Sec. 2-10. Definitions.
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Sec. 2-10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Agreement" means a public-private agreement.
"Airport" means a facility for all types of air service, including, without limitation, landing fields, taxiways, aprons, runways, runway clear areas, heliports, hangars, aircraft service facilities, approaches, navigational aids, air traffic control facilities, terminals, inspection facilities, security facilities, parking, internal transit facilities, fueling facilities, cargo handling facilities, concessions, rapid transit and roadway access, land and interests in land, public waters, submerged land under public waters and reclaimed land located on previously submerged land under public waters, and all other property and appurtenances necessary or useful for development, ownership, and operation of any such facilities.
"Airport" includes commercial or industrial facilities related to the functioning of the airport or to providing services to users of the airport.
"Cargo-oriented development" means the development of places that are both multimodal nodes of freight transportation and centers of employment in logistics and manufacturing businesses.
"Contractor" means a person that has been selected to enter or has entered into a public-private agreement with the Department on behalf of the State for the development, financing, construction, management, or operation of the South Suburban Airport under this Act.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Transportation.
"Inaugural airport" means all airport facilities, equipment, property, and appurtenances necessary or useful to the development and operation of the South Suburban Airport that are constructed, developed, installed, or acquired as of the commencement of public operations of the South Suburban Airport.
"Inaugural airport boundary" means the property limits of the inaugural airport as determined by the Department, as may be adjusted and reconfigured from time to time.
"Maintain" or "maintenance" includes ordinary maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, capital maintenance, maintenance replacement, and any other categories of maintenance that may be designated by the Department.
"Metropolitan planning organization" means a metropolitan planning organization designated under 23 U.S.C. Section 134.
"Offeror" means a person that responds to a request for proposals under this Act.
"Operate" or "operation" means to do one or more of the following: maintain, improve, equip, modify, or otherwise operate.
"Person" means any individual, firm, association, joint venture, partnership, estate, trust, syndicate, fiduciary, corporation, or any other legal entity, group, or combination thereof.
"Public-private agreement" means an agreement or contract between the Department on behalf of the State and all schedules, exhibits, and attachments thereto, entered into pursuant to a competitive request for proposals process governed by this Act, for the development, financing, construction, management, or operation of the South Suburban Airport under this Act.
"Revenues" means all revenues, including any combination of, but not limited to: income; user fees; earnings; interest; lease payments; allocations; moneys from the federal government, the State, and units of local government, including but not limited to federal, State, and local appropriations, grants, loans, lines of credit, and credit guarantees; bond proceeds; equity investments; service payments; or other receipts arising out of or in connection with the financing, development, construction, management, or operation of the South Suburban Airport.
"State" means the State of Illinois.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation.
"South Suburban Airport" means the airport to be developed on a site located in Will County and approved by the Federal Aviation Administration in the Record of Decision for Tier 1: FAA Site Approval And Land Acquisition By The State Of Illinois, Proposed South Suburban Airport, Will County, Illinois, dated July 2002, and all property within the inaugural airport boundary and the ultimate airport boundary.
"Ultimate airport boundary" means the development and property limits of the South Suburban Airport beyond the inaugural airport boundary as determined by the Department, as may be adjusted and reconfigured from time to time.
"Unit of local government" has the meaning ascribed to that term in Article VII, Section 1 of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, and, for purposes of this Act, includes school districts.
"User fees" means the rates, fees, or other charges imposed by the State or the contractor for use of all or a portion of the South Suburban Airport under a public-private agreement.