12-2701. Definitions. As used in this act:
(a) The term "municipality" means any city of the first, second or third class owning and operating a water distribution system or any township or improvement district owning and operating a water distribution system, and which city, township or improvement district is located in a county having a population of not less than thirty thousand (30,000) nor more than forty thousand (40,000) with an assessed taxable tangible valuation of not less than seventy-eight million dollars ($78,000,000) nor more than ninety million dollars ($90,000,000).
(b) The term "governing body" as applied to a city means the mayor and council or mayor and commissioners, as the case may be, and as applied to a township means the township clerk, the township treasurer and the township trustee acting as a board, and as applied to an improvement district means the board of directors of such improvement district acting as a board.
(c) The word "corporation" means a private corporation which is, or contemplates becoming, a water customer of a municipality and which enters into a contract with such municipality under the provisions of this act, or any board of education, rural high-school district, community high-school district or common-school district which is, or contemplates becoming, a water customer of a municipality and which enters into a contract with such municipality under the provisions of this act; and any such board of education, rural high-school district, community high-school district or common-school district shall have power to enter into contracts under the provisions of this act to remain in force as long as any bonds issued by any municipality under the provisions of this act shall be outstanding.
History: L. 1955, ch. 87, § 1; April 14.
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