2015 Mississippi Code
Title 57 - PLANNING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Chapter 67 - MISSISSIPPI SUPERCONDUCTING SUPER COLLIDER ACT
§ 57-67-5 - Definitions

Words and phrases used in this chapter shall have meanings as follows, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

(a) "Act" means the Mississippi Superconducting Super Collider Act as originally enacted or as hereafter amended.

(b) "Authority" means the Mississippi Superconducting Super Collider Authority created pursuant to the chapter.

(c) "Bonds" means bonds, interim notes and other certificates of indebtedness of the authority issued pursuant to the provisions of Sections 57-67-19 through 57-67-31.

(d) "Facility related to the project" means and includes any of the following, as the same may pertain to the project:

(i) facilities to provide potable and industrial water supply systems (including cooling lakes) and sewage and waste disposal systems to the site of the project;

(ii) airports, airfields and air terminals;

(iii) rail lines;

(iv) port facilities on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway;

(v) highways, streets and other roadways;

(vi) public school buildings, classrooms and instructional facilities, including any functionally related facilities;

(vii) parks, outdoor recreation facilities and athletic facilities; and

(viii) auditoriums, pavilions, campgrounds, art centers, cultural centers, folklore centers and other public facilities.

(e) "Person" means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, fiduciary, governmental unit, public agency, political subdivision, or any other group acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular.

(f) "Project" means the superconducting super colliding particle beam accelerator, known as the Superconducting Super Collider, proposed to be constructed by the United States Department of Energy, as described in the Invitation for Proposals issued by said department, as now or hereafter supplemented or amended, together with all real property required for construction, maintenance and operation of the Superconducting Super Collider, and all buildings, tunneling and other supporting land and facilities required or useful for construction, maintenance and operation of the Superconducting Super Collider.

(g) "Project area" means the project site, together with any area or territory within the state lying within fifty (50) air miles from any portion of the project site to be conveyed to the Department of Energy, whether or not such area or territory be contiguous. "Project site" means the real property to be conveyed to the United States Department of Energy as set forth in the application to be filed with the Department of Energy by the authority.

(h) "Public agency" means and includes:

(i) the state and any department, board, commission, institution or other agency or instrumentality of the state, including but not limited to, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning and the State Board of Education;

(ii) any city, town, county, political subdivision, school district or other district created or existing under the laws of the state or any public agency of any such city, town, county, political subdivision or district;

(iii) any department, commission, agency or instrumentality of the United States of America; and

(iv) any other state of the United States of America which may be cooperating with respect to location of the project within the state, or any agency thereof.

(i) "State" means State of Mississippi.

(j) "State bonds" means general obligation bonds, notes or other evidences of the State of Mississippi issued under Section 57-67-15.