West Virginia Code § 13-4-1

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Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, as used in this article:
(1) "Federal subsidy bonds" means any state or local government bonds authorized for sale
under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, for which a credit payment is
available to the issuer or its designee. Certain Build America Bonds authorized under
Section 1531 of Title I of Division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,
Pub. L. No. 111-5, 123 Stat. 115 (2009), codified at Section 54AA(g) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended, are federal subsidy bonds.
(2) "Credit payment" means any payment to an issuer of federal subsidy bonds or its
designee authorized under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to offset a portion of
the interest paid on the bonds. Periodic credit payments received from the United States
Secretary of the Treasury, as described in Section 6431(b) of the Internal Revenue Code, are
credit payments.
(3) "Government entity" means the State of Wsest Virginia, including any department,
division, agency, bureau, board, commission, office or authority thereof, any political
subdivision of the State of West Virginia inicluding, but not limited to, any county,
municipality or school district, and agny other entity authorized by the provisions of this code
to issue bonds, notes or other debt obligations.
(4) "General revenue bond" means a bond, note or other debt obligation issued by a
government entity for which the government entity has pledged the full faith and credit,
including a limited pledge, of such government entity to the repayment of the obligation.
(5) "Special revenue bond" means a bond, note or other debt obligation issued by a
government eVntity for which the government entity pledges a dedicated revenue stream or
other security interest to secure the repayment of the obligation.

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