Illinois Administrative Code › Title 14 - COMMERCE › Part 510 - ILLINOIS PROMOTION ACT PROGRAMS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROGRAM PROVISIONS › Section 510.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions are applicable to this Part:
"Act": means the Illinois Promotion Act [20 ILCS 665
				  ].
"Applicant": means an organization, unit of local government
				  or other eligible entity, as defined in Section
				  510.110,
				  510.210,
				  510.310 or
				  510.410, submitting a
				  written request for Program funds appropriated under the Act.
"Application": means a written request for grant funds
				  containing the required information and attachments.
"Convention Center Authority": means an Authority, as
				  defined by the Civic Center Code
[70 ILCS
				  200/2-5 ],
that operates a municipal
				  convention center with contiguous exhibition space ranging between 30,000 and
				  125,000 square feet.
[20 ILCS
				  665/3(h) ]
"Department": means the Department of Commerce and
				  Economic Opportunity of the State of Illinois
[20 ILCS
				  665/3(a) ].
"Director": means the Director of the Department of Commerce
				  and Economic Opportunity.
"Economic Impact": means the direct financial result of
				  visitor spending at a tourism destination, attraction or event.
"Eligible Project": means a project that is eligible for
				  funding as defined in Sections
				  510.120,
				  510.220,
				  and
				  510.320.
"Festival": means an organized series of public activities
				  for a specific duration that may include, but are not limited to, cultural
				  performances, exhibitions, fairs, or carnivals that may include music and the
				  service of food and beverages.
"Fiscal Year": means July 1 through June 30, the Fiscal Year
				  of the State of Illinois.
"Grant Agreement": means a written document executed between
				  the Grantee and the Department setting forth the obligations of the Parties,
				  describing the purpose of the grant, identifying the manner in which Grant
				  Funds will be paid and expended, specifying the grant terms during which Grant
				  Funds may be expended, and requiring unspent Grant Funds to be returned to the
				  State.
"Grant Amount" or "Grant Funds": means a monetary amount that
				  the Department shall award to a Grantee for its expenditure on an Eligible
				  Project.
"Grantee": means an organization, unit of local government or
				  other eligible entity, as defined in Section 510.110, 510.210 or 510.310,
				  eligible to receive Program funds appropriated under the Act.
"Incentive": means:
an incentive provided by a municipal convention
				  center or convention center authority for a convention, meeting, or trade show
				  held at a municipal convention center that, but for the incentive, would not
				  have occurred in the State or been retained in the State; or
an incentive provided by a unit of local government
				  for a sporting event held at a municipal amateur sports facility that, but for
				  the incentive, would not have occurred in the State or been retained in the
				  State.
[20 ILCS
				  665/3(i) ]
"Ineligible Project": means a project that is ineligible for
				  funding as defined in Sections 510.120, 510.220 and 510.320.
"In Kind Contribution": means noncash contributions necessary
				  to complete the Project for which the cash value is easily documented (i.e.,
				  donated labor, equipment, supplies and materials), and that are eligible grant
				  and match line-item expenditures identified in the budget of the Grant
				  Agreement.
"Local Promotion Group": means any non-profit
				  corporation, organization, association, agency or committee thereof formed for
				  the primary purpose of publicizing, promoting, advertising or otherwise
				  encouraging the development of tourism in any Municipality, county or region of
				  Illinois
. [20 ILCS
				  665/3(b) ]
"Matching Funds": means the portion of the Total Project Cost
				  that is provided by the Grantee. Matching Funds shall not be funds from other
				  Department funded grant programs or used to match any other grant, and are
				  necessary and irrevocably obligated to the Project.
"Municipal Amateur Sports Facility": means a sports
				  facility that:
is owned by a unit of local government;
has contiguous indoor sports competition
				  space;
is designed to principally accommodate and host
				  amateur competitions for youths, adults, or both; and
is not used for professional sporting events
for which
participants are compensated for their
				  participation.
[20 ILCS
				  665/3(f) ]
"Municipal Convention Center": means a convention
				  center or civic center owned by a unit of local government or operated by a
				  convention center authority, or a municipal convention hall as defined in
				  Section 11-65-1(1) of the Illinois Municipal Code
[65 ILCS 5
				  ]
, with contiguous exhibition space ranging between 30,000 and 125,000
				  square feet.
[20 ILCS
				  665/3(g) ]
"Municipality": means "Municipality" as defined in
				  Section 1-1-2(1) of the Illinois Municipal Code
. [20 ILCS
				  665/3(d) ]
"Office of Tourism": means the division of the Department
				  that has delegated authority to perform all administrative functions relating
				  to the Act.
"Private Sector": means any non-governmental entity.
"Program": means the Tourism Marketing Partnership Program,
				  Tourism Attraction Development Loan and Grant Program, or the Tourism Private
				  Sector Grant Program described in this Part.
"Project": means the activity or program of activities,
				  described by the Applicant in the Application and approved by the Department,
				  for which a grant is awarded.
"Promotional Activities" means:
preparing, planning and conducting campaigns of
				  information, advertising and publicity through such media as newspapers, radio,
				  television, magazines, trade journals, moving and still photography, posters,
				  outdoor signboards and personal contact within and without the State of
				  Illinois;
dissemination of information, advertising, publicity,
				  photographs and other literature and material designed to carry out the purpose
				  of
the
Act; and
participation in and attendance at meetings and
				  conventions concerned primarily with tourism, including travel to and from
				  those meetings.
[20 ILCS
				  665/3(c) ]
"Supporting Visitor Services": means accommodations,
				  restaurants, shopping, and recreational and cultural activities located within
				  a reasonable distance from the location of the Tourism Attraction, Tourism
				  Destination or Tourism Event being promoted.
"Total Project Cost": means all necessary and reasonable
				  costs related to the completion of the Project as identified in the budget of
				  the Grant Agreement.
"Tourism": means travel 50 miles or more one-way, or
				  an overnight trip outside of a person's normal routine.
[20 ILCS
				  665/3(e) ]
"Tourism Attraction": means fishing and hunting areas, State
				  parks, historical/cultural sites, areas of historic or scenic interest,
				  museums, recreation areas, botanical gardens, theme/amusement parks,
				  interpretive programs and other facilities or businesses that attract or serve
				  visitors that are open to the public for a minimum of 100 days per year (if the
				  Tourism Attraction is entirely event driven, then it shall be open for a
				  minimum of 200 hours per year), and are marketed and promoted to visitors from
				  more than 50 miles away.
"Tourism Destination": means a city, town or other area the
				  economy of which is dependent on revenues accruing from tourism.
"Tourism Event": means an event, such as a major convention,
				  trade show, sporting activity or festival, with potential to attract visitors
				  from outside a 50-mile radius and to produce significantly increased Economic
				  Impact for the State of Illinois through overnight stays.