48-171. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Bonds" includes bonds, notes, temporary notes, temporary bonds, interim
receipts, interim certificates, certificates of indebtedness, refunding notes, refunding
bonds or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations of the district.
2. "Contract" or "agreement" between the federal government and a district includes
contracts and agreements in the customary form and includes a resolution, unilateral
promise or other commitment by the federal government by which it undertakes to make a
loan, grant or purchase of the kind described in this article upon performance of
specified conditions. When such a resolution, unilateral promise or other commitment by
the federal government is made, the terms, conditions and restrictions therein set forth
shall, for the purposes of this article, be deemed to constitute covenants of such a
contract that are to be performed by the district, if the district accepts any money from
the federal government.
3. "District" includes any irrigation district, drainage district, flood control
district, agricultural improvement district, electrical district or power district, and
in addition thereto any district, political subdivision, governmental agency, corporation
or instrumentality of the state having territorial boundaries and created or organized
for the purpose of benefiting or performing services for lands in the state.
4. "Federal government" includes the United States, the president of the United
States, the federal emergency administrator of public works, reconstruction finance
corporation, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation of the United States, which
has been or may be designated, created or authorized by or pursuant to any act or acts of
the Congress, or which is owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the United
States.
5. "Governing body" of a district includes the body, board, commission, officer or
officers, or other authority, having charge of the finances of the district.
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