Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter.

(a) “Affected taxing entity” means any governmental taxing agency that levied or had levied on its behalf a property tax on all or a portion of the property located in the proposed district in the fiscal year prior to the designation of the district, but not including any county office of education, school district, or community college district.

(b) “City” means a city, county, city and county, or joint powers authority, where that entity is acting as the military base reuse authority established pursuant to Title 7.86 (commencing with Section 67800).

(c) “Debt” means any binding obligation to repay a sum of money, including obligations in the form of bonds, certificates of participation, long-term leases, loans from government agencies, or loans from banks, other financial institutions, private businesses, or individuals.

(d) “Designated official” means the city engineer or other appropriate official designated pursuant to Section 53369.13.

(e) (1) “District” means an infrastructure and revitalization financing district.

(2) An infrastructure and revitalization financing district is a “district” within the meaning of Section 1 of XIII A of the California Constitution.

(f) “Infrastructure and revitalization financing district” means a legally constituted governmental entity established pursuant to this chapter for the sole purpose of financing facilities authorized by this chapter.

(g) “Landowner” or “owner of land” means any person shown as the owner of land on the last equalized assessment roll or otherwise known to be the owner of the land by the legislative body. The legislative body does not have any obligation to obtain other information as to the ownership of land, and its determination of ownership shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of this chapter. A public agency is not a landowner or owner of land for purposes of this chapter, unless the public agency owns all of the land to be included within the proposed district.

(h) “Legislative body” means the city council, board of supervisors, or joint powers authority that is acting as the military base reuse authority established pursuant to Title 7.86 (commencing with Section 67800).

(i) “Project area” means a defined area within a district in which the activities of the district share a common purpose or goal and an overall financing plan.

(j) “Public works” means public facilities or any other facilities described in Section 53369.3 that are to be financed in whole or in part by the district.

(k) “Net available revenue” means periodic distributions to the city from the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, created pursuant to § 34170.5 of the Health and Safety Code, that are available to the city after all preexisting legal commitments and statutory obligations funded from that revenue are made pursuant to Part 1.85 (commencing with Section 34170) of Division 24 of the Health and Safety Code. Net available revenue shall not include any funds deposited by the county auditor-controller into the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund or funds remaining in the Redevelopment Property Tax Trust Fund, prior to distribution. Net available revenues shall not include any moneys payable to a school district that maintains kindergarten or grades 1 to 12, inclusive, or a community college district, or the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund, pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) of § 34183 of the Health and Safety Code.

(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 775, Sec. 1. (AB 229) Effective January 1, 2015.)