Alaska Statutes Sec. 30.13.900 - Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,

(1) "authority" means a public body created under AS 30.13.010 ;

(2) "bonds" means bonds or other obligations issued under this chapter;

(3) "cost" includes the cost of acquisition or construction of all or any part of transportation facilities and of all or any property, rights, easements, and franchises considered by an authority to be necessary, useful, or convenient, including without limitation reimbursements to the authority or any other person of money expended for the purposes of the authority and interest or discount on bonds to finance those expenses, engineering and inspection costs and legal expenses, the cost of financial, professional, and other advice, and the cost of issuance of bonds;

(4) "district" means the area within the boundaries of an authority;

(5) "person" includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, society, state or agency or subdivision of the state, municipality of the state, or an authority, as well as a natural person;

(6) "transportation facilities", or "facilities", or "projects" means harbor, port, shipping and transportation facilities of all kinds, including harbors, channels, turning basins, anchorage areas, jetties, breakwaters, waterways, canals, locks, tidal basins, wharves, docks, piers, slips, bulkheads, public landings, warehouses, terminals, refrigerating and cold storage plants, rolling stock, car ferries, tugs, boats, conveyors, tunnels, bridges, highways, roads and railroads, and appliances of all kinds for the handling, storage, inspection, and transportation of freight and natural resource products; it also includes all property, rights, easements, and franchises relative to a facility and necessary or convenient for the acquisition, construction, or operation of the facility, but does not include airport facilities.

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