Title VI COUNTY, TOWNSHIP AND POLITICAL SUBDIVISION GOVERNMENT Chapter 70 • Effective - 28 Aug 1941 70.120. Definitions. — The following definitions shall be applied to the terms used in sections 70.120 to 70.200: (1) 'Agreement' shall mean 'contract' and shall include renewals and alterations of a contract; (2) 'Governing body' shall mean the board, body, or persons in which the powers of a political subdivision as a body corporate, or otherwise, are vested; (3) 'Political subdivision' shall mean any agency or unit of this state which now is, or hereafter shall be, authorized to levy taxes or empowered to cause taxes to be levied; (4) 'Project' shall mean any resettlement project or rural rehabilitation project for resettlement purposes of the United States located within a political subdivision, and shall include the persons inhabiting such projects; (5) 'Services' shall mean such public and municipal functions as are performed for property in, and for persons residing within, a political subdivision. -------- (L. 1941 p. 490 § 1)
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