As used in this section and sections 7-406n and 7-406o:

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(1) “Municipal pension solvency account” means the account created in section 7-406n;

(2) “Loan program” means the loans given to municipalities by the state pursuant to sections 7-406n and 7-406o;

(3) “Municipality” means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village, fire and sewer district, sewer district or public authority and each municipal organization having authority to levy and collect taxes or make charges for its authorized function;

(4) “Municipal pension solvency loan” means a loan made to a recipient by the state from the municipal pension solvency account;

(5) “Municipal pension solvency account agreement” means a written agreement between the state, acting by and through the Treasurer and a recipient with respect to a municipal pension solvency loan as provided under sections 7-406n and 7-406o;

(6) “Priority list of eligible municipalities” means the list established by the Treasurer and the secretary pursuant to subsection (f) of section 7-406n;

(7) “Recipient” means a municipality receiving a municipal pension solvency loan;

(8) “State bond anticipation note” means any note or notes issued by the state in anticipation of the issuance of bonds;

(9) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or the secretary’s designee;

(10) “Treasurer” means the State Treasurer, or the Treasurer’s designee;

(11) “Actuarial valuation” means a determination, certified by an enrolled actuary by a method and using assumptions meeting the parameters established by generally accepted accounting principles, of the normal cost, actuarial accrued liability, actuarial value of assets and related actuarial present values for a pension fund of a municipality as of a valuation date not more than thirty months preceding the date of any municipal pension solvency loan given to a municipality by the state pursuant to sections 7-406n and 7-406o, together with an actuarial update of such valuation as of a date not more than three months preceding the date of any such loan;

(12) “Actuarially recommended contribution” means the annual required contribution of the municipality to the pension fund of the municipality, as established by the actuarial valuation and determined by an enrolled actuary in a method and using assumptions meeting the parameters established by generally accepted accounting principles;

(13) “Chief executive officer” means (A) for a municipality, as defined in section 7-187, the officer defined in section 7-193, (B) for a metropolitan district, the officer defined in the special act, charter, local ordinance or other local law applicable to such metropolitan district, (C) for a district, as defined in section 7-324, the president of its board of directors, (D) for a regional school district, the chairperson of its regional board of education, and (E) for any other municipal corporation having the power to levy taxes and to issue bonds, notes or other obligations, such officer as prescribed by the general statutes or in any special act, charter, special act charter, home-rule ordinance, local ordinance or local law applicable to such municipal corporation;

(14) “Enrolled actuary” means a person who is enrolled by the Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries, established under Subtitle C of Title III of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as from time to time amended;

(15) “Obligation” means any bond or any other transaction that constitutes debt in accordance with both municipal reporting standards required under section 7-394a and the regulations prescribing municipal financial reporting adopted by the secretary pursuant to said section 7-394a; and

(16) “Unfunded past benefit obligation” means the unfunded actuarial accrued liability of the pension fund determined by a method and using assumptions meeting the parameters established by generally accepted accounting principles.