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160.84 DEFINITIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Scope. The terms used in sections 160.84 to 160.92 have the meanings
given them in this section and section 160.02.
    Subd. 2. BOT facility. "BOT facility" means a build-operate-transfer toll facility developed,
financed, designed, constructed, improved, rehabilitated, and operated by a private operator
who holds title to the facility subject to a development agreement providing that title will be
transferred to the road authority on expiration of an agreed term.
    Subd. 3. BTO facility. "BTO facility" means a build-transfer-operate toll facility developed,
financed, designed, constructed, improved, or rehabilitated by a private operator who: (1) transfers
any interest it may have in the toll facility to the road authority before operation begins; and
(2) operates the toll facility for an agreed term under a lease, management, or toll concession
agreement.
    Subd. 4. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Minnesota
Department of Transportation.
    Subd. 5. Development agreement. "Development agreement" means a written agreement
between a road authority and a private operator that provides for the development, financing,
design, construction, improvement, rehabilitation, ownership, and operation of a toll facility.
    Subd. 6. Metropolitan area. "Metropolitan area" has the meaning given it in section
473.121, subdivision 2.
    Subd. 7. Private operator. "Private operator" means an individual, corporation, partnership,
cooperative or unincorporated association, joint venture, or consortium that develops, finances,
designs, constructs, improves, rehabilitates, owns, or operates a toll facility subject to sections
160.84 to 160.92.
    Subd. 8. Road authority. "Road authority" has the meaning given it in section 160.02,
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, and also refers to a joint powers authority formed under section 160.91.
    Subd. 9. Toll facility. "Toll facility" means a bridge, causeway, or tunnel, and its approaches;
a road, street, or highway; an appurtenant building, structure, or other improvement; land lying
within applicable rights-of-way; and other appurtenant rights or hereditaments that together
comprise a project for which a road authority or private operator is authorized to develop, finance,
design, operate, and impose tolls under sections 160.84 to 160.92.
History: 1993 c 211 s 1

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