§47C-1  Definitions.  As used insections 47C-1 through 47C-6, the following words and terms shall have thefollowing meanings or inclusions:

"Chairperson of the financecommittee" shall mean the chairperson of the finance committee of thecouncil of the county, or if the council of the county does not have a financecommittee, the member of the council appointed by the council to perform thefunctions required by this chapter to be performed by the chairperson of thefinance committee of the council.

"Corporation counsel" shall mean thechief legal advisor or legal representative of the county.

"County" shall include each county ofthe State, including the city and county of Honolulu.

"Director of finance" shall mean thedirector of finance of the county, or if the county does not have a director offinance, the officer of the county in whom is vested the functions and powersof maintaining the treasury of the county and issuing and selling, payinginterest on, and redeeming bonds of the county.

"Fiscal year" shall mean the fiscalyear of the county as defined in section 46-41.

"Special assessment bonds" shall meanbonds issued under special improvement statutes when the only security for suchbonds is the assessments or special taxes levied and assessed under thosestatutes or properties subject to the assessments or special taxes.

As used in sections 47C-1 through 47C-6, thewords or terms "bonds", "general obligation bonds","net revenue", "net user tax receipts", "reimbursablegeneral obligation bonds", "revenue bonds", "specialpurpose revenue bonds", and "user tax" shall have the respectivemeanings and inclusions given to such words and terms in section 12 of ArticleVII of the Constitution. [L 1970, c 202, pt of §1; am L 1979, c 43, pt of §4;am L 1992, c 226, §4; gen ch 1993]