(70 ILCS 520/3) (from Ch. 85, par. 6153)
Sec. 3. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this
Act, shall have the following meanings, except in such instances where the
context may clearly indicate otherwise:
(a) "Authority" means the Southwestern Illinois Development Authority
created by this Act.
(a-5) "Authority leader" means the Executive Director, Assistant Executive Director, or any other person serving in a management, administrative, or leadership role at the Authority. (b) "Governmental agency" means any federal, State or local governmental
body, and any agency or instrumentality thereof, corporate or otherwise.
(c) "Person" means any natural person, firm, partnership, corporation,
both domestic and foreign, company, association or joint stock association
and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee or personal representative thereof.
(c-5) "Restricted person" means a person who has a familial or business relationship with an Authority leader. (d) "Revenue bond" means any bond issued by the Authority the principal
and interest of which is payable solely from revenues or income
derived from any project or activity of the Authority.
(e) "Board" means the Southwestern Illinois Development Authority Board of Directors.
(f) "Governor" means the Governor of the State of Illinois.
(g) "City" means any city, village, incorporated town or township
within the geographical territory of the Authority.
(h) "Industrial project" means (1) a capital project, including one or
more buildings and other structures, improvements, machinery and equipment
whether or not on the same site or sites now existing or hereafter
acquired, suitable for use by any manufacturing, industrial, research,
transportation or commercial enterprise including but not limited to use
as a factory, mill, processing plant, assembly plant, packaging plant,
fabricating plant, office building, industrial distribution center,
warehouse, repair, overhaul or service facility, freight terminal, research
facility, test facility, railroad facility, solid waste and wastewater
treatment and disposal sites and other pollution control facilities,
resource or waste reduction, recovery, treatment and disposal facilities,
and including also the sites thereof and other rights in land therefor
whether improved or unimproved, site preparation and landscaping and all
appurtenances and facilities incidental thereto such as utilities, access
roads, railroad sidings, truck docking and similar facilities, parking
facilities, dockage, wharfage, railroad roadbed, track, trestle, depot,
terminal, switching and signaling equipment or related equipment and other
improvements necessary or convenient thereto; or (2) any land, buildings,
machinery or equipment comprising an addition to or renovation,
rehabilitation or improvement of any existing capital project.
(i) "Housing project" or "residential project" includes a specific work
or improvement undertaken to provide dwelling accommodations, including the
acquisition, construction or rehabilitation of lands, buildings and
community facilities and in connection therewith to provide nonhousing
facilities which are an integral part of a planned large-scale project or new community.
(j) "Commercial project" means any project, including but not limited to
one or more buildings and other structures, improvements, machinery and
equipment whether or not on the same site or sites now existing or
hereafter acquired, suitable for use by any retail or wholesale concern,
distributorship or agency, any cultural facilities of a for-profit or
not-for-profit type including but not limited to educational, theatrical,
recreational and
entertainment, sports facilities, racetracks, stadiums, convention centers,
exhibition halls, arenas, opera houses and theaters, waterfront
improvements, swimming pools, boat storage, moorage, docking facilities,
restaurants, velodromes, coliseums, sports training facilities,
parking facilities, terminals, hotels and motels, gymnasiums, medical
facilities and port facilities.
(k) "Unit of local government" means a unit of local government, as
defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, and any
local public entity as that term is defined in the Local Governmental and
Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act
and such unit of local government or local public entity is located
within the geographical territory of the Authority or, for the purposes of the Flood Prevention District Act, is located within Monroe County, Illinois.
(l) "Local government project" means a project or other undertaking that
is authorized or required by law to be acquired, constructed,
reconstructed, equipped, improved, rehabilitated, replaced, maintained, or
otherwise undertaken in any manner by a unit of local government.
(m) "Local government security" means a bond, note, or other evidence of
indebtedness that a unit of local government is legally authorized to issue
for the purpose of financing a public purpose project or to issue for any
other lawful public purpose under any provision of the Illinois
Constitution or laws of this State, whether the obligation is payable from
taxes or revenues, rates, charges, assessments, appropriations, grants, or
any other lawful source or combination thereof, and specifically includes,
without limitation, obligations under any lease or lease purchase agreement
lawfully entered into by the unit of local
government for the acquisition or use of facilities or equipment.
(n) "Project" means an industrial, housing, residential,
commercial, local government, or
service project or any combination thereof provided that all uses shall
fall within one of the categories described above. Any project, of any
nature whatsoever, shall automatically include all site improvements and
new construction involving sidewalks, sewers, solid waste and wastewater
treatment and disposal sites and other pollution control facilities,
resource or waste reduction, recovery, treatment and disposal facilities,
parks, open spaces, wildlife sanctuaries, streets, highways and runways.
(o) "Lease agreement" shall mean an agreement whereby
a project acquired
by the Authority by purchase, gift or lease is leased to any person or
corporation which will use or cause the project to be used as a project as
heretofore defined upon terms providing for lease rental payments at least
sufficient to pay when due all principal of and interest and premium, if any,
on any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the Authority
issued with respect to such project, providing for the maintenance,
insurance and operation of the project on terms satisfactory to the
Authority and providing for disposition of the project upon termination of
the lease term, including purchase options or abandonment of the premises,
with such other terms as may be deemed desirable by the Authority.
(p) "Loan agreement" means any agreement pursuant to which the Authority
agrees to loan the proceeds of its bonds, notes or other evidences of
indebtedness issued with respect to a project to any person or corporation
which will use or cause the project to be used as a project as heretofore
defined upon terms providing for loan repayment installments at least
sufficient to pay when due all principal of and interest and premium, if any,
on any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness of the Authority
issued with respect to the project, providing for maintenance,
insurance and operation of the project on terms satisfactory to the
Authority and providing for other matters as may be deemed advisable by the Authority.
(q) "Financial aid" means the expenditure of Authority funds or funds
provided by the Authority through the issuance of its revenue bonds, notes
or other evidences of indebtedness for the development, construction,
acquisition or improvement of a project.
(r) "Costs incurred in connection with the development, construction,
acquisition or improvement of a project" means the following: the cost of
purchase and construction of all lands and improvements in connection
therewith and equipment and other property, rights, easements and franchises
acquired which are deemed necessary for such construction; financing
charges; interest costs with respect to bonds, notes and other evidences of
indebtedness of the Authority prior to and during construction and for a
period of 6 months thereafter; engineering and legal expenses; the costs of plans,
specifications, surveys and estimates of costs and other expenses necessary or
incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of any project,
together with such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the
financing, insuring, acquisition and construction of a specific project and
the placing of the same in operation.
(s) "Terminal" means a public place, station or depot for receiving and
delivering passengers, baggage, mail, freight or express matter and any
combination thereof in connection with the transportation of
persons and property on water or land or in the air.
(t) "Terminal facilities" means all land, buildings, structures,
improvements, equipment and appliances useful in the operation of public
warehouse, storage and transportation facilities and industrial,
manufacturing or commercial activities for the accommodation of or in
connection with commerce by water or land or in the air or useful as an
aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience to, the safe landing,
taking off and navigation of aircraft or the safe and efficient operation
or maintenance of a public airport.
(u) "Port facilities" means all public structures, except terminal
facilities as defined herein, that are in, over, under or adjacent to
navigable waters and are necessary for or incident to the furtherance of
water commerce and includes the widening and deepening of slips, harbors
and navigable waters.
(v) "Airport" means any locality, either land or water, which is used or
designed for the landing and taking off of aircraft or for the location of
runways, landing fields, aerodromes, hangars, buildings, structures,
airport roadways and other facilities.
(Source: P.A. 103-517, eff. 8-11-23.)
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