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. As used in this division, the following terms shall have the
following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates or requires
another or different meaning or intent:
(a) "Authority" shall mean the California Transportation Financing
Authority.
(b) "Bonds" shall mean bonds, notes, debentures, commercial paper,
or any other evidence of indebtedness, lease, installment, sale, or
certificate of participation thereon, issued by the authority or a
project sponsor pursuant to this division.
(c) "Commission" shall mean the California Transportation
Commission.
(d) "Cost," as applied to a project or portion of a project
financed under this division, shall mean and include all or any part
of the cost of construction and acquisition of all lands, structures,
real or personal property rights, rights-of-way, franchises,
easements, and interests acquired or used for a project, the cost of
demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so
acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which those
buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of all machinery and
equipment, financing charges, interest prior to, during, and for a
period not to exceed the later of one year or one year following
completion of construction, as determined by the authority, the cost
of insurance during construction, the cost of funding or financing
noncapital expenses, reserves for principal and interest and for
extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements, renovations, and
improvements, the cost of engineering, architectural, financial,
legal, and other necessary services, plans, specifications, studies,
surveys, estimates, administrative expenses, and other expenses of
funding or financing, that are necessary or incident to determining
the feasibility of any project, or that are incident to the
construction, rehabilitation, acquisition, or financing of any
project.
(e) "Department" shall mean the Department of Transportation.
(f) "Issuer" shall mean the authority when the authority is the
issuer of the bonds, and shall mean the project sponsor when the
authority has authorized the project sponsor to be the issuer of the
bonds.
(g) "Project" shall mean and include all or a portion of the
planning, design, development, finance, construction, reconstruction,
rehabilitation, improvement, acquisition, lease, operation, or
maintenance of highway, public street, rail, bus, or related
facilities supplemental to or improvements upon existing facilities
currently owned or operated by the department or other project
sponsor. A rail project may consist of, or include, rolling stock.
(h) "Project sponsor" shall mean either the department, a regional
transportation planning agency designated pursuant to Section 29532
or 29532.1, a county transportation commission as defined in Section
130050, 130050.1, or 130050.2 of the Public Utilities Code, any other
local or regional transportation entity that is designated by
statute as a regional transportation agency, or a joint exercise of
powers authority as defined in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
6500) of Division 7 of Title 1 or an agency designated pursuant to
Section 66531 to submit the county transportation plan, with the
consent of a transportation planning agency or a county
transportation commission for the jurisdiction in which the
transportation project will be developed.
(i) "Working capital" means moneys to be used by, or on behalf of,
a project sponsor to pay or prepay maintenance or operation expenses
or any other costs that would be treated as an expense item, under
generally accepted accounting principles, in connection with the
ownership or operation of a project, including, but not limited to,
reserves for maintenance or operation expenses, interest for a period
not to exceed one year on any loan for working capital made pursuant
to this division, and reserves for debt service with respect to, and
any costs necessary or incidental to, that financing.