(1) "Department" means the Idaho transportation department.
(2)  "Design-build contract" means a single contract between the department and a design-build firm to furnish the architectural or engineering and related design services, labor, material, supplies, equipment, and construction services for the highway project.

Terms Used In Idaho Code 40-105

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
Idaho Code 73-114
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
    • (3)  "Design-build firm" means a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability partnership, joint venture, corporation, any type of limited liability company, professional corporation or legal entity qualified to design and build highway projects.
    (4)  "Design-build project" means a project for which both the design and construction of the project are procured by the department in a single contract with a design-build firm capable of providing the necessary design services and construction.
    (5)  "Designer" means a duly licensed individual or business entity who performs the engineering design and related design work for a design-build firm.
    (6)  "Designer qualifications" means the criteria used to evaluate the design-build firm’s designer(s).
    (7)  "Director" means the director of the Idaho transportation department.
    (8)  "Displaced person" means any individual, family, business or farm operation which moves from real property or moves personal property from real property acquired for a program or project of a state or local agency, in whole or in part, or as the result of a written order of an acquiring agency to vacate real property for a program or project of a state or local agency, and, solely for the purposes of section 40-2004, Idaho Code, as a result of a written order of an acquiring agency to vacate other real property, on which a person conducts a business or farm operation, for a program or project of any state or local agency.
    (9)  "Draw" means making a cash demand on the proceeds of transportation bonds or notes issued by the Idaho housing and finance association as it pertains to section 40-718, Idaho Code.
    (10) "Dump" means any place or area, not operated as a business, where junk is deposited, stored or kept.