390.1 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Acquisition” of a joint facility includes the purchase, lease, construction, reconstruction, extension, remodeling, improvement, repair, and equipping of the joint facility.
2. “City” means a municipal corporation, but not including a county, township, school district, or special purpose district or authority.
3. “City utility” has the same meaning provided in section 362.2, subsection 6, and includes a “combined utility system”, as defined in section 384.80, which operates facilities for the generation or transmission of electric energy.
4. “Electric cooperative” means a cooperative association which owns and operates property for generating, purchasing, obtaining by exchange or otherwise acquiring, or transmitting electric power and energy.
5. “Governing body” means the public body which by law is charged with the management and control of a city utility as defined in section 384.80, subsection 5.
6. “Joint agreement” means an agreement of participants pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. A joint agreement may be one or more documents, and may be entitled joint agreement, agreement, contract, or otherwise.
7. “Joint facility” means all property necessary or useful for generating, purchasing, obtaining by exchange or otherwise acquiring, or transmitting electric power and energy, which is owned and operated pursuant to a joint agreement.
8. “Or” includes the conjunctive “and” and “and” includes the disjunctive “or”, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
9. “Own” and “ownership” in the case of transmission facilities, including substations and associated facilities, may include the right to the use of an amount of the capacity of the facilities, if the joint agreement so provides. “Own” and “ownership” may include a joint facility located in this state or outside this state.
10. “Participant” means a city, electric cooperative or privately owned utility company which is a party to a joint agreement.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §390.1]
84 Acts, ch 1251, §1; 2012 Acts, ch 1065, §1
Referred to in §23A.2, 352.6, 390.9, 476.22
Section not amended; editorial changes applied
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 390 - JOINT ELECTRICAL UTILITIES
Section 390.2 - Additional power.
Section 390.3 - Hearing — exception to general statutes.
Section 390.4 - Undivided joint interest.
Section 390.7 - Construction of amendments.
Section 390.8 - Equity investment in independent transmission company.
Section 390.8A - Transmission facility ownership.
Section 390.10 - Electric power agency — general authority.
Section 390.11 - Electric power agency — authority — conflicting provisions.
Section 390.12 - Issuance of public bonds or obligations — purposes — limitations.
Section 390.13 - Public bonds or obligations authorized by resolution of board of directors — terms.
Section 390.14 - Public bonds or obligations payable solely from agency revenues or funds.
Section 390.15 - Public bonds or obligations — types — sources for payment — security.
Section 390.17 - Public bonds or obligations to be negotiable.
Section 390.18 - Validity of public bonds or obligations at delivery — temporary bonds.
Section 390.19 - Public or private sale of bonds and obligations.
Section 390.22 - Mortgage or trust deed to secure bonds.
Section 390.23 - No personal liability on public bonds or obligations.