As used in the County Industrial Revenue Bond Act, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

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A. “commission” means the governing body of a county;

B. “county” means a county organized or incorporated in New Mexico;

C. “501(c)(3) corporation” means a corporation that demonstrates to the taxation and revenue department that it has been granted exemption from the federal income tax as an organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended or renumbered;

D. “health care service” means the diagnosis or treatment of sick or injured persons or medical research and includes the ownership, operation, maintenance, leasing and disposition of health care facilities, such as hospitals, clinics, laboratories, x-ray centers and pharmacies;

E. “mortgage” means a mortgage or a mortgage and deed of trust or the pledge and hypothecation of any assets as collateral security;

F. “project” means any land and building or other improvements thereon, the acquisition by or for a New Mexico corporation of the assets or stock of an existing business or corporation located outside the state to be relocated within a county but, except as provided in Paragraph (1) of Subsection A of Section 4-59-4 N.M. Stat. Ann., not within the boundaries of any incorporated municipality in the state, and all real and personal properties deemed necessary in connection therewith, whether or not now in existence, that shall be suitable for use by the following or by any combination of two or more thereof:

(1)     an industry for the manufacturing, processing or assembling of agricultural or manufactured products;

(2)     a commercial enterprise that has received a permit from the energy, minerals and natural resources department for a mine that has not been in operation prior to the issuance of bonds for the project for which the enterprise will be involved;

(3)     a commercial enterprise that has received any necessary state permit for a refinery, treatment plant or processing plant of energy products that was not in operation prior to the issuance of bonds for the project for which the enterprise will be involved;

(4)     a commercial enterprise in storing, warehousing, distributing or selling products of agriculture, mining or industry, but does not include a facility designed for the sale or distribution to the public of electricity, gas, telephone or other services commonly classified as public utilities, except for:

(a) water utilities;

(b) an electric generation or transmission facility, other than one for which both location approval and a certificate of convenience and necessity are required prior to commencing construction or operation of the facility, pursuant to the Public Utility Act [Chapter 62, Articles 1 to 13 of NMSA 1978]; and

(c) an energy storage facility, which is a facility that uses mechanical, chemical, thermal, kinetic or other processes to store energy for release at a later time to integrate energy supply associated with renewable generation across the electric grid;

(5)     a business in which all or part of the activities of the business involve the supplying of services to the general public or to governmental agencies or to a specific industry or customer;

(6)     a nonprofit corporation engaged in health care services;

(7)     a mass transit or other transportation activity involving the movement of passengers, an industrial park, an office headquarters and a research facility;

(8)     a water distribution or irrigation system, including without limitation, pumps, distribution lines, transmission lines, towers, dams and similar facilities and equipment; and

(9)     a 501(c)(3) corporation; and

G. “property” means any land, improvements thereon, buildings and any improvements thereto, machinery and equipment of any and all kinds necessary to the project, operating capital and any other personal properties deemed necessary in connection with the project.