Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Public Entities Mandated Project Charges Act

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Magistrate: shall include judge of the county court and clerk magistrate. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Magistrate shall: include judge of the county court and clerk magistrate. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Mandate: means a requirement imposed by a statute of the United States or the State of Nebraska, a rule, a regulation, an administrative or a judicial order, a licensing requirement or condition, any agreement with or requirement of a regional transmission organization, or any consent order or agreement between the United States or the State of Nebraska, or any agency thereof, and a public entity. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1804
• Mandated project: means the construction, retrofitting, rebuilding, acquisition, or installation of any equipment, device, structure, improvement, process, facility, technology, or other property owned, licensed, or controlled by a public entity or operated for the benefit of a public entity through a power participation or purchase agreement, either within or outside the State of Nebraska, and used in connection with a new or existing facility related to electrical power generation, transmission, or distribution, which construction, retrofitting, rebuilding, acquisition, or installation is undertaken to satisfy a mandate, including, but not limited to, any equipment, device, structure, improvement, process, facility, technology, or other property related to environmental pollution control, safety, or useful life extension of an existing plant or facility. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1805
• Mandated project bond issuer: means an entity created pursuant to section 70-1818. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1805.01
• Mandated project bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued by a public entity or by a mandated project bond issuer, the proceeds of which are used directly or indirectly to pay or reimburse mandated project costs and financing costs and which bonds are secured by and payable from mandated project charges. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1806
• Mandated project charge: means a charge paid by customers of a public entity to pay or reimburse the public entity for mandated project costs, including any adjustment of the charge pursuant to subdivision (1)(d) of section 70-1812, or financing costs. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1807
• Mandated project costs: means capital costs incurred or to be incurred by a public entity with respect to a mandated project, including the payment of debt service on mandated project bonds, either directly or through a power participation or purchase agreement, and any related operating expenses. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1808
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Person shall: include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Public entity: means a municipality, a registered group of municipalities, a public power district, a public power and irrigation district, an electric cooperative, an electric membership association, a joint entity formed under the Interlocal Cooperation Act, a joint public agency formed under the Joint Public Agency Act, an agency formed under the Municipal Cooperative Financing Act, or any other governmental entity. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1809
• Related operating expenses: means any necessary operating expenses of a project or system required to be paid from the mandated project charge by an order of a court pursuant to 11 U. See Nebraska Statutes 70-1810
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: shall include territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801