18-16-102. Definitions.

(a) As used in this act:

(i) "Assessed value" means the total assessed value of real property within the district, but excludes assessed values attributable to minerals. Assessed value shall be determined from the last assessment roll of the county within which the district is located;

(ii) "Board" means the board of directors of a resort district;

(iii) "Bonds" means bonds, warrants, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of a resort district;

(iv) "Commissioners" means the board of county commissioners;

(v) "District" means a resort district as organized under the terms of this act;

(vi) "Elector" or "voter" means a person who is a qualified elector or a landowner in the district;

(vii) "Improvement" means and includes buildings, structures and all facilities of a public nature intended for public use, including but not limited to streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, alleys and other public ways, parks, recreational facilities, water, sewage, solid waste disposal and other sanitary systems and facilities, and with respect to the foregoing, any additional facilities or improvements as relate or contribute to the full public use and enjoyment thereof;

(viii) "Landowner" or "owner of land" means the person or persons holding a majority interest in the record fee title to one (1) or more parcels of real property within the district or proposed district or a person or the persons who are obligated to pay general property taxes under a contract to purchase real property and timeshare owners. As used in this paragraph, "person" includes an individual, corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, association or any other entity holding a majority interest in the record fee title to one (1) or more parcels of real property within the district or proposed district provided the individual who signs a petition or casts a vote for a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, association or other entity presents the election official with a written authorization to sign for the corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, association or other entity or is the individual named in the written authorization previously filed with the election official, as applicable;

(ix) "Qualified elector" means a natural person who:

(A) Is a citizen of the United States;

(B) Is a bona fide resident of the district or proposed district;

(C) Will be at least eighteen (18) years of age on the day of the election at which he may offer to vote;

(D) Is not currently adjudicated mentally incompetent;

(E) Has not been convicted of a felony or if convicted has had his civil rights or voting rights restored; and

(F) Is registered to vote.

(x) "Resident" or "residence" means as defined in the Wyoming election code;

(xi) "Resort area" means an area that:

(A) Is an unincorporated area and is a defined contiguous geographic boundary within one (1) county;

(B) Has a permanent population of less than five hundred (500) people;

(C) Derives the major portion of its economic well being from businesses catering to the recreational and personal needs of persons traveling to or through the area; and

(D) Does not include real property used for manufacturing, milling, converting, producing, processing or fabricating materials, generating electricity or the extraction or processing of minerals.

(xii) "Service" means the operation and maintenance of improvements and any other service authorized by this act;

(xiii) "Timeshare owner" means a person owning a fractionalized interest in an individual condominium unit as defined in W.S. 34-20-104(a)(iii) in a multi-unit property;

(xiv) "Written authorization" means an affidavit filed by the landowner with the election official conducting the election setting forth a general legal description of the property owned, the street or common name address for the property, the name or names of all owners of the property described, and a statement that the person signing the written authorization is the only person having authority to act on behalf of the owner or owners of the property;

(xv) "This act" means W.S. 18-16-101 through 18-16-119.