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, community college district, or the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund.

Terms Used In California Government Code 53398.1

  • City: includes "city and county" and "incorporated town" but does not include "unincorporated town" or "village. See California Government Code 20
  • County: includes city and county. See California Government Code 19
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Person: includes any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, limited liability company, business trust, corporation, or company. See California Government Code 17
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Government Code 18

(b) “Border development zone” means a strip of land three miles wide with the international border with Mexico on the south, the mean high tide of the Pacific Ocean on the west, and the border with the State of Arizona on the east.

(c) “City” means a city, a county, or a city and county.

(d) “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.

(e) “Designated official” means the city engineer or other appropriate official designated pursuant to Section 53398.13.

(f) “District” means an infrastructure financing district located in the border development zone.

(g) “Infrastructure financing district” means a legally constituted governmental entity established pursuant to this chapter for the sole purpose of financing public facilities.

(h) “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 has no 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.

(i) “Legislative body” means the city council or board of supervisors.

(Added by Stats. 1999, Ch. 773, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2000.)

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