§ 15-9-202 — Definitions

Wyoming § 15-9-202

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 15: Cities and Towns
• Ch. 9: URBAN RENEWAL
• Art. 2: DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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(a) As used in this article, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(i) "Authority" means a downtown development
authority created pursuant to the provisions of this article in
any municipality of this state and any successor to its
functions, authority, rights and obligations;
(ii) "Blighted area" means an area within the central
business district which, by reason of the presence of a
substantial number of deteriorated or deteriorating structures,
predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty
lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility,
usefulness, or unsanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of
site or other improvements, unusual topography, defective or
unusual conditions of title rendering the title nonmarketable,
or the existence of conditions which endanger life or property
by fire and other causes, or any combination of such factors,
substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the central
business district, retards the provision of housing
accommodations, or constitutes an economic or social liability
and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals or welfare
in its present condition and use;
(iii) "Board" means the board of the authority or the
governing body when acting as the authority pursuant to W.S.
15-9-203;
(iv) "Central business district" means the area in a
municipality which is and traditionally has been the location of
the principal business, commercial, financial, service and
governmental center, zoned or used accordingly;
(v) "Development project" or "project" means
undertakings and activities of an authority or municipality as
authorized in this article in a designated area for the
development or redevelopment of the area in accordance with a
plan of development and includes:
(A) The planning or management of development or
improvement activities;
(B) Landscaping or other maintenance of public
areas;
(C) Promotion of public events;
(D) Activities in support of business
recruitment and development;
(E) Any other economic improvement activity for
which an assessment may be made on property specially benefited
thereby.
(vi) "Director" means the chief executive officer of
the authority;
(vii) "District" means the authority or the area
within which the authority may exercise its powers;
(viii) "Downtown" means a specifically defined area
of the municipality in the central business district,
established by the governing body of the municipality pursuant
to this article;
(ix) "Governing body" means the city council, town
council or other governing board of any municipality of this
state;
(x) "Landowner" means the owner in fee of any
undivided interest in real property or any improvement
permanently affixed thereto within the district. As used in this
article, "owner in fee" includes a contract purchaser obligated
to pay general taxes, an heir or a devisee under a will admitted
to probate and does not include a contract seller of property
with respect to which the contract purchaser is deemed to be the
owner in fee for purposes of this paragraph;
(xi) "Lessee" means the holder of a leasehold
interest in real property within the district. As used in this
article, "leasehold interest" does not include a license or mere
contract right to use real property within the district;
(xii) "Municipal sales tax" means revenues
distributed to the municipalities from the state of Wyoming from
the state sales tax as provided in W.S. 39-15-111, and includes
the share distributed to a municipality from any tax collected
under the provisions of W.S. 39-15-203;
(xiii) "Plan of development" means a plan, as it
exists from time to time, for the development or redevelopment
of a downtown development area, including all properly approved
amendments thereto;
(xiv) "Plan of development area" or "development
area" means an area in the central business district which the
board and the governing body designate as appropriate for a
development project;
(xv) "Planning board" means the agency designated by
the governing body of the municipality which is chiefly
responsible for planning in the municipality and, if no separate
agency exists, "planning board" means the governing body of the
municipality;
(xvi) "Property tax" means the revenue derived from
the eight (8) mill tax authorized by Article 15, Section 6 of
the Wyoming Constitution;
(xvii) "Public body" means the state of Wyoming or
any municipality, quasi-municipal corporation, board,
commission, authority or other political subdivision or public
corporate body of the state;
(xviii) "Public facility" includes but is not limited
to any streets, parks, plazas, parking facilities, playgrounds,
pedestrian malls, rights-of-way, structures, waterways, bridges,
lakes, ponds, canals, utility lines or pipes, and buildings,
including access routes to any of the foregoing, designed for
use by the public generally or used by any public agency with or
without charge, whether or not the same is revenue-producing;
(xix) "Qualified elector" means a resident as defined
in this section;
(xx) "Resident" means one who is a citizen of the
United States and a resident of Wyoming, eighteen (18) years of
age or older, who makes his residence within the municipality.