3.__Consent of county.__"Consent of county" means a vote taken pursuant to section 122.

4.__Director.__"Director" and "board of directors" means the directors of the jail authority.

5.__Jail facility.__"Jail facility" or "jail" means any land area, structure, location or equipment, or combination of them, used for the confinement of prisoners.

6.__Municipality.__"Municipality" means a city or town.

7.__Municipal officers.__"Municipal officers" means the municipal officers or councillors of a town or the mayor and municipal officers or councillors of a city.

8.__Operating and governance agreement.__"Operating and governance agreement" means the documents that set the terms of the jail authority operations and structure for governance.

9.__Revenues.__"Revenues" means the proceeds of bonds, all revenues, rates, tolls, assessments, rents, transportation charges, reimbursement from the State, including community corrections money, boarding fees and inmate-related medical reimbursements, and other charges and receipts derived by the jail authority from the operation of a multicounty jail, including, but not limited to, investment earnings and the proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sale or other disposition of properties, and must include proceeds from assessments when the power of assessment has been granted to the jail authority under sections 1952 and 1953.

§1803.__Relationship to other laws

This chapter provides an alternative method for carrying out the purposes of this chapter and is supplemental to powers conferred by other laws, and is not in derogation of any existing powers.

§1804.__Exemption from taxation

1.__Exemption.__The property, both real and personal, rights and franchises of the jail authority formed under this chapter are exempt from taxation.