporation, community college, hospital district, sanitary and improvement district, water district, sewer district, water and sewer district, county improvement and service district or other political subdivision of the state specifically authorized by law to issue any general obligation bond or revenue bond;

(vii) "Revenue bond" means bonds authorized to be issued by a governing body or any successor thereto which are payable from a pledge of designated revenues other than ad valorem taxes or special assessments which mature one (1) or more years after the date of their issuance.