(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.)