Illinois Administrative Code › Title 23 - EDUCATION AND CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 3200 - PUBLIC MUSEUM GRANTS PROGRAM › Subpart B - PUBLIC MUSEUM OPERATING GRANTS PROGRAM › Section 3200.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Attendance" means the documented number of visitors at the
				  public museum's facility or facilities for the preceding calendar year.
"Care" means the keeping of adequate records pertaining to
				  the provenance, identification and location of the museum's holdings, and the
				  application of current professionally accepted methods to their security and to
				  the minimization of damage and deterioration.
"Community" means the population base normally served by the
				  museum.
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Natural
				  Resources.
"Director" means the Director of the Department.
"Fiscal Agent" means an affiliated entity that may expend and
				  receive funds on behalf of the public museum. If grant funds are to be
				  distributed to a fiscal agent on behalf of the public museum, the chief
				  executive officer of the public museum must sign a statement certifying:
that there is an ongoing relationship between the public
				  museum and the fiscal agent;
that the fiscal agent may incur expenses for the public
				  museum's project; and
that grant funds will be used specifically for the public
				  museum's project.
"Museum Education Program" means utilizing the resources of
				  the museum for formal or informal learning opportunities for school children,
				  teachers, or other citizens through face to face interactions or through
				  educational technology, including educational technology partnerships. The
				  public museum shall have at least one employee who devotes the preponderance of
				  his/her time to offer "Museum Education Programs". This person is expected to
				  command an appropriate body of special knowledge in museum education consonant
				  with the experience of his or her peers, to have access to and acquaintance
				  with the literature of the field, and to work sufficient hours to meet
				  adequately the current demands for museum educational services.
"Nonprofit" means that the public museum has documentary
				  evidence of its tax-exempt status under the regulations of the U.S. Internal
				  Revenue Service.
"Operating Expenditures" means funds actually expended by a
				  public museum or its fiscal agent for the recurring day-to-day expenses that
				  are ordinary and necessary to maintain and operate the facility for its
				  principal purpose as a public museum. These expenditures shall include:
the total amount of program and supporting services expenses
				  (management and general) and fundraising expense that is reported on the
				  entity's audited financial statements;
depreciation expense for the buildings, movable equipment,
				  and other types of personal property; and
interest expenses on funds borrowed to finance operating
				  expenditures.
"Organized" means that the public museum is a duly
				  constituted body with expressed responsibilities.
"Permanent" means that the public museum has been open to the
				  public, for its instruction and enjoyment, for at least 2 years and is expected
				  to continue in perpetuity.
"Professional Staff" means that the public museum has at
				  least one paid employee who commands an appropriate body of special knowledge
				  and the ability to reach museological, zoological, aquarium, or botanical
				  (whichever shall be applicable) decisions consonant with the experience of his
				  or her peers, who has access to and acquaintance with the literature of the
				  field, and who works sufficient hours to meet adequately the current demands of
				  administration and care.
"Public Museum" means a facility that has been open to the
				  public, for its instruction and enjoyment, for at least two years and that is
				  operating for the purposes of promoting cultural development through special
				  activities or programs or performing arts, and acquiring, conserving,
				  preserving, studying, interpreting, enhancing, and, in particular, organizing
				  and continuously exhibiting (subject to temporary interruption due to
				  construction or catastrophe) specimens, artifacts, tangible objects, articles,
				  documents and other things of historical, anthropological, archaeological,
				  industrial, scientific or artistic import.
"Schedule" means regular and predictable hours that
				  constitute substantially more than a token opening, so that access is
				  reasonably convenient to the public (subject to temporary interruption due to
				  construction or catastrophe).
"Tangible Objects" means specimens, artifacts, articles,
				  documents; non-domesticated plants or animals, including fish; and other things
				  of historical, anthropological, archeological, industrial, scientific or
				  artistic import that form the public museum's collections and have intrinsic
				  value to history, science, art or culture.
"Unit of Local Government" means counties, municipalities,
				  townships, special districts and units, designated as units of local government
				  by Illinois law, that exercise limited governmental power or powers in respect
				  to limited governmental subjects, but does not include school
				  districts.