In this act unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "District" means a regional water district organized pursuant to the provisions of this act. A district is a body corporate and an instrumentality of each of the public agencies which establish it by interlocal agreement;

2. "Board" means a board of directors of a regional water district organized under this act;

3. "Persons" includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business or public trust, partnership, federal agency, state agency, state or political subdivision thereof, municipality or any body politic;

4. "Acquire" means and includes construct, acquire by purchase, lease, devise, gift or other mode of acquisition of any interest in a project or facilities;

5. "Obligation" includes bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates or receipts, contracts and all other evidences of indebtedness issued by a regional water district formed under this act, including bond anticipation notes and refunding bonds;

6. "Reservoir" means any impoundment of water through the construction of a dam by or under the direction and supervision of a constructing agency;

7. "Constructing agency" means any state, local or federal agency directing and supervising the construction of a reservoir and shall include the U.S. Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and any other state, local or federal agency;

8. "State Board" means the Oklahoma Water Resources Board;

9. "Public agency" shall be as defined in the Interlocal Cooperation Act, Section 1003 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes, except public agencies of other states shall not be entitled to membership in the district;

10. "Water facilities" means and includes all facilities from the initial source to the place for utilization of water by a public agency or person as provided in this act, including, but not limited to, all plants, systems, facilities or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the supply, treatment, distribution, transportation, or storage of water, and any integral part thereof, including but not limited to water supply systems, water distribution systems, sources of water supply including lakes, reservoirs and wells, intakes, mains, laterals, aqueducts, pumping stations, standpipes, filtration plants, purification plants, hydrants, meters, valves, and all necessary appurtenances and equipment and all properties, rights, easements and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the authority for the operation thereof;

11. "Sewage" means the water-carried wastes created in and carried or to be carried away from residences, residential establishments, industrial or commercial establishments or any other private or public building or institution together with such surface or groundwater or household and industrial wastes as may be present. Sewage does not include hazardous waste as defined by Section 1-2002 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes; and

12. "Sewage facilities" means and includes any plants, systems, facilities or properties used or useful or having the present capacity for future use in connection with the collection, transportation, treatment, purification, storage, processing, release, or disposal of sewage, including wastes resulting from any processes of industry, manufacture, trade or business or from the development of any natural resources, or any integral part thereof, including but not limited to treatment plants, pumping stations, intercepting sewers, trunk sewers, pressure lines, mains and all necessary appurtenances and equipment, and all property, rights, easements and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient by the authority for the operation thereof.

Laws 1972, c. 249, § 1; Laws 1985, c. 353, § 1, emerg. eff. July 30, 1985; Laws 1992, c. 403, § 48, eff. Sept. 1, 1992.