90011
. (a) The following terms wherever used or referred to in this
article, or in any indenture entered into pursuant to this article,
shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless a different
meaning appears from the context:
(1) "Board" means the Trustees of the California State University.
(2) "Bonds" or "revenue bonds" means the written evidence of any
obligation, other than revenue bond anticipation notes, issued by the
board, payment of which is secured by a pledge of revenues or any
part of revenues, as provided in this article, in order to obtain
funds with which to carry out the purposes of this article,
irrespective of the form of the obligations.
(3) The "holder of bonds" or "bondholder" or any similar term
means any person who shall be the bearer of any outstanding revenue
bond or bond registered to bearer or not registered or the registered
owner of any outstanding revenue bond or bond that shall at the time
be registered other than to the bearer.
(4) "Indenture" means an agreement entered into by the board
pursuant to which revenue bonds are issued, regardless of whether the
agreement is expressed in the form of a resolution of the board or
by other instrument.
(5) "Notes" and "revenue bond anticipation notes" mean the written
evidence of any obligation, including commercial paper notes, issued
by the board, pursuant to Section 90013, in anticipation of the sale
of revenue bonds, for the purpose of obtaining funds to carry out
the purposes of this article.
(6) "Person" includes any individual, firm, corporation,
association, copartnership, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee,
or conservator for any thereof, but does not include this state or
any public corporation, political subdivision, city, county,
district, or any agency thereof or of this state.
(7) "Project" means any one or more dormitories or other housing
facilities, boarding facilities, student union or activity
facilities, vehicle parking facilities, alternative transportation
programs, or any other auxiliary or supplementary facilities for
individual or group accommodation, owned or operated or authorized to
be acquired, constructed, furnished, equipped, and operated by the
board for use by students, faculty members, or other employees of any
one or more campuses of the California State University, or a
combination of those facilities, which may include facilities already
completed and facilities authorized for future completion, or any
other facilities designated by the board as a project in providing
for the issuance of revenue bonds or notes.
(8) "Revenues" mean and include any and all fees, rates, rentals,
and other charges received or receivable in connection with, and any
and all other incomes and receipts of whatever kind and character
derived by, the board from the operation of, or arising from, a
project, including any revenue that may have been, or may be,
impounded or deposited in any fund in the State Treasury created by
this article or in any other fund or account pursuant to law for the
security of any notes or bonds issued hereunder, or for the purpose
of providing for the payment thereof, or the interest thereon.
(9) "State university" and "campus of the California State
University" means any of the institutions included within the
California State University, as listed in Section 89001.
(b) As used in this article:
(1) The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the
future tense includes the present tense.
(2) The masculine gender includes the feminine and neuter.
(3) The singular number includes the plural, and the plural
includes the singular.
(4) "Shall" is mandatory, and "may" is permissive.