Alaska Administrative Code › Title 15 - Revenue › Chapter 155 - AHFC Energy Efficiency and Conservation Programs › Article 9 - Definitions › 15 AAC 155.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
In
				  15 AAC 155.010 -
				  15 AAC 155.990,
(1) "administrative costs" means indirect
				costs for a non-profit organization or local government with a federally
				assigned indirect rate and for other entities costs identified in the grant or
				contract such as office rental, telephone, supplies, computer, and
				administrative personnel;
(2)
				"director" means the director of the rural housing division in the
				Corporation;
(3) "division" means
				the rural housing division in the Corporation;
(4) "dwelling unit" means a house, including
				a stationary mobile home, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room
				occupied as separate living quarters which provide complete independent living
				facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for
				sleeping, cooking, and eating; "dwelling unit" does not include a motorized
				vehicle, a travel trailer, a hotel room, a bed & breakfast, or a
				housekeeping unit leased or maintained by the United States for employee or
				military housing;
(5) "elderly
				person" means a person who is 60 years of age or older;
(6) "energy rating" means the star rating
				determined for a residential building by a person who is currently certificated
				under, and who uses forms and procedures in accordance with, the Home Energy
				Rating System in
				15 AAC 155.510 -
				15 AAC 155.560; there are 11
				different ratings, with "one star" as the lowest rating and "six-star" as the
				highest rating;
(7) "grantee" means
				the entity or person named in the grant award as a recipient;
(8) "household income" means the total cash
				receipts from all sources of each occupant who is not a dependent, full-time
				student and who resides in a dwelling unit with specific allowances as
				determined by the corporation; it:
(A)
				includes alimony, assistantships, dividends excluding Alaska Permanent Fund
				dividends, fellowships, government employee pensions, grants, interest,
				longevity bonus payments from the state, military family allotments, net
				gambling or lottery winnings, net receipts from self-employment (i.e. net
				business income), periodic receipts from estates or trusts, private pensions,
				railroad retirement, regular insurance or annuity payments, regular support
				from an absent family member or someone not living in the household, net rental
				income, net royalties, social security (without exemption for dependent
				students), strike benefits from a union, training stipends, unemployment
				compensation, wages and salaries before any deductions, worker's compensation,
				and veterans' payments (without exemption for dependent students);
				and
(B) does not include assets
				drawn down such as a bank withdrawal, Alaska longevity bonus, Alaska permanent
				fund dividend, capital gains, child support, compensation for injury, dependent
				student income (earnings of full-time high school students or post-secondary
				students enrolled for at least 12 credit hours), dividends not exceeding $2,000
				per individual from a Native Corporation ( Public Law 100-241) federal
				non-cash benefits (such as Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, school lunches, and
				housing assistance), food or rent received in lieu of wages, gifts, grants or
				loans to a student, JTPA payments, LIHEAP payments, loans, lump-sum
				inheritances, non-cash benefits such as employee fringe benefits, one-time
				insurance payments, payment for foster children or foster care adults, sale of
				assets such as property or vehicle, scholarships for college or university, and
				tax refunds;