§48E-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Cost" or "costs" as applied to a pollution control project or portion thereof financed under this chapter includes all or part of:
"County" means the city and county of Honolulu, the county of Hawaii, the county of Kauai, and the county of Maui.
"Director of finance" means the director of finance of a county.
"Governing body" means the body, council, or board charged with exercising the legislative authority of a county.
"Person" means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, cooperative, or other legal entity, governmental body, or agency, board, bureau, or other instrumentality thereof, or any combination of two or more of the foregoing.
"Pollution control project" means any processing enterprise consisting of property, or improvements or alterations to property, designed, acquired, constructed, installed, or modified, and certified as necessary or desirable by the state department of health, to abate, control, reduce, treat, eliminate, or dispose of solid waste, and specifically includes facilities which incidentally provide for the recovery of energy or material resources, or both.
"Project agreement" means any lease, sublease, loan agreement, conditional sale agreement, or other similar financing contract or agreement, or combination thereof entered into under this chapter by the county, including the financing of a pollution control project from the proceeds of the special purpose revenue bonds.
"Project party" means the person with whom the county enters into a project agreement.
"Special purpose revenue bonds" means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness of a county issued pursuant to this chapter. [L 1983, c 237, pt of §2]