(20 ILCS 3501/820-10)
Sec. 820-10. Definitions. The following words or terms, whenever used or
referred to in
this Article, shall have the following
meanings ascribed to them, except where the context clearly requires otherwise:
(a) "Department" means the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic
Opportunity.
(b) "Unit of local government" means any unit of local government, as
defined
in Article VII, Section 1 of the 1970 State Constitution and any local public
entity as that term is defined by the Local Governmental and Governmental
Employees Tort Immunity Act and also includes the State and any
instrumentality,
office, officer, department, division, bureau, commission, college or
university
thereof.
(c) "Energy conservation project" means any improvement, repair, alteration
or
betterment of any building or facility or any equipment, including but not limited to an Energy Efficiency Project, as defined in item (iii) of subsection (b) of Section 825-65, in connection with any school district or community college district project, and any fixture or furnishing
including its energy using mechanical devices to be added to or used in any
building or facility that the Director of the Department has certified to the
Authority will be a cost-effective energy-related project that will lower
energy
or utility costs in connection with the operation or maintenance of such
building or facility, and will achieve energy cost savings sufficient to cover
bond debt service and other project costs within 10 years from the date of
project installation.
(Source: P.A. 97-760, eff. 7-6-12.)
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