As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise, the following terms have the following meanings:

(a) “Net direct debt” of any public corporation means all indebtedness of every kind after deducting from the indebtedness sinking funds available for the payment thereof, any indebtedness evidenced by tax anticipation notes for the payment of which nondelinquent taxes are pledged, obligations payable only from special assessments, revenue obligations payable only from special revenues pledged for their payment, and such proportion of any indebtedness issued for revenue producing works, properties, or utilities that have been in operation for at least one year as the amount of the annual net revenue therefrom bears to the amount of the annual debt service requirements of those bonds.

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(b) “Net overlapping debt” of any public corporation means the proportion of the net direct debt as above defined of any other public corporation (herein called overlapping corporation) that lies wholly or partially within the boundaries of the public corporation as the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the overlapping public corporation lying within the boundaries of the public corporation as shown by the last official equalized county assessment roll bears to the assessed valuation of all taxable property of the overlapping public corporation as shown by the last official equalized county assessment roll.

(c) “Funded debt,” as used in this chapter, means all interest-bearing indebtedness of a corporation not maturing within one year of the date the indebtedness was incurred.

(Added by Stats. 2011, Ch. 243, Sec. 2. (SB 664) Effective January 1, 2012.)