2023 Colorado Revised Statutes › Title 11 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (§§ 11-1-101 — 11-111-116) › SECURITIES (§§ 11-50-101 — 11-54-119) › SECURITIES (§§ 11-51-101 — 11-54-119) › Article 54 - REFUNDING REVENUE SECURITIES LAW (§§ 11-54-101 — 11-54-119) › Section 11-54-102 - Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1)
"Facility" means any of the facilities or properties, revenues derived from the operation of which are pledged to the payment of public securities.
(2)
Repealed.
(3)
"Governing body" means the city council, commission, board of county commissioners, board of trustees, board of directors, or other legislative body of the public body designated in this article in which body the legislative powers of the public body are vested.
(4)
"Issuer" means the state or public body issuing any public security.
(5)
"May" is permissive.
(6)
"Net effective interest rate" means the net interest cost of public securities divided by the sum of the products derived by multiplying the principal amounts of the securities maturing on each maturity date by the number of years from their date to their respective maturities. In all cases the net effective interest rate shall be computed without regard to any option of redemption prior to the designated maturity dates of the public securities.
(7)
"Net interest cost" means the total amount of interest to accrue on public securities from their dates to their respective maturities, less the amount of any premium above par, or plus the amount of any discount below par, at which said public securities are being or have been sold. In all cases the net interest cost shall be computed without regard to any option of redemption prior to the designated maturity dates of the public securities.
(8)
"Ordinance" means an ordinance of a city or town or resolution or other instrument by which a governing body of the state or public body exercising any power under this article takes formal action and adopts legislative provisions and matters of some permanency.
(9)
"Public body of the state" means the transportation commission; any state educational institution, or other state institution, its board of regents, or other governing body thereof constituting a body corporate; any county; any incorporated city or incorporated town, whether incorporated or governed under a general act, special legislative act, or special charter enacted, granted, or adopted pursuant to article XX of the state constitution, or otherwise; any school district; and any metropolitan district, metropolitan sewage disposal district, metropolitan water district, water district, sanitation district, water and sanitation district, water conservancy district, metropolitan recreation district, health service district, city housing authority, county housing authority, urban renewal agency, community redevelopment agency, any other corporate district, any other corporate authority, any corporate commission, or any other political subdivision of the state constituting a body corporate.
(10)
"Public security" means a bond, note, warrant, certificate of indebtedness, or other obligation for the payment of money, issued by the state, any public body thereof, or any predecessor of any public body of the state, and payable from designated revenues or special fund, but excluding any obligation payable from ad valorem taxes, any obligation constituting a debt or an indebtedness within the meaning of any constitutional, charter, or statutory limitation, any obligation payable within one year from the date of its issuance, and any obligation payable from special assessments.
(11)
"Shall" is mandatory.
(12)
"State" means the state of Colorado, and any board, commission, department, corporation, instrumentality, or agency thereof.
(13)
Words used in this article importing singular or plural number may be construed so that one number includes both; and words importing masculine gender shall be construed to apply to the feminine gender and to the neuter gender as well; but these rules of construction shall not apply to any part of this article containing express provisions excluding such construction, or where the subject matter or context is repugnant thereto.
L. 63: p. 886, § 2. C.R.S. 1963: § 125-8-2. L. 70: p. 109, § 3. L. 89: (2) repealed, p. 1135, § 85, effective July 1. L. 91: (9) amended, p. 1056, § 9, effective July 1. L. 96: (9) amended, p. 471, § 4, effective July 1.