KRS 175.650: Definitions for KRS 175.640 to 175.690.

As used in KRS 175.640 to 175.690, and as applied to the financing of resource recovery

roads by the Turnpike Authority of Kentucky, the following words and phrases shall have

the following respective meanings, unless another or different meaning or intent shall be

clearly indicated by the context.

(1) "Authority" shall mean the Turnpike Authority of Kentucky duly organized and

existing pursuant to the provisions of KRS 175.410 to 175.990, inclusive.

(2) "Bonds" or "resource recovery road revenue bonds" sha ll mean resource recovery

road revenue bonds of the authority issued under the provisions of KRS 175.640 to

175.690.

(3) "Cabinet" shall mean the Transportation Cabinet of Kentucky or, if said cabinet

shall be abolished, the cabinet, board, body, departmen t, or commission succeeding

to the principal functions thereof or to whom the powers vested in the cabinet shall

be given or transferred by law.

(4) "Resource recovery road project" or "project" shall mean any express highway or

superhighway, or such part or parts thereof, as may be constructed and financed

under the provisions of KRS 175.640 to 175.690 which shall be designed and

constructed to serve as a modern, heavy -duty motorway facility capable of carrying

in normal operations vehicles designed for th e transportation of coal severed and

produced in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, which road shall also be designed to

serve the traveling public, including all bridges, tunnels, overpasses, underpasses,

interchanges, entrance plazas, approaches, connecting highways, tollhouses (if any),

service stations, garages, restaurants, and administration, storage, or other buildings

and facilities which the authority may deem necessary for the operation of such

resource recovery road project, together with all property , rights, easements, and

interests which may be acquired by the authority or by the cabinet for the

construction or the operation of such project.

(5) All words and phrases which are defined and used in KRS 175.410 to 175.990,

inclusive, shall have the sam e meaning or meanings when used in KRS 175.640 to

175.690, except that the words and phrases "turnpike project" or "project" as used in

said identified sections shall mean and refer to resource recovery road projects

constructed and financed pursuant to KRS 175.640 to 175.690.