3-50-3. Definitions.
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As used in the Municipal Parking Law:
A. "city" means any municipality having a population of five thousand or more. "The city" means the particular city for which a particular authority is created;
B. "authority" or "parking authority" means any agent or agency of a city created pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law;
C. "governing body" means, in the case of a city, that body in which the legislative powers of the city are vested;
D. "bonds" means any obligation issued by a city pursuant to the Municipal Parking Law;
E. "obligee" includes any bondholder, trustee or trustees for any bondholders, or lessor demising to the authority or city property used in connection with a parking facility or any assignee or assignees of such lessor's interest, or any part thereof, and the state or the United States or any agency of either, when a party to any contract with an authority or city by which aid or a loan is given or made to the city;
F. "project" means any acquisition, improvement, construction or undertaking of any kind authorized in the Municipal Parking Law;
G. "ordinance" means ordinance or resolution which may be passed, adopted or entered into by the governing body of a city;
H. "parking facilities" means any space on the streets or off the streets used for the purpose of parking motor vehicles, and includes buildings erected above or below the land when used for the purpose of increasing accommodations for parking motor vehicles;
I. "federal government" includes the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality, corporate or otherwise, of the United States of America; and
J. "real property" includes all lands, including improvements and fixtures thereon, and property of any nature appurtenant thereto, or used in connection therewith, and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable, therein, including terms for years.
History: 1953 Comp., § 14-51-3, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 300.