Definitions

As used in the Rural Infrastructure Act: A. "department" means the department of environment; B. "fund" means the rural infrastructure revolving loan fund; C. "local authority" means a mutual domestic association or water and sanitation district that supplies water, wastewater or solid waste services to, or a municipality that has, a population of less than twenty thousand or a county with a population of less than two hundred thousand; D. "operate and maintain" means all necessary activities, including replacement of equipment or appurtenances to assure the dependable and economical function of a facility in accordance with its intended purpose; E. "secretary" means the secretary of environment; F. "solid waste facility" includes transfer and convenience facilities, landfills or other equipment or systems used for the processing, transformation, recycling or disposal of solid waste; G. "wastewater facility" includes collection lines, pumping equipment, treatment works and disposal piping or process units; and H. "water supply facility" includes the source of supply of water, pumping equipment, storage facilities, transmission lines, treatment works and distribution systems. History: 1953 Comp., § 75-41-2, enacted by Laws 1973, ch. 333, § 2; 1977, ch. 253, § 75; 1979, ch. 219, § 1; 1983, ch. 173, § 2; 1987, ch. 175, § 1; 1988, ch. 28, § 2; 1991, ch. 208, § 1; 2001, ch. 250, § 1; 2001, ch. 265, § 1; 2007, ch. 342, § 1.