Terms Used In Ohio Code 133.17

• Anticipatory securities: means securities, including notes, issued in anticipation of the issuance of other securities. See Ohio Code 133.01
• Debt charges: means the principal, including any mandatory sinking fund deposits and mandatory redemption payments, interest, and any redemption premium, payable on securities as those payments come due and are payable. See Ohio Code 133.01
• improvement: means any property, asset, or improvement certified by the fiscal officer, which certification is conclusive, as having an estimated life or period of usefulness of five years or more, and includes, but is not limited to, real estate, buildings, and personal property and interests in real estate, buildings, and personal property, equipment, furnishings, and site improvements, and reconstruction, rehabilitation, renovation, installation, improvement, enlargement, and extension of property, assets, or improvements so certified as having an estimated life or period of usefulness of five years or more. See Ohio Code 133.01
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• One purpose: includes , but is not limited to, in any case any off-street parking facilities relating to another permanent improvement, and:

  (1) Any number of roads, highways, streets, bridges, sidewalks, and viaducts;

  (2) Any number of off-street parking facilities;

  (3) In the case of a county, any number of permanent improvements for courthouse, jail, county offices, and other county buildings, and related facilities;

  (4) In the case of a school district, any number of facilities and buildings for school district purposes, and related facilities. See Ohio Code 133.01

• Principal amount: means the aggregate of the amount as stated or provided for in the legislation authorizing the public obligations as the amount on which interest or interest equivalent is initially calculated. See Ohio Code 133.03
• Securities: means bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, commercial paper, and other instruments in writing, including, unless the context does not admit, anticipatory securities, issued by an issuer to evidence its obligation to repay money borrowed, or to pay interest, by, or to pay at any future time other money obligations of, the issuer of the securities, but not including public obligations described in division (GG)(2) of this section. See Ohio Code 133.01
• Subdivision: means any of the following:

  (1) A county, including a county that has adopted a charter under Article X, Ohio Constitution;

  (2) A municipal corporation, including a municipal corporation that has adopted a charter under Article XVIII, Ohio Constitution;

  (3) A school district;

  (4) A regional water and sewer district organized under Chapter 6119 of the Revised Code;

  (5) A joint township hospital district organized under section 513. See Ohio Code 133.01

• Taxing authority: means in the case of the following subdivisions:

  (1) A county, a county library district, or a regional library district, the board or boards of county commissioners, or other legislative authority of a county that has adopted a charter under Article X, Ohio Constitution, but with respect to such a library district acting solely as agent for the board of trustees of that district;

  (2) A municipal corporation, the legislative authority;

  (3) A school district, the board of education;

  (4) A regional water and sewer district, a joint ambulance district, a joint recreation district, a fire and ambulance district, or a joint fire district, the board of trustees of the district;

  (5) A joint township hospital district, the joint township hospital board;

  (6) A detention facility district or a district organized under section 2151. See Ohio Code 133.01

• Year: means the calendar year. See Ohio Code 133.01