As Amended
SEC. 49-17-305. Definitions.
Whenever used in sections 49-17-301 through 49-17-353, the following words and terms shall have the following respective meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
(a) "Act" means this Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Wastewater Authority Act, as the same may be amended.
(b) "Authority" means the Mississippi Gulf Coast Regional Wastewater Authority.
(c) "Bonds" means any bonds, interim certificates, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the authority issued under 49-17-301 through 49-17-353.
(d) "Collection facilities" means any plants, structures, facilities and other real and personal property used or useful in the collection of wastewater for ultimate discharge into trunk lines, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, sewers, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations, plants and works, connections and any other real and personal property and rights therein necessary or useful or convenient for the purposes of the authority in connection therewith.
(e) "County" or "counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico" means Hancock, Harrison or Jackson County.
(f) "Persons" means a natural person, public agency, state or other agency or institution thereof, any municipality, political subdivision, cooperative or public or private corporation, partnership, association or other entity of any nature whatsoever organized and existing under the laws of any state or of the United States or any instrumentality thereof, and includes any officer or governing or managing body of any municipality, political subdivision, or public or private corporation.
(g) "Pollution" means such contamination, or other alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties, of any waters of the state, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity or odor of the waters, or such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substance into any waters of the state as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life.
(h) "Public agency" means any incorporated city or town, county, political subdivision, governmental district or unit, public corporation or governmental agency created under the laws of the state, lying wholly or partially within the territorial boundaries of the counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico.
(i) "State" means the State of Mississippi.
(j) "Treatment facilities" means treatment plants and any related trunk lines.
(k) "Treatment plants" means any plants, structures, facilities and other real and personal property used or useful in the treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of wastewater, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing plants, disposal fields and lagoons and any other real and personal property and rights therein necessary or useful or convenient for the purposes of the authority in connection therewith.
(l) "Trunk lines" means trunk sewers and other structures and facilities used or useful in the conducting of wastewater from collection facilities to treatment plants, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations and any other real and personal property and rights therein necessary or useful or convenient for the purposes of the authority in connection therewith.
(m) "Wastewater" means water containing sewage, industrial wastes, oil field wastes and all other liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive or other substances which may pollute or tend to pollute any waters of the state.
SOURCES: Laws, 1980, ch. 521, Sec. 3, eff from and after passage (approved May 23, 1980).