Terms Used In Ohio Code 133.33

• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fiscal officer: means the following, or, in the case of absence or vacancy in the office, a deputy or assistant authorized by law or charter to act in the place of the named officer, or if there is no such authorization then the deputy or assistant authorized by legislation to act in the place of the named officer for purposes of this chapter, in the case of the following subdivisions:

  (1) A county, the county auditor;

  (2) A municipal corporation, the city auditor or village clerk or clerk-treasurer, or the officer who, by virtue of a charter, has the duties and functions provided in the Revised Code for the city auditor or village clerk or clerk-treasurer;

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

  (4) A regional water and sewer district, the secretary of the board of trustees;

  (5) A joint township hospital district, the treasurer of the district;

  (6) A joint ambulance district, the clerk of the board of trustees;

  (7) A joint recreation district, the person designated pursuant to section 755. See Ohio Code 133.01

• Fractionalized interests in public obligations: means participations, certificates of participation, shares, or other instruments or agreements, separate from the public obligations themselves, evidencing ownership of interests in public obligations or of rights to receive payments of, or on account of, principal or interest or their equivalents payable by or on behalf of an obligor pursuant to public obligations. See Ohio Code 133.01
• General obligation: means securities to the payment of debt charges on which the full faith and credit and the general property taxing power, including taxes within the tax limitation if available to the subdivision, of the subdivision are pledged. See Ohio Code 133.01
• Issuer: means any public issuer and any nonprofit corporation authorized to issue securities for or on behalf of any public issuer. See Ohio Code 133.01
• Legislation: means an ordinance or resolution passed by a majority affirmative vote of the then members of the taxing authority unless a different vote is required by charter provisions governing the passage of the particular legislation by the taxing authority. See Ohio Code 133.01
• net indebtedness: means , as determined pursuant to this section, the principal amount of the outstanding securities of a subdivision less the amount held in a bond retirement fund to the extent such amount is not taken into account in determining the principal amount outstanding under division (AA) of section 133. See Ohio Code 133.04
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Proceedings: means the legislation, certifications, notices, orders, sale proceedings, trust agreement or indenture, mortgage, lease, lease-purchase agreement, assignment, credit enhancement facility agreements, and other agreements, instruments, and documents, as amended and supplemented, and any election proceedings, authorizing, or providing for the terms and conditions applicable to, or providing for the security or sale or award of, public obligations, and includes the provisions set forth or incorporated in those public obligations and proceedings. See Ohio Code 133.01
• Public issuer: means any of the following that is authorized by law to issue securities or enter into public obligations:

  (1) The state, including an agency, commission, officer, institution, board, authority, or other instrumentality of the state;

  (2) A taxing authority, subdivision, district, or other local public or governmental entity, and any combination or consortium, or public division, district, commission, authority, department, board, officer, or institution, thereof;

  (3) Any other body corporate and politic, or other public entity. See Ohio Code 133.01

• Public obligations: means both of the following:

  (1) Securities;

  (2) Obligations of a public issuer to make payments under installment sale, lease, lease purchase, or similar agreements, which obligations may bear interest or interest equivalent. See Ohio Code 133.01

• 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

• Tax valuation: means the aggregate of the valuations of property subject to ad valorem property taxation by the subdivision on the real property, personal property, and public utility property tax lists and duplicates most recently certified for collection, and shall be calculated without deductions of the valuations of otherwise taxable property exempt in whole or in part from taxation by reason of exemptions of certain amounts of taxable value under division (C) of section 5709. 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

• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.