The following words or terms used in this act shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(a) “Act” means the Kansas development finance authority act.

(b) “Authority” means the Kansas development finance authority created by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 74-8903, and amendments thereto.

(c) “Agricultural business enterprises” means facilities supporting or utilized in the operation of farms, ranches and other agricultural, aquacultural or silvicultural commodity producers and services provided in conjunction with the foregoing. “Agricultural business enterprise” shall not include a swine production facility on agricultural land which is owned, acquired, obtained or leased by a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, corporate partnership or trust.

(d) “Agricultural land,” “corporation,” “corporate partnership,” “limited liability company,” “limited partnership,” “swine production facility” and “trust” have the meanings ascribed pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. § 17-5903, and amendments thereto.

(e) “Board of directors” means the board of directors of the authority created by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 74-8903, and amendments thereto.

(f) “Bonds” means any bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates, grant and revenue anticipation notes, interest in a lease, lease certificate of participation or other evidences of indebtedness, whether or not the interest on which is subject to federal income taxation, issued by the authority pursuant to this act.

(g) “Capital improvements” means any physical public betterment or improvement or any preliminary plans, studies or surveys relative thereto; land or rights in land, including, without limitations, leases, air rights, easements, rights-of-way or licenses; and any furnishings, machinery, vehicles, apparatus or equipment for any public betterment or improvement.

(h) “Construct” means to acquire or build, in whole or in part, in such manner and by such method as the authority shall determine to be in the public interest and necessary to accomplish the purposes of and authority set forth in this act.

(i) “Loans” means loans made for the purposes of financing any of the activities authorized within this act, including loans made to financial institutions for funding or as security for loans made for accomplishing any of the purposes of this act and reserves and expenses appropriate or incidental thereto.

(j) “Educational facilities” means real, personal and mixed property of any and every kind intended by an educational institution in furtherance of its educational program.

(k) “Facilities” means any real property, personal property or mixed property of any and every kind.

(l) “Health care facilities” means facilities for furnishing physical or mental health care.

(m) “Housing development” means any work or undertaking, whether new construction or rehabilitation, which is designed and financed pursuant to the provisions of this act for the primary purpose of providing dwelling accommodations for elderly persons and families of low income in need of housing.

(n) “Industrial enterprise” means facilities for manufacturing, producing, processing, assembling, repairing, extracting, warehousing, distributing, communications, computer services, transportation, corporate and management offices and services provided in connection with any of the foregoing, in isolation or in any combination, that involve the creation of new or additional employment or the retention of existing employment.

(o) “Political subdivision” means political or taxing subdivisions of the state, including municipal and quasi-municipal corporations, boards, commissions, authorities, councils, committees, subcommittees and other subordinate groups or administrative units thereof, receiving or expending and supported, in whole or in part, by public funds and any municipality as defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 75-1117, and amendments thereto.

(p) “Pooled bonds” means bonds of the authority, the interest on which is subject to federal income taxation, which are issued for the purpose of acquiring bonds issued by two or more political subdivisions.

(q) “Research facilities” means facilities for use in research and development activities, whether conducted for profit or not for profit, of an agricultural business enterprise, industrial enterprise or any other commercial enterprise or educational institution or health care institution.

(r) “State” means the state of Kansas.

(s) “State agency” means any office, department, board, commission, bureau, division, public corporation, agency or instrumentality of this state.

(t) “Federal entity” means the government of the United States of America or any bureau, department, instrumentality or other agency of the federal government.