25B.3 - DEFINITIONS.

        25B.3  DEFINITIONS.
         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
         1.  "Political subdivision" means a city, county, township, or
      school district.
         2.  "State mandate" means a statutory requirement or
      appropriation which requires a political subdivision of the state to
      establish, expand, or modify its activities in a manner which
      necessitates additional combined annual expenditures of local revenue
      by all affected political subdivisions of at least one hundred
      thousand dollars, or additional combined expenditures of local
      revenue by all affected political subdivisions within five years of
      enactment of five hundred thousand dollars or more, excluding an
      order issued by a court of this state.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         83 Acts, ch 142, §3; 92 Acts, ch 1123, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1173, §3