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2018 Idaho Statutes
Title 57 - PUBLIC FUNDS IN GENERAL
Chapter 9 - PUBLIC OBLIGATIONS REGISTRATION ACT
Section 57-902 - DEFINITIONS.
Universal Citation: ID Code § 57-902 (2018)
57-902. DEFINITIONS. As used in this chapter:
(1) "Authorized officer" means any individual required or permitted, alone or with others by any provision of law or by an issuing public entity to execute a certificated registered public obligation or any writing relating to an uncertificated registered public obligation.
(2) "Certificated registered public obligation" means a registered public obligation which is represented by an instrument.
(3) "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended.
(4) "Facsimile seal" means the reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping, or other means of the seal of the issuer, official or official body.
(5) "Facsimile signature" means the reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping, or other means of a manual signature.
(6) "Financial intermediary" means a bank, broker, clearing corporation or other person, or the nominee of any of them, which in the ordinary course of its business maintains registered public obligation accounts for its customers, when so acting.
(7) "Issuer" means a public entity which issues an obligation.
(8) "Obligation" means an agreement of a public entity to pay principal and any interest thereon, whether in the form of a contract to repay borrowed money, a lease, an installment purchase agreement, or otherwise, and includes a share, participation, or other interest in any such agreement.
(9) "Official actions" mean the actions by statute, order, ordinance, resolution, contract, or other authorized means by which an issuer provides for issuance of a registered public obligation.
(10) "Official or official body" means an officer or board that is empowered under the laws of one or more states including this state to provide for original issuance of an obligation of the issuer, by defining the obligation and its terms, conditions and other incidents, the successor or successors of any such official or official body, and such other person or group of persons as shall be assigned duties of such official or official body with respect to a registered public obligation under applicable law from time to time.
(11) "Public entity" means any entity, department, or agency which is empowered under the laws of one or more states, territories, possessions of the United States or the District of Columbia, including this state, to issue obligations any interest with respect to which may, under any provision of law, be provided an exemption from the income tax referred to in the code. The term "public entity" may thus include this state, a political subdivision, a municipal corporation, a state university or college, a school or other special district, a joint agreement entity, a public authority, a public trust, a nonprofit corporation, and other organizations.
(12) "Registered public obligation" means an obligation issued by a public entity which is issued pursuant to a system of registration.
(13) "System of registration" and its variants means a plan that provides:
(a) With respect to a certificated registered public obligation, that (i) the certificated registered public obligation specify a person entitled to the registered public obligation and the rights it represents, and (ii) transfer of the certificated registered public obligation and the rights it represents may be registered upon books maintained for that purpose by or on behalf of the issuer; and
(b) With respect to an uncertificated registered public obligation, that (i) books be maintained by or on behalf of the issuer for the purpose of registration of the transfer of a registered public obligation that specify the person entitled to the public obligation and the rights evidenced thereby, and (ii) the transfer of the uncertificated registered public obligation and the rights evidenced thereby be registered upon such books.
(14) "Uncertificated registered public obligation" means a registered public obligation which is not represented by an instrument.
History:
[57-902, added 1983, ch. 98, sec. 1, p. 211.]
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