390.1 - DEFINITIONS.

        390.1  DEFINITIONS.         As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:         1.  "Acquisition" of a joint facility includes the purchase,      lease, construction, reconstruction, extension, remodeling,      improvement, repair, and equipping of the joint facility.         2.  "City" means a municipal corporation, but not including a      county, township, school district or special purpose district or      authority.         3.  "City utility" has the same meaning provided in section      362.2, subsection 6, and includes a "combined utility system", as      defined in section 384.80, which operates facilities for the      generation or transmission of electric energy.         4.  "Electric co-operative" means a co-operative association      which owns and operates property for generating, purchasing,      obtaining by exchange or otherwise acquiring, or transmitting      electric power and energy.         5.  "Governing body" means the public body which by law is      charged with the management and control of a city utility as defined      in section 384.80, subsection 5.         6.  "Joint agreement" means an agreement of participants      pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.  A joint agreement may be      one or more documents, and may be entitled joint agreement,      agreement, contract or otherwise.         7.  "Joint facility" means all property necessary or useful      for generating, purchasing, obtaining by exchange or otherwise      acquiring, or transmitting electric power and energy, which is owned      and operated pursuant to a joint agreement.         8.  "Or" includes the conjunctive "and" and "and"      includes the disjunctive "or", unless the context clearly      indicates otherwise.         9.  "Own" and "ownership" in the case of transmission      facilities, including substations and associated facilities, which      are located in whole or in part in Iowa, may include the right to the      use of an amount of the capacity of the facilities, if the joint      agreement so provides.  "Own" and "ownership" in the case of      transmission facilities, including substations and associated      facilities, does not include those which are located in states which      are not contiguous to Iowa.         10.  "Participant" means a city, electric co-operative or      privately owned utility company which is a party to a joint      agreement.  
         Section History: Early Form
         [C75, 77, 79, 81, § 390.1] 
         Section History: Recent Form
         84 Acts, ch 1251, § 1         Referred to in § 23A.2, 352.6, 476.22