4.10.040 Definitions

As used in this Act:

"Electric facility" means all personal property and real property used or capable of being used to transmit or distribute electrical power or energy.

"kV" means kilovolts or 1,000 volts

"Person" includes a natural individual, partnership, corporation, association, other legal or fiduciary entity, and a public entity;

"Personal property" means all goods, wares, merchandise, chattels, and effects, of any nature or description, having any real or marketable value, and not included in the term "real property."

"Reservation" means all land within the exterior boundaries of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation established under the authority of the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe.

"Real property" means land as well as all structures and other improvements thereon, and all fixtures and rights and privileges appertaining thereto.

"Service lines" means a line that branches off from facilities for which a Right-of-Way must be obtained. A service line is a utility line running from a main line, transmission line, or distribution line that is used only for supplying telephone, water, electricity, gas, internet service, or other utility service to a house, business, or other structure. In the case of an electric facility, a service line is limited to a voltage of 14.5 kv or less, or a voltage of 34.5 kv or less if serving irrigation pumps and commercial and industrial uses.

"Tribal Court" means the Bad River Band Tribal Court, including the Tribe's court of appeals.

"Tribal instrumentality" means any housing authority, utility, corporation, partnership or other entity that is owned whether in whole or in part by the Tribe and whose board of directors or other managers includes at least one director or manager that is appointed, directly or indirectly, by the Tribal Council. An entity's directors or managers are indirectly appointed by the Tribal Council if the entity is within a hierarchy of affiliated or subsidiary entities whose management is ultimately subject to the Tribal Council's appointment and removal authority.

"Tribe" means the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.