KRS 441.605: Definitions.

As used in KRS 441.610 to 441.695, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Agreement" means a written contract between the authority and any person, firm,

corporation, local government, or public entity providing for the construction,

reconstruction, improvement or repair and financing of one (1) or more projects of

the authority;

(2) "Authority" means the Kentucky Local Correctional Facilities Construction

Authority, a body corporate and politic, and an agency and instrumentality of the

Commonwealth of Kentucky created by KRS 441.615;

(3) "Bonds" mean revenue bonds, notes or other obligations issued under the provisions

of KRS 441.625;

(4) "Cost" means the expenditures for construction, acquisition, financing charges,

interest prior to and during constr uction, principal and interest on any bonds or

notes or obligations issued by the authority, engineering and legal expenses, plans,

specifications, cost and revenue estimates, other expenses necessary or incidental to

determining the feasibility or practic ability of constructing any project,

administrative expenses, and such other expenses necessary or incident to the

construction of and placing into operation a project, the financing of such

construction and the acquisition of the project;

(5) "Lease" mean s a written lease executed by the authority as lessor and any local

government as lessee;

(6) "Project" means any undertaking to construct, reconstruct, improve, or repair any

jail or appurtenant facilities thereof for any county or urban -county government ,

together with all property, rights, easements and interests which may be acquired by

the authority for the construction, reconstruction or repair of any jail or appurtenant

facilities; or any undertaking by the authority to finance or refinance, under th e

provisions of KRS 441.625, the cost of construction or reconstruction of any jail of

any county or urban -county government completed and approved by the legislative

body thereof since January 1, 1982, provided that such construction or

reconstruction is in compliance, at the time such financing or refinancing is

approved, with specifications, standards and requirements which are established by

the authority to be made applicable to any undertaking by the authority pursuant to

KRS 441.625 to 441.695 on or after July 15, 1983;

(7) "Jail" means any county jail and correctional or detention facilities, including

correctional facilities defined in KRS 67B.020 and juvenile detention facilities,

operated by and under the supervision of any county or urban-county government;

(8) "Local government" means any county or urban-county government.